This year Broadway will be back. More importantly I will introduce the 1.0 release. See attached Roadmap for details.
Roadmap2014

Also this year we will open the first true App-Store for AROS and Amiganoid-systems.
It derives from our „failed but not stopped“ retro gaming system called indieGO!
This way all target systems including indieGO will benefit from the same software and media portfolio. Content-creators will benefit from being able to reach all niche systems at once as:
AmigaOS 3x/4.x, AROS 68k/i386, MorphOS, AEROS ARMhf/i386/PPC and mega nerd Systems as Windows XP, OS X(PPC/intel) and Linux ARMhf/ppc/i386

We hope that we can provide you new stuff and a central place for all your nerdy stuff you need too survive in todays mainstream world.

Devs and contents creators are invited to start uploading. It is free until you sell a product. There are no registration or hosting fees.

The official developer support forum can be found here: www.a-mc.biz/igo

IGO.... hmm... what is igo?
Well we like package managers.. if you tried linux, maybe debian, you know what a „.deb“ is. A „.igo“ will be same but offers also more.
We will introduce them as well and they are not platform agnostic. You can create a igo per platform or a single igo for multiple platform depending of its content. A classic ROM of a Game can be used on multiple platforms for example. A dev could define a dependency per platform (emulator in that case).

Oh dependencies.. yep „.igo“’s will have defined dependencies and also defined „optional components“. This means that if you download for example „Beneath a step sky game data“, the system will tell you that you need SCUMMVM to play it and it will download it as well.
The opposite happens when you download SCUMMVM. The system will allow you to download „optional components“ like Beneath a Steel Sky and or Flight of the Amazon queen.

Back to Broadway, my first Distro based on native i386 AROS, it means that I will include the indieGO!-Appstore as mainframe for the user to update, enhance and personalize his Version of AROS Broadway.

Basically everyone could build his own AROS flavor from scratch with only the App Store put on a nightly.
Well don’t expect that it will be ready at launch but it comes during the year.

Another useful feature of our App Store is the „synchronization“ of your computers/tablets/console.
If you go to another computer you can just do a synch to get all your purchased stuff downloaded to that machine.
Depending on licenses it may be that some apps will check if there is a valid user account on that system to prevent piracy.

Broadway 086 from january 13 will be back soon. Than follows Broadway EEE Edition optimized for EEE PC’s, than Broadway 1.0 preview 1

My shop www.ares-shop.de will be soon filled with more Amiga and AROS related stuff.
Already „new“ are the AresOne 2014 which is also „indieGO!-certified“ (easy since it is from me ; ) ) and can be pimped up to a Steam/indieGO-Box

On the AEROS side I will target further the Raspberry Pi and the Odroid U3 which is on par with a SAMSUNG S3 performance wise.. Quadcore!

Best Regards,
Pascal