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Interview with Oliver Wagner

Description: 8.11.2001

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[url=https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/kb/viewarticle?a=284&sid=60f48e308bdb2e2c2ab96e664429bcd3]Artikeldatenbank - Interview with Oliver Wagner[/url]

Interview with Oliver Wagner

Editor: Anton Preinsack










Oliver, could you introduce yourself briefly?

I was born in 1971, so I am 30 years old. I am married and have a 16 months old daughter.

How did you come to the Amiga? Which Amiga do you use currently?

In late 1986 I saw (and heard!) "Sonix" on the Amiga 1000 of a school-colleague. I was interested in making music at that time and I was so inspired of the possibilities of the Sonix synthesizer- and sampler-section, that I recorded the Sonix demo-pieces on tape and heard it all the way home in my walkman. Directly with the appearance of the A500 (the A1000 was too expensive for me at that time)I sold my Atari ST and bought an Amiga(500). Today I use an Amiga 4000 with a Cyberstorm-PPC-card, Picasso II and a ISA-Ethernet-card (via Golden Gate II).

Who stands (apart from you) behind "Voyager"?

First of all David "Zapek" Gerber, who worries about porting "Voyager" to other platforms and develops some modules, e.g. the Flash Player. Currently Matt Sealey was added³, which worries about the quality management. Additional there are different people, who where involved in developing modules for Voyager, for example Jon "Sircus" Bright, who analyzed the table-layout-algorithms in the context of porting Voyagers on other platforms for days (or better: long nightlong) on end and adapted the unspezific sections of Voyager³ to the behavior of the Internet Explorer. Not to forget that some sections of Voyager are from open source-projects: libjpg and libpng in the image decoders and the OpenSSL library.

Are (where) you involved in other Amige-projects, too?

Yes. On the one hand the other available Vapor-apps, on the other hand some games (we better don´t talk about them), a mail-programm, many small tools, which you can find on various Fish-Disks and Amiga-magazines.

How and when did you get the idea to to develop a Web-browser for the Amiga?

There was only Amosaic, when I began to develop "Voyager" in 1995...

Why is it so difficult to add current web-standarts (like Java, Flash,...) to an Amiga-browser?

It is a matter of time. Microsoft has hundreds of people, who work on IE, Netscape and Opera have fewer, but still more than "Olli + Zapek".

When can we expect a final version of "Voyager V 3.X" for AmigaOS und MorphOS?

We have now a final feature-freeze and work on it.

Which features can we expect for the next version of Voyager³? Are there any plans yet?

The next large steps are naturally CSS and DHTML. Of course I would like to implement java-support and I still hope that there will be a JavaVM for Amiga OS, which we can use.

Are there plans for "Voyager" on Amiga OS 4.0?

That depends on, if Amiga OS 4.0 will be released or not

Will you still support the "classic"-Amiga?

Sure, if it is technically possible. In the meantime we conceived "Voyager³ internally in such a way that it runs on different platforms and if one platform doesn´t support a feature the feature is switched off . (e.g. there is no "real" alpha support for PNG images on Amiga OS currently).

What do you think about the current Amiga-situation?

I must confess that I know not enough about it to say something.

What do you say about Amiga OS 4.0/Amiga One vs. Morph OS/Pegasos? Which project has in your opinion better chances for the future: The "official" OS (Amiga OS 4.0) or the "alternative" OS (MorphOS)?

As far as I know ther is still no Amiga OS 4.0. So it would not be fair to have an opinion yet.

What would you require of AMIGA Inc. for the future?

No opinopn, too ­ I didn´t trace the current developments really.

From which Amiga Games you were impressed in the last time?

To be honest: None. I spent so many time in front of my computer, that I dont´want to see games on my Amiga or PC ;-).

Which games do you play in your spare time? (if there is one;-))?

From time to time I play with consoles (in vacation we had a PSX2 and played GT3 a lot)

Other hobbies?

When? :)

What are your plans/projects for the future?

I have such a feeling that Voyager will employ me for a long time.

Some final words to the Amiga-users?

Have fun :)