Hedley Davis has died

A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500. That's exactly what it sounds like: an Amiga 500 crammed into a portable SX-64 case, even keeping the same 5" colour screen and basic keyboard layout. The picture here is a bad scan of a bad film picture I took at VCF 5.0 and I need to figure out where those original photos went. Dale Luck has this unit and hopefully it still works, but neither Thomas Rattigan nor Irving Gould would have ever released an adventurous product like this, and perhaps it was just as well. Later he worked on the Xbox and, my favourite console of its generation, the Xbox 360 (PowerPC for the win), on which my wife is slowly learning to play Portal and getting abused by GLaDOS on a regular basis, and in retirement taught at the University of Delaware. He passed away last week at the age of 68. Rest in peace.

Crypto Ancienne 2.2: now supported on AmigaOS and classic MacOS/MPW

As threatened we're up to the next checkpoint with Crypto Ancienne, the TLS 1.2/1.3 library we maintain for pre-C99 vintage compilers and architectures, so here's version 2.2, or "Crypto Ancienne Meets the Hooded Fang" (read about previous releases).

New checkpoints are always an opportunity for new ports. Why am I showing you a picture of my Amiga Technologies A4000T? Because AmigaOS 3.9 is one of them!