On 04-Sep-00, Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall wrote:
> Well, concidering that Daytona was a Java port in progress, one that
> was looking really promissing, I'd say the only problem is getting
> someone to do the work to create a port. It just takes alot of time
> and effort. The reason Daytona was abandoned was that the guy creating
> it, halfway through the project, took a job at a place that was
> developing another programming language, and continuing to work on a
> Java port would have been a conflict of interest. :-/
>
> Still, I gather there's at least some chance that TAO's version of
> Java might get ported to Amiga Classic.
But only to Amigas with PPC processors, which is a small minority. Tao
don't have a 68k translator.
Their version of Java is 1.1.7, which is rather old. IIRC Holger was
planning a port of the current version, and knowing him it would have
been excellent.
I think the abandonment of Daytona was the worst news the Amiga has had
in the past year.
Regards
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