Today's Highlighs
   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Hope everyone is doing well.  Busy last few days have prevented me from fully working on the site but after 25 years...  It's going to be what it's going to be...  Not half bad!  ;-)

Interesting... Keep an eye on

• Required Reading:  In the sprit of Oldschooler's AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup, yoodoo2 has posted his Mini OS4 RoundUp for September 2026.  GREAT JOB!
• We have another RTG solution solution throwing its hat into the ring.  PrismRTG is a brand new, written from scratch, solution for Amiga OS 3.x.  Billed as a standalone replacement for CyberGraphX and Picasso, it currently supports the MNT ZZ900 & GBAPII++ video cards and Picasso II / II+, Piccolo SD64, Piccolo, GVP Spectrum through emulation.  If you're keeping track you may remember Amiga Corporation announced the completion of their own RTG system back in August.  So many choices!  I just wonder if either will support my MarcoSystems Retina Z3?

• amiga-news.de gives us an update on the statsus of Hyperion transferring trademark registrations to Amiga Corporation.  Interesting to see the sow consolidation of the Amiga back to Amiga Corporation.  Like everyone else I'm sure we're all wondering how this will end up.

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• PrismRTG: RTG (graphics card) software for AmigaOS 3.x, written from scratch: Workbench and programs in 256 colours, 16-bit and 24/32-bit on the MNT ZZ9000 and Cirrus-based Zorro II cards, with its own cybergraphics.library and Picasso96API.library.
  
• Windows 3.0 vs MacOS, AmigaOS and TOS: the 1990 desktop battle that changed computing: In May 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, a product that was not quite an operating system, not quite stable, and not quite the future its advertising wanted people to believe it was. And yet, in the strange, practical, occasionally ridiculous history of personal computing, it became one of those releases that divided time into before and after.
  
• AmiMAIL: AmiMAIL is a lightweight native Email client for AmigaOS 3.2+. It provides a classic ReAction interface while connecting directly to any IMAP and SMTP over AmiSSL/TLS. Messages remain on the server and are accessed live through IMAP. AmiMAIL does not maintain a local offline mail database. Features: Native AmigaOS 3.2+ / ReAction interface, Support for up to five independent IMAP/SMTP accounts with native account tabs in the main window and Account settings, Per-account server settings, credentials, notification sounds, signatures and encrypted startup/unlock state, Secure connections using direct SSL/TLS or STARTTLS through AmiSSL {& more}
  
• AmigaOne A1222 Plus Goes Wireless: If you have read the earlier posts in this blog, you'll be aware that the goal with my AmigaOne A1222p is to create a one power cord plugin portable system. The last piece to accomplishing this goal was to eliminate the need for a LAN cable to connect to the internet. To accomplish this I have tried two different Wireless to LAN adapters, both of which accomplish the goal with some pros and cons for each device
  
• AmiPrint: Modern Printing Is Here. AmiPrint brings modern printer support to the A600GS, A1200GS and the A1200NG. Purchase your licence online and receive a personal serial key code. Register your key with AmiSphere, then download and install AmiPrint with a single click from your AmiSphere account. Once installed, applications running in AmiBench can print directly to a local USB printer or to a printer on your network.
  
• The Cursed Floppy Drive Stick: Over the past month or so, I’ve resurrected my old Amiga 1200. I added a 2Gb SD card internally and set up a serial link to my PC. I needed software, so I downloaded an archive of 1000(ish) Fred Fish disks. Fred Fish was someone who published floppy disks with curated pieces of software and they were a gold mine. I bought a few over my years at Uni, and the one with SB-Prolog got me through my second year resits.
  
• Star Trek Judgement Rites (Amiga Interpreter): Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was the first game of a two game adventure series from Interplay. This first part was released for Amiga AGA in the 1990ies. The second part, Judgment Rites, was never released. This download ist the interpreter to play this game on Amiga, with some more features.
  
• Just Amiga Magazine: {Archive.org link to the old issues of Just Amiga Magazine. An early 90's Amiga magazine produced entirely on the Amiga}
  
• Project Ceylon: What If the Amiga Never Died?: {thread at amigaworld.net discussing Project Ceylon. 'What If the Amiga Never Died? Project Ceylon is an independent attempt to build a plausible Answer, a modern x86-64 microkernel workstation that carries forward the Amiga’s emphasis on responsiveness, multimedia, specialized subsystems, and a coherent machine/OS design — without reproducing 1980s hardware.}
  
• CShift: A language that reads like C#, compiles to small native programs (LLVM, or its own 68000 backend for the Amiga) and manages memory with reference counting instead of a garbage collector.
  
• Infinite Icons 1.5: An Invitation to the Modern Redesign of the Workbench Visual Experience: A little over a month ago, I got in touch with Jari Tuovinen, the person behind JT Digital Designs, regarding Infinite Icons 1.5, a product I have been following since publishing my review of AmiKit X13. My interest did not arise by chance. Over the last few months, I have been exploring different ways of modernizing the visual experience of the classic Amiga, especially after equipping my Amiga 1200 with a PiStorm32-lite. Thanks to the use of OmniPort, this setup provides a clean digital output to Full HD monitors, allowing Workbench to run at resolutions and color depths that would have seemed unimaginable for the platform only a few years ago.
  
• AmiDiskLab: Amiga Disk & Software Manager. Organize disk collections, enrich them with metadata, and create or extract ADF images.
  
• ODFileSystem: A modern open-source Amiga CDFileSystem replacement with support for ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, UDF, HFS, HFS+, High Sierra and CDDA virtual audio tracks. ODFileSystem is a read-only optical-disc filesystem driver for Amiga systems. It is implemented as an AmigaDOS handler frontend with clean backend plugins for the various optical-disc formats it supports, allowing it to mount and browse CD-ROM, DVD, Blu-ray, and image-based media. The project also includes host-side tools and tests so most parser and cache logic can be developed and validated outside an Amiga environment.
  
• moonstone-ace: Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight (Mindscape, 1991) rebuilt from its 68k machine code into C++ on ACE, running on the Amiga 1200 (68020, AGA, Kickstart 3.x). It plays like the original, because it was checked against the original at every step. This repository holds none of Moonstone's data, art, music or code. The game reads all of that from your own copy of the three original disks every time it starts.
  
• Where Were They Now?: Power Computing look like a pretty obscure company. How obscure? As far as I can tell, they only released three games Breathless (1995), The Big Red Adventure (1997), and Red Mars (1999). All three were released for the Amiga after Commodore had declared bankruptcy. Unless you know differently, there's not even a cover online for the Power Computing version of Red Mars That's all pretty darn obscure. Here's the Rod Serling-type twist, the company is still trading successfully today.
  

Today's Highlighs
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Interesting times we're in.  On the whole things have never been better.  The lawsuit is FINALLY over.  Virtually everyday new Hardware & Software is being released.  Commodore is back for the dead and is really doing quite well!!  But underneath it all is a HIGHLY fractured ecosystem that did whatever it needed to stay alive for the past 30+ years.  I honestly don't know how to fix it BUT at some point SOON I wan't SOMEONE to post an OFFICIAL ROADMAP to the future.  I just want to know when I can I buy my brand new turn key Amiga 4000+@ 2.5GHz running OS 4.3 w/embedded OS 3.3!! LOL!!

    - Quick v2.0 site update #11: Only 16 More Days to the official site relaunch!  Also my stickers came in! 

Coming soon to an Amiga event near you!!!

Interesting... Keep an eye on

• Is anyone else tracking this?  An open source AmigaOS4 replacement kernel with multicore support in the works.  (Video: AmigaOS4.1 SMP Kernel)  WOW!!  This seems like GREAT news but no one is talking about it...  Well almost no one.
• Or how about this? An OS4 port of "Powerfox" (PPC FireFox fork) demonstrated last week at Pianeta Amiga.
• While this is just in the experimental phase, FlyingFathead (Harry Horsperg) is working on a 'Amiga demake' of classic game Morrowin.  To say he has his work cut out for him us an understatement but I wish him all the best!
• As a LONG time user of Ami-Back with my trusty DKB Ferret SCSI card and a Connor 4mm DAT drive back in the 90's, I've always considered BACKUP crucial part of any operating system.   This week I just stumbled across Amiga Guardian by CopperByte Games.  it has a ton of features such as Snapshots, Comapre, Put Back, Full drive protection, Journaled restore, Known Good, Rescue disk & more.  I can't wait to try it out!!
• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette Vol 2, Issue 9 has been published
• New issue: REV'n'GE #185 has been published
• New issue: ZZAP! AMIGA Micro Action #29 has been published
• New issue: Passione Amiga #33 has been published

•  Maybe I should rename this to 'News Directly From Amiga'?

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• AmigaOS 4: open source replacement kernel with multicore support in the works: Former OS4 developer Andrea ‘afxgroup’ Palmatè apparently unveiled a new kernel for AmigaOS 4 at Pianeta Amiga over the weekend. The kernel is intended to replace ExecSG, the kernel developed by Thomas Frieden 25 years ago for AmigaOS 4, which is now owned by Trevor Dickinson. The new kernel is currently running on the Sam460ex and the X5000; it offers support for multiple processor cores - though it is still unclear exactly how - and Thread Local Storage. According to another developer, the latter is expected to enable significant performance improvements by disabling the emuTLS feature of the gcc compiler.
  
• AMIGA GUARDIAN 1.0: Amiga Guardian is a snapshot and recovery utility exclusively for the Commodore Amiga — think System Restore on Windows or Time Machine on the Mac, finally on the machine that deserved it first. WHAT IT DOES Guardian takes a snapshot of the files you tell it to look after, and puts them back exactly as they were — a single file, a drawer, or an entire drive. The point is to make trying things safe. Install a program, edit your Startup-Sequence, let an installer do whatever installers do — and if it goes wrong, go back to the snapshot and the machine is as it was.
  
• AmiWind - Bringing TES III: Morrowind to Commodore Amiga: AmiWind: an experimental Morrowind demake and asset conversion pipeline for Commodore Amiga. A fan-made tribute, free and open-source conversion tools, and an experimental Amiga runtime. We are working toward a small, walkable slice of Vvardenfell; this is a proof of concept, not a finished Morrowind port. The A500 experiment is preserved alongside the accelerated AGA development track.
  
• Michal Schulz Preview: PiStorm and Emu68: Michal Schulz y Claude Schwarz They continue to innovate in hardware and software emulation of Amiga with their projects PiStorm y Emu68His work in processor emulation Motorola 68K has allowed us, the friends, to enjoy souped-up systems with a large dose of extra power needed in these times thanks to solutions based on Raspberry PiNow, they are moving forward with new improvements and projects that seek to further expand the capabilities of these developments.
  
• Advanced AMIGA Architecture ( June 18, 1992): ocument for the Commodore-Amiga Advanced Amiga Architecture. Dated June 18, 1992, this was the never-released whole new Amiga system architecture. This project was started in 1988, and first silicon was available in 1993. Commodore's business problems prevented subsequent progress on this system.
  
• V-WARS - Amiga 68K RTG: An arcade-style voxel space combat game inspired by X-Wing, Wing Commander II and Descent FreeSpace. I've always loved the early Wing Commander games and also X-Wing and FreeSpace and I've also always been fascinated by voxels so I thought I would have a go at building my own voxel based space combat game inspired by the greats. This game will be aimed at PiStorm but might be playable on slower 68k platforms like Vampire FPGA and may even be playable on a real overclocked 68060 (too early to say at this stage of development). But it will require a 32-bit color RTG display and some serious CPU cycles
  
• Ferriteweazle: Cross-platform, GUI front end for Greaseweazle, Keir Fraser's floppy disk flux reader and writer. It is written in Rust for macOS, Windows and Linux. What does it do? Full feature parity with Greaseweazle Tools by Keir Fraser, Modern UI for macOS, Windows and Linux, on x86_64 and arm64, Supports Greaseweazle and the Adafruit Feather RP2040, Detects the most likely disk format(s) for reading and writing images, Single or batched reads, writes and image conversions {and much more!}
  
• Amiga Lemmings (1991) Integrated Level Editor for 1P and 2P Levels: A patch that adds custom levels to Amiga Lemmings (1991): an in-game level editor that runs natively on the Amiga, inside the original game and its engine. No External tools are needed to make a level. On the title screen, CUSTOM follows FUN, TRICKY, TAXING and MAYHEM, with a list of your own levels, for one or two players, and New Level to create one. Levels are saved on a level disk and can be shared as .lvl files. For floppy (A500) and as a WHDLoad install for hard disk.
  
• Native QRX OS bring WASM, os3.x, x86 and more to classic amigas: {Thread @ https://amigaworld.net where phoenixkonsole discuses his project bringing QRX OS One to classic Amiga hardware}
  
• AmiGalaga: Galaga for the Amiga 500: a port of the 1981 arcade game, written in 68000 assembly for a stock A500 (OCS, 512 KB of chip RAM, Kickstart 1.3, PAL). It is not an emulation. The enemies fly the arcade's own flight scripts, arrive in its waves, dive on its schedule and drop bombs by its rules, and the sound is the arcade's sound driver ported to Paula. Each of those was checked against the arcade running in MAME. The rest is made for the Amiga: the formation is drawn as blitter strips, the fighter, its shots and the stars are hardware sprites, and the game runs at arcade speed on a 50 Hz display.
  
• lxa (Lin)Amiga Emulation Layer: lxa runs AmigaOS executables natively on Linux, similar to how WINE runs Windows programs. It combines a 68000 CPU emulator with AmigaOS library implementations, bridging system calls to Linux I/O and filesystem operations. The long-term goal is for lxa to become a viable development platform for Amiga software on Linux — enabling Amiga developers to write, test, and run productivity applications and IDEs directly on commodity hardware (Linux PC, Raspberry Pi) without needing real Amiga hardware. RTG (Retargetable Graphics) via Picasso96 is the primary display strategy, targeting full true-color screens at arbitrary resolutions.
  
• Pianeta Amiga is BACK Experience: I was crying when I saw the report from Pianeta Amiga here! It was held September 26-27 in Empoli Italy, and it looks like it was pure Amiga love
  
• Avalanche Revolution is Here!: Avalanche is an unarchiver GUI using the ReAction toolkit for AmigaOS3.2 and 4.1. It supports xad, xfd and Deark so can extract and decrunch most files it encounters. Any unsupported files can be added via a xad module. Version 4 represents a large GUI refresh. The file selector and buttons have been replaced by a unified toolbar, taking up less space and presenting a cleaner more modern design. These can use both internal four colour images or external AISS (or AISSClassic) full colour imagery.
  
• AmiDrop -A must Tool to have for any Amiga user on-line!: AmiDrop is a lightweight native file receiver for AmigaOS 3.0+ Think “AirDrop, but for Amiga”... Latest version is 1.1, updated 2026-08-31 is made by Andreas “Andiweli” Stuermer and it’s MIT licensed. Source is on GitHub too. {...} Cool AmiDrop features: Browser-based so it works from smartphone, tablet, PC, Mac, anything with wifi, Direct streaming to disk with safe temp files, Configurable folder + file size limit 512 KB to 1 GB, GadTools interface optimized for classic Amiga screen modes, Transfer history + progress display & Auto IPv4 detection
  
• Elite Cities In Development by Amitopia AmiDev Team: For 40 years we’ve asked: why did Amiga never get a real city builder? SimCity classic was ported, Utopia tried, but nothing like Cities Skylines that used Amiga’s power. Today AmiDev Team fixes that. Introducing ELITE CITIES — BUILD • MANAGE • THRIVE. A new indie Amiga game that starts where SimCity ends and where Elite II: Frontier begins.
  

Today's Highlighs
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  I hate saying it's another slow and quiet week in AmigaLand but it's better than the sky's falling.

    - Quick v2.0 site update #10: Only 23 More Days to the official site relaunch!  

• Ongoing event: Well somehow I misssed this one.  If you're in the Bay area in California this weekend, the 2026 Bay Area Maker Faire is being held in Vallejo. Drop by, sat hello to Robert B and see come Commodores and Amigas in action.
• New hardware:  Was anyone else tracking this?  Acube releases a new PPC motherboard. Welcome Powerboard Tyche.  "Power Progress Community and ACube Systems are happy to announce the new Powerboard Tyche motherboard. This board was created to bring 64-bit Power Architecture performance to the desktops of enthusiasts, developers, and supporters of the Open Source Hardware movement.  Based around the NXP T2080 processor, the board offers modern features for high-performance computing, next-generation PCI Express slots, NVMe support, and high-speed storage options."  WOW.  Now, like all PPC motherboards, the main questions will be "will it ever support OS 4.x?" and "why?".  As far as I'm concerened I appreciate the effort and with them al the best!.  Now sell them for $350 and they'll sell millions! 

• Still quiet.  Any guesses on what the next big news story will be???

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• A world traced in light, one frame at a time.: I’m Lumini Mattia and this is my world. I started painting in 1988 on an Amiga 500 — from that day my life changed forever. The only rule here is “Taste is the enemy of Art.”
  
• AmoSpace for AMOS Professional: Create fast-moving space games, racing tracks, atmospheric mazes, flight simulations, animated presentations and your own polygon worlds. AmoSpace gives AMOS Professional programmers a powerful set of tools for building real-time 3D software on the Amiga. Objects and cameras can move and turn with full six degrees of freedom (6DOF).
  
• Amiga Screens: A Primer: One of the unwritten rules of the Internet seems to be that whenever something Amiga-related is mentioned, at least one Amiga fan (myself included) must show up and try to explain the concept of screens. Amiga screens can have different resolutions, we'll tell you, and one can drag them, we'll say, and other Amiga users rally in agreement, while non-Amiga users probably still don't get what's so great about screens. Until now, when this text has been written, in the hope of converting unsuspecting normies into full-blown Amiga screen lovers.
  
• Saku 2026: Amiga UNIX – The Other Amiga presentation (and world premiere of 68040/68060 patch: Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual Amiga event Saku 2026 hosted a presentation on the historical Amiga UNIX operating system and patches recently made to it using AI, that were demoed for the first time at Saku 2026.
  
• QuantumLink Personal Computer Network. Amiga Forum November 11, 1985: "Some transcripts from the classic (1986-87) QuantumLink on-line service are now available for you to read. The subjects cover the Amiga, the C128, GEOS, Butterfield, C64, Commodore, the Midnite Gazette, and SYSOP." Robert B
  
• https://blog.amigaguru.com/the-story-of-clikboom/: The “Story” Of Clikboom... You might think you know all about Clickboom and PXL by now, many probably does, but I keep hearing people putting way too much credit in last years Clickboom reveal video, a video that sadly only tells half the story, or rather a half true story. I love Clickboom as a quality brand, but as this blog post will show, there is a lot of options to hate it more than most. With that said, I must add to all developers, artists, musicians, QA, testers, translators and so on, that had a finger in the games – you guys did an fantastic job
  
• Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection - Announced: Celebrating 35 years of sci-fi horror-action with the definitive Alien Breed Collection, coming soon to PC and consoles. Featuring the complete seminal series, modern controls, and all-new game modes, this is the ultimate tribute. Dive into history with exclusive developer interviews and rare concepts; lock, load, and relive the nightmare. Experience the complete library of games, extras and more from the franchise’s first era, all optimised in their original formats and including modern controls. {...} The Full Commodore Amiga Catalogue. Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection features fully emulated versions of every Alien Breed title created for the Commodore Amiga computer series:
  
• A1000 case screws: Hi everyone. As I continue to restore my A1000 I’ve run into the issue of finding screws for the top lid. I can’t seem to find any photos of the guys so if anyone has one, or at least the general size of them, it would be appreciated.
  
• Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival: Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback. A vintage Unix window manager and an entire vintage UNIX operating system that uses it have received modern updates. Yes, AI helped, but we're here for it.
  
• Happy birthday, Amiga: The 'other' home computer turns 30: Commodore successor won over gamers, graphic artists alike.. On July 23, 1985, Commodore kicked off a new era in its history with the launch of the Amiga 1000. Through the 1980s and into the early 90s, the Amiga built for itself a cult following and gained a reputation as a personal computer ahead of its time.
  
• The Machine That Wouldn't Die {ARCHIVED ON Aug 16, 2000}: Once upon a time, there lived a breakthrough in computing—the Amiga A1000, which burst onto the market in 1985 as the first legitimate full-color-interface computer—in effect, a color Macintosh before the color Macintosh. (It also was the world’s first 32-bit PC, well ahead of the Mac and fully 10 years before Windows 95.) The Amiga was dedicated to multimedia before the term was even coined in the computer industry.
  
• Scalos: Scalos is a desktop replacement for the Amiga. Some of its features: 100% Workbench replacement, Undo and Redo, 64bit arithmetic, Fully multitasking, Icon imagetypes, Icon datatype system, Icon dragging is more stable, Cybergraphics and Picasso96 24bit color support, Window patterns, Optimised backgroundpatterns routine, Live updating window scrolling, Drawer windows can be iconified, Menu preferences, Application Interface (API)
  
• Amiga Watch: Tech Head Commentary On The Amiga Scene {ARCHIVED ON Apr 05, 2001}: {Commentary and stories about the Amoga scene}
  
• Directory Opus 5: A modern, actively-maintained fork of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II, the legendary Amiga file manager, ported and updated for all Amiga-like platforms. A maintained continuation of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS, building on the 2012 APL source release with GCC / cross-toolchain support, modern platform fixes, and ongoing module work.
  
• THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED. {ARCHIVED ON Oct 31, 2000}: Due to the lack of support and response of making this event happen as well as the stupidity of confusing everyone with naming OTHER shows A2K or Amiga:2000 or some form that led people to believe that this show was in St. Louis or Sacramento, we have no choice but to cancel any further attempts to make it happen.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Yet another slow week in AmigaLand.  On the plus side I would show off my new sticker coming soon to an Amiga Show near you!

The NEW AmigaSource sticker coming to an Amiga event near you!

    - Quick v2.0 site update #9: Only 30 More Days to the official site relaunch!  

• New event: A new retrocomputer event is being held on the 31 of Oct in London.  Retronauts Assemble: London’s New Retro Computing Event!  Billed as 'entirely platform agnostic' whether you’re into the Amiga, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, IBM PCs, classic consoles or anything else from computing history, you’re invited to bring along ANY computing platform you wish and share it with fellow enthusiasts.'  Sounds like a GREAT time! 

• Yet another quiet week...

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• Retronauts: We’re setting up a brand-new retro computing event in SW London! Join me on a quick scout of St Mark’s Church Hall in Surbiton as we check out the hall layout, scope out desk space, and sort the all-important food and fuel situation. This is the inaugural Retronauts Assemble event, taking place on 31st October 2026 (wooo, spooky! 👻). It’s a gathering for anyone with an interest in retro computers, computing, games and software. The event is entirely platform agnostic — whether you’re into the Amiga, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, IBM PCs, classic consoles or anything else from computing history, you’re invited to bring along ANY computing platform you wish and share it with fellow enthusiasts.
  
• The crucial Sanyo-Commodore pact: forging the Amiga 1000: The Commodore Amiga 1000, launched in July 1985, revolutionized personal computing with its multimedia power, but its exterior stole the show. Young Commodore industrial designer Howard Stolz, despite his inexperience, crafted a sleek case that overpowerd bulkier rivals like the Apple Macintosh or IBM PC, & compatibles. {...} Stolz's enclosure framed these perfectly, turning hardware into a legacy of the 80s. Stolz's deepest collaboration unfolded with Sanyo Electric Co. in Japan, a pivotal story of global manufacturing finesse.
  
• What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks: Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, led a roughly year-long project preserving floppy disks called “Future Nostalgia,” which concluded in January.
  
• AmiGuard: AmiGuard is an open-source antivirus for classic Amiga systems, targeting AmigaOS / Kickstart 1.2+ and Motorola 68000. To build trustworthy detections, we need authentic historical samples that can be analyzed and verified safely. Why we are asking for samples? We do not want to guess. A named virus should only produce an INFECTED verdict after its detection has been backed by an actual sample, independent analysis, clean-corpus regression testing, and native Amiga runtime qualification.
  
• Amiga Workbench 1.x Icon Maker: {A web based applicatin that aloows you to create 1.x icons. Can import PNGs. Once completed you can save can use them on your Amiga}
  
• SAAC - Sacramento Amiga Computer Club: Founded in 1986, The Sacramento Amiga Computer Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to users of the Amiga family of computers. Meetings are held monthly and memberships are available to all who have an interest in the Amiga personal computer. Our purpose is the dissemination of information about, assistance to the users of, and promotion of the Amiga computer. SACC is also the host of AmiWest, the Primier Amiga show in the United States. SACC membership is open to anyone and everyone who has an interest in the Amiga.
  
• Rozsoft: Hello, my name is Piotr. I've been programming computers since the Commodore VC-20. I'm involved in the development of large corporate systems, but for some time now nostalgia and retro popularity have made me go back to the wonderful years of my youth, to dive back into this great world of computers with soul. So I gave up writing games for Windows/Linux/Android in favor of Commodore C64, Amiga and ZX Spectrum. You can expect more, hopefully better productions from Rozsoft!
  
• The Commodore Amiga Dictionary: Everything You Need to Know About the Computer That Changed Graphics, Video and Video Games Read sample Follow the author Stefano Mordenti Stefano MordentiStefano Mordenti Follow The Commodore Amiga Dictionary: Everything: The Commodore Amiga Dictionary is a practical A-to-Z guide to one of the most influential home computers in the history of personal computing and video games. From the launch of the Amiga 1000 in 1985 to the modern Amiga community, this book brings together 450+ entries covering the machines, games, software, hardware, companies, programmers, composers, technical terms, magazines, demos, and the culture that made the Amiga unique.
  
• Python68k (Amiga): Python68K is a deliberately restricted, Python-compatible language and runtime environment designed specifically for classic Amiga systems (AmigaOS 2.x+). Have you ever wanted to write clean, high-level code for your A500, A1200, or A4000? Python68K bridges the gap between modern scripting logic and the raw power of the Motorola 68000. By compiling source code into a custom, efficient bytecode format and executing it on an explicit stack VM, it allows you to bring Python-style productivity to the classic hardware we all love.
  
• BYTE A Visual Archive: Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, its 277 issues chronicled the Cambrian explosion of the microcomputer, from bare-metal kits to the dawn of the commercial internet. {...} This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right).
  
• Quake for AMIX: A port of id Software's Quake to AMIX — Commodore's Amiga UNIX, System V Release 4 on the Motorola 68000 family. It runs from the console, renders through an MNT VA2000 RTG card, and needs no X11.
  
• grimoire-amix: Developer- and LLM-oriented documentation for Amiga Unix (Amix) — Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 (SVR4) to 68030 Amigas (the A3000UX and A2500UX).
  
• Amiga Unix — 68040 · 68060 - Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026: Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as it happens in the grimoire.
  
• amix-kerntools — the Amiga UNIX kernel build hub: Amix is Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 (SVR4.0) UNIX to the 68030 Amiga (the A3000UX and A4000). amix-kerntools is the build hub for a family of MIT-licensed device drivers for it: it owns how an Amix kernel is built. It discovers driver repos by their driver.conf, generates the SCSI controller-selector wiring, applies each driver's kernel patches, links the kernel, and runs a clean-gate that defeats an intermittent emulator linker-corruption bug. It ships no driver source (those live in the sibling driver repos) and no Amix — you bring your own licensed Amix 2.1 install. See AGENTS.md for the driver-author contract and REPOS.md for the ecosystem map.
  
