PortablE and Stuff

As you can see from my programming blog, I started following the progress of Chris Handley and his rewrite of the Amiga E programming language back in October of 2007. I was impressed with the language and tried it out using Amiga Forever. I asked Chris back then if he planned to bring it to AROS and he assured me that he was planning to do that. Well, he just recently posted on AROS-Exec.org with a question. So this means he is working on porting it now! This is exciting news. I know many people have wished for Amiga E to be available on AROS. Well, this is it folks! If you follow the link to my programming blog above, you will see why we cannot have the original Amiga E programming language. But in short, it was written in Assembly and tied to the hardware of the Amiga. So, PortablE is the next best thing! I wish Chris good luck with the port. I may interview Chris when it is completed. Hopefully the AROS community will embrace this and make this a popular language for AROS. It is very cool! Read about all the features at the PortablE web site.

In other recent news, Alain Greppin. has accepted the DHCP bounty. How awesome is that! This is something we definitely need in AROS. I was glad to see Alain grab another bounty after finishing the LaTeX port. I need to ask him for an interview!

There hasn't been any news that I know of about the UAE integration or the port of AROS to EFIKA. The developers working on these projects still have time to complete them, so hopefully they are doing well.

Unless you have been living somewhere without a computer (shame on you!), you probably already know about Robert Norris releasing a nice little teaser of the Traveller engine in action! Here is the post on his blog that kicked it off.

The consistently productive Michal Schulz is still hacking away at the AROS port to the SAM440. He has really grown to like this board a lot. He has talked about it many times on the AROS IRC channel. That is a good sign! Whenever there is something major to report, he always updates his blog to cover it. So check there for more information.