you really have to use your reading glasses because you confuse and awful lot of matters.. no, DOpE/DROPS are not directly atari related. but i never intended that. the atari related bits are the coldfire, supervidel and the dsp (50% of which you want to lose).
i'm still against this being a commercial project.. you need a solid basis for that. maybe -you- want to pay them? these are different times man.. atari is now a platform for demosceners, nostalgic gamers and people producing homegrown applications (god bless 'em!). i happen to know that a small minority have still used atari for commercial success a few years ago, but that's an exception.
as for linux.. try RTLinux/RTAI.. programming this is certainly a hell of a lot more easy than porting mint to an evaluation board. i fail to see your point again and again. maybe if you want to do this for fun (which ACP guys are doing) i understand it.
you try to impose your will onto these guys, or just bother the regulars on this bbs.. whatever the case.. have you even tried to contact the ACP developers?
my view on this thread is this: you try to propose a new direction for atari-related hard/software development specific to audio applications. you respond uninterested to alternatives like embedded PC's, Amiga clones and Mac's. so, this would mean you are so interested in the coldfire developments you would actually try to contact ACP developers? not really, it seems..
secondly, you think most of the atari related hardware and new OS ideas and basically every non-commercial development in the ACP is unwise. well then, maybe i understand why you haven't contacted them.. and finally you respond with wanting to port Mint to a coldfire eval board yourself?? Yeah, right..
Man.. like others in this thread have said before, you have nothing to offer to anyone. Just go home. (And don't come back bragging your somekind of badass techno guru and showing off your resumé. we've seen that already..)