• Old Versions of Pimiga: {The Turran FTP directory of the older version of Pimiga. v1.5 - 5.0}
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Sad news.  amiga-news.de has reported that long time Amiga musician Dennis "Psyria" Lohr has passed away a few days ago.  He will be missed.

   - It was 33 years ago this month the Commodore Amiga CD32 was released. For a brief time it was rather successful but in the end it couldn't outrun the Commodore curse.

Happy 33rd CD32!

    - Quick v2.0 site update #8: Only 38 More Days to the official site relaunch!  I can't wait till I'm only updating ONE site!!!

• Crowd Funding: Somehow I missed this but fortunately we still have 5 day remaining and the BEST part it's already funded.  From the creators of Cannon Fodder & Beneath a Steel Sky comes UrbX Warriors: The Lost City (16-bit Edition)  This CF is for the Amiga (AGA) & Mega Drive.  The game looks GREAT and they've already passed 3 of the 5 stretch goals                     

• Another Quiet week

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• Happy 33rd Birthday CD32...

• Obituary: Amiga musician Dennis "Psyria" Lohr has passed away: Amiga musician Dennis Lohr, known in the scene as Psyria, passed away a few days ago, as confirmed by various sources, including his fellow musician Markus Pflaumbaum. Psyria was a longtime and highly regarded musician in the German Amiga scene who produced his works exclusively on the Amiga - using tracker tools such as DigiBooster Pro and engaging in a lively exchange of data and samples via IRC and forums. amiga-news.de has followed Dennis Lohr for many years. In 2001, he produced a song for amiga-news.de (our report). His albums The Last Obligation (2005), The 2nd Chapter (2007), and Moving On (2018) were created entirely on the Amiga. (nba)
  
• Amiga CD32 by Commodore: {...} Released on September 16, 1993 in Europe, the Amiga CD32 had a very successful launch. Being release on the Amiga hardware, meant that all the CDTV games were compatible with the Amiga CD32. It also meant that it was very easy for publishers to port Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 games to the CD32. By Christmas 1993, the Amiga CD32 was the most CD-based console in the UK, accounting for 38% of all sales
  
• List of Amiga CD32 games: The Amiga CD32 is a 32-bit home video game console developed and manufactured by Commodore International, released in Europe first on September 16, 1993 and later in Australia, Brazil and Canada. It was the third and last programmable console developed under the Commodore brand. The following list contains all of the known games released commercially for the Amiga CD32 platform. Unveiled at the September's 1993 World of Commodore show, the CD32 is based on the Amiga 1200 and Commodore had plans to distribute the console in the United States at US$399.99 with two pack-in games as well as six separately sold launch games, despite the Commodore CDTV being a failure.
  
• Top 30 Amiga CD32 Games - 175 games tested, here are the best! Retroarch Core!: Top 30 Amiga CD32 Games - 175 games tested, here are the best! Retroarch Core!. The top list is written out near the end of the video
  
• CD32: When I started this blog I did say I would talk about things other than handheld consoles so here we go. A console from the early 90s. My main passion when it comes to consoles and computers is the Commodore line of computers, mainly Amiga, my favourite of all is probably the A1200, but let's not talk about that, let's talk about the console, some call a variant of the A1200, the CD32 which in itself is a very powerful console and more expandable than was thought it ever could be when it was released on September 17th 1993.
  
• Amiga CD32: The Amiga CD32 was Commodore's third attempt at entering the console market. It is pretty much a CD-based console version of the Amiga 1200. Unlike their previous attempts, this time they had some success: it was a hit in the United Kingdom, even beating the Mega-CD as the best-selling CD-based console. However, its library was underwhelming, and the hardware was not too impressive when the actual next generation was just around the corner (the far more 3D-capable 3DO and Jaguar came out in the US just a couple of months afterwards). {...} Most of its small library is pure shovelware, though there are some good games, including conversions from the original Amiga.
  
• The Legacy of the Amiga CD32: A Pioneering 32-Bit Gaming Console: The Amiga CD32: A Brief Overview. The Amiga CD32 was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released by Commodore in 1993. It was designed to be a gaming powerhouse, offering cutting-edge graphics and sound capabilities for its time. Featuring a custom chipset and an impressive library of games, the Amiga CD32 quickly gained a following among gaming enthusiasts. Its ability to play full-motion video and high-quality audio made it stand out in the crowded console market of the early 1990s.
  
• Amiga CD32 Retrospective: A Doomed Console With Good Titles: A Failed Attempt to Capture the Home Gaming Market. The Amiga CD32 was released in September of 1993. The console was Commodore’s attempt to corner a sector of the gaming console market, which was really beginning to take off at the time. Despite the unit being a reasonably impressive piece of hardware (and laying claim to being the first true 32-bit console), it never reached the heights of other consoles of the era and finally signalled the end of Commodore along with the lower-end Amiga models.
  
• List Of The Best CD32 Games Ever {ARCHIVED ON Feb 29, 2016}: The Amiga CD32, short-lived and forgotten by many, had a lot of very good games released for it during its lifespan. Admittedly, there were a lot of basic ports over from the Amiga, with barely any enhancements, such as the otherwise classic Frontier: Elite 2. However, the system actually played host to a lot of hidden gems. It may have had the kind of looks only a mother could love, but the CD32 was a classic retro system. Here are the 10 best games for CD32 that used the system’s capabilities
  
• Unofficial CD32 Ports: {VERY detailed blog & review of ported games to include notes, pictures and MUCH more}
  
• The Amiga CD32: To begin the story of the CD32 we have to get down and dirty in the 1980’s and more specifically, the latter part of the 80’s. At that time Commodore were dominating the home computer hardware scene, especially in the UK and Europe, where the PC had yet to establish a firm foothold for the home user.
  
• Commodore Amiga CD32: In 1993 Commodore - which was facing serious financial problems - decided to build a console based on the Amiga 1200, called the Amiga CD32. This system was also equipped with a standard CD-ROM drive, a pioneering addition to the era. In fact, the Amiga CD32 was the first 32-pound gaming machine with a CD-ROM drive in the European market and would be in the world if it hadn't overtaken Fujitsu in a few months with the FM Towns Marty.
  
• Amiga Hardware Database - CD32: In 1993 September Commodore released its last Amiga and the world's first 32 bit game console, the CD32. Based on the AGA chip set and a CD-ROM drive, it lacked many features of the A1200, but also had features exclusive in the Amiga range.
  
• 1990s Video Game Consoles: Console Wars, 3D Revolution & the Rise of Sony: The 1990s were gaming’s most transformative decade. The industry entered the decade as a two-player contest between Nintendo and Sega fighting over 2D sprites. It exited with Sony as the new king, 3D polygons as the standard, and optical media replacing cartridges forever. In between came the fiercest console war in history, the most dramatic technology leap gaming had ever seen, and enough corporate missteps to fill a business school textbook. More major consoles launched in the 1990s than in any other decade — and every single one left a mark.
  
• The Best Amiga CD32 Games That You Must Play: In this episode, Just Jamie highlights a curated selection of the best Amiga CD32 games that may have flown under your radar. These standout titles, including some enhanced CD32/Amiga versions, are definitely worth exploring.
  
• AMIGAJAY's AMIGA CD32 UNOFFICAL GAME DISKS AND COVER ARTWRORK {ARCHIVED ON Nov 30, -0001}: {LOTS of Covers}
  
• Project CD32 - We have What It Takes {ARCHIVED ON Jun 30, 2019}: {Wonderful Cd32 site. Inoformation on: Games, Non-Games, CDTV Titles, Hardware and more}
  
• AmigaCD32 30 Years on…: Way back in September 1993, Commodore rolled there final dice and tried to enter the console market. So I wanted to ask the question, did the AmigaCD32 have any chance of success? What was the best CD32 game, best to push the hardware? and best Gameplay?
  
• Amiga Power: alimentación USB-C GaN y monitorización para A500, A600 y A1200.: {Spanish: Another USB-C powered power supply for the Amiga 500/600 & 1200}
  
• Amiga CD32: released in September 1993 and Commodore’s last attempt to stay in the game: The Commodore Amiga CD32 arrived in Europe in September 1993 with a simple sales pitch. Take the Amiga 1200, turn it into a console, fit a double-speed CD-ROM drive and sell it for £299. No floppy swapping. No desktop. No keyboard required. Put a disc in, close the lid and play. It made sense. More sense, in fact, than Commodore’s later reputation can make it seem. CD-ROM was becoming a serious selling point, the Amiga already had a large games catalogue, and developers were familiar with Commodore’s hardware.
  
• The Amiga CD32: A Brief Overview:
  
• 10 Best Amiga CD32 games: Retro Gamer picks its best Amiga CD32 games of all time. The death of Commodore meant that the Amiga CD32 never really had a fighting chance when it was released in 1993. It tried its best, however, and while it featured a lot of ports, there are still plenty of great games for owners to collect. So with that in mind, here's our pick for the best Amiga CD32 games of all time.
  
• Commodore Amiga CD32 Cancelled and Unreleased Video Games (All): Here you can find all Posts, Prototypes and Unreleased and Cancelled video games listed under the category platform of Amiga CD32. {Current total: 28}
  
• UrbX Warriors: The Lost City – 16-Bit Edition: From the creators of Cannon Fodder & Beneath a Steel Sky comes UrbX Warriors: The Lost City – 16-Bit Edition. Coming to Mega Drive & Amiga. A return to... The Golden Age of Gaming! An Arcade Adventure created by legendary developers for 16-bit console and computing fans, hand built especially for Amiga AGA and SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis. Forged from the 90s and developed for the modern era with no compromises. {coded by Tony Warriner & Stoo Cambridge of Brazen Gameplay}
  
• Brazen Gameplay: {Makers of UrbX Warriors (8 & 16bit Edition). A super-fun arcade-inspired retro action game by Tony Warriner & Stoo Cambridge. For the Amiga AGA and SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis}
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!   Another average week in AmigaLand ... More new hard/software but this caught my eye. Guess what's finally been seen in the wild? The A1200 was on display at Gamescom 2026 last week. From the brief video and comments they state there is NO dedicated audio port or headphones jack. A bit strange... And I wish we could have seen OS3 running on it but it's real and coming to a home near you. Can't wait to read the real reviews!

• For all you old enough to remember back to the early 90's, a young programmer by the name of Matt Dillon released a C compiler called DICE C. Matt was already know for his programming prowess and when he released DICE it just took off. Eventually it was released as open source' and now 35 years later DICE-nx is picking up where it left off. From their web page "DICE-nx aims to re-start development of DICE, and focusing on its original aim of providing a fully-featured C compiler for Amiga computers. At this time, the original 68000-based Amiga series is seeing increased support from retro-computing enthusiasts, including the restarting of AmigaOS development with the release of AmigaOS 3.2. DICE-nx aims to provide for this audience, fully supporting AmigaOS 3.2 and native development on real Amiga hardware." This is great news and I wish the developers all the best!
• Somehow I missed this news. HOLY CRAP!! The original Valve HalfLife has been ported to OS 4.
• While GTA 6 is still a few months away, minus the leaked version, look we have now courtesy of Grzegorz Korycki. AmiGTA1 - A native AmigaOS 68k port of Grand Theft Auto is in the works. Don't belive me? Go directly to the source ;-)
• New magazine: I'm afraid I'm a few issues behind but a new Commodore & Amiga gaming magazine has been released. Pitstop Retro # 3 has been published.
• New event: Midlands Amiga Enthusiasts / Geeks & Gaming 19th September '26 meet up: This 19 Sep in Warwickshire, UK, MAE is having their next meeting but this time "We're combining the MAE meeting with another event that we're involved with called Geeks & Gaming (G&G). They're very similar formats; MAE focuses on our beloved Amiga whereas G&G is multi-format and covers retro and modern gaming." It's stated that Mike Battilana, CEO of Amiga Corp should be in attendance. I wonder it he will have new news for us!!
• New event: Deadline Demoparty 2026: Held in Belin, Germany this 2-4 Oct, it's billed as 'A weekend full of creativity'. Join them for the 12th edition and enjoy creative competitions, seminars & workshops, dancing, socializing and more!

• Another Quiet week

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• Matt Dillon's DICE and other links...

• Grand Theft Auto on Amiga 1200? AmiGTA1 beta makes it real: AmiGTA1 has reached its first beta release, giving Amiga users an early playable version of a native AmigaOS 68k implementation of the original Grand Theft Auto. The beta is still some distance from recreating the complete 1997 game, but the new build provides a functioning foundation with city rendering, vehicles, traffic, collision handling and support for both AGA and RTG graphics.
  
• AmiGTA1 - A native AmigaOS 68k port of Grand Theft Auto is in the works: Amiga owners here's another interesting news story to talk about, as developer Grzegorz Korycki, who was mentioned by us previously for his work on OpenTTD for AmigaOS 68k, is working on a port called AmiGTA1. This ambitious project is a ground-up reimplementation of the 1997 classic Grand Theft Auto engine specifically optimized for native AmigaOS 68k systems.
  
• Xash3d (HalfLife): Thread @ amigans.net discussing Maijestros' port Vale's HalfLife tp OS 4
  
• Commodore buys Amiga: the September 1984 deal that changed its future: By September 1984, Amiga Corporation had a remarkable computer on its hands and a much less remarkable problem: it was running out of money. The small California company had spent years developing an ambitious new computer architecture built around advanced graphics, sound and custom processing hardware. The technology worked. The financing was another matter. Then Commodore stepped in. In September 1984, Commodore officially completed its acquisition of Amiga Corporation in a deal generally valued at around $27 million to $30 million. The purchase settled Amiga’s immediate financial problems, covered obligations linked to earlier funding from Atari and gave Commodore control of the technology that would become the Amiga computer range.
  
• MagicWorkbench Review (Amiga Computing 82, January 1995): The world, its brother and their cats have all by now seen MagicWB. For those still left who haven’t, MagicWB is a rather incredible package that will make your Amiga a much nicer place to work. “Sweeping generalisations are dangerous”, so people say, but in this case the generalisation holds true. MagicWB is a collection of 8 colour icons, patterns, documentation and a few support programs which in itself doesn’t sound revolutionary. It’s when you see the quality of these icons and patterns that you get some idea of just how “useful” MagicWB is. (Editor’s note: written in November 1994, and published in Amiga Computing as my first review for them)
  
• Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly: In 1993, in Baghdad, I built a game called Babylonian Twins on an Amiga 500: 512KB of RAM, no hard drive, plugged into a TV. I was an engineering student in my twenties. Pure 68000 assembly, every sprite and every scanline by hand. Murtadha Salman drew the art and Mahir AlSalman composed the music. We were under sanctions. No internet, no game development resources, just one copy of the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, which I used to program the hardware directly, and electricity a few hours a day. The constant floppy disk swapping (because of the small memory) and the 50°C summers killed my disk drive three times.
  
• AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi: AROS is an all-FOSS re-implementation of AmigaOS, and after years of effort, it now supports Arm kit – both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi hardware, especially the Pi 3. {...} Whether or not it has been made with LLM bot assistance, we think this is an impressive step forwards. AROS has been able to run on Arm CPUs for years, but until this, it ran hosted on top of another Arm OS – usually Linux. Now it can boot and run on bare metal.
  
• WWW.BACKPLANE.COM - Matt's Home Page: My history isn't dramatic. I start blowing things up when I was 5... oh, wait, that wasn't me, that was Evil-Matt, not Good-Matt!. Ah, here we are... I started playing with electronics from a very early age and very quickly got involved with computers at the ground floor (typing 6502 machine hex codes into a machine language monitor to write programs). It pretty much took off from there, eventually leading into a shareware C compiler called DICE that I wrote for the Amiga and from there into UNIX (BSD in college, then Linux, then FreeBSD, and finally DragonFly). At the same time I was gainfully employed at a small engineering firm in the Tahoe area and having all sorts of fun designing hardware, writing operating systems for same, water skiing in the summer, skiing, then snowboarding in the winter, and sometimes doing both the same day.
  
• GTA 1 Ported to Amiga!: August 2026 – A developer has released AmigTA1, a native 68k port of the original 1997 Grand Theft Auto for AmigaOS. Yes, you can now cause chaos on a real Amiga. What is AmigTA1? AmigTA1 is a native port of GTA 1 to AmigaOS 3.x. It is not an emulator. It runs directly on 68020+ CPUs with AGA graphics. The project reimplements the game engine to work on classic Amiga hardware. A community developer has ported the original Grand Theft Auto 1 from 1997 to run on classic Amiga hardware.
  
• AmiGTA: A native AmigaOS 68k port of Grand Theft Auto (1997), targeting classic hardware — 68020 and up, AGA or RTG. Not PiStorm, not Vampire, not Emu68.
  
• DICE-nx: This is DICE-nx - a C compiler for Commodore Amiga computers and embedded 68k systems. DICE-nx includes all the tools needed to build Amiga executables - the C compiler itself, as well as an assembler, linker and numerous other support tools. It also has several Amiga-specific features, such as automatic opening of the common Amiga OS libraries, easy support for ARexx, and more. {...} DICE-nx is a fork of DICE, which was originally a commercial product written by Matt Dillon in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, commercial development of DICE ceased and its source code was released under a “non-commercial use only” license
  
• DICE C Compiler for the Amiga: While there were several great C compilers for the Amiga when it was a viable platform, the one left standing today is GCC. Which is fine and all, but it is rather large, and unwieldy. Â And won’t run on a computer with 2MB of RAM (In the off chance that I want to run it on the 600). But that is when I found out that the source code (dice.com has moved!) to old DICE compiler is available!
  
• DICE C Development System (Amiga Computing 85, April 1995): Since last April, some Amiga developers have been a bit nervous. The reason? SAS decided to drop the Amiga version of SAS/C, effectively removing one of the main development platforms on the machine and leaving users of the system with bugs that will not be removed. However, all was not quite lost; Matt Dillon’s shareware compiler called DICE was gaining so much support that it was decided to really work on the thing for version 3 to create the ultimate C package. This was no small undertaking and hence the package has moved to the commercial world under the wing of Obvious Implementations Corporation.
  
• DICE-nx - a C compiler for Commodore Amiga computers and embedded 68k systems: This is DICE-nx - a C compiler for Commodore Amiga computers and embedded 68k systems. DICE-nx includes all the tools needed to build Amiga executables - the C compiler itself, as well as an assembler, linker and numerous other support tools. It also has several Amiga-specific features, such as automatic opening of the common Amiga OS libraries, easy support for ARexx, and more. DICE can also target embedded systems using 68000 processors.
  
• DICE: Matt Dillon's DICE 68000 C compiler suite and DXMake. The trick is to use Matt Dillon's DXMake utility to compile the DICE sources. I have ported it to macOS 14, changed the DMakefiles to use dxmake.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Another slow week in AmigaLand but that's not a bad thing. This have been busy enough. On a personal note I'll be VERY HAPPY one I cut over to the AmigaSource v2.0. Working on both sites at the same time is becoming quite tedious! 

• New event: Saku 2026 is being held in Oulu Finland on 19 Sep. Mike Battilana from Amiga Corp will be there. Wonder if he's going to drop any surprises???
• New issue: WhatIFF? #21 has been published
• New issue: REV'n'GE #184 has been published

• Quiet week

Today's Theme

• Random Links...

• Digital Photo Cameras For The Amiga {ARCHIVED ON Nov 15, 1999}: On this pages you find information about the digital photo cameras offered by Vesalia Computer for Amiga computers.
  
• How to use SnoopDOS {ARCHIVED ON Oct 18, 2000}: With luck, this short guide to using SnoopDOS should help you isolate most instances of problems that occur when running programs that don't tell you why they're quitting on you.
  
• CleanRGB Install (Amiga CD32): The Amiga CD32 doesn't output RGB natively. It has Composite, S-Video and RF. The internal ICs have RGB inside we can tap into. {...} All the RGB mods I personally make are called the CleanRGB. It aims at correctly fixing the console itself to output IRE correct voltage level and signals, and the cable is then a pure DC cable with direct connections, no hidden capacitors, sync strippers, resistor or other magic. The benefits of this are pure, perfect RGB signals not affected by your cable, receiver, or noise.
  
• How to Make a Zip Disk bootable {ARCHIVED ON Oct 18, 2000}: If you install your Zip Drive following the recommended procedure you will not be able to boot from it. This is not a limitation of the drive itself, but rather a feature of the way HiSoft have decided to handle the problem of removable media on the Amiga. The Amiga has no Graphical Interface for mounting and unmounting Removable Media. This means that in order to mount an removable device on the workbench you must either use a public domain program such as SCSI-Probe, or use the command line to issue "mount" and "diskchange" commands.
  
• Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection: Commodore is proud to release the Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC & Consoles, in partnership with our friends at Antstream Arcade and Team17. This is part of our mission to preserve Commodore software history (these first six games in the Alien Breed series are a staple of the beloved Commodore Amiga). Available September 24 on Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, Playstation, and Xbox. Arrives on Nintendo Switch in Fall 2026.
  
• Saku 2026: All day Amiga event: Special guest Mike Battilana (Amiga Corporation), Ravenlordess and Amiga-themed cosplay, First presentation of Hill Climb Racing for Amiga, Amiga UNIX: 040/060 conversion announced, Amiga dealer AmiGarage, Several Amiga computers and clones, Free gaming on all machines, Amiga magazines and other literature, Paperinen Saku #51 magazine for members of the association. The event is free and open to everyone.
  
• Scene World Since: {Since 2001. Although Commodore 64 and other focused it has some great interviews with key Commodore people plus they have a BLOG, podcast, twitch presence & diskmag too}
  
• Levo's Retro Computer Project: {Personal website with a nice Amiga project section}
  
• Retrosix: {Small collection of curated information of repairing Amiga's}
  
• Archive with photos of past Commodore conventions: {pics and info from MANY different convetions and other interesting info: Amigathering IX, AmiWest (Amiga) 2006 - 13 & 18, Atari Party 2013, Block Party 2008 - 10, Chicago Expo 2000, 1 & 6, Cincinnati Expo 2007, CLASS (Commodore Los Angeles Super Show) 2019, Classic Gaming Expo 2003, 4 & 5, Commodore 25th Anniversary, Commodore in Germany, CommVEx (Commodore Las Vegas Expo) 2006 - 19, Consumer Electronics Show 2006, Emergency Chicagoland Convention,Fresno Commodore Club Meeting Notes Page 1, LUCKI Expo 2005, MossyCon 4 & 5, Netherlands Commodore Show, Notacon 2011 & 14, SC3 Arcade Party 2009 & 12, Vintage Computer Festival 2000, 2, 5-7 & Vintage Computer Festival East 2007, 9, 12 & 14)
  
• Amiga news - website aggregator: {Links to recent New stories and recent uploads to Aminet
  
• History Of The Amiga: I came across this video titled "history of the amiga" as told by Jay Miner, RJ Mical et al. This video is available as part of Amiga Forever (Premium Edition) by cloanto collection. {Lots of pics}
  
• SimPPC – PowerPC 601 simulator: {Polish - translated} SimPPC is a simulator of the PowerPC 601 microprocessor, the first member of the PowerPC family. Designed as an application running under Windows XP, the simulator explores the PowerPC 601's architecture and demonstrates the operation of its instructions .
  
• Amiga 3DToolbox: Amiga 3DToolbox is a small 3D-printing toolbox for classic Amiga systems. It started as a way to control an OctoPrint server from an Amiga, because modern OctoPrint web pages are not usable on classic Amiga browsers. The project then grew into a set of tools around 3D printing: OctoPrint control, G-code utilities, STL conversion/viewing helpers, Raspberry Pi temperature monitoring, and a PC slicer bridge.
  
• Guy gets Amiga Unix working on 040 and 060 CPUs, X11 in colour using RTG, and runs Quake.: {Discussion about running Quake and other apps on Amiga Unix}
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Quick update this week. Busy times in Amiga World. Mike Battilana, of Colanto & Amiga Corp fame gave two talks this recently about the future of the Amiga. The first one (transcript) was at Kickstart UK Amiga Expo 3 on the 8th in Derby, UK. and the second was with Amiga Bill on the 18th. Between the two A LOT was covered. All I can say is you just need to watch both to get an idea of where the Amiga maybe headed.

  - So it really happened. Retro Games LTD has officially stated the THEA1200 now officially an Amiga branded product. So technically this is the first 'NEW' Amiga is the past 30 years. Interesting times we live in. 

• The next batch of Mirari proto2 motherboards have been announced. I don't care what ANYONE says about this project, I LOVE IT!! But don't take my word for it, watch Chris Edwards Restorations latest video Mirari - The Worlds Newest PPC AmigaNG and see it in action. I personally think Commodore or Amiga Corp needs to throw some money behind this project.
• This looks very promising. Two new development programs are now available. AmiBlocksIDE and AmiCC23. AmiBlocksIDE combines source-code editing, project management, native compilation, build output, program execution, and debugging tools in one integrated Amiga application. The included AmiCC23 toolchain provides a modern C development workflow and produces native Amiga executables. WOW!!!
• Historically a weak point, printer driver support has always been decades behind the other operating systems. Now we have two programs that gives us a few more options. The first is PDFPrinter by Marcus Gerards. It regular printer text/graphics output and generates PDF files. The second is called MintPRINT. "IPP/AirPrint printing for classic AmigaOS - print to modern network printers (JPEG or PWG Raster, no driver-specific software on the printer side) straight from Amiga applications, via a real DEVS:Printers/ printer.device driver plus a GUI setup tool." Great work!
• New issue: Amiga Future #182 has been published

• Maybe I need to rename this section to 'Official News from Amiga Corp'?

• Random Links...

• Amiga Retro Toolkit (ART): The Swiss Army Knife for Amiga Files. A professional Windows desktop toolkit for Commodore Amiga users. ART combines ADF, HDF, LHA, ROM, Gotek, WinUAE and collection management into one coherent, drag-and-drop-driven application.
  
• Amiga Kickstart 3.0 Expo Derby #AmigAugust: {video: Mike Battilana's talk at the Amiga Kickstart 3.0 Expo in Derby, UK on 8 Aug 2026}
  
• Transcript of the Amiga Corporation Presentation - Kickstart UK Amiga Expo 3: Recorded at Kickstart UK Amiga Expo 3, Derby, UK on August 8, 2026. Speakers: Paul Dziennik and Mike Battilana. Thomas Foss is also mentioned
  
• AMIGA'S FUTURE EXPLAINED:: Has Amiga's future just changed? Are the Amiga legal battles over? Amiga Corporation's Mike Battilana explains what the new agreements with Hyperion and Commodore actually mean, agreements with Retro Games, Ltd and their THE A1200 and what Amiga's future could look like
  
• PDFPrinter: PDFPrinter is an AmigaOS printer driver that does not drive a printer. Instead of sending a job to a port, it captures the job and writes a PDF file. Any application that can print -- a text editor, a database, a paint program's graphic dump -- can therefore produce a PDF, on any Amiga, with no printer attached and nothing connected to the parallel or serial port. Select PDF in Prefs/Printer like any other driver and print as usual. The finished .pdf appears in the output drawer you choose.
  
• MintPRINT: IPP/AirPrint printing for classic AmigaOS - print to modern network printers (JPEG, PostScript, PWG Raster, or PDF; no driver-specific software on the printer side) straight from Amiga applications, via a real DEVS:Printers/ printer.device driver plus a GUI setup tool.
  
