20 June 2010, 12:37 | #1 |
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Amiga JAVA
Today I was clearing my Amiga software collection, burning a few DVDs, throwing some floppies, just sorting that Amiga software mess that I have been accumulating over all these decades.
In an old tape archive I found what appears to be two early (alpha/beta phase) Amiga JAVA compilers named Jikes and Kaffe. So the questions are: Are they of practical use? I seem to have the sources of Jikes, is this good enough for something? I remember back in the day, I used to download eveything I could, without really checking if it was really usefull. |
20 June 2010, 13:18 | #2 |
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Jikes is a compiler by IBM, Kaffe a VM. Both have been opensourced. As Java object code is portable, the VM is the more useful part.
That depends on what you have in mind. |
20 June 2010, 13:41 | #3 |
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AFAIR it's really too slow for being of any use for graphical applications, at least on classic amigas.
I don't know if gfx are supported or is this text only VM? |
20 June 2010, 21:22 | #4 |
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Thanks for clarifying what was what. @jotd I dont know if graphics are supported, I havent tried it yet, but anyway I will upload it to The Zone! so that you can try it. BTW, if it is such a slow thing on 68k, it isnt worthwile |
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