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26.Dec.2016
Philippe Lang (E-Mail) Crowdfunding: Keycaps can be produced
Philippe Lang's Kickstarter project for producing new keycaps for Amiga keyboards (amiga-news.de reported) has been successful. Seventeen days before the deadline the goal of 102.000 Singapore-Dollar (about 67.400 Euro) was exceeded by more than 108.000 Singapore-Dollar that was pledged. (snx)

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26.Dec.2016

Web browser: Short review on SDL/MUI-version of NetSurf
At the beginning of this year, editor Daniel Reimann of amiga-news.de has written a detailed review on Chris Young's Reaction-based port of Netsurf, but the SDL-port provided by Artur 'Arti' Jarosik he is testing as well:

On his blog, Jarosik has released new versions of his browsers during the last weeks. On my Amiga1200 these versions did not run very stable and a special FPU-version I could not start at all. Meanwhile there is only one version for AGA and RTG, a seperate FPU version was dropped.

The last AGA-version of Netsurf, which was released on Aminet on December 23, runs quite stable and fast on my Amiga1200.

It is a little bit unusual how you have to enter a web address into the address bar of the browser: Nothing happens by clicking with the left mouse button in the bar. After clicking with the right mouse button, Netsurf does vanish and a little window appears on the Workbench. There you can enter your web address.

Foreground and background picture loading disabled, Netsurf does take about 30 seconds for loading the main website of amiga-news.de on my Amiga1200 with Blizzard 1230 and for loading the Aminet site about 52 seconds. (cg)

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07.Dec.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite) AROS: October 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news on the progresses of the operating system AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz also summarizes the results for a month under the title link.

"In October the AROS repository breached 53000 commits mark thank to contributions from multiple developers. Neil Cafferkey continued his work on improving MUI as well as fixed the IntelGMA video driver. Miloslav Martinka contributed further Czech localization as well as localized WiMP tool. Yannick Erb and Marcus Sackrow contributed fixes to AROS programs and we saw introduction of new AROS GUI theme. Lastly ARM Linux hosted version of AROS has been fixed to compile again as part of ABIv0 refresh by Krzysztof Smiechowicz.

After September's explosion of distributions, October was quiet on that front. 3rd party developers however continued their work. Yannick Erb released updated version of ZuneView tool and Joerg Renkert released new version of his ModExplorer application for playing online and offline music modules. AROS archives also saw upload of two interesting Zelda-type games, Time to Triumph und Navi's Quest." (snx) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite) Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2016
This year the AmiGameJam 2016 has the theme "TV Shows and Movies". It is also allowed to enter a festive/Christmas-themed game instead. Until December 31st you have to create a new Amiga game with at least a playable demo version (one level) to participate.

The winners will be selected in an online vote, possibly completed by votes of prominent jurors from the Amiga scene. The best games ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd are honored as well as best game in the category "Amiga NG". (snx) (Translation: dr)

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