We are doomed..

Saluton!

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:53:24 +0100, Patric Mueller wrote:
> "Jürgen Lerch" <jynwyn DeleteThis @gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:47:53 +0100, Patric Mueller wrote:
[AROS]
> > Yes, but it's in active development and so as moving a target
> > as any other OS. IIRC 3.1 compatibility is only the first step.
> Sure, but 3.1 compatibility isn't going to go away, even when new
> features are added (e.g. to be more compatible to MorphOS and OS 4.0).

Well, of course that's the idea of AROS ...

> Besides, backward compatibility has a big tradition on the Amiga.

Yes, that's true. My filemanager dates from 1990.

> >> There are no roguelikes for AROS AFAIK or am I mistaken?
> > It seems not.
> Well, then there's one now.
> http://bhaak.dyndns.org/nethack/nethack-for-aros.html

Good!

> > (Hm, another worthwhile target for one of my vapourwares. ;-})
> Release early, release often. Maybe it sucks but it ain't vaporware.
>

Ah, I do mean real vaporware. Not ,,in developement, but unreleased
until deemed ready which it'll never be'', but honest-to-god ,,ideas,
but no (well, far too little) code''. (Why? Mostly too many other
interests. A few programming hurdles, too.)

Ad Astra!
JuL

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"Jürgen Lerch" <jynwyn DeleteThis @gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hm, wasn't there a project to engrave data that shouldn't be
> lost in a few thousand years on some ultra stable material
> (some metal, IIRC)? It was started exactly because of the
> problem that nowadays mass storage won't be readable in a
> few decades, a) because the storage medium itself breaks
> down, and b) because there'll be no devices to read those
> ancient media anymore.

Do you mean the Rosetta project?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta-Projekt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
http://www.rosettaproject.org/

Bye
Patric