27.Mar.2025
Fabio 'Allanon' Falcucci
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Developer diary: Generic RPG Engine - Dev Log #1
Fabio ‘Allanon’ Falcucci wants to develop an RPG engine with Hollywood in order to create his first RPG. In the first entry of his planned developer diary, he presents the current status as well as his programming techniques and tools used. (cg)
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27.Mar.2025
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FPGA based Amiga clone: AmiCube, Board-Layout Version 1.1
Ranko Rodic presents the current status of his FPGA-based Amiga clone AmiCube F1200 in a video. The changes made are explained using a rendering of version 1.1 of the board layout:
- MOSFETs back for level shifting - They're making a triumphant return to handle voltage like champs!
- Floppy disk module routed like a dream - Everything's neatly tucked into this slick little area - pure engineering art!
- Tiny 402 components (pick-and-place approved!) - These micro-sized parts are a bold move, and my trusty machine's got it covered.
- LEDs still shining bright for cell/motor/ready signals - Keeping the visuals popping so you know what's active at a glance!
- FPGA now gets direct ready signals - sky's the limit in Verilog! - More control, more possibilities - coding just got a whole lot more fun!
- Polarity sorted, inverters added - active low LEDs light up when they should! - No more guessing games; these lights mean business now!
- Detect signals for floppy connections = instant LED action! - Plug in a floppy, and bam - LEDs light up to confirm it's go time!
- Cleaner routing, no more wiggles - just straight-line perfection! - The board's looking sharper than ever with optimized paths.
- Jumper for 3V/5V switching + better heat dissipation with extra mass - Flexibility and cool vibes - literally thanks to some thermal tweaks!
- FPGA status LEDs to show when the Amiga core is up & running! - Watch the magic happen as the board boots and the Amiga core kicks in!
- Decoupling done right this time - followed Spartan-6 datasheets to the letter! - No shortcuts here; it's all by the book for max stability!
- SRAM (6MB) + SDRAM (64MB) in the works for that sweet retro Amiga RAM vibes! - SRAM keeps it authentic, while SDRAM adds mega power - best of both worlds!
- AGA core porting is progressing—looking good so far! - The Amiga dream is coming alive, and I’m pumped about where this is headed!
(cg)
[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 23:08] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
Edwin van den Oosterkamp (Mail)
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Paperback: Classic AmigaOS Programming - The Network
After Classic AmigaOS Programming - An introduction and Bare Metal Amiga Programming, Edwin Van Den Oosterkamp presents his third paperback on Amiga programming called Classic AmigaOS Programming: The Network. It is about adding network and Internet functionality to Amiga programs and is aimed at people who have some experience with writing software for the Amiga, but have no experience with IP networking. Like its predecessors, the title is self-published via Amazon, a digital edition is not available. (cg)
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27.Mar.2025
Sami Vehmaa
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Dungeon Crawler: Bolminok's Kingdom 2
Sami Vehmaa's dungeon crawler 'Bolminok's Kingdom 2' requires an AGA Amiga with some fast RAM. The title is available for free at itch.io and continues the story of its predecessor. (cg)
[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 22:54] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2025
Franck Charlet
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Module packer: ptvpack 1.2 (Windows/AmigaOS)
PtvPack is a packer for Noise-/Pro- and Fasttracker modules ("mods"), which is aimed at Vampire-based systems: Up to twelve channels with up to five octaves are supported. The packer is available as a command line tool for Windows and AmigaOS and there is also a playback routine provided as m68k assembler sourcecode.
(cg)
[News message: 27. Mar. 2025, 22:51] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2025
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Emulator: Mame106Minimix 1.2b (update)
The Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) emulates numerous arcade machines. After conversions for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 as well as various, mostly older 68k ports, there has been another project for AmigaOS 3.1 since last year with Mame106Minimix, which however requires a very fast computer (68060 processor with 64 MB or actually designed for PiStorm extensions).
The port of MAME version 0.106, which dates back to 2006, is now available in version 1.2 and offers various optimizations, bug fixes and improvements, such as an optional “NewLowLevel” patch, which is required for some Amiga 2000 configurations.
