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Network printing utility under development
On the Amiga OS 4.1 side of things, there is a network printer utility under development, called Airprint. The developer is making great strides but it still isn’t 100% from what I’ve seen. It can discover network printers From AmigaOS4, and other details. Many testers are helping with it and with their printer models. Other platforms take this feature for granted so it is good to see it coming to Amiga.
MorphOS 3.19 and other things
Well, that was a long pause! Almost 5 years since I’ve said anything about the Amiga community. Well, in that time, I’ve purchased a PowerMac G5 1.6Ghz machine and have been happily running MorphOS3.18 on it. I just found out that 3.19 was release with a load of changes: –> here <– Which I hope to install soon.
I did find out some information about compiling debian linux kernels that support KVM CPU virtualization for G4 (maybe even G3) and G5, which I hope to dig up again and share soon. It was a year ago.
MorphOS 3.15 released and 3.16 developers kit too!
The MorphOS news keeps rolling lately. Version 3.15 is now ready for download and includes a lot of stability and security updates.
Here’s the (as-usual) long list of changes:
https://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.15
Also, v3.16 of the software dev kit is out and will need the 3.15 version to be installed to use.
Go MorphOS!
MorphOS x86
Probably just a fan made teaser, but still…
Wayfarer web browser hits v1.10 with audio playback
While I’m still planning to finish my review of the latest MorphOS and Wayfarer in another post, I did stumble upon the news that the newest and most modern Amiga-related browser, Wayfarer, has now added support for streaming audio playback in the latest v1.9, and on top of that, a new v1.10 was just released:
When they first published this new browser, the author mentioned that he hadn’t planned to have multimedia playback. Maybe this is an indication that video is coming soon?
MorphOS 3.14 and Qemu 5.2
I’ve been away from blogging about Amiga-related news but I’ve been watching (well, mostly). I thought I’d come back by giving the latest MorphOS 3.14 a whirl, along with the latest, matching Chrysalis pack and the latest and greatest Qemu on my updated laptop.
Since I’ve sold all my PowerMacs, I’ll need something to run it on. The latest Qemu releases have been supporting Amiga OS4.1 FE for Sam460 (something I hope to do in the future, to test against WinUAE with the somewhat limited OS 4.1FE Classic) and MorphOS on PowerMac.
So, I headed off to Qemu-land
Amiga Viruses are still a threat? Fortunately, we have a team that is ever vigilant
Computer viruses aren’t things I would normally think about in the Amiga world, where the userbase isn’t nearly as large as Windows or Mac, since a virus is written by someone or a team. However, viruses are still around.