/me cares about Amiga.

I am an ex-amiga user and I do care about the availability of Mozilla on this platform. If mozilla is ported and the new AOS4 with recent hardaware isn't too expensive, I may consider buying an amiga for home use. The amiga was the best home computer I ever had and your comment is as stupid and insulting to as the comments from windows fans asking why we care about Mozilla when everybody uses IE.

Clearly, the people who are willing to pay money to get Mozilla ported to the Amiga care.

But then again, who cares about Mozilla anyway? Clearly IE is where it's at.

I do care :) I have used Amiga since 1989 and it still is my hoppy and it will be in the future too :)

yes... fastest Amiga right now: AmigaOne XE G4/800 MHz :-) There is no AmigaOS Version available, but will be in 2-3 Months ;)

No. If you think about Classic Amiga (A100, A500, A2000, A1200, A3000, A4000 etc, then fastest Motorola 680x0 CPU you can use is 68060 66Mhz. That's a lot faster than 68030 40Mhz. There is so called accelerator boards for the Amiga. First accelerator were released already many many years ago. I have A1200 with Blizzard 1260 accelerator with 68060 50Mhz CPU. That's something like Pentium 90Mhz when you think about speed.

But it's also possible to connect PPC accelerator to you A1200, A4000 etc. Depending on you Amiga model you can buy eg. PPC603e 240Mhz or PPC604e 200Mhz. Those PPC accelerator were also released first time many years ago.

BUT. There is now also new next generation Amigas (AmigaOne Pegasos). Those were released just recently. Those Amigas are based on PPC G3 and PPC G4. So those are same CPU's which eg. MAC computers use. Fastest G4 you can use right now is G4 800Mhz. Those new motherboards do have also standard PCI, AGP, USB etc.

So there is no reason why you could not run Mozilla on current Amigas. There is enough power to run it. Hardware is not any problem anymore.

> Is it still graphics and games like in the 80's/early 90's?

No. Most of the active Amiga users do now have gfx-card in their Amiga. Eg. I have Voodoo3 3000 PCI gfx card connected to my A1200T. You can use normal standard PCI cards in your Amiga if you buy PCI-busboard first. Best PCI-busboard is Mediator PCI, which is available for most of the Amiga models (no A500 model). So you can have good and fast 16bit, 24bit or 32bit graphics with any resolution which is upported by eg. Voodoo3.

Voodoo3, Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 are the most modern GFX-cards which you can use with Classic Amigas like A1200. But for the new AmigaOne and Pegasos nextgeneration Amigas there is/will be drivers for eg. ATI Radeon AGP-cards.

If you think about games then it depends on what people want to create :) There is 3d-accelerated games like Quake2, Heretic-II, Descent freespace etc for the Classic Amigas with gfx-card and fast CPU (060 or PPC).

It will not be any problem to run modern games with the new Amigaone or pegasos. there is enough power.

> Are there many programs available for it?

Not as many as for Windows that's clear :) but there is enough good software for normal everyday use. Ofcource Amiga does not have eg. modern webbrowser like mozilla or uptodate office software. I hope we will see those now when we have new hardware after 10 years :)

> Is it owned by a private company?

Yes it is.

> Open source?

If you mean AmigaOS then no. AmigaOS and kickstart-roms are not free or opensource, Those still are commercials product. And new AmigaOS 4 is under development.

There still is commercial software and hardware development for the Amiga.

And long may the development of the "AWeb" browser for AmigaOS continue. I think it's good that Mozilla is ported to AmigaOS, first reason is, that it is one extra platform that Mozilla would be available for, and second, wouldn't it be nice for users of AmigaOS to have a choice of browsers to use on their systems?

And it will take about 10 years Aweb to be as good as Mozilla now. Aweb is not even as good as IBrowse.

Quote from the Amizilla page (http://www.discreetfx.com/AmiZilla.html) "But what about IBrowse? What about Voyager? you say. Well IBrowse is a very good browser from http://www.iospirit.de/ if you need something today buying that would be your best bet. I have not used Voyager in years but I hear it is good as well. The problem though is that because the Amiga is the only modern computer without Netscape we are a laughing stock. We need the respect and stature that having Mozilla on our operating system will bring. It will help our browser market and user base grow.

Peter Gordon said; "These funds should also be made available for the first person/team to get a browser with GOOD support for DHTML, XHTML, CSS, and a current version of Flash! That way we are giving the IBrowse, AWeb and Voyager teams an incentive." Should Peter's plan be put into action or should these funds stay reserved for Mozilla only? Make your voice heard send an e-mail to amizillafund AT discreetfx.com"

And the bounty is now the incredible $8411.22!

Finished trolling ? M

I think original poster intended to damage Amiga inc because he did not mention that AmigaInc IS NOT BANKCRUPT and they are not going to be bankruopt in the near future. They have financial problems, that's true. But they still continue the development.

And even if AmigaInc would die, it would not stop development of AmigaOS 4 or AmigaOne computers. The reason is that AmigaOS4 is developed by Hyperion Entertainment and Amigaone is a product of Eyetech. So situation of Amiga Inc does not damage AmigaOS4 or AmigaOne, because those are developed by independent companies.

There has been bloody and stupid war inside the Amiga community. Part of the people support Amiga Inc and part of the people support Genesi/bPlan who create unofficial Amiga and AmigaOS clones. There has been way too much attack on Amigainc from the fanatic MorphOS supporters during the last two years.