Update: (28.03.2025, 06:10, dr)
Version 1.2b is now available. (snx)
[News message: 26. Mar. 2025, 09:44] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2025
Amigasystem (ANF)
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Video: AROS One 68k 2.0 Tutorial
The AROS One distribution is currently available for x86 computers. A 68k version will also be available shortly. The video at the title link should give you a foretaste, the graphical appearance corresponds to that of the x86 version. (snx)
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26.Mar.2025
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Game announcement: Krogharr to be released end of April
There is now more information about Michael 'Tigerskunk' Borrmann's platform game Krogharr. When it is released at the end of April, the game will run on an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM and will contain the following features:
- Five-level parallax/line scrolling
- 60 to 70 colors on the screen at the same time
- Arcade-style 50 FPS action
- Every single level has carefully hand-pixelated enemies and backgrounds
- Music and multichannel SFX
- Over one hundred animation frames for enemies and bosses
- Large bosses
- The whole game fits on one floppy disk
In addition to purchasing the download version, it will also be possible to pre-order a boxed edition with a diskette or as a CD³² version from Poly.Play.xyz. (snx)
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25.Mar.2025
Seiya (ANF)
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PDF magazine: REV'n'GE 168 (Italian/English)
Besides the Italian original issue, the PDF magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is also available in English. The magazine's reviews compare, if available, the different ports of classic games to the various platforms of their time. Furthermore a focus is on rather unknown retro games.
The latest issue 168 contains an MSXdev24 special as well as reviews of four Amiga games: Apocalypse, Super Raid IV, Maths Adventure and Helm. (nba)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 18:49] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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Puzzle game: Level-Editor for Pjusk
An official level editor has now been released for the recently published game Pjusk (amiga-news.de reported, video). The game, in which players have to find their way through a maze strategically, has thus gained a new creative component.
Developer Zoopendan hopes to "see lots of brilliant levels made by the community". Exciting: anyone who submits a level that makes it onto the planned expansion disc will be named in the game.
So now it's up to the community – create levels and become part of the game! (nba)
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25.Mar.2025
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Seq 3.0: MIDI sequencer for AmigaOS 4 has been updated
The new version 3.0 of the MIDI sequencer Seq by Tuomas Hokka is now available for AmigaOS 4. This simple tool allows you to create and edit MIDI sequences and is aimed at musicians who want to use their Amiga as a compositional tool. The current update includes numerous improvements, including to the user interface and MIDI output.
All changes to version 3.0 summarised:
- FIXED one major bug in saving project: Too many bytes were written so it was filled with zero bytes and that will break reading one integer value in the project file. This will be fixed automatically in loading project. User will be prompted to choose to save the project immediately after.
- Fixed bugs
- New song (long) mode to One time track, added One time banks
- Increased number of song steps to 96, project files version increased to 9
- Added more settings to alt/double note
- Alt notes displayed in steps better
- Some font sizes increased
- Added new tooltype to set large font
- Refactored some parts of the source code for better maintainability and to avoid bugs
Seq is offered as freeware and can be downloaded from OS4Depot. (nba)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 11:31] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS
In the latest blog post on Datagubbe.se, entitled "BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS", Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson takes a look at an often-overlooked detail of AmigaDOS: using the rarely documented terms BRA and KET, the article shows how to easily embed variables in strings. (nba)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 11:06] [Comments: 0]
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25.Mar.2025
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A1200NG: New blog and release date
The British developer and distributor AmigaKit has set up a new blog for the announced ARM-based motherboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported) to provide information about the product.
The motherboard was originally scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2025, but the shop now lists April as the release date. The regular price for the board with a 64 GB MicroSD card is the equivalent of around 192 euros.
It is noticeable that the motherboard is referred to as "The A1200 NG" instead of the original announced "A1200NG" in various places on the blog and on the homepage. However, the project has nothing in common with the retro computer THE A1200 announced by Retro Games Ltd. and recently postponed due to legal uncertainties. (nba)
[News message: 25. Mar. 2025, 10:58] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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Checkmate 19" IPS monitor : Pre-order from German dealer
The German mail order company DragonBox has been offering Checkmate products since 2022 (amiga-news.de reported). As of today, you can also pre-order the Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor, which was successfully financed via Kickstarter at the end of 2022, as a "Scalar Pack" for 939 Euros.
Monitors and accessories are expected to be delivered in mid-May 2025. Only the Scalar Packs or the Mister/DE10 and Raspberry Pi installation kits (pods) can be pre-ordered as part of the first batch. The Starter Packs for 709 Euros will only be available with the second batch, which will be produced as soon as the first batch is sold out.
