It’s Saturday! Which means all the most important news in the Technology world! You know. Stuff about Linux, Alternative operating systems, and retro computing! Stuff that fills your soul with joy!
Swing by tomorrow for a podcast version of this weeks news. It’s fancy.
Haiku — the open source re-implementation of BeOS — has continued to advance forward at a steady, impressive pace.
Their full time developer, “Waddlesplash”, has posted his monthly status update for the system. And, as usual, it contains a number of awesome tidbits. Including: the Geany GTK IDE has been ported, the ARM port of Haiku continues to improve, GPU drivers for Radeon cards has advanced forward, OpenBSD WiFi drivers are now working properly, and the Fish shell is now available.
And remember how the web browser engine from SerentyOS got ported to Linux (dubbed “LadyBird”)? Well now that web browser has been ported to Haiku. Because… why not?
The latest release of ScummVM (2.6.0) adds support for 9 new games. Including The 11th Hour (the sequel to 7th Guest).
In addition, there is an effort underway to add 3D voxel projection to existing games within ScummVM. What this means is it may become possible to play classic adventure games in a semi-3D world. Check out the video included in the following tweet for a work in progress example. It’s wild looking.
In “they did it because they could” news, one developer is working on recreating the core areas of the classic “Myst” entirely on a single Atari 2600 cartridge.
From the developer: “there was enough interest that I've expanded Atari 2600 Myst to an E7 bank-switched cartridge with 16k ROM/ 2k RAM. Using ZX02 compression. Hoping I can fit the speed run route.”
Check out the video of how far he’s gotten. Not bad for a 2600!
A new project aims to collect configurations and themes for Neofetch into one convenient place. Making it as easy as possible to customize the look of Neofetch.
The monkey island stuff is mind blowing.
That made me seriously long for the good old times.