• AmiBlocksIDE and AmiCC23: A new development environment for classic Amiga computers is now available. AmiBlocksIDE combines source-code editing, project management, native compilation, build output, program execution, and debugging tools in one integrated Amiga application. The included AmiCC23 toolchain provides a modern C development workflow and produces native Amiga executables.
  
• Amiga ANIM Toolkit v1.0 for macOS: Amiga "anim" files are now a first class citizen on your Mac! With this toolkit, you will be able to open and play most of your favorite animations in just about every Macintosh application. You even open Amiga animations in applications such as Final Cut Pro X, Motion, QuickTime Player, etc.
  
• Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70: Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online. OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. His most widely experienced work was a key component of the original Commodore Amiga's operating system. His port of Cambridge University's TRIPOS OS to the Motorola 68000 CPU became AmigaDOS. His rapid work getting it running on prototype Amiga hardware helped Commodore launch the machine in 1985 after its in-house OS project failed to deliver. As he put it himself: "As a result I have the distinction of having written software used by over 2 million users."
  
• Commodore Amiga CDTV Documents: This is a set of documents for Amiga and CDTV developers: - Developers Conference notes from Denver and Milan in 1991, - Amiga Mail, - Amiga Mail Market, - CDTV Technical documents & - Commodore Magazine (businesses, France)
  
• Modern IC replacements for retro computers by Jani Laatikainen: {Various replacement chips for the Commodore and the Amiga} J-CIA500: Replacement for 8520 CIA (DIP40-version) used Commodore Amiga 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, CDTV and Commodore 1581 disk drive. J-CIA600: Replacement for 8520 CIA (PLCC-version) used Commodore Amiga 600,1200 and 4000.
  
• Marine (Amber Replacement): Xilinx CPLD replacement for the Commodore Amiga Amber custom chip. Marine is a modern CPLD replacement, designed to replace the Amber chip in the Commodore Amiga. This project is based on the work of Matthias Heinrichs - AGA Multifix.
  
• Gary-Replacemen: {Gary Replacement chip project}
  
• Agnus Replacement on the Horizon?: {Thread @ AmigaLove discussing the possibility of an Angus replacement chip}
  
• Reload this Page New Universal Agnus 8372, 75 etc: {Big Thread @ EAB discussing several different replacement chip projects
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  I hate to lead with this but we have lost another GREAT in the Amiga community. Dr. Tim King one of the main developers behind AmgaDos passed away at the end of July. Like most in the early days of the Amiga, they were truly brilliant and Tim was no exception. We owe them our gratitude for what they did and will honor them by keeping the Amiga and her spirit alive for the next generation of Amigans. Fair winds and following seas Tim!

  - WOW I think I speak for a lot of us when I say I still can't believe the lawsuit is over. So what do I do with the "Amiga Legal News Update" section now? LOL. Over the last week there has been a lot of talk about what's next? Release a new computer? Open source the OS? Port the OS to X64/Arm? Join forces with Commodore? At this point I'm quite sure nobody, not even Amiga has and real idea where this is truly heading but the first time since the death of Commodore might have a shot at a real future again!

   On the plus side the MAIN thing that has been bothering me for that past 20+ years has been solved and honestly I can't believe it's taken me this long to see the solution. The path for the classic OS versions is a real CLUSTER. 1.x --> 2.x --> 3.0 --> 3.1 --> 3.5 --> 3.9 --> 3.2 --> 3.3 -->??? Where do you go? 4.x is taken. 3.9.1 doesn't give you a lot of room for future version...

   Well silly me... I read that a way to clean this up after OS3.3 is to just jump to OS 3.10. 10! TEN is the answer. 20+ years and the answer is 10. Life is again good!! LOL

   - Quick v2.0 site update #5: The site is really coming along. So many new features have been added. It's AWESOME!! Now the data entry and re-validation is going a bit slower than I would have hoped at this point but it IS coming along! 5000+ links is a lot of links!! Let me leave you with this... I will NEVER be able to thank my main web programmer enough and will be FOREVER in his debt.

• As cool as the next bit of news is, this is even cooler. We have StarCraft for OS 3. AmiSC 68K is an alpha port of the worlds best RTS game. Still a work in progress but it's playable! I REALLY hope they finish it!
• At last weeks Kickstarter UK, Amiga Corp announced they have completed their own RTG system. Interesting but what happens with Picasso96? I would hate to see Jens Schönfeld and icomp leave the community.
• New event: Evoke 2026 is being held in Cologne, Germany 21-23 August. Lots to do as see at this event.
• New event: Billed as the world's largest video game trade show, the Reto Area at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne Germany held this 26-30 August will have several Amiga related companies in attendance. Sounds like a fun weekend!
• New event: The "Belgian Amiga Club" is holding another BAC Meeting on 12 September in Antwerp, Belgium.
• New online magazine: From their web page. "Pitstop Retro is an independent digital retro gaming magazine dedicated to the people who still create, play, and love games for classic computers and consoles. Our main focus is the active modern retro scene for platforms Commodore 64 and Amiga that continue to inspire developers today." Looks good and I wish them the best!
• New issue: Amiga Germany Fan’zine #19 has been published

• Hmmmm. I'm sure I'll find SOMETHING to write about...

Today's Theme

• Random Links...

• OpenTTD for AmigaOS 68k (AGA): A native port of OpenTTD 1.0.5 to classic AmigaOS 3.x on 68k, with its own video driver written against Intuition and graphics.library. No SDL, and no RTG card required — it runs on plain AGA.
  
• Farewell to Dr Tim King, one of the key minds behind AmigaDOS: Dr Tim King, one of the engineers closely associated with the creation of AmigaDOS, died at the end of July 2026. His name may not be as widely known as the Amiga brand itself, but his work sits right at the heart of the machine’s operating system. King’s main contribution came through TRIPOS, an operating system developed in academia and later adapted into the foundation of AmigaDOS. That software became responsible for many of the everyday jobs an Amiga had to handle, including files, directories, devices, scripts and command-line operations. In practical terms, AmigaDOS was the part of the system users met whenever they worked beyond the graphical desktop.
  
• Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away: Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history.
  
• AmiSC 68K: An Amiga 68k port of the best space RTS strategy game. The engine runs natively on AmigaOS 3.x — no PC emulation, no interpreter. Integer arithmetic only: the binary contains not one FPU instruction, because plenty of 68k machines have no FPU. It loads your own copy of the original game's data files and plays a skirmish against computer opponents on a native AGA or RTG screen. This is a total alpha. It is playable — you can start a match, build a base and win it — and it has plenty of rough edges. The full list is further down and it is honest. Read it before you install.
  
• Amistaller is the new installer for big packages for AmigaOS 4: Today I finally released a new application I was working for some time now, called Amistaller. It is an installer that can be used with packages that have multiple archives included, like the SDK Addon I maintain.
  
• Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Hello World with VBCC: If you have followed along with the AMOS BASIC series or my STOS tutorials, you already know how to put characters on an Amiga or Atari ST screen. This post shows you how to do the same thing in C, using the vbcc cross-compiler, so we can build up a portable codebase for the larger goal: a retro roguelike that runs on multiple platforms.
  
• FriendSh3ep: Amiga OS3 Mastodon Client. Mastodon is a free, open, decentralised alternative to the usual walled-garden social networks: no ads, no biased algorithm, no single company owning your data, moderation decided per server. FriendSh3ep is a native Amiga client for it, with full Unicode/emoji rendering and real image/audio previews.
  
• MagicMenu 3: Enhanced Intuition menus - pop-up, sticky, transparent - for AmigaOS 2.04 and newer. MagicMenu 3 is a new and improved version of the utility that has been replacing Intuition's menus since 1993. Every setting that decides how a menu looks can now be different for pull-down and pop-up menus.
  
• Amiga A1200/A500 Keyboard Membrane Replacement PCB: For use with A500: Compatible with original Mitsumi A619A. NOT Compatible with: Original Samsung 312502-12. For use with A1200. Compatible with original Mitsumi 56C774A
  
• R.I.P. Commodore 1954-1994 {ARCHIVED 19 Oct 1996} {ARCHIVED ON Oct 19, 1996}: A look at an innovative computer industry pioneer, whose achievements have been largely forgotten. Obituaries customarily focus on the deceased's accomplishments, not the unpleasant details of the demise. That's especially true when the demise hints strongly of self-neglect tantamount to suicide, and nobody can find a note that offers some final explanation. There will be no such note from Commodore, and it would take a book to explain why this once-great computer company lies cold on its deathbed. But Commodore deserves a eulogy, because its role as an industry pioneer has been largely forgotten or ignored by revisionist historians who claim that everything started with Apple or IBM. Commodore's passing also recalls an era when conformity to standards wasn't the yardstick by which all innovation was measured
  
• Full-sized A1200 Amiga remake spotted on display: A1200 will come with a port of The Settlers 2 that took 30 years, and a working keyboard. Retro Games Ltd says it will ‘lift the curtain completely’ on specs etc, in October. After so many playable tribute mini computers and mini consoles released over recent years, it looks like it’s the turn of the legendary Commodore Amiga A1200 home computer - with a full sized working keyboard built-in. And soon. Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind hardware like The A500 Mini (which had a non-functioning keyboard), The C64 Mini, The Spectrum, and others, is showcasing The A1200 at Gamescom 2025 over the next few days. Full details are promised in October.
  
• Amiga 1000 Spec Sheet: If you haven't found the right computer yet, then you've never met Amiga(TM). No other personal computer, even the ones that cost a lot more, can catch Amiga feature for feature. It's light years ahead of the rest and that keeps you ahead of the competition. There's never been a computer with this much power at this low price. Amiga's 256K RAM is just a start. Amiga allows you to expand up to 512K internally and 8 megabytes externally. The power goes deeper. In addition to the powerful microprocessor that's the heart of the Amiga, we've added three amazing custom chips that handle graphics, sound and routine operations. These custom chips free the central processor from normal "computer housekeeping" and allow direct memory access and multi-tasking.
  
• Desktop background colors, by operating system: Every solid desktop background color shipped by classic operating systems and desktop environments.
  
• macsurf: The modern web, on a 25-year-old Mac. A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS. Built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.
  
• Commodore AMIGA 1000 {ARCHIVED ON Jul 30, 2010}: The inventor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before. He wanted to make the most powerful computer ever, then he joined a small Californian company called Amiga. He used the principle of the three coprocessors (again) to help the main processor. At the beginning, the Amiga had only 64 kilobytes of RAM! The original "Amiga" called the Lorraine was meant to be a game machine with some computer capabilities.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  I think by now most people have heard the news. The lawsuit is FINALLY over! This is the first new update on Amiga.com in past 5 years. WOW!! As with all big legal cases not everyone is happy with the outcome. For what it's worth I'm concerned about future development of 3.x. but I'm sure there's other things to worry about too...

  Regardless, all the best to everyone involved, the Amiga community and damn the torpedoes... Full steam ahead. We have A LOT of time to make up! 

The New Amiga Corp Logo

   - Quick v2.0 site update #3. HOLY CRAP! Things a really moving right along. The plan is to finish development of all the major features by the end of August, then the spend the rest of the time knocking out the rest of the remaining minor features. While all this is going on I have 'enlisted' (BEGGED & BRIBED) several family members and a few of my closest friends to help me add 4000+ links to the main database. Hopefully by 19 Oct not only will the launch of V2.0 be INCREDIBLE it will be quite comprehensive!

• New issue: Passione Amiga #32 has been published

• STOP the Presses!! The lawsuit is OVER!! So where do we go from here?? Who knows but it looks like things might finally be going our way!

Today's Theme

• The Lawsuit is Over!!!

• Amiga August 2026 Update. New agreements establish a clear framework for Commodore and Amiga technology, supporting AmigaOS development, preservation, and new projects by Amiga and its licensees: Amiga Corporation today announced two agreements concluded within a few weeks of one another. Amiga and Commodore International Corporation have entered into a licensing agreement recognizing their respective rights. Separately, a settlement with Hyperion Entertainment BV resolves a contractual dispute and replaces its 2009 agreement with Amiga. The agreements complement other rights and arrangements, some of which Amiga can now bring into active use.
  
• Amiga and Hyperion announce out-of-court settlement (Update): In a detailed press release, Amiga Corporation announces that it has signed two landmark agreements in recent weeks: one with Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson's Commodore International Corporation (CIC), and another out-of-court settlement with Hyperion, which replaces Hyperion's original contract from 2009.
  
• Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended: Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation have, after several months of intense negotiations, reached a new settlement agreement that puts an end to the ongoing legal disputes between the parties. Timothy De Groote, Director of Hyperion Entertainment BV, says in a comment to the agreement: “We have had the clear goal from the very beginning of our ownership: to bring an end to the ongoing lawsuits that have, for far too long, drained energy and resources from the advancement of AmigaOS. We now look forward to completing the development of AmigaOS 3.3 and AmigaOS 4.2, so that the focus can return to the users and the operating system we all love. Let the fun begin!
  
• Out-of-court settlement between Amiga and Hyperion is publicly available: This morning, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion announced that they had signed an out-of-court settlement. The reason for this announcement was apparently that the signed agreement was made public today as part of a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in the United States. We reviewed the contract (PDF), which replaces Hyperion’s old agreement with Amiga Inc. from 2009, and attempted to briefly summarize the key points. It should be noted that we have limited ourselves to the main topics: the actual contract goes into considerably more detail and contains various additional provisions, most of them concerning Hyperion.
  
• 3 Aug 2026 Settlement between Amiga and Hyperion: {Direct link to the settlement PDF}
  
• Lawsuit: settlement agreement between Amiga and Hyperion published: {Details on the 2009 Settlement between Amiga and Hyperion
  
• Hyperion and Amiga reach settlement over AmigaOS rights and development: Hyperion Entertainment and Amiga Corporation have settled their ongoing legal disputes, bringing a long period of uncertainty to an end. The deal does more than stop the court battles. It also sets out who can develop and sell different versions of AmigaOS, what happens to the 68K branch after 2027, and how Hyperion can continue working on AmigaOS 4.x. That gives both companies a clearer path forward.
  
• Amiga and Hyperion agreement: full breakdown of AmigaOS rights: This is a deep dive into the official agreement between Amiga Corporation and Hyperion Entertainment. It explains who owns the different parts of AmigaOS, what Hyperion can continue developing and selling, how the Amiga trademarks may be used, and what happens if either company breaks the deal.
  
• Hyperion, Amiga, Inc. Reach Settlement, All Legal Issues Resolved: It’s really been an Amiga week, hasn’t it? As such, it seems only fitting to close this week off with some seriously epic news from the Amiga community. As most of you will know, Hyperion and Amiga, Inc. have been embroiled in a tough legal battle over the distribution and development rights of the AmigaOS, and all its associated trademarks. The epic news is that this situation is now completely and utterly resolved.
  
• Amiga And Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of): The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees such as our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] have shone a bit of light on the goings-on behind the scenes. The company’s final demise in the collapse of the German company Escom scattered its parts to the four winds, but now we find a potential return to clarity.
  
• COMMODORE & AMIGA: Has Everything Just Changed? What the 4th August legal updates could mean...: {Thread @ reddit.com discussing the lawsuit settlement}
  
• Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended: {Thread @ reddit.com discussing the lawsuit settlement}
  
• Hyperion settled today: {Ongoing Thread @ amigaworld.net about the settlement}
  
• Seems like the Amiga legal mess is getting “solved”: {Thread @ forums.atariage.com discussing the settlement}
  
• Amiga Corporation & Hyperion Entertainment Settlement: {Thread @ English Amiga Board discussing the settlement}
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Rabbits -- Rabbits - Rabbits! Another quick update but I need to point out a few highlights this week. 

    - While I'm embarrassed to say I'm STILL a few issues behind with my reading, BUSY SUMMER, Compute!'s Gazette celebrates their 1 year anniversary! We would like to wish Edwin Nagle and the rest of his crew ALL THE BEST for bringing back a CLASSIC magazine for the NEXT generation of retro computer lovers to enjoy and share with their kids!

    - Commodore too is celebrating it's 1 year anniversary. On Friday they sent out a nice email touting their success over that past year and spoke about the future. During that time they've survived the initial onslaught on the entire Commodore community, not to mention the REST of the internet, sold over 27K+ Commodore 64 Ultimates, created and sold almost 10K Callback 8020 flip phones. They also teased a new product, which is thought to be a new TAC-2 joystick. Interesting!

    So what will the next year bring? While Peri specifically stated "And no, it's not an Amiga (read why)" let's stay positive. I wish them ALL THE BEST and LONG REIGN Commodore!!!

   - Quick v2.0 site update. I've started down the LONG road of re-validation 1500+ DB links, adding 4000+ NEW links, moving over 401 weekly postings and updating past calendar events. My BIGGEST task is coming up with NEW categories to sort some of the new links into. I'm currently have 75 but that's from 20+ years ago. The community has changed a bit since then. On the plus side I've finished updating the Crowdfunding, Publications, Shops and Vendors, Top 10+12, Shops & Vendors, Service and Repair. I'm getting excited!

• Looking for some free software? The hop on over to the Amiga Freeware Archive. Currently they have over 18K+ downloads, covering 14 PD libraries, scene groups, disk magazines and user group compilations totaling 10+MB of downloads. Their stated goal is to 'have software not found on Aminet but to make what they have easy to explore'. NICE!!
• New issue: REV'n'GE #183 has been published
• New issue: Amiga Addict #44 has been published
• New issue: ZZAP! AMIGA Micro Action #28 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 56
  •  “Not in this lifetime”

• Random Links...

• Amiga Freeware Archive: {Currently 18K+ downloads, covering 14 PD libraries, scene groups, disk magazines and user group compilations totaling over 10+MB of downloads} Thousands of classic Amiga titles, free to download and explore. Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing. What type of software can be found here? All kinds! Games, music, pictures, applications, tools and utilities, and random things that defy classification! And of course the demoscene — audiovisual showcases created to push the hardware to its absolute limits and show off their creators' skills.
  
• What happened to AmigaDE? Inside Amiga’s failed portable platform: What happened to AmigaDE? Inside Amiga’s failed portable platform: The oddest Amiga ever launched was not a computer. It did not come in a case. {...} AmigaDE was something else. It was a software layer, a runtime, a business plan and a brand exercise rolled into one. Later pushed as Amiga Anywhere, it tried to take the Amiga name away from the idea of a specific computer and attach it to portable applications running across different devices. That made it one of the most revealing products in the long post-Commodore Amiga story. It showed a company trying to move the brand into the device era, but also showed how hard it is to make an old computer name mean something new when the machine itself has disappeared. The hook was brutal because it was true: the brand survived by leaving the machine behind.
  
• The Return of World Construction Set: Reviving an Amiga Classic that is coming back because of the brilliant Amiga community. The Return of World Construction Set 2.031 is out and here you have all the juicy details regarding this amazing landscape generator!
  
• Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026: Apropos of nothing, I decided to set up an Amiga development environment. Since figuring things out wasn't straightforward, I wrote down instructions for Linux about how to compile the first program and run it in an emulator. Enjoy!
  
• Amiga's Phantasmagoria: It was many years ago that Amiga Flame exclusively reported that Phantasmagoria was coming to the Amiga. There was great deal of excitement judging by my filled mailbox, but after a few years, all talk of Phantasmagoria died out. It had seemed that Phantasmagoria had fallen by the way side. However, Alive Mediasoft has announced this week that Phantasmagoria, a very scary adventure game is to hit the Amiga {...} The Pulse has exclusively interviewed Roberta Williams, the creator of this interactive horror, with this issue expected in February. Also on Alive Mediasoft's CD catalogue 1.6 there is a world exclusive trailer of the game, and they are currently working on a demo.
  
• ‘Proper next-gen Amiga’ launched by Apollo Computing — promises full FPGA-powered backwards compatibility with its new 68080 chip: Thirty-one years after Commodore went bankrupt, ceasing development of next-generation Amiga computers, a German Amiga accelerator company steps up. Apollo Computing stepped forward to reveal its “Proper next-gen Amiga” to the masses earlier this week. The German firm has unveiled the Apollo A6000, a comprehensive modern Amiga system featuring advanced technologies, including a “cutting-edge V4 AC68080” FPGA, which makes it the “most powerful Amiga 68k compatible ever created.”
  
• Full-sized A1200 Amiga remake spotted on display — A1200 will come with a port of The Settlers 2 that took 30 years, and a working keyboard: Retro Games Ltd says it will ‘lift the curtain completely’ on specs etc, in October. After so many playable tribute mini computers and mini consoles released over recent years, it looks like it’s the turn of the legendary Commodore Amiga A1200 home computer - with a full sized working keyboard built-in. And soon. Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind hardware like The A500 Mini (which had a non-functioning keyboard), The C64 Mini, The Spectrum, and others, is showcasing The A1200 at Gamescom 2025 over the next few days. Full details are promised in October.
  
• ilbmview: A small, dependency-light viewer for classic Commodore-Amiga IFF ILBM (Interleaved Bitmap) images, rendered in a native Wayland window. Built for a tiling setup (Hyprland): the image auto-scales to the window while preserving aspect ratio, and closing the window quits the program. It fully honours the CAMG viewport mode so images display with the correct geometry and palette, including HAM, Extra-Half-Brite, hi-res and interlace.
  
• OpenTTD for AmigaOS 68k (AGA): A native port of OpenTTD 1.0.5 to classic AmigaOS 3.x on 68k, with its own video driver written against Intuition and graphics.library. No SDL, and no RTG card required — it runs on plain AGA.
  
• Commodore 900: the UNIX workstation Commodore almost released: For most people, Commodore means the C64, the Amiga, affordable home computing, excellent custom chips and the kind of power supply you still eye suspiciously before plugging in. But in the mid 1980s Commodore also had a very different machine on the bench: the Commodore 900, also known as the C900 or Z-Machine. It was not a games computer, not a colourful home machine, and not a direct follow-up to the C64. It was a business workstation built around the Zilog Z8001 processor and designed to run Coherent, a UNIX-like operating system. In another timeline, Commodore might have entered the workstation market before the Amiga became its next great identity. In our timeline, the Commodore 900 became one of the most fascinating almost-products in computer history.
  
• USB4AMI - USB Gamepad/Mouse to DB9 adapter: USB4AMI is a small adapter that lets you use modern USB controllers and mice with classic computers including the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, and Atari computers. It plugs directly into your computer's joystick/mouse port and translates input from any compatible USB device into the signals your retro computer understands.
  
• Godot2Amiga: Godot2Amiga converts Godot projects into native Commodore Amiga applications. Unlike emulators or compatibility layers, the generated program is ordinary C code built against the ACE runtime and compiled with the Bartman Amiga GCC toolchain. Current target platform: Commodore Amiga 500, Kickstart 1.3 & OCS chipset
  
• Amiga 1000 – just a casual repair: In this rather short post, I’ll show you how I’ve dealt with an iconic Amiga 1000 computer. It was a rather simple job, as the Amiga was in very good shape to start with. The whole job was about cleaning, retrobrighting, fixing minor issues, and that’s it. There is no need to make this particular computer filled with upgrades. Instead, I’ve used an external device, but more on this later.
  
• AmiAuth: A native two-factor authentication (2FA) code generator for classic AmigaOS. AmiAuth implements TOTP (RFC 6238) and HOTP (RFC 4226): it stores multiple accounts, generates 6- or 8-digit codes with a live countdown, and — critically for the platform — solves the accurate-time problem that TOTP depends on. Small, self-contained, and designed to run on anything from a stock 68000 A500 up to an accelerated or emulated machine.
  
• Demise: Commodore Computers – From Innovation to Oblivion: Flashback, early 1970s and you’re sitting in a school classroom or maybe a hobbyist’s basement. There’s a rectangular box on the table—a computer—but it’s nothing like the sleek, polished devices we know today. This is Commodore. The brand that was once poised to rule the world of personal computing. It’s difficult to imagine now, but there was a time when Commodore was synonymous with innovation and affordable technology for the masses. In fact, they were positioned to become the global leader in the personal computer revolution.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  I'm going to keep this week's update short and sweet. 41 years ago this week Commodore released the Amiga 1000 in a black tie affair at Lincoln Center in New York City and world of computers experienced yet another seismic shift. We all know things haven't turn out as well as we would have liked but she's still around with a community supporting her. For that I tip my hat to all my fellow Amiga users and lovers!

Happy 41st Amiga 1000!
(pic from https://shaneplays.com/happy-30th-birthday-amiga/)

   - Another quick v2.0 site update. HOLY CRAP!!! Things are progressing so quickly and so much has been done that I've had to take a step back rethink the basic flow of the website. What does that mean for you? Soon you'll have a site worthy of your time and, hopefully, something truly befitting the Amiga. More to follow!

   - Saved round... If my math is correct this is my 400th daily entry on the site! YAE ME! ;-)

• If you any have questions about the soon to be released THEA1200 hopefully this video from Retro Games Limited will answer them.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 55
  •  “Like herding cats”

• The Amiga 1000

• Commodore Unveiled The First Amiga Computer 40 Years Ago Today: Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore's initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000). It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in New York, in what was described in the press at the time as a lavish "coming out" party, with its plan being to position the $1295 Motorola 68000-based computer as a potential rival to Apple's Macintosh computer, which had released one year earlier.
• Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time: On July 23, 1985, Commodore introduced its Amiga 1000 computer. And let’s just say the world wasn’t ready for it yet. Dave Haynie, a Commodore engineer who worked on the later models, has said there was no such thing as a 1980s computer. There were 1970s computers and 1990s computers, and it was the Amiga that dragged the rest of the industry into the 1990s.
• Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time: {Thread @ Hacker news discussing the Amiga 1000}
• Before Commodore stepped in: The three dentists who financed Amiga’s future: In the grand mythology of personal computing, revolutions are supposed to begin in garages, venture capital boardrooms, or research labs filled with whiteboards and cold pizza. They are not, as a rule, supposed to begin in dental offices in Florida. And yet, the early story of what became Amiga Corporation starts precisely there, with three dentists who decided that funding an experimental hardware startup was a perfectly reasonable thing to do after a long day of cleaning teeth. The phrase “the three dentists” has endured because it sounds like the setup to a joke.
• A history of the Amiga, part 3: The first prototype : The third installment of our series on the history of the Amiga begins with... Prototyping the hardware. Modern chips are designed using high-powered workstations that run very expensive chip simulation software. However, the fledgling Amiga company could not afford such luxuries. It would instead build, by hand, giant replicas of the silicon circuitry on honeycomb-like plastic sheets known as breadboards.
• Amiga 1000 Introduction: {Direct link to Commodore Manual in PDF form}
• The AMIGA Personal Computer: {Byte Magazine article about the Amiga 1000. Vol 10, No 8. Published Aug 1985}
• Looks Great, Manny, But Will It Sell?: {New York Magazine article from 5 Aug 1985 out the introduction of the Amiga}
• The AMIGA: An In-Depth Review: {Compute! Magazine article from Aug 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Issue 64. Vol 7, No 9.}
• Amiga: The Dream Machine: {Computer Gaming World Magazine article from Oct 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 5, No 4.}
• Amiga The Message is in the Medium: {Creative Computing Magazine article published Oct 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 11, No 9.}
• Commodore's Amiga Potent, but Troubled: {InfoWorld Magazine article published 16 Dec 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 7, No 50.}
• The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time {ARCHIVED 17 Jun 2008}: The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of. #7. Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)
• The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time {ARCHIVED 04 Jun 2007}: From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology--and our lives--forever. #37. Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)

• 41 Years Ago: The Day the Amiga 1000 Changed Computing Forever (1985 Launch): 41 years ago today — July 23, 1985 — Commodore launched the Amiga 1000 at LincolnCenter in New York City and completely changed personal computing. Restored and presented in 1080p HD. In front of a star-studded audience, Andy Warhol live-painted Debbie Harry (Blondie) on stage using the Amiga, proving this machine was something special. This wasn’t just another computer — it was the birth of multimedia computing. True preemptive multitasking. Up to 4096 colors & advanced custom graphics chips. 4-channel stereo sampled sound. Years ahead of Apple, IBM, and Atari. The Amiga 1000 brought professional-level graphics, sound, and creativity into people’s homes for the first time.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Two really quick update points to be made this week. First... My bad!!! I just realized I 'forgot' to post my weekly update on the 11th. In my defense I'm currently away from home and have been quite busy. (Note: The date 'may have been backdated a bit' to protect the innocent. ;-) )

  Second, and really the BIGGEST point to be made, after 24+ years v2.0 of the site is more than just some fever dream or drug induced hallucination... All I'm going to say right now is I have 5000+ links to start validating, plus a few more house keeping tasks but rest assured this site WILL BE CELEBRATING ITS 25 ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE!!!

• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette #13 has been published
• New issue: Komoda & Amiga Plus #30 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 53
  • “When the lamb lies down on Broadway” (Thanks Mr. Gabriel and crew)

• Random Links...

• AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES RUSHES BACK ONTO THE MARKET: Following a five-year sabbatical, the Amiga side of the liquidated Commodore International Ltd, now called Amiga Technologies GmbH, and a subsidiary of Escom AG (CI No 2,695), will mark its return to the personal computer and games consoles market with the September launch of the Amiga 4000T Tower and A1200 machines. The primary objective was to get Amiga products back on the market as fast as possible, said Petro Tyschtschenko, general manager of Amiga.
• Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS {ARCHIVED 10 Dec 2000}: AMIGA'S scalable operating system, Amiga DE, will be embedded in TV set-top boxes by Christmas, with handheld devices and games consoles scheduled for next year. Amiga president and CEO Bill McEwen, in Melbourne earlier this month to unveil the AmigaOne PC, says the rejuvenated company has set its sights well beyond the desk-top PC market. "We, as a company, are focusing all of our attention on OEMs (original equipment manufacturers)," says McEwen. "We have a consortium in Japan of 63 companies and this will be using our stuff on a whole new breed of handhelds."
• Telegram on Amiga: Diary of an MTProto Client in C: Telegram Amiga starts from a simple, slightly stubborn question: can you build a real, text-only Telegram client on Amiga-like systems in 2026, without turning it into a screenshot demo?
• CDBench: CDBench is an AmigaOS CD filesystem benchmark utility. It benchmarks the mounted AmigaDOS view of a disc, so it works with plain ISO9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, UDF, bridge discs, and audio tracks exposed by the filesystem as files.
• 2MB memory upgrade for Commodore Amiga 500/500+: This is a two megabyte memory upgrade for the Commodore Amiga models 500 and 500+. It is a modern replacement for the original A501 0.5MB (512K) upgrade from Commodore. Add up to 2MB of memory to the machine depending on motherboard revision and Kickstart version (see below for details). Can provide both chip RAM and slow RAM in one expansion.
• Cursor set: Amiga {ARCHIVED 22 Mar 2020}: I have made a set of cursors based on one Amiga cursor (can’t find my reference image right now…) that I use on all my Windows machines (which, ehem, is all I got right now). The cursors are orange with a white highlight and black shadow, making them visible in as good as any environment. Here I also included a green version, which might be preferred by some.
• cursor.cc: {A few Amiga OS pointers & cursors for your website and the code to add them}
• Etherbridge - An Amiga Ethernet Network Driver: What's that? The Etherbridge device driver is an Amiga SANA2 compliant Ethernet network driver for AmiTCP/IP, Miami, Roadshow or other Amiga TCP stacks. It turns a cheap PC ISA network card in conjunction with a Commodore PC emulator card (A2088, A2286, A2386) into a fully Amiga usable networking card.
• Driver-AmigaOS-KS8851 : This is the AmigaOS network driver for the Amiga1200 Plus re-implementation
• A2386-PS2 - RAM Adapter: What's that? In the late 1990s when I bought a used A2386 Bridgeboard for my Amiga 4000, I felt angry that I should have to addinally buy expensive and aged ZIP ram for that card. For 2 mega bytes ZIP RAM I should pay 200 DM (~100 €) !!! {...} I remembered having some old 1MB-PS2-Simms lying around and thought that it should be a possible to use them on my Bridgeboard with only a small adapter. The result of my thoughts and work was that little adapter which can be installed into the free ZIP sockets of the Commodore A2386 Bridgeboard. The adapter is able to provide 8MB RAM which is the official maximum - with a trick also to incredible 16MB! (This needs a BIOS-Update!)
• Guru Meditation crashes in Amiga emulation: common mistakes: A Guru Meditation error can look dramatic {...} The good news is simple: most Guru Meditation errors in Amiga emulation aren’t random, and they usually don’t mean the emulator is broken. {...} The trick is to stop guessing and give the software the machine it expects.
• Fitz: Fitz is a lightweight, cross-platform, symmetric network file server and mounter for Amiga and Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, ...). No configuration files, no daemons, no hassle - just a single command line program for sharing and mounting directories ad-hoc style. For Amiga, a GUI prefs program is included. Fitz supports Amiga case-insensitive filenames, permission bits and comments, not only when serving from an Amiga, but from Unix servers as well. Support is provided through xattrs, and the required capabilities are detected and negotiated with clients at runtime.
• Commodore Amiga 500 Artwork: This site is a personal portfolio for my Amiga 500 creative work.
• name: These are some of the artworks I created on my Amiga 500 Plus in 1991. They are images I used to draw back then, mostly in Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. The artworks were recovered from VHS tape backups made from my Amiga. The slight blur and analog artifacts are part of the original preservation process, so I kept that feeling instead of trying to make everything look too clean.
• Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne is an open source disk utility application for AmigaOS 3.x, which can be used to show you what files and folders are taking up space on your disk. It is written in C and utilizes NDK 3.2 and ReAction. Features: Disk usage statistics, File/Folder search, Easy to use, Fast, No limits on size of files/folders & Graphical representation of disk usage

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Exciting news. I think after 24 years I may have FINALLY found someone willing to help me update the site in preparation for the 25th Anniversary relaunch! I'll be able to share some more information next week but right now things are looking pretty positive. With that said I would like to truly thank everyone from the bottom of heart who reach out to my posting. It was my pleasure to speak with each and everyone of you! More to follow!

• BIG news, as far as I'm concerned, FinalWriter 7.3 has been officially released! As as life long SoftWood Inc fan, I go back to their first word processor, Pen Pal. and I couldn't be happier that this GREAT word processor is back for OS 3.x and compatible on 4.x too! I'll be ordering my copy very soon!
• I don't believe I'm following this as closely as I should but new firmware and SW drivers have been released for the MNT ZZ9000 Amiga Graphics Card. Blitter Studio has picked up where the creators MNT have left off and look to be doing a fantastic job!
• And I would be re-missed not to mention the current sales of the Commodore Callback 8020. Over the past 5 days they have broken the 8k mark. I'm impressed! From what I read they most likely have more than broken even and have made a nice little profit too. But if this chart is accurate that's a good thing because it looks as if sales have started to level off. Although if they could keep selling ~100 a day thats over 35k and who am I to complain. As I stated before I didn't think this would 'break' them but it's not what I would have planned for their second act.
• New event: Pianeta Amiga is being held 26-27 in Florence Italy. "Like the mythological phoenix, the historic Amiga event is reborn from its ashes and is ready to welcome users, developers, companies and curious people again in a two-day event full of events and news". I've been to Florence and it a beautiful place to visit even if there are no Amiga's around. ;-)
• New issue: Amiga Rulez #26-01 has been published.
• New issue: BOING #11 has been published.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 52
  •  “When the lion lies down with the lamb”

• Random Links...

• FinalWriter 7.3: FinalWriter 7.3 represents the latest evolution of one of the Amiga platform's most capable and feature-rich word processors. This release focuses on modernizing the user experience while maintaining compatibility with the workflows that users have relied on for decades.
• Softwood (ARCHIVED 28 Mar 1997}: SoftWood began in 1986 as one of the first software developers for the Amiga computer. We have developed and now offer the best selling, personal productivity software for the Amiga including Final Writer, Final Calc, and Final Data. {...} Although our love for the Amiga computer has never diminished, the realities of the computer industry has influenced us to broaden the scope of our business. After almost three years of development by an expert Windows® software developer, we now offer Final Writer for Windows® 95 and Windows® NT(tm). Our entry into the PC arena is like the proverbial David doing battle with Goliath. However, we are confident our product has what has been missing in PC word processors for years--ease of use and raw power!
• Looking for someone with an Amiga? Find them here! {ARCHIVED 28 Dec 1996}: amiganet.com. This web site is dedicated to communication among Amiga users world-wide. You can have a free entry in this site that includes your name, email account, link to a web site, personal information, and a description of your Amiga configuration. The only requirement is that you must be an Amiga user. This is not just another page of links, because whether you have your own web site or not, you can have an entry in amiganet.com. email your request to: hello@amiganet.com. This service is provided free of charge to Amiga users by SoftWood, Inc.
• Alex Electronics {ARCHIVED 11 Apr 1997}: A dealer supporting the Amiga in Northern California.
• IBrowse (ARCHIVED 15 Jun 1997}: Omnipresense Inyernational Ltd proudly presents IBrowse. "... is simply the best browser there is for the Amiga platform at the moment." www.amigasupport.com
• Amiga Development Fund {ARCHIVED 27 May 1997}: ADF (Amiga Development Fund) is an idea Giorgio Gomelsky came up with after reading about the Linux Development Fund. In essence, the group will accept donations and use those donations to fund much needed projects for the Amiga.
• VisCorp Press Releases {ARCHIVED 02 May 2001}: {Several press releases related Visicorp and the Amiga}
• Amiga lives! Gateway resurrects a pioneering PC {ARCHIVED 09 Jun 2001}: Amiga owners who have been holding their aging computers together with tape and bailing wire are rejoicing at the news that Gateway 2000 Inc. will introduce a line of the desktop machines and a new operating system within a year. Gateway 2000 bought the rights to the Amiga brand and its patents in a German bankruptcy court in March, leading to feverish speculation among the groundbreaking graphics computer's small but devoted core of fanatics. Gateway operates Amiga as a separate division, but until now has kept mum about its plans for Amiga
• A2000 Revision 4 Power Supply Unit: I came into possession of a non-working Amiga 2000 Rev. 4. The power supply let out the magic smoke. Unable to find any documentation online, and knowing that my analog electronics skills are limited, I decided to reverse engineer it to learn something along the way.
• Copperline: An Amiga emulator written in Rust, built around a vendored copy of the pure-Rust m68k CPU core, with a pixels + winit window for video and stdout for serial. {...} It covers OCS, ECS, and AGA (independent Agnus/Denise revisions, programmable blanking, machine profiles from the A500 to the A1200, CDTV, and CD32, with Gayle IDE, A2091 SCSI, and the AGA display path: 8 bitplanes, 256-entry palette, HAM8, FMODE wide fetch; remaining gaps are recorded in the internals docs). The timing model is taken seriously {...}
• AmiBLEHID: Connect a Bluetooth LE mouse or controller to an Amiga joystick port. With minimal other components (essentially just a 74HC05 and the joystick port connector), an ESP32-H2 module can be connected to an Amiga joystick/mouse port, and allow a BLE mouse or controller to be used with the Amiga.
• Catalyst: Hardware-accelerated TCP/IP and TLS offload library for classic Amiga — a drop-in bsdsocket.library replacement backed by a network coprocessor. Catalyst moves the entire TCP/IP stack, and TLS/SSL termination, off the 68k CPU and onto dedicated coprocessor hardware. The Amiga writes socket requests into a memory-mapped mailbox; the coprocessor does the networking and crypto. Existing Amiga network software runs unmodified, and HTTPS — historically punishing on a 68k because of the TLS handshake crypto — becomes fast because the cryptography runs in hardware.
• Debian PowerPC ROOT images: ROOT images for PowerPC machines. {Will work on the AmigaOne X1000}
• Catalyst: Offloaded TCP/IP and TLS for classic Amiga, via a hardware coprocessor mailbox. Drop-in bsdsocket.library + catalyst.library. Catalyst moves the entire TCP/IP stack, and TLS/SSL termination, off the 68k CPU and onto dedicated coprocessor hardware.
• 16 bit were enough: when Commodore Amiga computers ruled the Techno and Hardcore dancefloors around Europe : Everyone knows the commodore 64, or c64, or "bread box", of course. the single most sold unit in computer history, to this day. The "sequel" computer by the commodore company might be lesser known, sadly. the commodore amiga is a bit of a glitch in the timeline of Computers. When it was engineered in the 80s, it was way ahead of its competition. 4096 colors at once, build-in parallax scrolling, a GUI that looked (and worked) better than microsoft windows, multimedia abilities...

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  While it's another slow week in AmigaLand, things are a bit different over in Commodore World. Peri has sent two new emails to better explain the game plan for the Callback. I don't know if really worked or not but at least he's trying. Now they're looking into the possibility of a slightly cheaper model (less RAM & no headphones) combined with a further temp price reduction. As always I wish them all the best.

• While people are upset about the phone, let's keep a positive vibe going. Here's a good take from Generation Amiga about the Amiga talks held in Italy Amiga earlier this month between Commodore and Colanto. Remember... Good vibes!!
• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette #12 has been published
• New issue: Amiga Future #181 has been published
• New issue: REV'n'GE #182 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 51
  •  “When the seas run dry”

• Random Links...

• Commodore Corporation BV Trademarks: {Curious what trademarks the New Commodore owns? Well wonder no more.
• Amiga PSU Meanwell RPT-60B: I had two broken Amiga PSUs and wanted to replace the contents with a modern powersupply, Meanwell RPT-60B seem to be used frequently so that was my primary choice. I also wanted to keep the modification nondestructive and found 3D printed mounting brackets to accomplish this. Even though both PSUs had the same partnumber, the innards were not the same and needed two different brackets.
• Amiga 1000 NTSC to PAL Conversion: Steps needed to convert a Amiga 1000 NTSC to PAL
• CDTV CDROM CR-511-B Disassembly and Reassembly: This is a guide to disassemble and reassemble the CDROM (CR-511-B) in the Commodore CDTV. My CDTV had issues reading CDs and I had to yank the caddy to get it to eject the disk. The grease in the mechanics had hardened so everything had to be cleaned and relubricated with silicone spray and grease.
• Sassenrath, Luck, and Dev Boxes - Amiwest 2025: (youtube) Amiga engineers Carl Sassenrath and Dale Luck talk about a pair of Dev Boxes which were used in the development of the Amiga computer. Filmed by Bernardo on November 2 at the Amiwest Show in Sacramento, California, USA.
• AmigaOS Library Vector Offsets explained: the modular architecture behind the Amiga: The Amiga is usually remembered for the things that were easy to see: bouncing balls, Protracker, Deluxe Paint, video titling and games. But some of the Amiga’s most impressive engineering lived far below the screen, in the operating system itself. One of the cleverest examples was the way AmigaOS handled shared libraries. Long before modern desktop systems made dynamic linking feel ordinary, the Amiga used a compact, fast and surprisingly flexible system built around Library Vector Offsets, usually shortened to LVOs.
• Gloom (portage Java) — compilation & build: (French - translated) Gradle project for the Java port of Gloom. This file explains how to compile the sources using the original GloomAmiga repository (which provides the assets: maps, textures, sprites, sounds, palettes, tables…).)
• Ultimate Amiga 1200: PiStorm, CD32 Mode and Full Hardware Expansion: Some time ago, I had the opportunity to get both an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200. While the Amiga 500 was restored as a fairly traditional machine, I had a more ambitious project in mind for the Amiga 1200. My goal was to build three different machines into a single computer: A high-end Amiga {..}, A more traditional Amiga 1200 {...}, & A CD32-compatible system {...}
• ReWarp: WarpOS/PowerUP for AmigaOS 4. This project is a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 (work in progress). It's aim is to support all the current flavors of machines running AmigaOS 4 including the X5000. At this moment 95% of all WarpOS functions are implemented.
• ReWarp3DPPC: This project is a Warp3D wrapper for use with ReWarp (a WarpOS reimplementation for AmigaOS 4).
• ReWarp: WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. This project is a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 (work in progress). It's aim is to support all the current flavors of machines running AmigaOS 4 including the X5000. At this moment 95% of all WarpOS functions are implemented.
• Inside the Italy Amiga talks: Commodore’s next big retro computing question: The latest Commodore press release reads less like a conventional corporate update and more like a carefully placed signal to the retro computing world. Beneath the travel notes, the Italy setting, the private meetings and the easy humour, there is a serious business story developing. {...} The revived Commodore has already proved that nostalgia can open the door. The question now is whether it can walk through it without becoming trapped in its own past.
• SonnetAmiga: Reimplementation of WarpOS supporting Sonnet Crescendo 7200 and other PowerPC PCI cards (mirror of CVS development repository).
• OctaMED Soundstudio Features: {detailed list of features of V1.x} This will be the last Amiga version by me, V2 will be authored by Joern & Thorsten.
• ADF MAGAZINE DOWNLOAD: AMIGA ACTION, AMIGA DREAM, CU AMIGA, AMIGA CONCEPT, AMIGA FORMAT & AMIGA COMPUTING

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Glad to be 'almost' back home!! The nice thing about being webmaster of your own site is the ability to ret-con the posting dates. While this MAY seem like it was posted on the 21st, I'm sticking with the 20th. ;-) 

   So with that said what does everyone think about Commodore's next move? I think it's safe to say most people aren't happy. Personally I'm not a fan if for nothing than the price alone. $499 and that's WITH $100 off?? That's crazy money! Speaking as a guy who STILL has flip phone (Kyocera DuraXA Equip: Rugged, removable battery, headphone jack & no apps all for less than $200) there's no incentive for me to switch. Obviously I'm not the target market but let's hope someone is.

  Let's be realistic, they were ALWAYS in a tough spot for their next move. Without a lot of time and money all they can do is license/rebrand existing products. The C64U is an exact case in point. A pretty successful case in point but one none the less. I like the theory this is a way to protect Commodore's name in the phone market and get another product out quickly for little risk. Just spend some money on rebranding a phone, tweak some software and BAM there you go!

   So other than all the good vibes that have gone down the drain, this won't break them. I have FULL faith that everyone at Commodore had input in this decision and knows more than us about the road map to the future. Hopefully this turns out to be is just another step in what will be a looooooong list of products to include them working with Colanto on a THOROUGHLY PLANNED and EXECUTED roll out of the new Super Amiga. Fingers crossed!!!

• You need to check this out. CUSTOM-BBS! if for nothing else than to read the backstory of this legendary product! After 40 years it's back and up and running on an emulated Amiga for your BBS'ing enjoyment. It's billed as the FIRST BBS for the Amiga and even the father of the Amiga, Jay Miner, loved and bought a copy. That's good enough for me!
• If there is one teeny, tiny, thing I really dislike about the Amiga it would be its lack of a true simple file file manager. Yes there's always Directory Opus but right out of the box your SOL. Over the years it seems my workflow has really evolved around 'power using' a file manager and LightTreeFM looks to have a lot of features to fill in that gap. I can't wait to try it out.
• New issue: WhatIFF? #20 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 50
  •  “More chance of the sun rising in the west”

• Amix and other random Links...

• CUSTOM-BBS!: A 1988 Amiga bulletin board system — back online. The board runs on a real (emulated) Amiga — a true single line, one caller at a time, just like 1988.
• AMIX Cross-Toolchain Bootstrap: All kind of AMIGA AMIX 2.1c related stuff.
• grimoire-amix: Documentation for Amiga Unix (Amix) — Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 (SVR4) to 68030 Amigas.
• MNT VA2000 Device Driver for Amiga UNIX (AMIX): This is my AI driven hobby project to implement a device driver for the MNT VA2000 RTG graphics card running under Commodore Amiga UNIX (AMIX), System V Release 4.0.
• Xrtg — X11R5 RTG Server for Amiga UNIX (AMIX): Xrtg is an X11R5 server for Amiga UNIX (AMIX) SVR4 that drives the MNT VA2000 RTG graphics card directly — bypassing the native Amiga display chipset. This is my my very (un)reasonable vibe-coding adventure. The goal is to explore, and see how far the combination of old hardware, old Unix, modern AI tools can go.
• lszorro: Dynamic Zorro expansion board lister for Amiga UNIX (AMIX), in the style of lspci/lsusb. Identifies all Kickstart-configured expansion boards from a built-in database of 461 manufacturer/product entries (sourced from the Linux kernel's zorro.ids). This includes cards whose Zorro address space is inaccessible from userspace on a running AMIX — such as RTG graphics cards and video digitizers. This is a hobby project developed out of curiosity about forgotten Amiga Unix hardware.
• The "Year 2000 Problem" and the Amiga: To make a long story short, the Amiga in general does not suffer from a "Year 2000 Problem" as is commonly referred to in the PC world. Still, the Amiga faces three distinct date problems and a single, specific Year 2000 problem with limited scope. This document shows you how to find out if your Amiga might have a "Year 2000 Problem" and then goes into detail, explaining the technical aspects of the issues and how they may be addressed.
• Amiga 600 Junior: It is a replacement board solution for the Amiga600, or an Amiga 600 clone if you like this way. Just as Chucky’s ReAmigas for other Amiga models. Primarily designed to replace old rotten boards – and to be honest, A600s are very affected by the leaking issue. {By Róbert Tihanyi in 2022}
• Amiga A600 Junior Build: The Retro BB channel presents an Amiga A600 Junior Build, turning a failed A600 into a clean and upgraded machine. The project replaces the original board with a reverse-engineered Junior motherboard and fits it inside a frosted clear case. This gives the system a fresh look while keeping the classic A600 layout.
• Gloom Reforged: GLOOM - the Amiga FPS classic by Black Magic, but kinda 'Reforged' for AmigaOS. AGA only and PiStorm32 recommended! This project aims to build an enhanced Amiga version of Gloom, based on the original, unmodified source code {...} The goal is not to turn Gloom into a completely different engine, but to modernize and improve it where it makes sense on real Amiga hardware, while preserving the look, feel, speed, atmosphere, and gameplay identity of the classic release.
• ZGloom Editor: A basic Level editor for Gloom/ZGloom from Amiga for Windows. Gloom Level Editor is a standalone Win32 / x86 Visual Studio editor prototype for creating and editing Gloom-compatible maps. The goal is to provide a practical desktop tool for inspecting, editing and exporting map data while keeping the workflow close to the original Gloom/ZGloom structure.*{windows}
• AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade: A system software release for the ages. Five years after releasing the Amiga 1000, {...} It was time to bring AmigaOS, too, into the 1990s.
• LightTreeFM: LightTreeFM - A Modern File Manager for Classic AmigaOS. LightTreeFM is a native two-pane file manager designed for classic AmigaOS systems. It focuses on practical daily file work, low memory usage, predictable redraws, and a Workbench-friendly visual style that feels at home on real Amiga hardware.
• Interview with Jay Miner : {Translated - last known interview} Interview conducted by Ruud Dingemans and taken from Amiga Magazine - February 1994
• The billionaire who might have saved Amiga: Pentti Kouri, Hyperion and AmigaOS 4: For most Amiga users, the story of the machine is a story of chips, demos, strange brilliance and loyalty that long ago passed the point of medical explanation. {..} But one of the most important figures in the later Amiga story did not come from the familiar world of engineers, coders or user-group legends. Dr. Pentti Kouri came from finance, and that made him a very unusual character in a very unusual computing saga.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Another quiet week in AmigaLand but only 3 days until Commodore announces their next move. While we know it has nothing to do with the Amiga, I hope they're able to keep their momentum going with phase 2. Fingers crossed!

  - Quick side note... Two weeks ago I took a rather aggressive move on my part to try and find someone to help me finish a few things on the site and make it a bit more functional. Much to my surprise I've been overwhelmed by the number replies and all the kind words about the Amiga, Commodore and the site in general.

  With that said I'm going to take the next week to review, then start reaching out to see if I can find a good fit to get v2.0 ready before the 25th anniversary in October. Wish me luck and stay tuned for more updates.

• Good info! James Jacobs of Amigan Software is maintaining an updated list of various notes, tips and proposals for Amiga programmers and users, and lists of known bugs and workarounds for various software.
• Looking for a good starting point about ALL the web browsers for the Amiga? Well look no further. Web Browser Directory has done a VERY NICE job cataloging all 11 of them. The site provides direct links to the applications, the type of render engine, timeline of development, if it's still being developed and more. Currently they are tracking: Amelinium, AmiZilla, AMosaic, aMozillaX, AWeb, IBrowse, NetSurf, Origyn, Timberwolf, Voyager (Amiga) & WebsterXL

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 49
  • “Donkeys will dance ballet”

• Links about the Juggler demo and other random links...

