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`29.Jan.2023`	The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of two C64 keyboards, floppy disks and gaffer tape. As he says himself, he has started programming for the Amiga again after more than 20 years and has now written "Paulimba", a program to play live music on the keyboard of an Amiga (600). "Paulimba" is a portmanteau of "Paula", the sound chip of the Amiga, and "Kalimba", a musical instrument from Africa that belongs to the lamellophones: the music produced on the keyboard sounds like a kalimba. In his blog entry under the title link as well as in the accompanying YouTube video, he explains in detail how he achieved this. (dr) [News message: 29. Jan. 2023, 06:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2023` AmigaSource	Overview: Comparison of Operating Systems Eylenburg's Tech Website is a truly amazing project in which a lot of hard work has gone into it: in several overviews and histories 'Eylenburg' offers, for example, Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree, Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix or Comparison of Instant Messengers - always presented with large-format tables and graphics. Of particular interest to Amiga users is the Comparison of Operating Systems, where AmigaOS and MorphOS have been listed for some time and now AROS has been added. But it is also worth taking a look at the above-mentioned Family Tree or History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today, in which IBrowse is also listed. As 'Eylenburg' tells us when asked, this pure hobby project started a few years ago: first on Blogspot and later on Github. The first topic was comparing browsers. As he reports, he gets his data from Wikipedia, Github, the websites of developers and forums, etc., but as with the browser comparison, he also determines data himself. He has always had an interest in technology and especially in alternative operating systems and even though he himself did not experience the heyday of the Amiga, for example, he is fascinated that after all these years all three Amiga operating systems (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) are still being developed. Suggestions or corrections are always welcome! (dr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2023, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2023`	Website: Search Engine for AmigaOS-NDK3.2 documentation The Amiga developer Aris has set up a website for searching the autodocs of Hyperion Entertainment's AmigaOS 3.2 Native Developer Kit (NDK). He describes his motives for doing so in a recent blog entry. (dr) [News message: 27. Jan. 2023, 03:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Jan.2023` Facebook	Amiga Ireland 2023: Winners of Creative Competition Last weekend the Amiga Ireland took place in Athlone (amiga-news.de reported). Now the winners of the "Creative Competition 2023" have been published. In the category "Pixel Art" the winners can be seen directly under the title link, for the music entries we have researched links to the top 3 to listen to: 1st place: "Black Magic" by Punnik (YouTube video) 2nd place: "Darkness of Soul (D.O.S.)" by ok3anos (Soundcloud link) 3rd place: "Irrestible Soccer" by Alex Menchi (YouTube video) (dr) [News message: 21. Jan. 2023, 07:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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