New AmigaBounty to raise funds for Developer Loaner Hardware

A new bounty has been set up on AmigaBounty.net to raise funds to purchase one or two Sam440ep-flex systems for loan to Amiga software developers.

Details can be found Here

TrevorD

@TrevorDick

- Allready planned developpers ???

- Just for a limited time ???

@Mrodfr

Open to all Amiga developer's. Loan period depending on project.

TrevorD

@TrevorDick
I think we need to buy one new for Salas00. Just because he good developer, and do many good aos4 related libs/ports/addons/progs.

Other one i think we need buy for Crisot (demomaker from france, hi do all those demos zero,one,two for aos4). I see on UB.com that he is still in interst about, but hes a1 are die.

And third one for AfxGroup, just because we want Mplayer with normal GUI and alt :)

(just my 2 cents)

@kas1e

Agreed, the more the merrier. Just need to get a few more donations in first.

TrevorD

@TrevorDick

Also for Abalaban (widget port) but a french user will theorically give to him one of his SAM untill X1000 (or another choice abalaban will do).

Hum, we could have lots of suggestion for this subject.

@TrevorDick

Great, have to check it out! Very promising.

@Mrodfr
Abalaban's hw trouble was the reason we discussed this bounty in the first place. AFAIK he's lent a new machine but it's to avoid delays like this (on the wxWidgets port) we initiated this bounty.

@Troels

Over half way to our first loaner system!

TrevorD

@TrevorDick

We definitely need to encourage developers to join the bandwagon - loaner hardware with OS4 is a great start.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this.

Donation on the way.

2 machines? Wouldn't 20 or 200 be more realistic?

Man I wish I could win the EuroMillions, I'd buy you 2000 in a heartbeat... hmmm I don't even play the lottery. haha.

I am sure many on here would do the same... or at least Helgis would hehe.

@Mrodfr

Thank you for proposing my name, but as I already explained to Trevor, I already have a Sam Flex 800 lent to me by Creols for as long as I need it he said (he has another Sam for himself lucky him .
Main problem right now is that Sam uses SATA drives whereas my A1XE was using PATA, I'm currently waiting for an adapter which should be available at the end of this week or begining of the other, after that I'll be able to access my sources and dev environment and resume everything I was doing.
In the meantime I'm discovering AmigaOS4 on the Sam.

@abalaban



yes, a lot of peoples think about you, enevn no french amiga users and even this bounty has been made more or less to you at first, apparently.

hey, I really would like to see widgets on AOS4. A friend of mine have some installed on his window7...

@TrevorDick

I won˙t be able to donate much this month, as the 25 Years of Amiga event in Bletchley Park will be a serious drain in my pocket. But I˙ll definitely send some money later.

Some names have been mentioned. I˙d second the opinion that we need Fredrik Wikstrom to have a functional SAM - he˙s one of the most active developers, and his releases are quality.

There˙s also the possibility to contact and try to attract some ex-Amigans who˙d be crazy enough to get back to Amiga coding. But let˙s be realistic: these people will now be in their 30s or over, have family lives and jobs. Take Stefan Kost, for example, the author of SoundFX. An OS4-native version of this audio editor would be a great addition to our software portfolio. But Stefan now works for Nokia, and is also involved in Linux development - what can we offer to such a guy to motivate him? Not much I˙m afraid.

@trixie

Loved to get an idea how many people are expected at Bletchley Park for the weekend. Personally I am off on Saturday morning to see what all the fuss is about; decided to bring the old-man along as a birthday present. Plus he can drive home lol

Reminds me, I should probably buy a pair of tickets online seen as cheaper that way.

P.S. I wonder if Trevor or AmigaKit is planning to bring along some pinbadges that we can purr-chase on the day.

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I might be mistaken, but I have the feeling you are not familiar with wxWidgets. At least it has nothing to do with the 'widgets' you see on Vista and Windows7. wxWidgets is a multi-platform C++ toolkit for GUI, gfx, and a lot more.


@abalaban
Good to see you will be up and running again! :)

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far. Every euro you donate counts and there's now only 260 to go for the first complete SAM Loaner system.

TrevorD

@djrikki

OT: I believe AmigaKit will have some badges at the show plus lots of other goodies for sale. Watch out for some "free" goodies on the A-EON display area.

TrevorD

@TrevorDick

Free goodies... excellent hope you have some bertie bassetts.

@djrikki

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Now only ~212 euro to go!!

TrevorD