Games: Godot Engine Fund and Commodore 64 on the Internet

• FOSS game engine Godot Engine just gained a new Platinum sponsor

  The excellent free and open source game engine Godot Engine just announced that Heroic Labs are now supporting their development as a Platinum level sponsor. Going by the Patreon campaign for Godot Engine, that means Heroic Labs are handing over at least $1,500 monthly to help development which is awesome. It's an interesting matchup too, as Heroic Labs are the developers of the open source Nakama (GitHub) a "real-time, competitive, social back-end that helps game developers create compelling multiplayer experiences" according to Heroic and they're now working on getting it working with Godot Engine as well.

• HEROIC LABS SUPPORTS GODOT DEVELOPMENT

  We are happy to announce that Heroic Labs is now supporting Godot's development as Platinum sponsor! For this occasion, we asked Heroic Labs co-founder Mo Firouz to write some words about the company, why they choose to support Godot and their plans to integrate Nakama with our engine. Imagine a world where all music had been written for piano. In a piano-only world, we’d never have the guitar solo from Comfortably Numb, or the drum loop from Straight Outta Compton, and the Flight of the Bumblebee would lose its frantic energy. Pianos are wonderful but the world’s richer for all the many ways that we can make music. At Heroic Labs, we see games development in a similar way. The rich variety of tooling available to games developers has delivered an explosion of creativity over the past decade.

• Commodore 64 on the Internet | IRC

  The Commodore 64 was my first computer and as such, now holds a special place in my heart and probably forever more, or at least until I lose my mind completely. In all the years I had a C64, I never visited a BBS as I didn’t get that bit of tech until I got my Commodore Amiga 600. Due to the wonders of the Internet, and a global effort to keep these old machines relevant from guys like The 8-Bit Guy, Perifractic Retro Recipes, Retro Man Cave, Dan Wood, LGR and so many others, I was inspired to take the time to make my Commodore 64 more than just a stroll down vintage lane for me. I have seen others make use of it for writing and developing new games and such for it but how could I incorporate it into my life was the question. That answer, IRC, it must do IRC. [...] I am impressed that I am able to do this much with an unmodified Commodore 64. I am quite impressed that with 64 KiB of RAM, it is still a productive and usable tool. It is quite single purpose but absolutely useful. I want to note that the web browser does work in this Contiki OS but not with HTTPS so that is out. It does make requests as you would expect and I think I just may revisit the rest of this on another blathering at some point in time. Future plans, I really want to be able to telnet into a Linux machine with the Commodore 64, I have some other hardware and software I want to try out with this machine to see what other greatness can become of it.

Rock Pi 4C variant adds mini-DP while Rock Pi E offers dual LAN

Radxa is prepping a $75 “Rock Pi 4C” variant of the RK3399-based Rock Pi 4B SBC that adds a 2-lane mini-DisplayPort for dual simultaneous displays. There’s also an RK3328-based “Rock Pi E” in the works with dual LAN ports. Radxa CEO Tom Cubie announced an upcoming “Rock Pi 4C” SBC that adds dual simultaneous display support to the Rock Pi 4B design. There’s also a tiny Rock Pi E SBC in the works (see farther below). The Rock Pi 4C, which will ship by the end of the month at $74.95, is a variant of the similarly open-spec Rock Pi 4, a Rockchip RK3399 based Raspberry Pi pseudo-clone. More specifically, it’s based on the Rock Pi 4B, a $74.95 model with 4GB RAM and a WiFi/Bluetooth module. There’s also a $39 4A model with 1GB RAM and no wireless. Both of these Linux- and Android-driven boards were updated to v.1.4 in late June with the addition of 4MB SPI for booting NVMe drives, among other enhancements. Also: Rock Pi 4C SBC to Support Dual Display Setups via micro HDMI and mini DP Ports

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