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Software: DOSBox, Hypnotix, Pogo and Editors

By Roy Schestowitz Created 04/12/2020 - 8:49pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 4th of December 2020 08:49:57 PM Filed under Software [1]

DOSBox Staging has a rather large new release out with 0.76.0 | GamingOnLinux[2]

DOSBox Staging is the fork of the original emulator with an aim to modernize it and give it some more advanced features, with the latest release out now.

An important project because DOSBox itself is a vital bit of free and open source software, one that has enabled us not to lose out on thousands of classic games. Ensuring that it keeps working on modern systems using modern features with DOSBox Staging is awesome.

This release is a big one covering many parts of it enhancing "the quality of audio emulation (GUS, built-in MIDI, PC speaker), improved support for PowerPC and POWER8 architectures, and a healthy mix of usability, documentation, code quality improvements". They go into a lot more detail in the lengthy release notes, which make for an interesting read.

Hypnotix ? Watch Live TV via Linux Mint developed IPTV Player | UbuntuHandbook[3]

Want to watch live TV on Ubuntu Linux? Try Hypnotix, a new IPTV player developed by Linux Mint team.

Hypnotix is a player application which streams from IPTV providers, which can be configured via a local M3U playlists, remote M3U URLs or the Xtream API.

The player uses libmpv for video playback, and it?s configured to ship with Free-IPTV as default IPTV provider. You can easily remove it and set your own providers via software preferences dialog. Pogo - minimalist music player - LinuxLinks [4]

My favorite pastime is to see an eclectic range of bands, solo artists, and orchestras live. It?s such a life-changing and exhilarating experience to be present. It?s one thing to be sitting at home listening to a CD or watching music videos on TV or on YouTube, but being with an audience, packed out in a stadium or music hall, takes it to another level. But it?s an expensive pastime, and still on hold given the current coronavirus pandemic. I?m therefore listening to music from my CD collection which I?ve encoded to FLAC, a lossless audio format, and stored locally.

Linux offers a huge array of open source music players. And many of them are high quality. I?ve reviewed the vast majority for LinuxLinks, but I?m endeavoring to explore every free music player in case there?s an undiscovered gem.

Pogo is billed as a fast and minimalist audio player for Linux. It?s written in Python and uses GTK+ and GStreamer, the latter is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows.

Pogo was forked from Decibel Audio Player, a defunct music player that saw its last release in September 2011.

Try this Linux for fans [5]

The term "emacs" is actually a portmanteau of "Editor Macros," and the first one was programmed in 1976 as a set of macros for the TECO editor. GNU Emacs was developed as an interpretation of this style of visual text editor, and it was notably released as free, hackable, and redistributable software (called "free software" by the Free Software Foundation, although the term "free" in this context means "liberated" rather than "gratis").

Other versions have been developed over the years, including Jove, an acronym for "Jonathan Payne's Own Version of Emacs." Jove is a small (it's only 250K) and minimalistic version of Emacs that can prove useful when you find GNU Emacs too bloated for what you need.

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/38 [2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/dosbox-staging-has-a-rather-large-new-release-out-with-0760 [3] http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/12/hypnotix-linux-mint-developed-iptv-player/ [4] https://www.linuxlinks.com/pogo-minimalist-music-player/ [5] https://opensource.com/article/20/12/jove-emacs