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EZHomeX10 Amiga software released

Jim Hines, author of EZHome X10 for Amiga, has released it and is no longer actively supporting it.  For those that don’t know, X10 is a communication protocol for home automation that has been around for a couple of decades.  They communicate through the powerlines in a house or building.  Many devices have been built to use this protocol.  Long before ZigBee and ZWave wireless home automation protocols were invented, x10 was THE way to control lights, thermostats, alarms, sprinklers, etc in your home.  Since the 90’s we’ve seen many PC and Mac based x10 software packages.

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NetSurf 3.7 for Classic Amigas (RTG version)

So, there are two versions of Netsurf being actively working on right now.  One from Chris Young, who did the 3.6 version for OS4, and more recently, a version of 3.6 for classic Amigas.  However, there has been another version of Netsurf ported to Amiga, formerly known as 3.6 also, but now bumped to 3.7.  It appears to be RTG only at the moment.

Here it is streaming from YouTube on an Amiga 500 with the Vampire500 accelerator:

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Amibian – Amiga as a software service

I’ve read a couple of interesting articles about how the Amiga system is being re-implemented in Javascript so that it will continue to survive in the future world of cloud computing where microservices are all the rage and the choice of OS is arbitrary. I think the guys are onto something.

Here’s the first article:

Amibian + Smart Pascal: blog link

Second article:

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