MiNT, FeniX, and MagiC

[Eon Man <eonicman@erols.com>]

My apologies,

It was wrong for me to assume that FeniX will become MiNT.  MiNT is something
tangible that is being worked on by this group.  I shouldn't assume that FeniX
will over ride MiNT development.  I was going by what I had read back in the
days of the initial FeniX description as to how it would be a replacement for
MiNT by having a MiNT server that would allow all MiNT programs to run under
FeniX.  Even if this happens, there is nothing to say that MiNT development
should cease after all of these years.  They can exist together.  The more
means of running GEM programs the better.  Yes, it would be nice to actually
be able to download FeniX and run all MiNT/GEM progs as well as FeniX-aware
progs.  But, at this point, FeniX is as real to me as being able to run Atari
System V on my Falcon.  It may exist, but it is unavailable to me.  Even when
FeniX is available MiNT development would have to continue being that MiNT
capability is via a server.  New developments in MiNT would be added to FeniX
AFAI-Can Tell; I may be wrong. I simply know that I am indebted to those that
take the time to code and revise MiNT.  Much appreciated.  As to MagiC, it's
main value is in extending the GEM domain by way of the Macintosh.  To bad the
former Mac Clone architechtures (Power Computing, Motorola, etc.((CHiRP))
couldn't have been converted to MagiC machines.  It would have been a quick
way of moving GEM to PPC via PPC native shared libraries.

Peter Ross