• AMIGA NOTES: This document contains various notes, tips and proposals for Amiga programmers and users, and lists of known bugs and workarounds for various software. It was written by James Jacobs of Amigan Software on 9/8/04, and last updated on 3/6/26. If you have any additions, corrections or suggestions, please email us.
• List of web browsers that run on Amiga OS: {A great source of web browser information in general to include the Amiga} Amelinium, AmiZilla, AMosaic, aMozillaX, AWeb, IBrowse, NetSurf, Origyn, Timberwolf, Voyager (Amiga) & WebsterXL
• PicoWyfy WIFI adapter for the Amiga: I just got a PicoWyfy and has spent a day playing around with it in my Amiga 1200. I am very happy with this device as it has helped me get my Amiga 1200 online and onto my network at home. The PicoWyfy is a “wireless network interface controller” and it connects to the clock port on the Amiga (either on the motherboard or on a Zorro card or other clock port solutions). Read more about PicoWyfy here, you will also find instructions on how to get one there.
• Jim Collas Offers Clarifications: As you can imagine, I have been following the newsgroups closely as you discuss the Linux decision. The personal attacks on me are discouraging but I can't blame some people for being very angry. It's understandable given what the Amiga community has been through in the last few years and the way this situation unfolded. I wish I could have managed this situation better but I have been traveling a lot and QNX blindsided us with their announcement. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we were planning to communicate the Linux decision along with our technical brief.
• PaulaNet — Amiga WiFi via the Floppy Port: PaulaNet is a WiFi network adapter for the Amiga that uses the floppy disk port as its data interface. It requires no internal hardware modification — just plug into the external floppy connector.
• Prometheus-Resurrector (a.k.a. PrometheusX): {summary from another page} Prometheus-Resurrector is based on the Prometheus PCI daughter board from 20 years ago. If you are familiar you might know about the Firebird PCI daughter board for Amiga 4000 and Amiga 3000, they are sort of related. One difference between Prometheus-Resurrector and the original Prometheus is that this one is using Xilinx chips for CPLDs instead of rare, hard to find, Altera chips. Also, you can order PCBs yourself and build it.
• Prometheus - Open Source: First of all, apologies for the long delayed publication of Prometheus Open Source version. Life has its own rules. The bugfix (a history). During bugfixing the original version of Prometheus code, I made a small description of the bug, as well as how to fix it. Fortunately, it surviced in some old backup, so I include it here for completeness. It may help to understand the new (VHDL) version of the code a bit.
• A4000 Front Cover: Old computers are great, but the plastics don't stand the test of time, yellowing through brominated flame retardants, or just getting brittle with age. The Amiga 4000 is one of those affected, and due to the limited numbers they were produced in, replacement parts are difficult to get hold of. I created this front cover to sit alongside some of the other case replacement projects out there, and in particular, efforts to reverse-engineer and provide spares for worn-out parts.
• Faery Tale Adventure - Modula-2 (mx) Port: Faery Tale Adventure clone in Modula-2 (mx compiler + SDL2)
• Recovering Eric Graham’s 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code : AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the practical problem of getting old data into a form that can be read and used on a current machine. Today let's talk about Amiga Juggler
• Amiga Juggler Animation: In November of 1986, early in the history of the Amiga computer, Commodore released a new demo, a continuously looping sequence of 24 full-color, full-screen frames, with matching "clink" sound effect, playing at 30 frames per second.
• The Juggler Raytracer: Rendered in Your Browser. The Juggler image on this page is not a JPEG or a PNG. It is drawn dynamically by a Javascript program that runs in your browser when you load this page. The program is a Javascript translation of the raytracer that produced the original Juggler animation in November of 1986.
• A real-time clone of the classic Amiga "Juggler" demo in WebGL.: A real-time clone of the classic Amiga "Juggler" demo in WebGL. Original demo Copyright 1986 Eric Graham. This version by Ben Hanke 2021.
• Eric-Graham-1987-Juggler-Raytracer-1.0: Eric Graham's original 1987 Juggler Raytracer 1.0 source code and related data
• Eric Graham - The Juggler: In November of 1986, early in the history of the Amiga computer, Commodore released a new demo animation featuring a robot juggling three mirror balls. {...} This demo really showed off the Amiga's superior graphical capabilities. The way the 3D environment was accurately and dynamically reflected in the glass balls hadn't been seen before. It was one of the earliest full-color 3D raytraced animations rendered and displayed on a personal computer. In fact, I know of no earlier example than this famous demo by Eric Graham

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  June 16th. What's happening you ask? On the 2nd Peri posted a video letting us know Commodore will be announcing their next move . Anyone taking bets? He says it will be something future forward trying to solve today's problems. Could it be a dumb phone? New SID chips? A new LCD retro monitor? Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

   Now fast forward to his latest posting today. Peri REALLY ramps up the Amiga and how! Recently he was in Italy with his lawyer John Errico and CFO Alex Rozenblat to meet up with Mike Battilana, the owner of Colanto. For those not keeping track he owns a LARGE swatch of Amiga/Commodore IP. Seems a lot was covered so I'll stay positive and leave you with this quote from Mike. "I feel sure we will do something together. There is light at the end of the tunnel, at last." Let's hope it's not an on coming train! The A-Train. lol

• This week I installed the latest version of Commodore OS Vision v3.1 and let me tell you I LOVE IT!! Feels like I'm in some alternate universe where the 80's is alive and well in a modern OS. Everything you need to productive is here but I LOVE showing off the C=64 text setting screens on a 'CRT' styled display and the AWESOME animated desktops in all it's Commodore glory! THREE thumbs up!!
• terminills has just made the Official Release Announcement of FinalWriter 7.3. Keep you eyes focused on their official web page for the latest updates. As one of the first major software packages I ever purchased for the Amiga, I will be more than happy to continue to show my support!
• New event: This 20-21 Jun the Pacific Commodore Expo NW v7 is being held in Seattle Wa.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 48
  •  “Might as well ask the moon”

• Random Links...

• News: Commodore OS 3.1 released on April 28th, 2026 : I am pleased to announce the official release of Commodore OS 3.1 today, which is available as an installable ISO, now reduced to a much more manageable size of approximately 9.2 GB. This is a significant reduction from the 37 GB Commodore OS 3.0 ISO. To achieve this, some content had to be removed, but we believe we have retained the essential Commodore flavored experience while adding new features that make this distribution even more distinctive.
• FinalWriter: FinalWriter 7.3 represents the latest evolution of one of the Amiga platform's most capable and feature-rich word processors. This release focuses on modernizing the user experience while maintaining compatibility with the workflows that users have relied on for decades.
• What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks: Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives, led a roughly year-long project preserving floppy disks called “Future Nostalgia,” which concluded in January.
• Greaseweazle Host Tools: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level. This repository contains the host tools for controlling Greaseweazle: an Open Source USB device capable of reading and writing raw data on nearly any type of floppy disk.
• MacSurf: The modern web, on a 25-year-old Mac. MacSurf is a web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, PNGs with alpha, running on a G3 iMac.
• Exclusive interview with Trevor Dickinson – PART 2: {Part 2 of the interview with Trevor Dickinson}
• Commodore Amiga-emulating TheA1200 retro computer delayed nearly half a year by ‘global chip shortages’ — Retro Games Ltd says it will use the extra time to finesse the software: Originally scheduled for a mid-June release, the makers now insist it will be available from December 4, 2026, with no changes to the machine specs or pricing.
• A1200_keyb_MPU: Amiga 1200 keyboard MPU drop-in replacement pcb. As the 68HC05 (p/n 391508-01) used in the Amiga 1200 is getting to be very expensive, I designed a drop-in replacement pcb using Atmel (Microchip) MPU - ATMEGA324PB-20MU. Advantages: No crystal required. No Voltage monitor IC required. SW can be updated to support an external keyboard with other protocol. Connected e.g. to the unsoldered crystal's pins.
• RISKYREA1200: ReAmiga1200USBHID CH32V203C based USB HID.
• STm32-to-Amiga-Local-Keyboard adaptER: STM32 Usb Based firmware microcontroller for any Amiga internal keyboard adapter. The STALKER adapter board enables connecting USB HID keyboards to your Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000/3000, Amiga 4000/CD32, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 and it is based upon 32-bit STM32 microcontroller. The STALKER provides built-in USB stack which enables USB HID keyboards support without the need for installing additional AmigaOS software drivers.
• AMIX Hydra Ethernet Driver: A STREAMS/DLPI network driver for the Hydra Systems AmigaNet rev 1.2a Zorro II Ethernet card (National Semiconductor DP8390/NE2000) for AMIX 2.1p2 — Commodore's System V Release 4 Unix for the Amiga.
• Fastest C2P for Amiga 500: Blitter based c2p Algorithm for Amiga 500. I am currently implementing a Raycaster/2.5D engine for the Amiga 500. Initially I used the c2p from Kalms, which offers a reasonable performance. The conversion is 160100 to 320200 at 22 pixels, whereby the horizontal resolution is doubled by Copper. So I need an efficient algorithm for 21.
• 68K+ A1200 Build, which would be best?: So I have been thinking about doing a new A1200 build some point this year, (i got to wait for A1200.net to ship me the Cd32 edition case) but have been debating about what to put in it, the new 68K+ platforms are all offering their own unique features and qualities: Pi5 / mini x86 self build emulation system, Vampire V4 / Apollo v4, A1200NG, A1200 + Pistorm, PocketStorm / Amicube F1200 / Minimig + Pistorm, The A1200
• EmojiGear: Amiga UTF8 Unicode FreeType rendering lib + BOOPSI text editor gadgets + Text Editor + Console. {...} So basically here is something for Amiga OS3: a shared library called utf8rastport.library, that embedd a recent FreeType2 lib with png support (for coolest emojis!), {...}
• Stunt Car Racer / Stunt Track Racer (Framerate Unleashed): A modification of the 1989 Amiga game Stunt Car Racer (Geoff Crammond / MicroStyle) that unlocks the framerate to 50/60 FPS without changing the original speed or physics. Intended for Amigas with a fast CPU and fast memory — it will not improve performance on a stock Amiga 500.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  HAPPY INTERNTIONAL AMIGA DAY!!!

   - International Amiga Day: Jay Miner’s dream machine still bounces.

   - Let's celebrate International Amiga Day.

Pic from from IndieRetroNews.com

Happy Birthday Jay Miner!

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Another quick update this week but at least it's better than nothing! ;-)

• Here's a gem from the past. On 1 Sep 1999 c|net reports Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship and let's follow it up 5 days later with the parting of company between Amiga and both Jim Collas and Bill McEwan. Can you believe this was 26 years ago??
• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette #11 has been published
• New issue: Passione Amiga #31 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 47
  • “Like teaching a fish to ride a bike”

• Random Links...

• Retrocomputacio: {Spanish} The largest Spanish-speaking community of microcomputer collectors and users.
• AmigaDemos.org: The 1st source for Amiga Demos lovers!
• THE OBESE AGNUS, THE NEW 500 BOARD AND OTHER RECENT EXPERIENCES: The Obese Agnus Chip (8372A or 318069-02) is the new Agnus chip capable of addressing 1 MegaByte of Chip Ram on the A500 or B2000. This allows you to have more than TWICE as many windows and screens open than is possible with a standard Fat Agnus equipped machine.
• Telegram Amiga: Telegram Amiga is a pre-alpha effort to build a serious lightweight Telegram text client for Amiga-like systems. The project target is not a toy demo and not just a bot helper: the main direction is now an MTProto client that can log in with a normal Telegram account, list peers and exchange text messages with people from an Amiga-style console.
• Stratagus-AmigaWarpOS: Conversion of Stratagus to AmigaOS 3 with WarpOS. Compiles with GCC 6 under MOS2WOS lite cross-compiler tools on Aminet. Binary and support files are available on Aminet.
• Amiga 2000 motherboard: A Reproduction Amiga 2000 rev 6.2 motherboard 416.95mm x 346.25mm
• Inside the Motorola 68060 & Chip Design: Interview with Lead Designer Joe Circello!: What was it like to design the ultimate 68k processor? In this interview, Amiga Bill and Oliver Achten sit down with Joe Circello, the lead designer of the legendary Motorola 68060 CPU. {...} Joe takes us behind the scenes of the 060’s development, detailing the intense engineering challenges, the architectural breakthroughs, and the fascinating design choices that made this chip a legend. Whether you're an Amiga enthusiast, a vintage Mac fan, or a CPU architecture nerd, this deep dive into microprocessor history is an absolute must-watch.
• Motorola 68000: addressing modes: The Motorola 68000 is an impressive microprocessor, and this is reflected by the large amount of addressing modes that it provides; it is actually surprising, for people used to the x86 family, to find in this microprocessor's Assembly language constructs that are very similar to the ones provided by high level languages such as pre- and postdecrements, or multiconditional branching instructions.
• Classic Graphics Primitives: This section defines the display routines for use on Classic Amiga hardware. These routines show you how to form and manipulate a display, including the following aspects of display use: How to query the graphics system, identify the memory area that you wish to have displayed, position the display area window to show only a certain portion of a larger drawing area. {and more}
• Amiga Imager: Build bootable Amiga systems on macOS. One app. Three platforms. Everything configured automatically. Choose your platform. Amiga Imager produces a ready-to-boot image for each target - no manual configuration needed. (Raspberry Pi Accelerator, Classic Amiga & Minimig Core)
• VIP Technologies Professional for Amiga, a Lotus 1-2-3 clone: {Thread @ stack exchange discussing the spreadsheet Professional by VIP Technologies}
• PC Task performance: {Thread @ stack exchange discussing the expected performance of Pc Task 4.4 on an Amiga 500/030 @50 w/64MB or RAM
• PC-Task vs. Bridgeboard: {Thread @ AmiBay which one is better}
• Awaiting the return of the a desktop cult classic: {A New York Times article from Jube 2000 where they interview Bill McEwen about the Amiga and its comeback. WOW... None of that happened!}
• Carl Sassenrath: the engineer behind the Amiga’s revolutionary multitasking kernel: In 1985, the Amiga arrived looking like a personal computer from a livelier future. {...} Much of that magic came from custom hardware, but the machine’s real sense of motion came from Exec, the Amiga kernel designed by Carl Sassenrath. {...} He was the person responsible for the core executive that made the Amiga feel responsive, elegant, and unusually modern. Exec was small, fast, modular, and deeply tied to the Amiga’s personality. It did not draw the windows, play the sounds, or paint the graphics itself, but it made sure the right pieces of the system got their turn at the right time. In a machine famous for spectacle, Exec was the stage manager with the stopwatch.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Kinda busy week in the real world so I'll keep this short in AmigaLand. 

    - In other news Commodore has now sold more than 25,000 C=64s. Say what you will about them, I'm VERY happy for their success. Commodore RULES!!

• EAB has a small thread discussing the latest ZZ9000 firmware and drivers (v2.1.1) by Blitter Studios . Glad to see the software is still under development even it it's not the by the developer.
• New issue: Amiga Addict #43 has been published
• New issue: ZZAP! AMIGA Micro Action #27 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 46
  • “You’ve got two hopes—Bob Hope and no hope”

• Random Links...

• ZZ9000 Firmware: ZYNQ FPGA and ZZ9000OS ARM firmware for the ZZ9000 graphics/coprocessor card (BlitterStudio fork). FPGA logic and bare-metal ARM firmware for the MNT ZZ9000 Zorro II/III graphics and coprocessor card. This repository contains the Zorro bus interface, video formatter, scanline generator, AXI plumbing, boot image layout, and ZZ9000OS firmware that runs on the Zynq-7020 ARM core. The matching Amiga-side drivers and tools live in BlitterStudio/zz9000-drivers.
• Blitter Studios: Here you will find Amiberry (Optimized Amiga emulator), Amiberry-Lite (Optimized Amiga emulator for Linux), Host-Tools (Launch a command from within Amiberry to the host OS), zz9000-drivers (AmigaOS drivers for the ZZ9000 graphics/coprocessor card (BlitterStudio fork), Zz9000-firmware (ZYNQ FPGA and ZZ9000OS ARM firmware for the ZZ9000 graphics/coprocessor card (BlitterStudio fork) & DOpus5 (A modern, actively-maintained fork of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II, the legendary Amiga file manager, ported and updated for all Amiga-like platforms.)
• The mysterious sales numbers of Commodore computers: For Commodore fans there has always been a love fest for all things C64, the beloved breadbox 8-bit computer released in 1982. Let’s be honest. The C64 was the darling child of the early 80s and supported by the company and its partners long after the lifespan of the technology seemed warranted. In the eyes of the Commodore user, the company could do no wrong since the computer and its fans were stuck in time together. When it comes to the Amiga (released in mid-1985), however, the relationship with Commodore was and is much more complicated.
• SandboxVM — A Soft Sandbox for AmigaOS 4: SandboxVM lets you run AmigaOS 4 PowerPC binaries — programs, libraries, and drivers — inside a process-level sandbox, so a guest crash takes down the guest, not the host. The guest's entire world (heap, private IExec, library shims, comms rings, code image) lives in extended memory above the 2 GB barrier; the host sees the guest only through a controlled API surface.
• Should I recap my amiga?: {Thread @ reddit discussing the 'The perennial question'}
• Amiga Capacitor List: {List of capacitors for the A500, A600, A1000, A1200, A2000, A3000D, A4000D & CD32 w/list to service manuals & schematics}
• Stash of Code - Amiga: (French - translated) An annotated archive of source code and data for programming Amiga OCS and AGA hardware in MC68000 Assembly.
• VirtIOGPU — VirtIO GPU Driver for AmigaOS 4.1FE: A native AmigaOS 4.1 Picasso96 chip driver for the VirtIO GPU (PCI 1AF4:1050) as provided by QEMU. Boots Workbench with full RTG support — 8/16/32-bit screen modes, hardware cursor, EDID-based native resolution detection, dynamic mode switching, and Virgl 2D/3D GPU acceleration. The current aim is to get the driver fully working on the QEMU Pegasos2 machine before leaving beta. AmigaOne and Sam460 QEMU machines are planned future targets
• TheWire13 opens new networking options for older Commodore Amiga computers: Why AmigaOS 1.3 is a special target. {...} A 1.3 system is more limited, so anything that brings networking into that space has to be careful about size, compatibility and assumptions. That is what makes TheWire13 notable. It is not solving networking for every Amiga. It is targeting a specific older generation.
• Exclusive interview with Trevor Dickinson – PART 1:: About seven months ago, at one of the most memorable events in the recent history of the Amiga -the Amiga 40th in Mönchengladbach, Germany- I listened to one of the most iconic and energetic presentations of the entire gathering. The speaker was none other than Trevor Dickinson, with whom I would later have the privilege of speaking in depth about the past, present, and future of the Amiga.
• CoolModFiles: CoolModFiles is a web player that will introduce you to the most obscure and legendary tracks hosted on the internet's biggest module archive, modarchive.org! {...} The idea for CoolModFiles originated among two programmer friends who used to send mod files to each other, which lead to the creation of a personal mod archive - one which had hundreds of cool modules at the time!
• CoolModFiles.com: What is this? It's a web player that works by simply fetching a random module from modarchive.org and playing it. No black magic involved!
• This Amiga is not an Amiga | The MagPi #137: The name says it all. This project looks like an Amiga. It functions like an Amiga. But there’s a very different computer hidden inside.
• Amiga Emulator FAQ - Amiga Emulator FAQ: There are mac OS native Amiga Emulators such as FS-UAE for x86-x64 Intel and ARM64 Macs or AmiBerry for ARM64 based Macs. If you find they are inadequate, you can install Winuae on Linux or Mac OS using WINE (Windows is not an Emulator)
• Convert68000toC - Amiga 68000 (SEKA) → portable C transpiler: What it is. A long long time ago I coded games for the Amiga. It was all done in Assembly (as that was the only choice for games in ordert to have any performance) using Seka and later the Asm-one assembler by Price from 'the flame arrrows'. Live was good. However, when I moved on to other platforms, one thing always bugged me: the only way to show or play these games is to install Amiga emulators. {...} A small toolchain that turns Amiga-era 68000 assembly written in SEKA-style (or ASM-One) syntax into portable C. The goal is faithful enough CPU semantics (registers, flags, synthetic program counter, emulated address space) to port real game logic, not a full Amiga hardware emulator or a pretty decompiler.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Quick update this week because we happen to be out of town attending our nephew's wedding in sunny California. Big congratulations to Nathaniel and Megan. We wish you a lifetime of happiness and joy as you start your lives together.

• Check this out. We now a functional JavaScript runtime engine. NodeAmiga is a "Node.js-inspired JavaScript runtime written from scratch in C for classic Amigas. It lets you write programs in modern JavaScript and run them directly under AmigaOS — no cross-compiler needed." One of nice things is it doesn't require a OS4+, a 060/PPC or a ton of ram. It's designed for OS2.0+, MC68000 and up, and needs 1 MB RAM. Tie in the bsdsocket library if you want networking.
• New issue: Adventures in Retro #2 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 45
  • “Don’t waste your breath”

• Random Links...

• NodeAmiga — JavaScript runtime for AmigaOS: NodeAmiga is a Node.js-inspired JavaScript runtime written from scratch in C for classic Amigas. It lets you write programs in modern JavaScript and run them directly under AmigaOS — no cross-compiler needed. This guide describes what's available to you as an author of scripts. Target: AmigaOS 2.0+ (MC68000 and up) Requires: 1 MB RAM, optionally bsdsocket.library for networking.
• Raspberry Pi Powered Amiga: A multi CPU architecture Amiga emulation software suite. The Pimiga is a fairly new project that brings the retro joys of the greatest computer of all time to modern and easily available hardware. It is recommended you use a Pi4 or even better a Pi400 as a modern day Amiga. Pimiga is a workbench replacement for the Commodore Amiga. Built for Raspberry Pi 400. It is based on ClassicWB with Scalos workbench replacement. User provided ROMs make it work. This page will be landing page for the available resources about the Pimiga and all the fun wrapped into it.
• Walker Specifications: Standard Specifcations. NOTE: The Walker was never released and so the specifications may be subject to speculation.
• AmigaSplash: This simple tool is indended to show splash screen during boot process from HDD. For now it supports only OCS/ECS graphics and no HAM modes.
• Amiga Tank Mouse: Pretend it´s the 80s and use your old mouse from way back when, with an updated touch. Inspired by the legendary Commodore Amiga 1351 “Tank mouse”, but with modern features, like scroll wheel and dpi switch. This mouse uses the Bambulab wireless mouse kit : Wireless Mouse Components Kit 002. Print in 2 colors (buttons darker) for original effect.
• AAA vs Hombre: The lost next-generation Amiga that could have changed Commodore forever: In the early 90s the Amiga stood at one of the most important crossroads in its history. Just a few years earlier it had been the most advanced multimedia computer available to ordinary users. When the Amiga 1000 appeared in 1985 it stunned the industry with capabilities that PCs could barely approach. {...} New companies such as Silicon Graphics were demonstrating powerful 3D workstations, while the gaming industry was moving toward real-time polygon graphics. Commodore’s engineers knew that the Amiga could not remain unchanged forever. If the platform wanted to stay relevant, it needed a new generation of hardware.
• FTPMount: Amiga Handler to mount FTP sites as a filesystem device. This is work-in-progress, trying to back-port the AmigaOS4 port to OS3 68k, including all the bugfixes from there.
• UAE control: UAE control from inside the emulation
• Amiberry-Lite: Optimized Amiga emulator for multiple platforms.. Amiberry-Lite is an optimized Amiga emulator for ARM (32bit and 64bit) and RISC-V platforms. The core emulation comes from WinUAE, and even the main GUI is designed to look similar to that. It includes JIT for ARM support, to get high-performance results on CPU-intensive emulated environments, like desktop applications. On top of that, there are some unique features developed specifically for Amiberry, such as the WHDLoad booter, support for RetroArch controller mapping, and several more.
• Amiga Mini Mods: A site dedicated to modding the A500 Mini...
• How To Flash The Kernel/ Firmware To The A500 Mini...: {Thread @ amigaminimods covering the 5 steps to show you how to flash the kernel/ firmware of your A500 Mini}
• MCP-AmigaOS4: A Model Context Protocol server for driving AmigaOS 4.1 machines — both QEMU guests and real PowerPC hardware — from MCP-aware clients such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and IDE plugins.
• Markdown and Python FileType plugins: FileType plugins for sourcecode syntax highlighting in AmigaOS 3.2+ TextEdit. Implements Markdown and Python syntax highlighting for texteditor.gadget compatible applications such as TextEdit and CodeCraft to support the Markdown and Python, from AmigaOS 3.2. N.B. Automatic recognition requires .md and .py FileType recognisers to be configured in DefIcons. With this, select the desired language from the application menu.
• Amiga: 25 Years Later: Let's hear it for the greatest cult computer of them all, which debuted a quarter-century ago today. Twenty-five years ago today, a new personal computer was unveiled at a black-tie, celebrity-studded gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York’s Lincoln Center. It debuted to rave reviews and great expectations–heck, InfoWorld said it might be the “third milestone” in personal computing after the Apple II and the IBM PC.
• NetHack: Congratulations adventurer! Your quest is at an end for you have reached the home of NetHack. Within, the Wizard of Yendor has no power, the Oracle speaks with utmost clarity, and the grid bugs do not bite. Click, friend, and enter. {Download the Amiga binary}

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Spring has sprang and summer is almost here but for those waiting for the the A1200 will have to wait a bit longer. This week Retro Games announced "The OS Isn't Yet Where It Needs To Be". Some are wondering exactly what that means, but don't worry, here in AmigaLand everything is only "TWO WEEKS AWAY!" lol

• Hats off to Indie Retro News for passing the 100 million view mark! This is TRUELY quite an accomplishment. If you haven't visited yet what are you waiting for? Treat yourself and do it now! The amount of Amiga news is ALWAYS VERY impressive! On the flip side I'm happy if I get 100 visitors a month. J/K LOL
• Also this week publisher APC&TCP turned 34. Wishing them and Amiga Future all the best!
• The new WIP web browser Amelinium has advanced to v0.2. While not intended to replace IBrowse or Aweb, it's already showing tremendous promise!
• Tell me this isn't cool. As a life long Gloom fan I'm excited to try out this new WIP Gloom Level Editor. In the meantime if you want some inspiration check out these other home made Gloom levels to get you in the mood.
• Time again for everyone's required monthly reading. The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for April 2026 has been posted. As always another GREAT JOB Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler!

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 44
  •  “Like finding a unicorn”

• Random Links...

• Gloom Level Editor [WiP]: Gloom Level Editor is a standalone Win32 / x86 Visual Studio editor prototype for creating and editing Gloom-compatible maps. The goal is to provide a practical desktop tool for inspecting, editing and exporting map data while keeping the workflow close to the original Gloom/ZGloom structure. Current editor features: Map view, Inspector, Textures, CrM2 support, Drawing tools, Zone tools, Events & Export.
• Gloom(CD32) / Gloom Deluxe (Amiga): {A very DETAILED MODs page with TONS of information about Gloom}
• Custom DeluxePaint V Keyboard Overlay for the Amiga 1200, version 1: {...} An important part of getting fast with digital painting workflows is keyboard shortcuts. Even today, using menus or toolbars to navigate is not as fast as hitting keys on a keyboard. {...} I couldn’t find any overlays for DeluxePaint V online, and I wanted something silly to give away at VCF East 2026 this weekend, so I assembled a keyboard overlay for DeluxePaint V that works on the Amiga 1200, and should work on the Amiga 500 too!
• Amiga 4000T: the complete history of Commodore’s final Amiga: The Amiga 4000T is easy to romanticize and easy to flatten. People remember the tower case, the rarity, the sense that it was somehow the “ultimate” Amiga, and then they blur the rest into one long, melancholy legend. But the truth is richer than that. There was the Commodore A4000T, assembled in the company’s final weeks and shipped in tiny numbers.
• History : Amiga Classic Boxs: The first likely memory you should have of your Amiga is the Box it came in. Commodore I felt were pretty good at making Amiga box art and bundles, text was always kept to minium to just try to state the most important features of an Amiga. {...} So you may have regrettably chucked out your old box, or its just getting old and in a bad way. {Download and print out MANY mini recreated box art packages you all know and loved for the A500, A600, A1000, A1200 & CD32 for starters. More to follow}
• AmiCube DEV1 for Edge FPGA Board: The AmiCube DEV1 is a dedicated development platform designed for running and testing the AmiCube Minimig core on Artix-7, using a low-cost Edge FPGA baseboard. This setup is ideal for developers and enthusiasts who want to experiment with new features, validate designs, and actively contribute to the evolution of next-generation Amiga-compatible FPGA systems.
• HTMLview.mcc: A well-known and used MUI custom class (HTMLview.mcc) which provides MUI application programmers a gadget for viewing/displaying HTML pages. It comes with an object-oriented design, slim and tidy so that the HTML engine is capable of showing HTML very fast...
• The polygons of Another World: Amiga 500: This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
• The Blank Canvas of the Screen: Samia Halaby’s Kinetic Paintings: Samia Halaby, a Palestinian artist, activist, scholar, and educator based in New York City, is also known as a pioneer of digital art created on the early personal computer. After painting for nearly four decades, Halaby began to experiment with the Amiga Commodore 1000 by teaching herself the coding languages BASIC and C in the late 1980s, an era when few arts organizations or galleries were invested in digital art practices. The resulting works, known as “kinetic paintings,” showcase her approach to abstract art, its complex sociopolitical history, and computational propositions for its future.
• DMS2ADF - Amiga Disk Masher Converter: I've (well AI really) created a new webapp that converts DMS-files to ADF. Just drag'n' drop and download your ADF's. Checksums in the DMS is also respected so you'll get a warning if something is bad. It all runs in your browser using JavaScript, nothing is sent to the server.
• PNG2ILBM - a PNG to ILBM converter: With PNG2ILBM you can convert PNG files to ILBM and ACBM format. It can convert any PNG, including alpha channeled and/or 16-bit depth per channel ones. It supports resampling, quantizing, dithering, color register preservation or override on any bitplanes from 1 to 8, including Extra-HalfBrite and Hold And Modify.
• Wav28SVX - a Wav to 8SVX converter: With Wav28SVX you can convert Wav files to 8SVX format. In theory it can convert any PCM-Wav, including multi channeled and/or 32-bit depth per sample ones. It supports resampling.
• Amiberry Host Tools: A collection of AmigaOS tools designed to bridge the gap between the Amiberry emulator and the host operating system (Linux, macOS, etc.). These tools allow you to execute commands, open files, launch interactive shells, inspect host paths, and use common host desktop integrations directly from the Amiga environment.
• AmiBootEnv Non-Root Installation - Development Log: This document describes modifications made to AmiBootEnv to support running as a non-root user after installation. The original Install.sh runs Amiberry as root; the modified Install-nonroot.sh creates a dedicated amiberry user and runs the emulator with reduced privileges.
• Maker World - commodore lightbox: {Search results for various Commodore Logo lightboxes}

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Another quite week AmigaLand and I'm going to take advantage of it! 

