Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 13, 2022

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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:44:26 GMT

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Haiku, Myst on 2600, ScummVM adds games, & Neofetch themese

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Its 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. Its fancy. Haiku posts July update - SerenityOS Browser ported

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?

ScummVM 2.6.0 released - with new games supported

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. Its wild looking. mausimus @mausmoto Scumm Bar 3D playable in @ScummVM with RVX mod prototype. Base model by @FOA_SE + voxel projection mapping. Tech preview. #voxel #raylib #monkeyisland #retro #adventure #pixelart #rtmi #rvx #scummvm #lucasarts August 12th 2022 487 Retweets 2,074 Likes

Developer is recreating Myst on an Atari 2600

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 hes gotten. Not bad for a 2600! deater @deater78 here's a work in progress video. You can get to and activate 3 of the marker switches, and you can poke around with the red/blue books in the library.

I'd estimate I have about half of the space on the ROM left. August 12th 2022 15 Likes

Neofetch Themes project

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 .

Some of them look pretty darn snazzy!

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