You sure do notice around AROS land when Winter is coming. People start working on AROS again, things start happening and that makes it exciting! The #aros irc channel on the freenode network had 10 more people than usual in it today. Activity is increasing already. I wanted to post several news items tonight, so here we go!

A few days ago Hively Tracker 1.4 was released and it includes an AROS version. It is so cool they decided to include an AROS version. For a basic description, check out their "About" page on their web site. You can download the AROS version on their download page. Wondering what sound cards are supported in AROS? Here is a small news item I dug up from AROS-Exec.org.

"Michal Schulz recently commited his AC97 Codec driver to cvs, enabling Native Audio for the first time to the lucky owners of Intel 8x0 and nForce based motherboards.

But.... hot on his heals, Georg Steger ported the AHI LGPL SB Live/Audigy Driver to AROS!!!!"

I have not attempted to get either one of these to work. Maybe someone who knows more about how to setup audio on AROS could comment with more information?

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In other news, Bill "Tigger" Evans has agreed to do an interview with The AROS Show. Bill is the developer now working on the AROS port to EFIKA. It should be a good one, stay tuned!

Last but certainly not least, I received an e-mail today from Menthos of the demo group Nukleus. He wanted to tell me Nukleus has not yet set a specific date for a new edition of Cows and Snakefights. But he is guessing it may be sometime around October. I really enjoyed writing for the last edition. It received a lot of nice comments, especially about the high quality articles. If you haven't read it, download it and do it now!