• I don't know why I don't see more people talking about this but a new project called Amiga Bootcamp popped up on github. Billed as "Everything Commodore never published in one place", it's broken into 16 categories that cover virtually everything about the Amiga. (Overview, Hardware, Boot Sequence, Loader and Exec Format, Linking and Libraries, Reversing, Exec OS, Dos, Graphics, Intuition, Devices, Libraries, Networking, Toolchain, References, FPU MMU Cache & Driver Development) From the source...
  
    "Amiga OS 3.1/3.2 — The Developer's Source of Truth. From cold boot to driver authoring. Everything Commodore never published in one place.
  
    A comprehensive, self-contained technical reference for AmigaOS Classic — covering hardware registers, OS internals, reverse engineering, and cross-compilation. Written for developers building on real hardware, FPGA cores, and emulators.
  
    Why This Exists. The Amiga's documentation was scattered across out-of-print manuals, Usenet posts, ADCD archives, and tribal knowledge passed between developers since 1985. This repository consolidates it into a single, cross-linked, searchable knowledge base — verified against NDK 3.9 headers and official Commodore documentation."
  
  My hat is off to the effort! AWESOME JOB to everyone involved!!!
  
  
• Need help looking for a specific article or advertiser in the iconic COMPUTE'S! GAZETTE magazine? This 'Unofficial Fan Catalog for the New and Classic' magazine has you covered. Currently this index covers both the classic and new magazine from May 1990 till the present. Have fun!

Work on Directory Opus 5 Magellan II for AmigaOS, MorphOS, and AROS has started again

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 43
  • “t’ll happen when I win an Oscar”

• Random Links...

• Amiga Bootcamp - Amiga OS 3.1/3.2 — The Developer's Source of Truth: From cold boot to driver authoring. Everything Commodore never published in one place. A comprehensive, self-contained technical reference for AmigaOS Classic — covering hardware registers, OS internals, reverse engineering, and cross-compilation. Written for developers building on real hardware, FPGA cores, and emulators. Why This Exists. The Amiga's documentation was scattered across out-of-print manuals, Usenet posts, ADCD archives, and tribal knowledge passed between developers since 1985. This repository consolidates it into a single, cross-linked, searchable knowledge base — verified against NDK 3.9 headers and official Commodore documentation.
• COMPUTE!'s Gazette: Article & Advertiser Index · May 1990 - Apr 2026
• Directory Opus 5 — All Amigas: A modern, actively-maintained fork of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II, the legendary Amiga file manager, ported and updated for all Amiga-like platforms. Supported platforms: AmigaOS 3 (m68k, including OS3.9/OS3.2), AmigaOS 4 (PPC), MorphOS (PPC) & AROS (i386, ARM, and other architectures)
• AWeb 3.6: AWeb 3.6 is the beginning of a comprehensive fork and modernization of the legendary AWeb web browser for Amiga. (Latest Release AWeb 3.6 Alpha 7 (April 2026))
• ToolKit - Universal SDK for Amiga projects: ToolKit is a standard SDK configuration and universal developer experience for Amiga development. The main ToolKit repository is Work in progress, matching the project catalogue on the amigazen home page. The ToolKit project aims to standardise the development tool and SDK configurations for classic Amiga developers, in order to make collaboration easier in the 21st century world of online collaboration and open source.
• unsui - POSIX compliant runtime environment for Amiga: The amigazen project has created unsui, a complete POSIX runtime for Amiga. {...} Rather than forcing Amiga to become Unix, unsui provides a bridge that allows users to access the vast ecosystem of Unix software while preserving the Amiga experience. The focus is on creating a pragmatic, single-user development environment rather than a full multi-user server OS.
• The Zen of Amiga: How the Amiga computer exemplifies the seven fundamental Zen principles in design, architecture, and user experience. The Amiga computer, born in 1985, represents more than just technological innovation - it embodies a philosophy of design that aligns perfectly with the seven fundamental principles of Zen aesthetics. From its intuitive user interface to its elegant system architecture, the Amiga demonstrates how technology can serve human creativity without getting in the way. This essay explores how each Zen principle manifests in the Amiga experience, revealing the deeper philosophical underpinnings of its design.
• Rewriting clib4's I/O Layer: A Newlib-Inspired stdio for AmigaOS 4 : The clib4 C runtime library for AmigaOS 4 has just received its most significant internal overhaul since its inception:{...} This article explains what changed, why it was necessary, and the unique challenges of implementing POSIX-compatible I/O on AmigaOS 4.
• Amiga block device test utility (devtest): This utility interacts directly with an Amiga block device driver to test the driver and physical device. There are several operation types that the utility can perform: Device probe, Performance, Packet support, Device Geometry & Data integrity
• DiskPart: A native AmigaOS 3.x hard disk partition editor with full RDB (Rigid Disk Block) support.
• AmigaPart: Features: Lists all disks and let you initlize a RDB on any disk, add/delete partitions, edit flags like buffers etc (resize not possible), Backup/Restore of RDB Block, Read/Write image of disk, if writing image to a larger disk, you will be given possability of change gemoetry of disk so more space is usable, Edit partitions directly on image, Create image of wanted size.
• U-Boot: There are several versions of U-Boot, but if you are running a version prior to U-Boot 1.0.0 then you will not be able to run OS4. This article is about U-boot 1.1.1 available on the last OS4 update. You'll have to install it from there. This process is not as easy as installing software, so if you don't feel you'll be able to do it, please contact a friend, your user group or your dealer.
• CPU Modules: All AmigaOnes except the G3-SE are fitted with a MegArray socket for a CPU module. This enables the boards to be supplied in varying configurations whilst keeping the cost down. The MegArray connectors are common for PPC processors, however ONLY AmigaOne compatible units will work (limited to those supplied by Eyetech). There are currently three models available, which are supplied with the motherboards and not available to purchase separately (upgrade programmes may be available from your dealer). The current modules are: {...}
• The real history of Commodore monitors: model numbers, OEMs, and variants: The standard version of the Commodore story is clean and familiar. The company made the computer, sold the matching monitor, and together they formed a complete system. That is how many people remember it, and it is how the products were meant to look on a desk. One brand, one ecosystem, one visual identity. The monitor history tells a different story. What sat behind the Commodore badge was not a single, consistent in-house product line. It was a mixed portfolio of displays sourced from multiple outside manufacturers, adapted across regions, and sometimes built on hardware that had already existed in another form.
• Motorola 68000 Series Assembly Language Support for IntelliJ-based IDEs : Support for Motorola 68000 series assembly language in IntelliJ-based IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, CLion, …) providing smart code insight, inspections, built-in reference documentation, and many more features.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Looks like the summer doldrums have kicked in here in AmigaLand. No OS, new hardware or legal news to report. Maybe this is the 'quiet before the storm'?? Yeah probably not... LOL

• Prolific programmer Juen is at it again and this time he's working on a new Amiga Web Browser called Amelinium. He states "Initially, it's a bit of a joke, a bit of fun, but currently it's a project that needs to reach some stage before it's released" but in reality it's very cool and showing some real promise! By the looks of the various screenshots it's already VERY capable little browser. At least in our little world standards. I hope he keeps developing it and wish him all the best!
• Are you looking for a "lightweight TCP/IP network file server and mounter. No configuration files, no daemons, no encryption, no hassle - just a single command line program for sharing and mounting directories "ad-hoc" style? Well look no further because Fizz does it all. This thread over at EAB gives some more insight.
• Check this little cool ditty out. A foldable LCD monitor mount for the A1200. While 'as is' the 'plug in' form factor may not hold up for the long term, if you add some glue or screws you will have a very functional mobile Amiga. And if you don't want to damage your vintage 1992 retrobrite case you can always always do this to a brand new case instead.
• Need to view an ADF file and you don't have real Amiga or an emulator lying around? Well fret no more. Hop on over to WebADF Explorer, drop your file and explore.
• New issue: Amiga Germany Fan’zine #18 has been published
• New issue: REV'n'GE #181 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 42
  • “Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt”

• Random Links...

• fizz: Fizz is a lightweight TCP/IP network file server and mounter. No configuration files, no daemons, no encryption, no hassle - just a single command line program for sharing and mounting directories ad hoc style.
• Amiga foldable, articulated support for a 18.5" portable screen: Support to be attached/glued to the rear grille of the Amiga 1200, it can hold any portable screen with VESA 75. It allows the screen to be folded over the keyboard, making the A1200 a sort of portable (some space left for a protective soft pad between the screen and the keyboard).
• WebADF Explorer: Drop an Amiga ADF, HDF or DMS disk image to browse its contents.
• Amiga Assembly Library: A shared library for Commodore Amiga written in Motorola 68020 assembly language. Provides 50+ functions for graphics, file I/O, memory management, UI, and more. Compatible with KickStart 3.0+.
• I Built a Shared Library for the Amiga in 68020 Assembly — and a Modern Documentation Site for It: A love letter to the Commodore Amiga — 50+ utility functions in hand-optimized 68020 assembly, with C bindings, a custom windowing system, and a Next.js documentation site. Back in 1991, I started writing what would become a 5,800-line shared library for the Commodore Amiga — entirely in hand-optimized Motorola 68020 assembly. {...} That code sat on floppy disks and hard drives for decades. Now, in 2026, I’ve dusted it off, open-sourced it, and built a modern documentation site for it with Next.js. Let me tell you the story.
• Commodore in the Movies or TV: {Thread @ lemon64.com containing ocer 40 pages (as of 13 Apr 26) of entries and comments documenting Commodore in movies & TV and more. Good read.}
• Prelude Support {ARCHIVED 01 Sep 2007}: Welcome to the support side of the prelude soundcard by ACT. The pages have been completly reworked to give a faster overview of all our products, the software you need and to give all answers to your questions. The Prelude Z-II is a Zorro-II soundcard for all Amiga computers with a free Zorro-II slot. The card can also be used with any Amiga 500 with a special adaptor or tower housed Amiga 1200 with Zorro-II/III board without any problems
• Prelude Software {ARCHIVED 09 Mar 2012}: Here you can find all official software for your Prelude - Developer information, sources and hardware specifications can be found on the developer-page.
• Prelude Developer Software {ARCHIVED 09 Mar 2012}: On this page you find information for software development and technical specifications of the prelude Z-II feature bus. If there is some information missing or you should need further details please send an email to Thomas Wenzel.
• IMP3: The Only Amiga App You Will Ever Need: So you fixed the Amiga you kept in the attic for 30 years, or you bought your first just now to check out what this whole Amiga fad is about, and... what next? {...} This article is about IMP3, or Infinity Modules Player, written by Paweł "juen" Nowak. {...} but in general IMP3 provides the following functionality: Play modules and streaming formats including MOD, SID, MP3, DBM, XM, AHX. Randomized play from a vast online MOD library. Search for songs in the online library {and much more}
• png2amiga: Convert images to Commodore Amiga OCS/AGA formats with perceptual color matching — {live on a webpage}
• Amiga G-Copy for PC: It is a PC Windows program that uses Keir Fraser's Greasewaezle, D. Tonn's ADF-Drive, or Rob Smith's DrawBridge aka Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer to create backup copies from/to HD/USB/SD and, of course, from/to floppy disk
• SysInfo: SysInfo is an application for Motorola 680x0 based Classic Amiga and is used for getting information about the system like OS and library versions, hardware revisions and stuff. Exactly 19 years after version 3.24 of SysInfo it's time for an update! The original author Nic Wilson has kindly given me permission to continue the maintenance of this old classic.
• Amiga Python: This is Amiga Python, a port of Python 2 to Amiga. Python was originally ported to and adapted for the Amiga in 1999-2000 by Irmen de Jong. {...} This project aims to continue his legacy by updating Amiga Python to the final 2.7.18 revision of Python 2, ensuring it can be built out of the box against the ToolKit standard by anyone with an Amiga computer. Amiga Python has always aimed to be as complete a port of Python as it makes sense to be for the Amiga platform, and includes Amiga specific builtin modules for native functionality including the amiga and arexx modules.
• AmigaPython 2.7.18: AmigaPython 2.7.18 is a complete port of Python 2.7.18 (the final Python 2 release) to classic Amiga systems running AmigaOS 3.x. It's a significant upgrade from the previous Python 2.0 release, bringing modern Python capabilities to classic Amiga hardware while maintaining the classic Amiga feel.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Well it's time again for another exciting weekly update. Other than the fact that there's not to much exciting news happening in AmigaLand right now, I would like mention that back in CommodoreLand the Commodore 64 Ultimate sales tracker shows they just passed the 22k mark. Regardless of where this winds up that's still a pretty impressive number. Commodore RULES!!!

• Interesting little project. There's a thread over at PPA (Ploski Portal Amigowy) where poster Juen is showing off his new little web browser project called Amelinium {google translation}. While its more of a fun, proof of concept program, his work so far is really quite impressive! I wish him much success.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 41
  • “Don’t make me laugh”

• Random Links...

• The Open Amiga Hardware Repository: The Commodore Amiga platform is still alive, and enthusiasts around the world are still developing new hardware and software for it. The Open Amiga Hardware Repository is meant to promote Amiga related open hardware projects. If you have developed open Amiga hardware, or are looking for open Amiga hardware projects, you have come to the right place! Your board is missing or incorrect? See here about how to contact us.
• The Destroyer's Amiga Sampler: Since 1995, when the first Amiga emulators began to appear, none of them has ever been able to maintain a stable enough sampling flow and quality to let me do what I always did on my real Amiga: creating samples for my tracks. The purpose of this plugin is to finally be able to create Amiga soundbanks directly from any DAW, to let then load them into a real Amiga machine or an Amiga emulator.
• Welcome to Every Amiga Game Ever Released {ARCHIVED 06 Oct 2006}: A database of commercial Amiga games. This site contains information on commercially released titles for the Amiga range of computers. Each software title listed has, where available (or applicable), the following information: Brief game description, Commercial availability and/or free download info, Review details and scores, Manuals and supplements {& more}
• Old Blue Workbench adds a ton of improvements to your old Amiga: Are you still using your Amiga with the 1.3 version of Kickstart, but would you prefer an updated version of Workbench with a long list of additional features, improvements, and other niceties? Old Blue Workbench is a Workbench replacement for Amigas running Kickstart 1.3 written by Mats Eirik Hansen. It adds a ton of features and improvements {...}
• Outpost: Atari; Jack Tramiel, a look back, a look ahead, and the Amiga Lorraine revisited. {ARCHIVED 04 Jan 2025}: {...} Way back in the April 1984 issue of Creative Computing (p. 150), I reported on a new computer from Amiga, a company known only as a manufacturer of joysticks and a kludgy foot-controlled joystick called the Joyboard. I had been ready for another big presentation resulting in a big letdown, but I was surpsised. The machine, code-named Lorraine, was a total knockout. I'll stand by the comment I made then: "Suffice to say it is the most amazing graphics and sound machine that will ever have been offered to the consumer market."
• Amiga; the message is the medium. {ARCHIVED 21 Mar 2025}: A little over two years ago, two gentlemen from a small joystick company called Amiga paid us a call at the lab. David Morse and David Reisinger had no more than a pitch and a slideshow to show us, but we were impressed by their savvy and their sincerity. They spoke of a custom chipset from Jay Miner, the man who designed the Atari 400/800 chipset. They spoke of graphics and sound of a quality yet unimagined in a personal computer. They spoke of a commitment to an MPU that allowed true multitasking and RAM in excess of 5Mb. I broke the story of the Amiga computer, then code-named Lorraine, to the world back in early 1983.
• New Amiga Stirs Passions {ARCHIVED 07 Apr 2001}: After waiting seven years for a new Amiga, some members of the PC's fiercely loyal community are spitting mad about the new device. At the Amiga 2000 show in St. Louis over the weekend, Amiga unveiled a new machine for the platform's developers based on a 500 MHz AMD K6 processor and a fast 3D graphics system from nVidia.
• the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 {ARCHIVED 05 Apr 2001}: Amiga2001 is our latest show, the seventh show, in the longest running show in the Americas. Bob & Diana Scharp have produced the Gateway Computer shows since the beginning, and Amigan-St. Louis, is the company they formed a few years ago to run them. This continues a tradition of excellent Amiga computer shows that have helped keep Amiga in the minds of everyone in the Americas. They have definitely added fun, enthusiam and excitment to the Amiga sceen.
• Prelude ZII Sound Card: This is a replica of the Prelude ZII sound card for the Amiga. Original hardware design is by Thomas Wenzel, and the board was replicated by Alf24de. Special thanks to TomSonic.
• Not-A-Varta: This is a battery replacement for old circuit boards utilizing the 19mm length 3.6V Varta battery. The replacement is a 3V CR1220 with charge circuit protection. Low voltage drop is achieved with the MAX40200 "ideal diode" chip. Most boards will work with RTC/CMOS function at 3V, so check datasheets before you go through the hassle of building and installing this. Some motherboards have additional diodes that need to be bypassed. Clean up any corrosion from the pre-existing evil Varta before installation.
• Not-A-Varta CR2032: Same concept as the Not-A-Varta, except with a vertical CR2032 holder and elongated mounting holes for better fit across various motherboards which can have anywhere from 18-20mm pin spacing.
• MigStorm-ITX: A 68000 socketed ITX form factor Minimig. Tested by Zenon to boot with Pistorm and CaffeineOS, also with a regular M68k CPU. It appears to be fully working, and I've received feedback from at least 10 people that it is working well in their testing. It could use more general trace cleanup/enhancement, but works as-is.
• Audiocast Remote: The AudioCast M5 is a small device that connects to an amplifier and allows you to stream music over Wi-Fi. The Audiocast Remote acts as a remote control for this device. It supports Play, Stop, Next, Previous, and volume controls. {...} You can choose from a variety of services, such as Spotify, VTuner, Deezer, Tidal, Napster, and others. After selecting a service in the phone app, you can continue control using the Audiocast Remote. The archive includes versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, AROS, and MorphOS. {Uses Hollywood}
• AmithlonBlog: I’ll post the journey I’ve had with Amithlon, from hardware I’ve used, installing issues and tweaks and eventually to compiling the kernel based on Milan’s “Kernel 4” tree. Make sure to visit http://amithlon.snkbitten.com/ for downloads of patches, kernels and miscellaneous files. Lots of internet searches and hardware experimenting to make your journey easier – SnkBitten
• Amiga 4000T and A4000-060 Accelerator: November 30, 2007: I had the opportunity recently to acquire a new Amiga 4000T/060. When I opened the box I was surprised to find a previously unknown (to me) 68060 accelerator... see the unboxing below. I will follow up shortly with more information and benchmarks... January 11, 2009: I have made a scan of the manual, you can download it here. {lots of pics}

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  WOW... Where did this week go? Fortunately it's been another SLOOOOW week in AmigaLand so I'll call it a draw.

• Amiga of Rochester have announced it's 'pleased to announce that it is now accepting backorders for the full lineup of products from Individual Computers'. So if your in the states and your looking for a closer source for a ACA series of Amiga Classic Accelerators, Indivision flickerfixers, X-Surf, etc... Well look no further.
• Time again for everyone's required monthly reading. The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for March 2026 has been posted. GREAT JOB Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler!
• New Disk Mag: Adventures In Retro: Duncon Woodward has just announced his new diskmag "to document, discuss and talk about the retro computing scene, vintage technology, awesome music & film from yesteryear, and everything else nostalgic in the modern day, but done in an old school vintage way." I wish him a long and productive run!
• New issue: Amiga Future #180 has been published
• New issue: WhatIFF? #19 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 40
  • “That ship has sailed”

• Random Links...

• Adventures In Retro: A retro computing disk mag for 2026 and beyond. Welcome to the new "Adventures In Retro" disk magazine from woody.cool & friends, this is a very nostalgic project to document, discuss and talk about the retro computing scene, vintage technology, awesome music & film from yesteryear, and everything else nostalgic in the modern day, but done in an old school vintage way.
• Computer Lab: Experiences with the AmigaOSXL Big-Tower 1800+: What is the Purpose of this Report? Since the end of 2001 Haage&Partner offers an emulator package called AmigaOSXL, which enables one to use 68k Amiga software on regular x86 hardware. In February 2002, I acquired one of the systems being offered in Germany by H&P, the "Big-Tower 1800+". This report shall compile the experiences I collect, while I "transit" from my Amiga 4000 to the Athlon Tower. The Amiga 4000 also serves me as a reference object to encircle problems. Therefore, my experiences could also be helpful for other Amiga users and ex-users.
• amiport: AI-powered toolkit for porting Linux/POSIX C software to the Commodore Amiga. amiport ports POSIX/Linux C programs to AmigaOS 3.x. It provides POSIX compatibility libraries, a cross-compilation toolchain, and an AI-powered pipeline that takes a C source file from analysis through to a tested, Aminet-ready binary. 60 ports shipped. 1,384 test cases. 7 live on Aminet.
• m68k: A Motorola 680x0 emulator written in Java. Currently m68k emulates the 68000 cpu found in the Amiga and other 16-bit era machines. There is no reason why this couldn't be extended to support the rest of the 680x0 family and this was a consideration of the design.
• Amiga LightWave Plugin - ObjSwap: Object Replacement plugin for Layout. Automatically swaps objects based on frame number derived from filename suffixes.
• MULTIBOOT OS: THE ULTIMATE AMIGA MULTI-BOOT SOLUTION. Welcome to MultibootOS - boot different Amiga distributions for PiStorm with only ONE 128GB microSD card! No more swapping cards or using unrecommended extenders. Compatible with Amiga 500, 600, 1200, 2000 equipped with PiStorm, PiStorm16, or PiStorm32-lite accelerators. Also runs on WinUAE/FS-UAE emulation.
• MultiBootOS 2.2 Loads multiple Amiga enviroments: A new solution for fast equipped Amiga’s with PiStorm called MultiBootOS is changing how modern Amiga systems are used. This tool is designed by Davide and Steve primarily for PiStorm-equipped machines, which makes the Amiga feel complete for PiStorm Amiga users. MultiBootOS allows users to run multiple Amiga environments from a single microSD card. This eliminates the need to constantly swap cards or reconfigure setups. This means that systems like the Amiga 500, 600, 1200, and 2000 can now easily switch between different configurations such as gaming setups, Workbench environments, and customized distributions.
• Retro32 BBS: The Retro32 BBS is driven by the Amiga community, for the Amiga community. It is focused on bringing BBS to the old-school Amiga users looking for that modern-day nostalgia and people like me, (Retro32) who never got the chance to experience a BBS back in the day. If you have any suggestions or ideas please feel free to reach out using bbs@retro32.com or contact us using the discord BBS channel. It is mainly focused on the Amiga
• Amiga Unix allows access to files using finger CVE-1999-1218: Details: amiga-finger (522) reported Feb 1, 1993. The finger command in Amiga allows non-privileged users to access files that they would not normally be able to access. Consequences: Gain Access. Remedy: As root, modify the permission of the existing /usr/bin/finger to prevent misuse. Issue the following command: # /bin/chmod 0755 /usr/bin/finger
• Clock Signal: Clock Signal ('CLK') is an emulator that seeks to be invisible. Users directly launch classic software, avoiding the learning curves associated with emulators and with classic machines. This emulator seeks to offer: single-click load of any piece of source media for any supported platform; with a heavy signal processing tilt for accurate reproduction of original outputs; avoiding latency as much as possible. {Current # systems: 19 including the Amiga}
• Clock Port Confusion: The “Clock port” is somewhat of an oddity. An internal connection on the A1200, it officially never existed in the form we use, but became so useful that you can add this strange row of pins to just about any other Amiga – and connect far more than just a clock to it. Still with us? Great. A history lesson for you, then….
• Demystifying WHDLoad: If you’ve not heard of it before, WHDLoad is a fantastic piece of software which streamlines the loading of games from an Amiga equipped with a hard drive. Later in the Amiga’s life, games sometimes came with a hard drive installer when they were supplied with many disks (and in fact it was the purchase of Beneath a Steel Sky, on 15 floppies, that prompted me to purchase a 260MB drive for my A1200 the very next day to try and save myself from disk-swapping injury) but this is an exception rather than a rule.
• American Amiga Lightwave & Toaster: Paul Austin brings you the future of the Amiga from the American angle, plus all the latest news from home and abroad... Attending shows is part and parcel of any consumer magazine. As you'd expect, such gatherings generally follow the same format — kiss hands, shake babies, chase‑up gossip, hassle for product and so on. With this in mind, I packed a bag and headed off to Florida to attend the world's biggest computer graphics extravaganza — Siggraph 94
• ODFileSystem: ODFileSystem is a read-only optical-disc filesystem driver for Amiga systems. It is implemented as an AmigaDOS handler frontend with clean backend plugins for the various optical-disc formats it supports, allowing it to mount and browse CD-ROM, DVD, Blu-ray, and image-based media. The project also includes host-side tools and tests so most parser and cache logic can be developed and validated outside an Amiga environment.
• Index of /pub/Patches/LightWave_Amiga {ARCHIVED 23 Oct 2019}: {Archived NewTek FTP site for Amiga version of LightWave}

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Back to another slow week in AmigaLand but it's always better than pure chaos. 

• Over the past 30+ years there a really just a FEW select Amiga websites who's presence is a true cornerstone to our little community. I would be remiss not give a TREMENDOUS shout out to Amiga Hardware Database who recently just passed the 1500 mark of cataloged product!
  
  
  Amiga Hardware Database: 1502 and growing!
  (pic from amiga.resources.cx)
  
  
• Check out this thread at EAB where Juen introduces and asks for help with his version of JavaScript for the Amiga. TONS of features! I can't wait to see where this goes.
• As always what I LOVE about about our little computer is the uncommonly inventive hardware. While the A600 & 1200 have always a PCMCIA slot, the tech was close to EOL from its inclusion. It was never a powerful solution and the industry had already moved but all these years later but today we have a new PCMCIA RTG card on the horizon. For a bit more check out this accompanying thread on reddit.
• New issue: Passione Amiga #30 has been published
  

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 39
  • “Don’t bet on it”

• Random Links...

