CompuServe Messages

Though I applaud your effort to keep the Amiga alive, there is one aspect of your plan that unfortunately will not fly. There is simply no way that major Mac/PC development companies will release their source code for porting to the Amiga, even if _you_ were to pay _them_ for the privilege: the risk in having their trade secrets pirated in source code form is so steep that they would not even allow you inside _their_ facilities to do the port within their secured walls. Unless they do it themselves, it is not going to happen. I remember back in 1982 asking whether the company I worked for (a fortune 500 utility) could temporarily obtain the code to Lotus 1-2-3 for porting to an IBM Mainframe. We would have done the port ourselves, provided them with our modified source code, then destroyed our copy of the source subsequent to the modifications. We were laughed at. Such was my naivete as a 23-year-old entry level programmer, thinking that our work would benefit Lotus so much that they would temporarily release their source code to us.