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- Amiga Arena Interview
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- Developer: Andrija Antonijevic
- Software: Charon, AmiSSL, HTTPResume
- Homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~TheAntony/
- Mail: TheAntony@bigfoot.com
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- *Please introduce yourself to the readers!*
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- My name is Andrija Antonijevic, I'm 23 years old student of Mathematical
- University in Belgrade.
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- *When did you start working with the Amiga?*
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- I bought my Amiga at the end of 1995, but I used every opportunity I had
- to work on my friends Amiga 500+ before that :)
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- *Which Amiga model do you own*
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- A1200 with Blizzard060/50 MHz and a network card, but I'm considering buying
- a PPC board and putting everything into a tower in the near future.
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- *Which version of the operating system is running on your computer?*
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- OS3.9
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- *Which software are you developing?*
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- I'm currently mostly working on Charon and AmiSSL, I've dropped support
- for HTTPResume (since Charon is something like HTTPResume - new generation).
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- *Can you tell us what your software is about?*
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- Well it's mostly networking software, way or the other.
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- *What has created the idea in you to continue developing your software?*
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- I like programming, if can be very fulfilling and that keeps me going.
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- *How long has the development taken so far?*
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- It depends how you look at it. I started working on HTTPResume AFAIR in
- 1997 and it slowly evolved to Charon in 2000, and now in 2002 it's at
- version 1.98. So it has taken either 5 or 2 years of on and off
- development.
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- *Which software are you using for developing?*
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- SAS/C as compiler and some GNU tools.
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- *For which system (AmigaOS, AmigaDE, MorphOS) are you developing?*
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- Currently for AmigaOS, if I buy that PPC board, I might be doing some
- programming for a PPC OS.
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- *Which OS will you support in the future?*
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- I cannot say. It's very hard to predict anything when Amiga development
- is in question, so I'll just wait and see how things are going.
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- *What can we expect of future versions?*
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- I have a large number of things planned, but I wouldn't want to give them
- away, I prefer to surprise the users :)
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- *Don't you lose the fun and the interest in programming if you see the small amount
- of feedback you get from the small Amiga market?*
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- Not really. It's a fact that you can't make much money from the small Amiga
- market, but if you like what you do and you get even minimal positive feedback
- from the users, it's enough to keep you going.
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- *Do you receive enough feedback for your software?*
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- People write about things that they like and what they would like added or
- improved just about enough :)
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- *When did you last use your Amiga?*
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- Today. There was a 6-12 months period when I was too busy to use it
- regularly (and Charon development suffered because of that) but
- fortunately, that has changed.
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- *Which software did you last buy for your Amiga?*
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- Let me see... Currently, there's almost no new software out there, mostly
- updates. And I'm either translating or betatesting most of the software
- that I'm using so I already have registered versions. The last thing I can
- remember buying is SAS/C. So much about the size of the Amiga market :(
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- *Which software do you still use?*
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- DOpus 4.12, programming tools, Ibrowse/AWeb, Thor and Charon :)
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- *Which hard/software are you planning to buy?*
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- Currently, I'm planning to buy a PPC board and a tower.
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- *Do you believe in a comeback of Amiga?*
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- I can only hope... There are some interesting projects that might do
- the trick, but you can never tell.
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- *Your final words for the readers?*
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- Well, let's just hope that this year we'll all see some Amiga projects
- that will make a difference.
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- © Amiga Arena 1/2002
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