• JavaScript on AMIGA: {Thread @ EAB discussing a newly released JavaScript engine. "A complete JavaScript engine and runtime environment for classic Amiga computers. Built from scratch in C, targeting MC68000 and AmigaOS 2.0+. Inspired by Node.js, adapted for the Amiga platform.' On Aminet. Excellent effort! Going to keep an eye on this. WOW!!}
• New PCMCIA RTG Card for Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200! P-Vision: P-Vision Introduces A Different Approach to Amiga Graphics. A brand-new graphics solution for classic Amiga computers has been revealed. It will be available in May, according to Alinea! The P-Vision PCMCIA GFX introduces a unique approach by delivering RTG graphics through the PCMCIA slot on both the Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200.
• An All new RTG card for A600 and A1200 over PCMCIA.: {Thread @ reddit discussing some of the more technical aspects of the upcoming card}
• Introduction to the Apollo A6000: the most powerful 68k Amiga ever created, now available: What is it that makes an Amiga an Amiga and not just another platform? And above all… what is it that makes the Amiga something so special and extraordinary? If we had asked ourselves this same question more than 30 years ago, the answer would likely have been unequivocal among the users of that platform. {...} Things like the recreation and modernization of ultra-powerful Amigas that were never created, designed under the premise of “what would have happened if…?”. This is where the need arises to introduce the Apollo Team and their extraordinary Apollo A6000.
• The University of Cambridge origins of AmigaDOS: the British technology behind the Amiga: When the Commodore Amiga 1000 arrived in 1985, it felt as though the future had suddenly appeared on people’s desks. At a time when most home computers were still limited to blocky graphics, simple sound, and single-task programs, the Amiga seemed almost unreal. {...} The fascinating part of the story is that the origins of this operating system layer reach back several years earlier to an academic research project at the University of Cambridge.
• A1200 Keyboard Reset: A KiCAD project for getting keyboard reset to work with wedge Amigas when using a big box keyboard.
• MC68881 VHDL: This project is an open, reverse-engineered implementation of the Motorola MC68881 floating-point unit, written in VHDL and intended for use in FPGA-based 68k systems.
• BASSM - Modern IDE Amiga Game Development: A modern IDE that compiles Blitz2D-BASIC into native Motorola 68000 Assembly. Features an integrated vAmiga emulator for instant live previews—directly within the Electron app.
• CuraEngine (AmigaOS 4.1FE Port): The CuraEngine slicing engine (v15.04.6) ported to AmigaOS 4. Features Big Endian support, PowerPC optimizations, and a dedicated Amiga SDK Makefile.
• Hitachi 68000: A Hitachi made Motorola 68000 CPU. The MC86000 was the first member of Motorola's very successful family of 16- and 32-bit processors. Introduced in 1979 it was actually a 32 bit architecture internally, but had a 16 bit data bus and 24 bit address bus to fit in a 64 pin package.
• The unknown Amiga: MagicBox AlphaGen, a forgotten Amiga broadcast system: The MagicBox AlphaGen was a clever and practical solution to a very real problem faced by many smaller broadcasters in the early 1990s. {...} Their solution was the AlphaGen, a broadcast character generator built around the powerful multimedia features of the Commodore Amiga 1200. Character generators, often referred to simply as CG systems, play an important role in television production.
• MagicBox Alphagen: The Alphagen was an advanced character generator based on an Amiga 1200 fitted in a custom rack mount case. One revision of the software has been archived and is usable in an Amiga 1200 emulator such as WinUAE
• Alphagen Character Generator Overview {ARCHIVED 01 Mar 2000}: The MagicBox Alphagen represents a giant leap forward in display technology. No more boring, static displays that turn off viewers - instead, the Alphagen creates dazzling images using thousands of built-in backgrounds and dozens of fonts. This page describes our latest Alphagen models. For specific part numbers and options, please view our Alphagen Product Catalog page.
• MagicBox AlphaGen: Essentially an A1200 fitted into customised rack-mountable case, the Alphagen is marketed as an all-inclusive multimedia system for business. These devices have been sold by Eyetech for several years, so it is unsurprising to find the Amiga being used in this market area. The benefits of the Amiga approach are immediately obvious. Unlike similar devices, such as MagicBox's Aavelin, the Alphagen does not require additional hardware for content creation.
• Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer (MCC) {ARCHIVED 03 Oct 2002}: The Amiga was the promised new generation Amiga computer in 1999. Besides the mockup and some speculations / rumours we have never seen a working example of it. What can we you tell about this never released new generation Amiga computer? The new Amiga generation of computers wasAmiga MCC called Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computers (MCC) by Amiga, Inc.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Will wonders never cease? This week we ACTUAL legal related news. {See below} So what does this all mean? As usual in Amiga Land NOTHING is ever QUICK nor ABSOLUTE but at the very least SOMETHING has happened. Fingers crossed for more news to keep trickling in. 

• Owners of the A-Eon X1000 should be ecstatic. If you browse to last few pages of this thread discussing onboard network drivers you will see kas1e has FINALLY done it! Holy crap... That only took 16 years...
• If you need to do any serious Amiga troubleshooting then you're probably familiar with DIAGROM. Earlier this week John Hertell, and I quote "FINALLY I decided that the rebuild of DiagROM to the 2.0 platform is Stable enough to call Stable". GREAT JOB!!
• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette #9 has been published

• Directly from Hyperion's facebook account "Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation agree to pause legal proceedings". I'm sure by now most everyone has read about this bit a quick summary states "pause their ongoing legal proceedings and enable both parties to better engage in settlement negotiations and work toward a resolution" and "AmigaOS 3.2 {is} available in digital form.

         WOW. So what's next? Will there finally be some continued movement bringing the two sides together? Will the Peri and his new Commodore step into the fray? Will Retro Games be able, or even want to, market their THE A500 under the Amiga name? Since I'm NOT the man to intelligently speculate on the finer points of these events, I'll point everyone to forums and websites discussing the topic in much greater detail.

•  Amiga Corp statement on the temporary cease-fire with Hyperion (old.reddit.com)
•  Hyperion and Amiga reach legal ceasefire (AmigaWorld.net)
•  Hyperion and Amiga reach legal ceasefire (Amigans.net)
•  Legal dispute: Rapprochement between Hyperion and Amiga; OS 3.2 available again (amiga-news.de)
•  Hyperion Dead? (English Amiga Board)
•  Rapprochement between Hyperion and Amiga; OS 3.2 available again (old.reddit.com)
•  Amiga@AmigaCorp (AmigaCorp)
•  AmigaOS 3.2 Returns as Hyperion and Amiga Corporation Pause Legal Fight (The Oasis BBS)

• Random Links...

• pa6t_eth.device: pa6t_eth.device is AmigaOS 4 SANA-II onboard Ethernet driver for the AmigaOne X1000 (PA6T-1682M integrated MAC, Vitesse VSC8221 PHY) Developed entirely from Linux source written by Olof Johansson, as no hardware documentation exists for the PA6T-1682M in public.
• Gateway's Amiga president jumps ship {ARCHIVED 02 Jul 2001}: Just as Gateway's Amiga subsidiary is getting poised to make a run at the information appliance market, Amiga's president, Jim Collas, has resigned. Collas, former senior vice president of global products for Gateway, has left Amiga after less than nine months on the job, Gateway spokesperson Brad Shaw confirmed. He is being replaced by Tom Schmidt, who joined Amiga in April as its senior vice president and COO
• Amiga nutta! {ARCHIVED 1 Apr 2003}: 'The number one site for all the latest Amiga games news'
• Blizzard G3/4 Announced & Further Details on Cyber G3/4 {ARCHIVED 19 Jul 2003}: Yet more surprises spring from Phase5, just when it looked like they were leaving the market they came up with the Cyber G3/4, well now they have announced further details along with news on a version for A1200 owners too. Heres the announcment....
• Amiga Nutta - ClickBOOM Napalm Review {Archived 28 Feb 2003}: Napalm, a game that has been eagerly awaited by the Amiga hordes, and whys this you may ask? Well, it has been hyped in quite a big way by clickBOOM and it is the first real Command & Conquer type game thats actually been released on the Amiga, the question is though, is it just another boring Command & Conquer clone and does it live upto the hype?
• FDD chinon vs panasonic: {Thread @ reddit discussing the differences w/pictures}
• Escom Amiga 1200: Despite the fact the Commodore Amiga 1200 was still selling like cakes of a hot tendency, CBM went belly-up in 1994 leaving the current and future A1200 users without much backup or support. In its death throes Commodore sold off the rights to the Amiga name to the highest bidder which was to prove to be the beginning of a Chuckle Brothers-style 'to me, to you, to me, to you' time for the Amiga brand and machine. The high bidder in the first instance was German PC maker Escom, who continued producing the A1200 and even (I think!) released the rebranded AmigaOS 3.1, an upgrade from Workbench 3.0.
• What is this legal dispute about?: {Thread @ reddit.com discussing recent (2026) reasons why we are still in this cluster}
• My {Peter Cherna} Amiga-related presentation at VCF Montreal, January 2026: I was invited to speak at Vintage Computer Fest Montreal in January. I talked about my time at Commodore working on the Amiga, and a bit of how i got there and what came after. Since the overall focus of the festival was Canadian computing, so I included some nice anecdotes that tie to that theme.
• ACA500Plus + X-Surf 500 + Acrylic case review: This Amiga 500 CPU extension board is probably the most well known and has been the most popular among Amiga 500 owners who want to expand their machines. It's marketed as the only thing you need, if you want to get back into the Amiga hobby.
• Amigo AI: Hi, I'm AMIGO! The first and largest AI dedicated to the Commodore Amiga! I know everything about the Amiga world — from the A1000 to the A4000, from Kickstart to Workbench, from demos to games. I'm not an ordinary chatbot — I'm your personal Amiga expert. Ask me anything, I'm happy to help!
• Amiga Database: Welcome to the Amiga Public Domain, Cheats & Walkthroughs database. Select a category or collection from the tree on the left. 305: Public Domain, 3,706: Cheats & 3,706: Cheats. {and growing}
• https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n4/150_Amiga_Lorraine_finally_.phpExploring the Amiga: {Nice 8 part writeup starting at the beginning to 2019}
• Amiga Lorraine: finally, the "next generation Atari"? : As the 1984 Winter CES drew to a close, people began to ask me, "Well, what was the hit of the show?" Hard to say.{...} If there was a "hit" of the show for me, it had to be my first glimpse of the supermicro code-named Lorraine by Amiga. There was no hint of the machine anywhere in evidence at the Amiga booth. But, with an invitation to step behind the secret panel, my jaw finally got a change to drop. As far as I'm concerned, the Lorraine demo was reason enough to have made the trip to Las Vegas.
• Reliability is the bedrock of Simon Goodwin's guide to building and maintaining stable Amiga systems: After many articles on souping-up your Amiga, we owe you a feature on making it more stable. The theme is avoiding crashes, not optimising performance. As you upgrade, programs or entire systems may stop working. I shall explain why, and what you can do about it.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  While it's been a quiet week in AmigaLand, work on v2.0 has kicked off. No demos just yet but when there is you can be sure I'll let you know!! ;-) 

• WOW. Talk about a 'crappy' news article from 10 Sep 1999. Read about when Gateway pulled the plug on their new Amiga computer and pivoted to "Internet-services". Well we all know how THAT cluster turned out! LOL!!!
• New event: This April 3-6 Revision 2026 will be help in Saarbrücken Germany. Billed at the "world’s biggest pure Demoscene event", you just have to visit their site to see everything they have planned! WOW!!!
• New issue: Amiga Addict #42 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 38
  • “Like waiting for rain in a drought”

• Random Links...

• Examining Gary: {Thread @ reddit.com from a user who posts pictures of his "uncut silicon wafer that was fabbed by Commodore, containing dies for Gary chips."}
• Mitsumi PCB A-500 redone: This is a remake ("redone") of the Amiga 500 Mitsumi keyboard controller. The original Amiga 500 uses a MOS 6570 microcontroller that is no longer produced and therefore getting exceedingly rare. They are also starting to fail, resulting in the dreaded "blinking CAPS-LOCK" issue. Since there was no open-source / open-hardware replacement design available I decided to make my own.
• Subject: What They Have said about Jim Collas.... {ARCHIVED 05 Mar 2001}: These words were posted on team Amiga mailing list, I think the owner wouldn't mind I post them here in public. Carl Sassenrath, Dave Haynie & Dan Dodge
• Raspberry Pi CEO: I really want to see Amiga emulation on Raspberry Pi 2: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the previous model, Upton is confident that the new $35 (£22.85/AU$45) board is more capable of handling more demanding Commodore Amiga games than its 2014 predecessor, the Model A+. He told TechRadar: "I really want to see Amiga emulation on this thing - they were beautiful machines. The original Pi is almost good enough to run some Amiga 500 games if you turn the hardware fidelity down, but you can't get the later ones that rely heavily on the exact cycle
• Amiga DevBench — Architecture & Reference Guide: A cross-development environment for Commodore Amiga (68k) that connects a modern host machine to an emulated (or real) Amiga via serial, providing live debugging, memory inspection, variable editing, remote execution, and full MCP integration with Claude Code.
• Amiga Racing Wheel Mouse: This is an Arduino Nano based 3D printable Racing Wheel for the Amiga. It translates two rotational axis movements into horizontal and vertical mouse movements making it perfect for any Amiga game already supporting mouse control. It also features a sensitivity button and a passthrough port to connect an original or new wireless Tankmouse. There is a sliding switch to turn off/on the passthrough.
• Amiga twohanded Tankmouse exo-frame: This is a 3D printable exo-frame for an Amiga Tankmouse. It fits for both the original wired ball mouse model as well as the new wireless optical mouse model. I found it too straining over a long time to control the mouse in simulation games with just one hand so I designed this 3D printable exo-frame to enable comfortable control of the mouse using both hands.
• ENGINE9000 68k Retro Debugger/Profiler: Amiga/Neo Geo/Mega Drive debugger/profiler - under heavy development so likely to be unstable for the time being.
• Font Explorer (Amiga): While making Graphic Designer, it was a struggle to see all of the fonts on my hard drive. I wanted to be able to stroll down a list of all of my fonts, in Sys:Fonts, but also in any other directory, and see a preview by pressing up and down on the arrow keys. Highlights: View any bitmap or colour bitmap font, from anywhere, Assign the directory you want to use, Shows font sizes up to 133 point. {and more}
• A1200NG and AmiBench in 2026: {Puni / AmigaOldskooler finally gets the time to review his A1200NG along with Amibench. Looks interesting and quite useful!}
• Threading the Xena waters: In order to understand some of what Xena is up to, in the Gabrielle Examples I’ve add a utils.h include with a DEBUG function. The idea is to use one of Xena’s registers to keep track of the chip’s action, and then to utilise the XRegs command to monitor it. This is like a poor-mans way to transfer data from Xena to AmigaOS.
• Tao teams up with reborn Amiga {ARCHIVED 19 Apr 2000}: The cult-classic Amiga desktop is poised for yet another resurrection, this time with the aid of a software company touting a new approach to cross-platform support. The Amiga company now regrouping under former Gateway marketing executive Bill McEwen has entered a strategic partnership with Tao Group (Reading, U.K.), a real-time operating system and software tools company.
• Comparing Amiga2k (Tao's Elate) with Microsoft's .net {ARCHIVED 17 Aug 2000}: I played around with the Amiga SDK for a little bit and have had some discussions with The Tao Group. Amiga licensed the OS called Elate from the Tao Group and is remarketing it under the Amiga label. Amiga, the company, that exist today is not the same Amiga from years past. A different group of people bought the name - I think it was $13 mil for all of Amiga’s resources.
• TAO {ARCHIVED 15 Aug 2000}: Tao is creating Digital HeavenTM; a binary portable, functionally rich, high performance and compact, fully customizable, media content software platform for digital appliances connected to home and mobile networks. It incorporates the best of breed in audio, video, and streaming based around Tao's intentTM media platform, running on a wide range of devices including smart phones, digital televisions, games consoles, digital cameras, and car navigation systems.
• Seems Gateway Isn't the Friend Amiga Fans Thought It Was {ARCHIVED 12 Mar 2000}: They may be computing's closest-knit cult -- the several hundred thousand people who continue to use Amiga computers, even though the last one rolled off the assembly line in 1994. {...} Still, the Amiga faithful have hung in there because Amiga's new owner, Gateway Inc., promised to resurrect the machine as a sleek Web cruiser by this Christmas. {...} Alas, it's not to be. Gateway has dropped plans to build the new machine.

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Sad news to report. Hedley Davis, prolific Commodore Hardware engineer, passed away on 9 Mar 2026. Known for his work on the Amiga 3000, A2024 "Hedley Hires" monitor, Commodore SX-500 Prototype and later on the 3DO, Xbox, Xbox 360 and more, his contributions won't be soon forgotten.

   If there's one I thing worth listing to it's Hedley telling the tale of the Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive at the Inside Commodore Amiga's History VCF East 2025 talk. 'Smashing' story!!! ;-)

Hedley Combs Davis. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
(pic from Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home)

• WOW. Check this out. Andrea Palmatè tells his recent tale of bringing USB Audio to AmigaOS 4. As someone who 'somehow' damaged the output to the speakers on my laptop and the headphone jack only working after a reboot, the 100% reliable USB Audio has been a godsend. I'm happy this is a new 'work in progress' option for us Amiga users!!

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 37
  • “The stars would have to align”

• Hedley Davis and more...

• Commodore Engineer Hedley Davis Died: {Thread @ amigaworld.net discussing the news of the passing of Amiga legend Hedley Davis.}
• Hedley Davis (Amiga 3000, 3DO, Xbox, UDel prof) has died : {Thread @ Hackernews about the passing of computer legend Hedley Davis.}
• Floppy Disk Drive Rage! (Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive): The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive, is a 3,5" floppy drive that was forcefully thrown into another universe, but actually ended up halfway trough a cubicle wall, and then wooden framed was put up, this is the story for future preservation. Hedley Davis was a Commodore / Amiga software developers, who unfortunately for him had hrs and hrs of this life taken away trying to fix a problem, that he could not find, but actually it was just a broke floppy disk drive. Video of the Davis Memorial Disk Drive, appears in the The Deathbed Vigil {...} Talk taken from Inside Commodore Amiga's History VCF East 2025 talk
• Commodore SX-500 Prototypee: {Thread @ forum64.de discussing the Commodore SX-500. The prototype portable Amiga 500 installed into a Commodore SX-64 case. Designed by Hedley Davis and Claude Guay.}
• A Commodore Amiga 500 in a SX-64 case: the SX-500 prototype: Now here is a strange beast! Twitter user @awsm posts the picture above and the following: Yes, that’s an Amiga 500 in a SX-64 case, called SX-500, apparently created by Hedley Davis back when working at Commodore. It truly was the Wild West of the computer age.
• USBAudio: Bringing USB Audio to AmigaOS 4 : I've been building a native USB Audio Class driver for AmigaOS 4 from scratch. It now supports stereo playback, 7.1 multichannel surround, recording with input switching, multi-device detection, and user-configurable device names. It's in beta — here's the story of how it came together.
• LUXCOPY / FLUXTEEN: Project for flux-based copying of hard- and soft-sectored floppy disks via USB: {translated - German} A project called FLUXCOPY was underway to create tools for copying hard- and soft-sectored floppy disks via USB interface. This resulted in the necessary hardware, a small circuit board named FLUXTEEN, in reference to the TEENSY 4.1 processor used, as well as the software for reading and copying for Windows PCs (without a built-in floppy disk drive). This is a Flux-based application for Windows (WinXP, Win10, and Win11), although users have reported that the application also runs under Linux/Wine. Unlike external USB drives, the floppy disks are not mounted as a drive, but rather read into or written to a file track by track.
• MC68881 FPGA Core: A VHDL-2008 implementation of a Motorola MC68881-compatible floating-point coprocessor targeting Xilinx 7-series and UltraScale+ FPGAs. The design implements the full MC68881 instruction set including all arithmetic, transcendental, program-control, system-control, and packed-decimal operations. It uses DSP-pipelined sequential FP units for the core arithmetic datapath with multi-cycle path constraints for timing closure at 33 MHz.
• Minimig-AGA_MiSTer: This is a port of the minimig core to the MiSTer board. Minimig (short for Mini Amiga) is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Original Minimig author is Dennis van Weeren. The Minimig-MiSTer variant in this repository has been upgraded with AGA chipset capabilites, which allows it to emulate the latest Amiga models (Amiga 1200) and (partially) Amiga CD32). Of course it also supports previous OCS/ECS Amigas like Amiga 500, Amiga 600 etc.
• Mod Players Comparisons: the history of module formats and players {Pt 1 of 2}: This is the first part of a 2-part article on Amiga modules players. There are so many instruments, sounds, and songs formats and players out there, it's hard to keep track of their strengths and weaknesses... and coverage! Some can play only one type of songs while other have powerful extension mechanisms and many extensions for many formats. I used Aminet (and Wikipedia) and chose the top downloaded players, excluding players for instruments and sounds. I found 24 players, which I tested using 45 music files in 24 different main formats (excluding variants) for a total of 190MB:
• Mod Players Comparisons: comparing various formats and players {Pt 2 of 2}: Comparisons. This table presents a comparison of some of the most popular players. It includes some criteria useful for my development of AmiModRadio, in particular the ARexx. (Ami-PlayMOD, AmiAMP, AmigaAMP, AModPlay, AmoralPlay, AMOS ModPlay, AMPlifier, APlayer, DAPlayer, DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, EdPlayer, EMPY Player, HippoPlayer, MadPlay, Plady, Play16, PlayOGG, PlaySID3, PowerPlayer, Prayer2, RNOTunes, SID4Amiga, SimplePlay, SongPlayer, SoX, TKPlayer, TMLG & XMP.)
• Dave's Retro Corner Classic Amiga Demoscene Effects: The most famous Amiga-era demo effects — rebuilt as realtime HTML5 Canvas renders. Plasma, copper bars, rotozoom, tunnel, starfield, metaballs, and more.
• Amiga Coding Nightmares : {Spanish language website blog discussing Amiga coding}
• Amiga Zone - Computeremuzone.com: {Spanish language website covering Amiga news and articles}
• AmigaPlanet.gr: {Greek language Amiga news and forum website}

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! It's another slow week in Amigaland but this time I'm happy about it! This gave me the time to today to have a VERY encouraging meeting with a new web designer who was willing to listen to my crazy ramblings about AmoigaSource v2.0. The best part was he stayed around to the end and is going to help me update the site. As things progress I will post more about where we're at and what's ahead in the future. Fingers crossed! 

• if you keep up with the OS4.x world and associated hardware then this should be of interest to you. The WONDERFUL Czechoslovakian website AmigaPortal.cz has GREAT article reviewing the new Mirari PPC motherboard. Lots of pics and benchmarks to dig into. Unfortunetly nothing yet on the AOS4.x side of the house.
• Time again for everyone's required monthly reading. The AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup for February 2026 has been posted. GREAT JOB Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler!
• New issue: Amiga Future #179 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 36
  • “Might as well talk to a brick wall”

• Random Links...

• Mirari is coming: {google translate} I first saw the first mention of the new Mirari computer for MorphOS and AmigaOS in April 2025 on amiga-news.de . Since then, we have been following further developments and eagerly awaiting its arrival on the scene. Mirari is the work of Skateman ( Dave Koelman ) and Geennaam ( Harald Kanning ) and was created with the aim of bringing an entry-level powerpc motherboard for MorphOS and AmigaOS, fast enough and with new technologies such as NVME and USB 3. The computer is designed for the NXP T1042 and T2081 processors. Now intensive work is being done on the T1042 version and when everything is fine-tuned, the T2081 will come. I was lucky enough to get my hands on one as well. It immediately ended up on tesbedu to find out what we can look forward to.
• The complex ownership of Amiga in 2026: companies, contracts, and court cases: When Commodore International collapsed in April 1994, it left behind one of the most advanced multimedia computing platforms of its era—the Amiga—along with a complicated set of intellectual-property assets that would pass through many hands over the following decades. Unlike many technology brands that transition smoothly from one corporate owner to another, the Amiga entered a prolonged period of fragmented ownership shaped by bankruptcy auctions, partial asset transfers, licensing agreements, and repeated litigation.
• How the AmigaHASP was born: During 1989, while developing Rashumon, I found myself looking for a copy protection solution for Amiga software but there wasn’t any. The Amiga had a very non standard Parallel port, which made it impossible to just adopt a copy protection dongle from other platforms, and there was a need to develop a completely new system
• Boingwave (KDE Plasma 6 Live Wallpaper): A recreation of the 1984 Amiga Boing Ball tech demo as a KDE Plasma 6 live wallpaper. Features customizable themes, physics modifiers, digital clock and CRT & Analog Effects.
• Welcome to the ReAmiga 4091 Project!: Key Features: Fast SCSI-II (10MB/s max) controller for Amiga Computers, One of only two Zorro-III SCSI controllers ever designed, Full-length Zorro-III with DMA, Designed for the Amiga 4000; works in the Amiga 3000, Reproduction based on an old board and PAL source code released as part of the Dave Haynie Archives. 80 components on the top; 147 components on the bottom, Manual build time is about 7 hours per board - plus Debugging ;), The ReA4091 has been fully open sourced. Check out the ReA4091 GitHub project, wo versions: ReA4091 and the shorter ReA4091 Mini to keep your ISA/PCI slots available. {and more}
• A4091 SCSI II Host Controller: Welcome to the ReAmiga 4091 project. Fast SCSI-II (10MB/s max) controller for Amiga Computers. One of only two Zorro-III SCSI controllers ever designed. Full-length Zorro-III with DMA
• Will AI make 2026 the year of AmigaOS 4?: AI is everywhere. Just Google it, you’ll find books, videos, and news articles all over the place about AI and how AI will transform the world. What does this have to do with the Amiga, and specifically with AmigaOS 4? One of the biggest challenges for users of any Amiga platform is the availability of modern software and access to modern tools. This is acute for the OS 4 platform. While there is fantastic software for AmigaOS 4, these tools have been handcrafted with love by heroic developers as passion projects.
• Tony Hawk’s Amiga 2000: {reddit pic of a young Tony Hawk in his room with a A2000}
• AmigaDiskBench: AmigaDiskBench is a modern, high-performance disk benchmarking utility specifically designed for AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It provides a robust, ReAction-based GUI to measure, analyze, and visualize the performance of various storage devices, filesystems, and hardware configurations.
• virtioscsi.device: An AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition device driver for VirtIO SCSI disks in QEMU virtual machines. virtioscsi.device exposes QEMU VirtIO SCSI virtual disks to AmigaOS 4.1 FE as standard trackdisk-compatible block devices. Once installed, AmigaOS treats them like any other hard disk: partitions are automatically discovered and mounted at boot, and filesystems (FFS2, SFS, etc.) work normally. This driver supports both QEMU machine types: AmigaOne & Pegasos2
• The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks: It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware. {...} oday, most of those floppies are left to slowly decay in distant landfills, moldy garages, or long-forgotten storage boxes. Abandoning those floppies entirely risks relegating decades worth of scientific research, government records, software, and personal correspondence to the dustbin of history.
• The Return of a Desktop Cult Classic (No, Not the Mac); Long Revered for Its Powerful Graphics and Lean Operating System, the Amiga Is Re-emerging From the Margins {ARCHIVED 29 Oct 2023}: IT is the little computer that won't. Die, that is. For years, the little Amiga, a machine regarded highly but not widely, has been considered all but extinct. But in a new chapter in the life of the Amiga, a computer that spent years being shunted from foster home to foster home, it has finally found an owner who is determined not only to keep it alive but also to make it thrive.
• Amiga OS to run in household electronics {ARCHIVED 16 Jun 2001}: Amiga's scalable operating system Amiga DE will be embedded in TV set top boxes by Christmas, with handheld devices and games consoles scheduled for next year. The first device to run Amiga DE will be the MeterNet Internet television set top box, to be released this Christmas. MeterNet and Amiga are also developing an Internet radio device for worldwide consumer markets targeted for release in early next year. Amiga DE will appear in handheld devices by mid next year and games consoles by Christmas 2001. An agreement has also been signed for a DSL television set top box and another 11 various agreements are pending.
• The new Amiga: VP assembly code demo {ARCHIVED 18 Apr 2001}: Daniel Robbins provides an in-depth introduction to the Amiga's revolutionary VP (virtual processor) assembly code, the heart of the new Amiga's Digital Environment. By the end of the article you'll have a good understanding of how VP works, not to mention how darn cool it is!
• The new Amiga SDK {ARCHIVED 22 Apr 2001}: Expanding the Linux community through cross-platform architecture. The new Amiga, Inc. recently released a brand new SDK that runs on top of Linux. Daniel Robbins takes a look at the SDK, explains how the new Amiga could have a very big positive impact for the Linux world, and walks SDK owners through some installation hoops.

