From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Nov 12 13:00:02 2008 Message-ID: <491B18BB.7090800@atari-source.org> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:56:11 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Mahlert CC: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] OT Highwire References: <1226497726.10998.2.camel@petr> <491B0165.8010908@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <491B0165.8010908@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Rob Mahlert wrote: > Last I heard, AltF4 has been very busy with work. Seeing He did most > of the work on HighWire.. things have come to a snails pace. I haven't > heard from him in a while, but I also just e-mailed him yesterday to > catch up. > > Same situation with Ozk with his new job. Which is a huge loss for us, > He had great plans in the works for MiNT. With his track record.. we > would have seen a huge leap for MiNT. :-( > The way I see it, the people left need to step up and learn the more hardcore stuff that we've lost with Altf4, ozk, etc. I'm *attempting* to because I want to be the one to implement dynamic linking, vm, memory mapping, demand paging, etc but at the same time I don't have a lot of time. At the same time to implement those things you need to know 68k assembler and intimately understand the machine. For me with no demo coding background, it's certainly going to be an uphill battle. Luckily the majority of people left never really seem to abandon the effort, things just take years to happen and luckily the atari machines seem rather well made not considering the original ST problems and seem to be lasting forever. So it's just one of those things where it all *will* happen whenever someone has an itch to scratch but it will take a lot more time than it could have. I think what we really need is ways to get our machines to be higher resolution (new video cards, CTPCI, with 3d support), 3d api developed and a modern desktop developed. It would really make the machines feel a lot better. It always made me sad that the macs had such great high resolution graphics while the ataris even up to the falcon really just didn't put forth the effort. I know they're gaming machines but still. Thanks, Mark