AmiZilla
AmiZilla was an ongoing project sponsored by
, and to fund efforts for achieving that goal.History
This project started in May 2003 from an idea of DiscreetFX, a firm based in United States (Chicago, Illinois) which supports still existing Amiga Video Toaster market and produces and sells programs and Digital/FX sample collections for amateur, professional and broadcast studios customers. The AmiZilla project started in the form of bounty contest (i.e. donors uses internet online funding & money-transfer resources like PayPal to donate a free amount of money, which will be collected as a whole "booty" sum of money and then used to "pay" the person or the team who proves himself to be capable of realizing the whole project). The project was announced on Amigaworld Portal on May 19, 2003, with an amount of 1000 US Dollars,[1] and in only one day it collected 2000 dollars by donations, climbing from 1000 to 3000 dollars.[2] Noteworthy for a very little community of users, by June 11, 2003, it had reached more than 4000 US$, and this enormous effort, and the rapid rampage in collecting money by the Amiga users (who were considered a sparse community) was noted also by Mozillazine online news portal,[3] and by Slashdot.org online magazine.[4] As of 2007, a port of Mozilla's
Rules
There were certain rules for AmiZilla project to be accomplished by those developers who wanted to achieve the full prize bounty. The main rule was that AmiZilla should be an open source port of any of the Mozilla/Firefox browsers to AmigaOS and other Amiga-inspired platforms (MorphOS and AROS).[7]
Results of the AmiZilla project
The only team, which officially announced to work on the bounty, created a public SourceForge source code repository,[8] but only a few developers joined and not very much source code was committed. So the project died before it could reach any results.
Despite its apparent lack of success, the AmiZilla Bounty Project inspired many bounty systems that were created upon AmiZilla's example.
Other AmigaOS Firefox Projects
A separate effort to port Firefox to AmigaOS 4 was started in early 2009 and still ongoing. It is named "Project
References
- ^ "Announce of starting of AmiZilla Project at Amigaworld.net site". DiscreetFx and AmigaWorld.net site. Retrieved May 19, 2003.
- ^ "Announcement on OSNews.com stating on May 20, 2003 that AmiZilla Project collected 3000 dollars". OSNews. Retrieved May 20, 2003.
- ^ "Announcement on Mozillazine (and update of 11 june)". MozillaZine online news magazine. Archived from the original on June 10, 2003. Retrieved June 7, 2003.
- ^ "Slashdot news corner on June 11". Slashdot magazine and The Rest. Geeknet, Inc. June 11, 2003. Archived from the original on July 5, 2003. Retrieved June 11, 2003.
- ^ "Page of Donors at AmiZilla Project site". DiscreetFx. Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved August 10, 2008.
- ^ "Announce of ending of AmiZilla Project at Amigaworld.net site". DiscreetFx and AmigaWorld.net site. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
- ^ "AmiZilla Guidelines". Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
- ^ "Amizilla". April 16, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
- ^ "Announce of Timberwolf Alpha 1 Release". Thomas Frieden and Hans-Joerg Frieden. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010.