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| March 2025 | Freeciv-web server settled at its current location of freecivweb.com. |
| March 2025 | CodingJellyFish announces the project is moving to the Godot Engine, citing the age of the Antarctica Engine and desire to improve project contributions. |
| February 28 2025 |
YAM
AmigaKit released a maintenance version of YAM 2.10 for A600GS and A1200NG computer systems, which sparked controversy due to potential GPL license term violations.
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| February 2025 | Released version 2.4.0 of Speed Dreams, the most recent version of the open-source racing game. |
| October 2024 |
YAM
AmigaKit Ltd released their own fork of YAM 2.10 for the A600GS computer system, with minor bug fixes and a refreshed logo.
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| March 2024 |
YAM
Further SSL-related improvements made to YAM 2.10 development version.
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| March 2023 | Mac OS X support was reintroduced in Freeciv after being unavailable between versions 2.4 and 3.1. |
| December 2022 |
VICE
The VICE emulator serves as inspiration for an Apple Macintosh emulator powered by a Raspberry Pi.
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| November 2022 | The first standard Longturn game (LT75) was played using the Freeciv21 software, marking a significant milestone for the project. |
| October 20 2022 | Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released on GOG.com digital platform. |
| July 2022 |
YAM
YAM 2.10 updated to integrate AmiSSL v5 support.
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| April 26 2022 | The game was released on Steam digital platform. |
| 2021 |
Hold-And-Modify
The HAM technique was proposed and tested with the LnxSpectrum emulator as HGFX/Q, and realized in the eLeMeNt ZX computer, implementing a HAM mode very similar to Amiga HAM8 for ZX Spectrum computers.
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| November 19 2021 | On the game's twentieth anniversary, French modder William Faure released the 'Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player & Cooperative' modification on Steam. The mod, developed by Dark Matter Productions, restores the single-player campaign of the cancelled Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory expansion, with approval and support from the original game developers. |
| September 2021 | SuperTuxKart 1.3 is released, introducing rare support for force feedback in a free software game. |
| June 2021 | Freecivweb.com had played more than fifty Longturn games by mid-2021, demonstrating the growing popularity of the variant. |
| October 15 2020 | RealRTCW, a community overhaul mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, was released on Steam as a free modification. The mod features a new renderer, expanded arsenal, rebalanced gunplay, and new high-quality models, textures, and sounds. |
| September 2020 | Acer revived the Gateway brand, launching new laptops and tablets sold exclusively through Walmart, manufactured by Bmorn Technology and based on EVOO-branded laptops with THX-tuned sound systems. |
| February 18 2020 |
Warzone 2100
An unofficial version of Warzone 2100 was released on Steam by Underdone Gaming, specifically a Windows version, which was met with generally negative reception from the community.
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| May 2019 | Joerg 'Hiker' Henrichs steps down as lead developer, with 'Benau' and 'Alayan' taking over as new project leaders. |
| 2018 | Antarctica Rendering Engine switches to using Physically Based Rendering (PBR) in the git version of the game. |
| 2018 |
Emulation on the Amiga
Apple 2000 emulator was made open source under the MIT license, transitioning from its previous closed-source status.
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| March 2018 | Freeciv-web server moved from play.freeciv.org to freecivweb.org by a group of volunteers. |
| 2017 | Freeciv-web began continuous operation at www.freecivweb.com. |
| March 2017 | SuperTuxKart is greenlit on Steam digital distribution platform, though not yet downloadable. |
| February 2017 |
YAM
Development version of YAM 2.10 publicly released, adapted to use AmiSSL v4 for updated SSL support.
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| April 2015 | Version 0.9 is released with the new Antarctica rendering engine, featuring advanced graphics capabilities like dynamic lighting, ambient occlusion, and real-time shadow mapping. |
| January 2014 | The game's code repository is officially announced to be migrating from SourceForge to GitHub. |
| 2013 | SuperTuxKart participates in Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. |
| 2013 | Acer discontinued the eMachines brand due to the rise of tablet computers and 2-in-1 laptops in the low-end computer market. |
| 2013 |
Mupen64Plus
Ouya announced its open-source Android console, which showcased Mupen64Plus emulating games like Super Mario 64 during its first presentation session.
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| 2013 |
Amiga Forever
Amiga Forever is ported to Android and released as a Google Chrome extension under the name Amiga Forever essentials, providing necessary ROM files for Android and Chrome emulators.
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| 2012 |
Amiga Forever
Cloanto introduced the RP9 Editor for content authoring in the Amiga Forever package, enabling users to create and edit Amiga content packages.
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| June 2012 |
Mupen64Plus
A fork of Mupen64Plus specifically for the BlackBerry Playbook was announced, expanding the emulator's platform compatibility.
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| September 2011 |
ACube Systems Srl
ACube Systems introduced the AmigaOne 500 computer, which was based on the Sam460ex mainboard.
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| 2010 | SuperTuxKart switches from SDL and PLIB libraries to the Irrlicht Engine, which is released in version 0.7. |
| 2010 |
Fellow
WinFellow development was revived with a new release to improve compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
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| August 1 2010 | The entire source code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later during QuakeCon. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles VICE, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, SuperTuxKart, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Gateway, Inc., Amiga Disk File, Hold-And-Modify, Emulation on the Amiga, Mupen64Plus, Speed Dreams, Amiga Forever, YAM (software), ACube Systems Srl, Fellow (emulator), Freeciv & Warzone 2100, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.