The Scalar Pack consists of the Starter Pack and the Scalar Pod. The Checkmate 19" IPS monitor offers a modular slot system that provides space for three different extensions, called pods. A standard pod is included, which offers A/V and HDMI inputs. The Scalar Pod offers additional inputs such as EGA, SCART, Component and RF. (dr)
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24.Mar.2025
HoysterGames
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Shoot'em Up: Demo update for "Rex and the Galactic Plague"
"Rex and the Galactic Plague" (video) is a vertically scrolling shooter that the developer originally wanted to develop with the Shoot'em Up Construction Kit before switching to the Scorpion Engine (amiga-news.de reported). Changes of the new demo version:
- Difficulty options (easy / normal / hard) - some enemies only appear in normal or hard modes, attack patterns can vary and various other gameplay elements are affected
- Continues (the amount you get depends on the difficulty you choose)
- New bosses for both levels
- New or tweaked enemy attack patterns
- New animations for some enemies
- Updated sound effects
- Level two extended and remixed
- Difficulty has been balanced
- Rex now becomes briefly invulnerable after taking a hit
- Increased base speed for Rex
- Reworked smart bomb function
- Smart bombs available from the start (different number according to the difficulty selected)
- Improvements to the shield power up
- Energy bars for bosses
- Four fantastic new music tracks
- Updated title screen with options including controls and credits
- New story screens between levels, plus other presentation screens
- Some general nips and tucks to improve performance
(dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:30] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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HxC Floppy emulator: Software V2.16.12.2
The floppy emulator HxC by Jean-Francois Del Nero completely replaces the floppy drive (of an Amiga) with an electronic device. The project, which was launched in 2006, is available in two versions, with a SD card port or with USB port (amiga-news.de reported).
A new version of the HxC floppy emulator software has now been released. The changes:
- New Writer : Mame MFI files.
- FLTK updated to v1.4.2
- CI : Fix Windows XP x86 support
(dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:07] [Comments: 0]
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24.Mar.2025
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SCSI for Raspberry Pi: SCSI2Pi 5.1
Version 5.1 of the SCSI2Pi emulation software has been released. SCSI2Pi is an alternative to the well-known PiSCSI software for the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board, which brings SCSI technology to the Raspberry Pi. According to developer Uwe Seimet, the software offers optimised device emulation, higher transfer rates and numerous new functions, including tools for the SCSI initiator mode (amiga-news.de reported).
Changes in version 5.1:
- The INQUIRY product data (vendor, product, revision) for the device type SCSG (e.g. SCSI-to-USB bridge) are configurable, just like they are for other types. The configured data replace the actual data reported by the USB device.
- The sector cache has been optimized.
- s2pdump in case of errors supports retries when saving/restoring hard drive images.
The software can be downloaded from the SCSI2Pi-website. (dr)
[News message: 24. Mar. 2025, 06:02] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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Chat software: AmigaGPT 2.3.0
Cameron Armstrong has developed a chat program called AmigaGPT, which is based on ChatGPT. The software supports the latest OpenAI models including the o1 family and runs on AmigaOS 3.1 and above (including 4.1) and on MorphOS. The source code of the tool can be downloaded separately. Changes of the new version:
- New installer for easy and customisable installation
- Localisation support for 22 languages
- Removed close gadgets from API Key and Chat System requester windows
- Chat system requester text entry field is now multiline and supports clipboard
Download: AmigaGPT.lha (2,2MB) (dr)
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23.Mar.2025
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Aminet uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to Aminet:
Butterfly2.lha dev/c 5.2M MOS Music and drawing in C ...
F1GP2025Carset.lha game/data 7K GEN 2025 Carset for F1GP
Mega-ATcad.lha gfx/edit 1.6M OS3 2D-CAD-Program
Fractel24.lha gfx/misc 1.2M OS3 Fractel24 generates ima...
AmiArcadia-OS4.lha misc/emu 11M OS4 Signetics-based machine...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 10M OS3 Signetics-based machine...
AmiVms.lha misc/emu 3.8M OS3 Simulates OpenVMS comma...
logikus-simulator.zip misc/emu 82K OS3 LOGIKUS-Simulator incl....
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 127K OS3 ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pen...
KarateKidTheme.lha mods/8voic 2.6M GEN 16bit 14ch Karate Kid A...
MultiCX_148.lha util/cdity 16K OS3 MultiCX Commodity v1.48...
VATestprogram.zip util/misc 8.6M OS3 Versatile Amiga Testpro...
Pi_Demos.zip util/shell 94K GEN Calculate PI in pure AM...
GoVD.lha util/wb 30K OS3 Virtual Desktops for Wo...
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[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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OS4Depot uploads until 22.03.2025
THe following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to OS4Depot:
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 11Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
lfi-png2amiga.lha gra/ico 230kb 4.1 convert PNG icons to Amiga icon ...
