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`19.Jul.2025`	Blog: The problem with modern software and big endian In his blog post "Why Modern Software Struggles on AmigaOS PowerPC", Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè explains why the different endianness of the PowerPC is increasingly making software porting a problem, why he is therefore advocating a processor change, and what he is doing to combat the problem. (cg) [News message: 19. Jul. 2025, 23:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2025` AROSWorld (Forum)	AROS: Update on the further development of the 64-bit operating system Since almost two years Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz is reporting on his AROS-related projects in the AROSWorld forum at the title link. In his latest article, he writes about the current status in the three areas of browser/software/hardware and gives an outlook on the goal of advancing the 64-bit version of the free operating system. On the browser front, it would be important to be able to use contemporary web services - also in order to be able to compensate for missing software with corresponding online versions. With the beta version of Odyssey 3.0, the developers now have a browser with the same Webkit engine as Wayfarer 3.0 (its current version is 10.3, though). This allows to use YouTube, Google Docs, Discord and many other web services that were not available on AROS a year ago. He has thus achieved his first functionality goal. With regard to other software, missing functionality would have to be supplemented either by re-compiling or emulation - whereby the aim is not to get every 32-bit program running, but at least one from each category of all areas to be covered. So far, 26 software packages would have been adapted for 64-bit by supporters. In terms of hardware, the problem is that 64-bit systems do not yet support all components that can be used under AROS/32-bit - for example NVidia graphics cards. The aim here would be to restore that support and hopefully add newer, easily available second hand hardware. With AROS Portable, which uses virtualization technology to run AROS on modern PCs from a USB stick, there would be a significant interim solution now until it can run natively on such systems. In the long term, the aim would be to create and maintain two lines of development: For those who want to use AROS natively, as explained above, a selection of the existing 32-bit software must be adapted and made to run on selected 64-bit computer configurations in order to serve as a basis for enabling 64-bit distributions that outperform their previous 32-bit counterparts from the user's point of view. For friends of the AxRuntime path, a Linux-native desktop would be to be created from which a selection of AROS ABIv0 programs (32-bit) and AROS ABIv1 programs (64-bit) as well as programs newly compiled for AxRuntime (64-bit) can be used. Existing distributions could then be re-created using Linux as a base without the user having to accept any loss of functionality compared to the respective 32-bit version. (snx) [News message: 19. Jul. 2025, 08:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2025` esb (ANF)	dpa: 40 years of the Amiga - The beginning of the multimedia age (German) In view of its 40th birthday next Wednesday, the German Press Agency (dpa) is also paying tribute to the Amiga, so that its article can be found not only on Heise at the title link, but also on Welt.de, for example. Heise itself has also announced that it will be launching a series of articles on architecture, games, music and other topics to mark this anniversary from July 23, 2025. (snx) [News message: 19. Jul. 2025, 08:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2025` JTDigitalDesigns (ANF)	DualPNG icons: Infinite Icons Theme Pack The Infinite Icons Theme Pack, available from today, contains almost 6,000 new DualPNG icons, which are primarily intended for AmigaOS 4, but are also suitable for the AmiKit distribution and other platforms that support this icon format. (snx) [News message: 19. Jul. 2025, 08:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Jul.2025`	AmigaOS 4: SDL 2.32.8 and 3.2.18 The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) multimedia library is now available for AmigaOS 4 in versions 2.32.8 and 3.2.18. SDL 3, which was introduced in January of this year as version 3.2, offers an extended programming interface (for the GPU, system dialogs, the file system and webcams, among others) and an extensively revised audio interface compared to its predecessor. (snx) [News message: 19. Jul. 2025, 08:18] [Comments: 1 - 19. Jul. 2025, 20:46] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Jul.2025`	Emulator: Denise v2.6 Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independant emulator which since version 2.0 can emulate an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 (Kickstart disks are required) in addition to a C64 (German YouTube video). The newly released version 2.6 offers, among other things, support for the Hires Denise chip (ECS) and hard drive support for the first time on the Amiga side. All changes: Amiga: added harddisk emulation built-In HD Controller M-Tec AT 500 VHD support for dynamic HDFs Amiga: added ECS Denise emulation (A500+/A600) Amiga: added option to overclock CPU Amiga: support for floppy disks in SCP format Amiga: added CD32 gamepad support Amiga: added option to show Caps Lock LED in status bar Windows 10/11: added dark UI mode added LHA support: added option to convert LHA archives to Amiga native filesystem (ADF, HD-ADF or HDF) APP can be used fully or partially portable added file history to make it easier to re-insert files (dr) [News message: 18. Jul. 2025, 06:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Jul.2025` Wolfgang Stief	Event: futuRETRO 2025 in Augsburg (Germany, 2./3. August) This year's futuRETRO will take place on 2 and 3 August at the Technical University of Augsburg and aims to bring together people who are interested in the creative use of historical computers and calculating machines. The Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Augsburg invites you to attend lectures, workshops, exchanges, discussions and to experience historical hardware and software. Among others, Richard Löwenstein will give a talk on his reshoot Reshoot Proxima 3 at 10:30 a.m. on 2 August: "Five reasons why you should hate retro game development". Stefan Höltgen's talk at 2:30 p.m. is likely to be just as interesting: "Computing in museums? Exhibition concept for Commodore home computers". Amiga hardware on display will include an Amiga 3000 and 4000, as well as Michael Spindler's Akiko32, his Amiga in mini ITX format (amiga-news.de reported). (dr) [News message: 17. Jul. 2025, 06:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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