Hi Everyone,
I was talking to jimbauwens before about ports and clones (it started with the some 3D with ndless topic), and we have come up and agreed on definitions of port and clone, in case if anyone’s confused.

A port is a program that you mainly base it on the source code of another program (you have access to the source code)
A Clone is based on the idea or concept and can be from different or same platforms.

From calc84maniac:
if you're not using any assets from the original, it's classified as a remake, not a port
I guess a clone is pretty much something that copies the gameplay of an existing game, and isn't by the same developer

I would like to see what everyone else thinks about this!
Now, Discussion Time!
Jonius7

That would be my definition too if you add that is port is always from a platform to another, without changing anything (almost) to the original program

edit: 800^th post

Yup, and that is why I mentioned it to Jonius
@Hayleia, I don't think that is necessarily true; as you can port a program to a newer version of a platform (if the API changed a bit).

It's interesting, I agree completely with your definition, but I keep finding myself using 'port' for both of the circumstances

^^ lol port does sound more respectable.

I agree with Builderboy, leafy and buttsfredkin that the terms are used interchangeably interestingly, and I thought so too just because I saw 'ports' of games everywhere around Omnimaga and other sites.

However, I wonder if there was a program that took the source code of an existing program and made a near copy, as alberthrocks said, but then changed it so much and added lots of new source code that it turned out to be quite different. Could it still be called a real 'port' then? Or is it something like a ported clone?

Hey hey, clones are respectable too! Just look at my avatar

Wait, I thought "Coders of tomorrow" was the slogan... it's an actual title?

Oh, and I clarified my language on my previous post for whoever downvoted me.