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23.Mar.2025
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AROS Archives uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to AROS Archives:
minislug.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/act 8Mb a metal slug game
minislug.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/act 8Mb a metal slug game
hocoslamfy.x86_64-aros-v1... gam/mis 3Mb SDL Flappy Bird clone.
openjazz.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/pla 751kb open-source version of the class...
biniax2.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 4Mb Simple and child friendly logica...
gnurobbo.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 3Mb open source reimplementation of ...
tinytris.x86_64-aros-v11.zip gam/puz 3Mb a clone of the classic game Tetris
(snx)
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23.Mar.2025
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MorphOS-Storage uploads until 22.03.2025
The following files have been added until 22.03.2025 to MorphOS-Storage:
SDL_3.2.8.lha Development/Library Simple Directmedia Laye...
butterfly2.lha Development/SDL2 Music and drawing in C ...
AmiArcadia_34.1.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi...
BreakHack_4.1.2.lha Games/Role A casual coffee-break r...
SpaceDrifterDX_1.0.lha Games/Shoot2D SpaceDrifterDX port
Blips_2.0.lha Games/Think Port of Blips (SDL3)
Easy2Install_1.0.lha Network/PackageManager A package manager to do...
Markdown-Viewer_1.1.lha Network/Web Allow to view markdown ...
AmigaTText_1.5.lha Network/Web Shows GER Teletext Site...
(snx)
[News message: 23. Mar. 2025, 07:35] [Comments: 0]
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23.Mar.2025
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WHDLoad: New installers until 22.03.2025
Using WHDLoad, games, scene demos and intros by cracking groups, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, can be installed on harddisk. The following installers have been added until 22.03.2025:
- 2025-03-21 improved: Black Dawn II (Andrew Campbell) support Ross fixed version (Info)
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23.Mar.2025
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AmigaRemix: Further files added
AmigaRemix collects remixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games. Since our last news item, the following mp3 files have been added:
- Turrican 3 Payment Day Title Music
- Deep Core (Remastered)
- OutRun Passing Breeze Live Performance
- Shadow of the Beast, Aarbron's Revenge (Vandahlia Special Remix)
(snx)
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23.Mar.2025
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Game: Battleship
After almost thirty years, Turkish Amiga.org member 'hggurak' has improved his game "Battleship" and translated it into English. It has been written in AMOS in 1996 on his Amiga 500. (snx)
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22.Mar.2025
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Monochrome arcade game: Go! Tony Go!
In "Go! Tony Go!" (video) from Monochrome Productions, the aim is to avoid obstacles and collect bonus items by jumping or ducking. Like Tony Montezuma's Gold from the same development team, the game is designed entirely in black and white. (cg)
[News message: 22. Mar. 2025, 14:02] [Comments: 0]
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22.Mar.2025
BeWorld
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MorphOS: BreakHack 4.1.2
BreakHack is a SDL-based Roguelike. The MorphOS port was done by 'BeWorld' and is the first game to use the updated implementation of the SDL libraries from the same author. (cg)
[News message: 22. Mar. 2025, 13:55] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2025
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GUI for Greaseweazle Tools: FluxMyFluffyFloppy v5.2.4 for Windows
'FrankieTheFluff' has released version 5.2.4 of his graphical user interface FluxMyFluffyFloppy for Greaseweazle Tools v1.22 (see also the video Setting up a Greaseweazle V4). Changes since our last news item about version 5.2.1:
- Device/COM: Refresh button "?"
- Multiple connected "devices/COM" (e.g. COM3 and COM4 available): Buttons "Reset", "Bandwidth", "Info" and delays "Info"
- Greaseweazle: Hardware select: Support for Adafruit RP2040 for e.g. "--device COM6"
- GUI: Resizing to minimum values
- Read/Write/Convert: Usage of all arguments now only if "View|Show all arguments" is checked
- Menu: Renamed "View" "Show/Use all arguments"
- GUI: Host scaling setting (e.g. 125%) fixes
(dr)
[News message: 21. Mar. 2025, 22:12] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2025
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Amiga emulator: Amiberry 7.0.6 for Linux and macOS
Amiberry is an Amiga emulator based on the current WinUAE version for Linux and macOS. The new version 7.0.6 offers several improvements and bug fixes. (dr)
[News message: 21. Mar. 2025, 21:59] [Comments: 0]
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21.Mar.2025
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Worth a read: A history of user interface design
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson analyzes the development of user interfaces in a new article on Datagubbe.se entitled "Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design" - with a special focus on futuristic interface designs of past decades.
Starting with a look at old books on user guidance and GUI design, the author asks how the often lofty visions of the future from back then (such as touchscreen workstations or holographic interfaces) have developed in reality - or not. Particular attention is paid to the question of whether today's interfaces have actually become simpler and more accessible, or whether they are merely based on new models without really being more efficient.
The blog post is both informative and tongue-in-cheek – and offers exciting insights for anyone interested in design history, interface philosophy or simply digital nostalgia. (nba)
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