Well, anyone around in the late 90’s remembers that there were many web browsers coming out for the Amiga at the time. The big one I recall was IBrowse, and it was very Amiga-centric. For a long time, v2.4 was the last big one that I used. I mistakenly thought that it was abandoned, but I was wrong.
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.
This week saw the release of the latest AmiKit X, a very fancy Classic Amiga prebuilt setup using WinUAE to create a ready to run rather awesome looking Amiga experience on your modern PC or Mac system.
Brussels, May 17, 2017
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:
A while ago, the Amiga gained the ability to access Google Drive and Dropbox as DOS Handlers from the command line or Dopus. See the links here:
Review by James Whelan
This is breaking news:
With the Vampire accelerator boards out and in mass production, and AROS gaining momentum on m68k, it has been announced that the Apollo/Vampire team will open-source their S-AGA enhanced Amiga-compatible chipset!
This means that other companies can build Vampire/S-AGA compatible hardware.
AROS is already open-source, and running on the Vampire boards. It still needs optimization for the S-AGA chipset.
Yes, it looks like it's finally happening. A new 68k-Amiga.