   - Greetings and salutations everyone and please indulge me today. All I need to do is wish my Little 'Lugi' Buddy a Happy 4th Birthday! 

Happy 4th Birthday 'Lugi'!
Love Bubbie and Pa!

• New event: Robert Bernardo of the Fresno Commodore User Group has posted that their "Hands-on exhibit has been approved for Feb. 28 at the Science Carnivale at California State University Fresno, College of Science and Mathematics. We will be displaying Commodore, Amiga, and other computers at our table, Classic Fresno Area Computers! (CFAC!)." Always good to have our C= & Amiga representing for the cause!!
• New event: Coming this 14 Mar, the Commodore & Amiga Encounter 2026 will be taking place. "Throughout the day, fans, developers and curious onlookers can enjoy specialized talks, a video game competition, a meeting with historical figures in the sector and a concert with an 8 and 16 bit essence. In addition, the event will feature a demo area with original systems and games from the era , where the public can experience the classic hardware firsthand and relive the authentic experience of the golden years of Commodore and Amiga". A full day of fun and events will be had by all.
• New event: On 20-21 Jun the Roma.exe Demo Party will be held in Rome Italy. Billed as a place that "brings together everyone who enjoys exploring the edges of creativity, whether in code, sound, pixels or ideas. Demos, graphics, music and games are not only shown: they are discussed, celebrated and experienced together, just as the demoscene has always done. & welcomes long-time sceners, newcomers, and anyone who feels drawn to the culture of making, hacking, learning and playing.?" WOW! Other perks includes "2 days of fun, creativity and talks Top LIVE ACTS: Master Boot Record, AROTTENBIT and Gom Jabbar, High quality seminars, Compos, Sleeping accommodation, and much more ..."
• New event: 8-11 Oct the Classic Computing 2026 is being held in Celle, Germany. From their web page, "Classic Computing 2026 will once again showcase a wide range of exhibits, including office computers, gaming computers, game consoles, workstations, and typewriters and calculators. This year, there will again be an online exhibition catalog, which exhibitors can start filling out when registering. Almost all the devices will be set up in working order, and many will be available for visitors to use and test. We will also be on-site at our Repair Café, offering support for the restoration and repair of your equipment." Another good time will be had by all!
• New issue: Amiga Future #179 has been published

• WOW a bit of news. Not quite sure how this plays out in the bigger picture but Amiga Documents is reporting that "Ben Hermans has lost his case against Ben Hermans BV and his former fellow shareholders at Hyperion Entertainment. He now has three months to file an appeal with the Court of Cassation." Here's a link to judgment 2026-02-09_hyperion-entertainment-ben-hermans_brussels-appeal-judgement_nl.pdf in its original form.

• Random Links...

• Plastic case screws for the A500/A600/A1200: {Thread @ reddit} Short note, so it can be found by those searching the Web for this screw. They sell in lots of 100 for a couple of US dollars. M3 8 mm (dull end) screws [M3, 8 mm, Zinc, Steel, Pan Head] {&} M3 6 mm (dull end) screws
• Amiga Oddware: Mindlight 7 - Concert Music Visualizer: {Thread @ amigalove.com} In the age of silicon and sleep, there was a machine that learned to listen. It did not calculate. It felt. It was called the MindLight. The MindLight 7 connects directly to the Amiga’s 2nd joystick port — and listens through either its built-in microphone, or through a stereo mini-jack that feeds it music, speech, or can receive even video input. Inside, the hardware translates frequencies into digital data vibrations become numbers, numbers become movement. From this exchange, the Amiga begins to visualize sound.
• Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) - AGA Demos: {A direct to ADA's list of AGA demos}
• VFX, Amiga and Babylon 5: {Thread @ Hacker News discussing the Amiga use in the production of Babylon 5 which eventually devolves into mismanagement at Commodore. Good read though.}
• Workbench 3.1 Installation, Tour and Tools Guide: {Thread @ lemmonamiga.com with links to multiple videos covering: workbench guides, WInUAE guides, Advanced Hard Drive/Media Setup, Floppy Guides, Dis[play Setup, Advance Setups, Games and Controllers & Misc. }
• Textfiles Search Formats: Below is a list of formats you can search for on DiscMaster (thanks to dexvert). You can search for both supported and unsupported formats. Find the format id below and select it in the format field of the search page. 3,547 Supported Formats
• 15 --> 9 Adapter & Amiga RGB --> PC VGA Converter: 15 --> 9: : Use together with the original C= adapter to multisync converter. Amiga RGB --> PC VGA Converter: Can be used as converter between an Amiga RGB port and PC monitor.
• Phase 5 {ARCHIVED 11 Jul 1997}: {English homepage. Enjoy all that was and all that could have been}
• DKB {ARCHIVED 13 Oct 1999}: Welcome to the DKB homepage! We are 100% Amiga. {Makers of the Wildfire 2000 (at one time the fastest 060 accelerator ever), RapidFire, SpitFire, Cobra, Ferret, 1202, MegAChip, 3128 & 2632 accelerators, Memory & SCSI expansion, Chip Ram upgrade and more!}
• Review: Amiga backup software comparison: {Thread @ AmiBay reviewing Abackup 5.22, AMI-Back 2.0i, Diavolo 3.7 Pro & Quarterback 7.3.1a on a suped up A3000D w/060, Cyberstorm 060, Acsord SCSI card, Mediator, Radeon, X Surf 100 to a QNAP NAS}
• RetroPower PSU: RetroPower PSU is a new power supply for your retro computer. Commodore 64. Commodore 128. Commodore Plus/4. Amiga 500. Atari XL/XE. ZX Spectrum. Sinclair QL. TI-99/4A. ColecoVision. You name it. {Note: Replacement power supply for Amiga 500, Amiga 500+, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200}
• amigactl: Remote access toolkit for AmigaOS. amigactl provides structured, programmatic remote access to AmigaOS over TCP. It consists of a lightweight C daemon (amigactld) running on the Amiga and a Python client library and CLI tool on the client side. Together they expose 36 daemon commands spanning file operations (copy, checksum, streaming), CLI command execution, ARexx dispatch, environment variables, library version queries, and system introspection (assigns, volumes, ports, tasks, devices) through a simple text protocol with machine-parseable responses. The interactive shell adds 6 client-side search and navigation commands (find, tree, grep, diff, du, watch). Designed for trusted LANs and emulator setups.
• Amiga directory… bomb?: {Alexander Grupe investigates what was behind an old Directory 'hack' to create an 'Endless directory structures' and discuses a more modern way to recreate something similar.}
• Support page for TerribleFire & other boards built by alenppc: All you need to know to get the best performance out of your Amiga accelerator board. TF330: A 68030-based accelerator for the CD32, TF536: A 68030-based accelerator for the A500, TF1230: A 68030-based accelerator for the A1200, TF1260: A 68060-based accelerator for the A1200, TF360: A 68060-based accelerator for the CD32, TF1232: A 25/50MHz 68030-based accelerator for the A1200 with FPU option & TF4060: A 68060-based accelerator for the A3000/A4000 with DMA support
• Flashtro - Amiga Cracking/: {Interesting page. Dozens and dozens of games with documentation on how each were cracked. French and English}

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Since my next update won't be until the day of the event I want to do a special posting for this event. Fred B. emailed me to announce the inaugural meeting of the North East Amiga Group (UK).

  - This looks to be a GREAT time. I'm jealous I live on the other side of the pond and won't be able to attend. So if you're in the neighborhood drop by and show your support!

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! As happens from time to time I have somehow overlooked another long time Amiga group. Kickstart Amiga User Group, which has been around since 1997, has quite an impressive history. So you owe it to yourself to drop by the website or better yet, if you happen to be anywhere close to Ottershaw Village Hall, Brox Road, Ottershaw, Surrey, KT16 0HG, you need to drop by for one of their summer BBQ meets or one of their other festive events!

• I know this was at a recent Kickstart Amiga User Group event but three weeks ago at their first Kickstart event of 2026 they showcased project. Behold the 1084sx retro monitor project. From a thread over at lemmonamiga.org newdles says "This is a first prototype - 15" 4:3 IPS XGA panel with HMDI, VGA, Composite & BNC inputs, stereo speakers to come... 12VDC powered, and features a shallower desk footprint than the real 1084, to allow for more rear cabling access, compactness, while keeping the authentic 1084 shape vibe." I for one like it and hope to see more of it in the future... Hopefully with a 19" screen.
• Crowdfunding: Bootblock Rebels hit is goal with 3 weeks to go. So if you haven't got your copy you still have some time.
• New issue: Amiga Germany Fan’zine #17 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 35
  • “Not in a blue moon”

• Random Links...

• Kickstart Amiga User Group: Kickstart is an Amiga user group, formed in December 1997 by Rob Gilbert. We are a user group for all Amiga users, or those just wanting to know more about the platform. It doesn’t matter if you are an expert with every machine in the range, or just a single computer owner trying to learn more or just having fun with a 500 Mini, everyone is welcome at one of our meets and as members of the group. For everyone looking to learn or needing help with a problem, we’ll have someone who can share their knowledge with you. It’s all part of the fun with the Amiga!
• Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image: The following are largely my personal collection of references to a range of data formats in use in the computer industry, some are just copies of manuals and documentation, others are my own investigations and associated reports. The largest section is on 3D geometric formats, but there are also notes on image formats, conventions and other miscellaneous data representation topics. {Over 140+ data formats and 20+ image formats covered}
• Early Amiga 3D: At some point, I want to say something about early 3D on the Amiga, particularly my own experience. For now, enjoy the screen shots (links on the right) of some of the programs I used.
• POV: The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, Free Software tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.
• The Early History of POV-Ray: OK, here's a not-so brief history of POV-Ray (from the horse's mouth, so to speak): Back in 1986 or so, I had an Amiga. A friend who also has an Amiga downloaded the C code for a raytracer for Unix from the Internet and brought it over. I thought it looked interesting and I ported it to the Amiga and wrote the drivers to display it with Amiga graphics. The program only rendered untextured spheres with a planar floor in black and white, but I was still impressed by it. I played with it a bit adding support for color, but I eventually decided that I could do a better job writing a raytracer from scratch, so I scrapped the C program and started my own - DKBTrace had begun.
• Animating the Amiga: The Untold Story of Aegis Animator: Introduction: When the Amiga Brought Pixels to Life. On the screen of a beige Commodore Amiga, a small cat takes a confident stroll across a blank grey floor. The animation lasts only a few seconds. Yet ElGato.anim—a looping demo from the late 1980s—captures everything magical about the Amiga: colour, motion, and personality on a home computer that felt alive. To anyone who saw it, that walking cat was proof that computers could do more than calculate—they could create.
• Aegis Animator: Aegis Animator is an early paint and animation package, written by Jim Kent and published by Aegis Development. From the packaging: "Aegis Animator will turn your Amiga computer into a full function animation workstation capable of creating any type of moving computer/video storyboard. Designed for use by the graphics professional, artist, video post production company, or the Amiga hobbiest, Aegis Animator makes use of a unique process called "tweening" which allows movement and change within each segment of the animation. "
• The LaST Upgrade - FAKE 060 CPU : 68060 fake rev6. Warning, it seems that there is more false 68060 rev6 (maskset 71E41J) on the Asian market! I just received a package that contained three! Arg! In fact they are sometimes 68LC060 rev4 (LC = Low Cost = no Fpu): Some people have scratched the initial registration and then re-printed with 68060 in 71E41J corner ... The purpose of this article is to show you the true and false, to be sure of your future purchases!
• 68060 Masken und Fakes: {German - Big page about the 060. Full timeline. Lots of pics. Info about fakes}
• reddit's /amiga/emulation: {reddit's big list of Amiga Emulators, Online emulation, Bare metal, Pre-rolled installations, Emulation: Guides, Emulation: Emulating other machines, ROMS/warez, Graphics, DPaint & Trackers}
• PiMiga4 by Chris Edwards – How to install: Here is a cleaned-up and step-by-step guide for using the **PiMiga** image, based on the original notes by **Dr. Chris Edwards**, a well-known Amiga enthusiast and YouTuber. This version provides clear instructions for beginners while keeping the original project goals intact.
• Best Amiga Available in 2026: You’re interested in getting an Amiga setup for gaming and demo scene use in 2026. What’s the best option? This comparison focuses on Amiga gaming and demo scene use in 2026, not nostalgia alone. Our criteria prioritize timing correctness, input/output latency, video and audio fidelity, and long-term practicality — as well as overall delight and fun. Productivity software, AmigaOS “daily driving”, and historical collecting value are intentionally out of scope.
• The ultimate in undocumented jumper settings: {Thread @ Vogons.org} Back in 1994, I had remembered reading a newsgroup message quoting Dave Haynie:- "NEVER EVER mess with a PCB jumper you don't understand, even if it's labelled 'Sex and Free Beer'". So, I decided to implement this on the AD0200 ZorroII board (see above)...
• Austex Software {ARCHIVED 6 Feb 2005}: Austex Software was formed in 1990 by Stephen J. Smith and Paul N. Goulding. As Amiga fans, they started writing demos and software for this platform. In December 1990, the demo disk Genesis was released. Included on the disk was the game Nebula, which managed to appear a year later on some magazine cover disks. Work then progressed on the game Uropa2 which was first released as shareware in 1996 and then published in 1997 by Vulcan Software. During this period, I was designing and programming various Amiga related hardware for use within the university where I worked (archived).
• DAVE HAYNIE'S Museum of Amiga Hardware: {Thread @ lemmonamiga.com} Due to circumstances beyond our control, the legend icon of the Amiga Hazy Dave Haynie is SELLING some good stuff on ebay. Dave also wrote a lot of info about each item, and as this info would be lost as soon as ebay listings go six months out of date, this is the only place this info will be available after the sale.

   - Greatings and salutations everyone! As a LONG TIME Lightwave 3D owner & user I'm happy to see it still around. Back in 2019 NewTek joined forces with Vizrt and looks to be 'no more'. Sad to see one of the last OG Amiga companies become almost non-existent but a quick check at the other site not only shows it still around but still kicking ass!

   While you're there check out the WONDERFUL HISTORY page going all the way back to the beginning with VideoScape 3D and Aegis Modeler 3D. Lots of screenshots of ALL the versions are shown.

   I reached out and thanked them for not forgetting us. They replied "we love the Amiga; I think all of us had one. Most started their LightWave journey on that most excellent machine". What a bunch of good eggs!! I've always found it sad when a companies history page pretends like the Amiga never existed. Looking at you the 'no longer around' Caligari 3D.

   I did ask if they happen to have any of the old source code lying around. "Amiga 5.x LightWave. So sorry to say that code is lost to the ages. I know that there are still 'back alley' versions that are still out and passed around, but as far as doing anything native to the 68K Motorola is just out of the question for many reasons, most you probably can guess." SHUCKS!! LOL

   On the plus side they said if you can prove that you own "any" version of LightWave you can get the upgrade pricing. Time to finally move on from v4.0 to LightWave 2026. ;-)

  - Also... GO HAWKS!! You did it!!!

• Here's the first real print review, in French, of the Apollo A6000 I've come across. Not a bad system but no necessarily what's going to bring us back from the brink of doom yet. On the plus side they're excited to announce that batch #3 is officially available for pre-order.
• New issue: Compute!'s Gazette #8 has been published
• New event: This years European Vintage Computer Festival (VCFe) is being held in Munich on 1-3 March. If it's anything like the shows here in the US it will be a GREAT TIME!!
• New event: Here's another event in Germany. Amiga Ruhrpott Convention #4 being held in Duisburg-Rheinhausen is billed as "user meeting for fans, organised by fans, with all the charm of a scene party in your living room". Now this sounds like fun too!

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 34
  • “Like trying to nail jelly to a wall”

• Random Links...

• LightWave 3D: LightWave 3D is more than just software; it's a comprehensive solution for 3D modeling, rendering, and animation. Our toolset is robust and versatile, catering to the diverse needs of artists in various fields, whether it's film, television, design, architecture or gaming. We strive to provide a platform that supports your entire creative journey, from initial concept to final render.
• Animating the Amiga: The Untold Story of Aegis Animator: On the screen of a beige Commodore Amiga, a small cat takes a confident stroll across a blank grey floor. The animation lasts only a few seconds. Yet ElGato.anim—a looping demo from the late 1980s—captures everything magical about the Amiga: colour, motion, and personality on a home computer that felt alive. To anyone who saw it, that walking cat was proof that computers could do more than calculate—they could create. {...} Among the first software developers to harness these capabilities was Aegis Development, a California-based company that understood that creativity and accessibility could go hand in hand.
• Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or No Deal? The deal that didn't happen: Commodore, IBM, Amiga and REXX. The Commodore/IBM story can best be summarized with this quote from an Ars Technica article {...} While the claim of partnering with both Apple and NeXT does warrant some investigation, I intend to focus on the alleged deal with Commodore
• AmigaBasic ACE: ACE - Amiga BASIC Compiler. ACE is a complete BASIC compiler for the Amiga computer platform. It compiles BASIC source code into native Amiga executables by generating Motorola 68000/68020 assembly code, bridging BASIC's ease of use with compiled performance.
• Amiga Input To USB: The purpose of this project is to make and document a small, inexpensive device that you can use to hook up some Commodore Amiga and Atari input peripherals to modern computers with USB inputs. It presents itself to the modern host computer as a HID USB keyboard and HID USB mouse.
• AmigaSchematics: This project contains some schematics that I've reproduced from various sources that are otherwise not available. They have been made using KiCad 4.0.7 on my Mac, although they should load in KiCad 4 on any platform. The projects included here are: A500_kyb_Mitsumi - Amiga 500 keyboard with Mitsumi board. (common) & Controllers/CD32 - CD32 wired controller (with Red/Yellow/Green/Blue buttons)
• RetronautTech: descriptionRetronaut is Chris Thomas, a UK based software developer and artist, with experience in video game development (art and coding), animation, visual effects and software development. In my spare time, I get a chance to breath...
• Emu68: Forked from michalsc/Emu68. M68K emulation for AArch64/AArch32
• Lazarustorm Case for Amiga 500 PiStorm: This enclosure can be used with a Lazarustorm/PiStorm setup to provide a removable PiStorm accelerator for an Amiga 500. I recommend printing in PLA+ or ABS if you can.
• The dream machine that almost was: inside the ambitious vision of the Amiga MCC: In the late 1990s, the computer industry was in the middle of a transformation. Multimedia computing was no longer experimental, the internet was becoming a household utility, and manufacturers were beginning to imagine the home computer not simply as a productivity device but as the central hub of digital life. Into this rapidly evolving landscape stepped an ambitious and now legendary project: the Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer, better known as the Amiga MCC.
• Amiga-tan: {Quite the interesting site. Enjoy the Amiga and all her 'family and friends' depicted as female Anime characters. You can find all the gang there too: OS4, MorphOS, Vic, 64, 128, etc... Mixed into the stories are some real facts plus all the other OS and computers are represented there too. Definitely worth one visit.}
• Amiga Unix: Amiga Unix (informally known as Amix) is a discontinued full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 operating system developed by Commodore-Amiga, Inc. in 1990 for the Amiga computer family as an alternative to AmigaOS, which shipped by default.
• AMIGA UNIX. Another Commodore Fail!: Did you know that Amiga can run UNIX? Yes it can! A special port of UNIX named Amiga UNIX or AMIX, was ported by Commodore to the Amiga machines. Even if Unix was a master of Operating Systems, it was a commercial fail on the Commodore Amiga: it is complex and useless! Who wanted to use an Amiga as a network muti-user server? Here I show a brief panoramic of how it works, and a complete tutorial to install it on Amiga Emulator WinUAE.
• VideoScape 3D: VideoScape 3D is a software package released by Aegis, used to create rendered 3-D graphics. It was originally released in 1987.
• VideoScape-3D Object Import Plugin for Blender: This utility will allow Blender to load object files created for use with VideoScape-3D, a rendering and animation package for the Amiga Computer. This is known to work on Blender 2.8x and 2.90.

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! This week we all have to take our hats off to Andrea Palmatè's of Amigasoft.net for his latest project of bringing Git to AmigaOS 4.

   In his latest posting he talks about the 'the long road to a working client'. For those who don't know him or his work, let him tell you himself. We need more of his kind to help keep the Amiga alive and thriving! So if you like his work or his posts, drop by his site and leave him a BIG TIP!

  - Also... GO HAWKS!!

• Old crowdfunding: OK I'm a bit behind on this one but the crowdfunding for SDL2 for AmigaOS 68k and WarpOS has hit all it's goals! Can't wait to see what people are able to do with this now!
• New crowdfunding: Only 6 days in and PicoIDE, the open-source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro computers has already TRIPPLED their 35k goal. Looks VERY impressive! End date of 5 Mar 26.
• New crowdfunding: A new book, Bootblock Rebels, has just been launched. From the author 'Welcome to my Kickstarter campaign to create and publish a book about the Commodore Amiga cracker scene. This book delves into the golden era of Amiga cracking, starting from its early days in 1985, covering its peak between 1990-1993, and concluding with the decline of the active cracking scene in 1996.' Looks like another good read. You have some time to show your support but don't wait to long! Times up 14 Mar 26.
• New issue: APoV #7 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 33
  • “When the cows come home… and do the laundry”

• Random Links...

• Bringing Git to AmigaOS 4: the long road to a working client : When I started this effort, the goal was simple: get a recent Git client running on AmigaOS 4 with the least amount of friction. The reality was a tour through toolchains, libraries, Installer scripts, encoding quirks, and platform constraints. Here’s the full story and what it took to get there.
• The new Amiga. McEwen and Moss discuss the renaissance of the Amiga SDK {ARCHIVED 21 Aug 2001}: The original Amiga computer was a major technological innovation in its time. Now, the Amiga is back. Bill McEwen, President of Amiga, Inc., and Fleecy Moss, VP of Development, interviewed by Daniel Robbins, give us insight into new Amiga and explain why it's one of the most exciting development platforms available today.
• Filesysbox: Filesysbox.library is a FUSE compatible file system layer originally developed by Leif Salomonsson. It manages locks, notifications, file handles, packets, update timeouts and more, freeing the file system of these jobs. Version 0.730 of the library was released as open source and was used as a basis for this version. The included FbxDismount command can be used to cleanly unmount FUSE file systems even if there are outstanding locks/notify requests.
• Roguecraft DX: Roguecraft DX is an award-winning, retro-inspired, turn-based roguelike that’s all about simplicity and fun. Explore procedurally generated dungeons laden with mysterious potions, scary chickens, and secret rooms just waiting to be discovered. The Amiga version presented here is a "WHDLoad" package intended for emulators and Amigas with WHDLoad capability.
• Transmeta Crusoe CPU: Transmeta may be most notable today for its $273 million IPO on Nov 7, 2000 being the last successful tech IPO until the Google IPO in 2004. But on January 19, 2000, Transmeta’s big news was its new Crusoe CPU. {...} Transmeta wanted to take a different approach than more traditional Intel competitors like AMD or Cyrix or Rise, the technology behind the Vortex86. {...} They would design a very efficient CPU, and in theory, they could place any translation layer in front of it that they wanted. Emulating PowerPC or ARM would have been possible if they saw the need to do it, and, indeed, they floated the idea of emulating PowerPC, MIPS, and Alpha in addition to x86.
• PicoIDE: PicoIDE is an open-source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator that replaces aging hard drives and CD-ROM drives in vintage computers with solid-state microSD card storage. Simply put your disc/disk images on a microSD card and swap between them as needed. Powered by open-source hardware and software, PicoIDE means you no longer have to deal with burning optical discs, worn out lasers, crashed heads, or bad sectors.
• AmigaGuide Viewer: This app allows you to load and view Amiga-specific files, like AmigaGuide files, Amiga Autodoc files, and IFF/ILBM images. {ms store}
• Small games, big impact: the 40 year legacy of sensible software: There’s a certain feeling you get when you load up an old Sensible Software game. It hits almost immediately. Within seconds, you know what you’re doing. Your hands understand the controls before your brain has finished catching up. You smile—not because the graphics are impressive or because the game is explaining itself well, but because it simply feels right. That feeling didn’t happen by accident.
• Scala Multimedia on the Commodore Amiga: It's no Toaster, but it doesn't need to be to hold its own. Possibly one of the most impressive cover disk giveaways in history? {...} From the States, cross either ocean and Scala was everywhere, including a full, physical-dongle-copy-protection-removed, copy distributed on the cover disk of CU Amiga Magazine, issue 96. Listening to Scala founder, Jon Bøhmer, speak of Scala's creation in an interview on The Retro Hour, his early intuition on the Amiga's potential in television production built Scala into an omnipresent staple across multiple continents.
• Die Amiga 600/1200/500 CD32 Design-Serie: {German - Beautiful A500, A600 & A1200 cases done in the spirit of the CD32}
• Gary Peake Speaks from the Heart: I do not want to ruffle feathers, but someone eventually has to say this. In every field today (especially in computers) there have been tremendous advances made over the last ten years. Ten years ago, we were looking at Pentium 100's or less. There were only a very few, very expensive alternatives to the regular tungsten light bulb for the home, energy consumption in cars was measured in less than 15 miles per gallon. For the computer industry, computing nearly doubles every 18 months. A "generation" in this business is about 18 months long. Ten years is almost 6 generations ago.
• Amiga Flame Interview with Gary Peake, Director of Amiga's Support Program: It is vital that software developers become involved in Amiga's Support Program and so it seemed only logical to contact the man in charge, Gary Peake and find more about this Support Program.
• Gary Peake discusses Amiga Inc's latest plans {ARCHIVED 09 Feb 2022}: {Holy crap... What a snapshot of the times back in the Apr 2001. It's hard to wrap your head around the plans laid out here and where we are today. Where did it ALL go so WRONG!! Two completely alternate timelines!}
• An interview with Eric Schwartz by Jason Jordache for CU Amiga: Eric Schwartz made his name in the late 80s as one of the Amiga's most innovative animators. Life, the Amiga and Eric have moved on...
• Interview with Eric W. Schwartz: {Interview with everyone's favorite Amiga animator and furry enthusiast. Creator of Sabrina OnLine.}

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! This week I'm grateful for another slow trickle of news becasue I'm STILL trying to get caught up from the holidays! LOL!

• Just in case someone has missed this IntuitionBase, your guide to Amiga OS4.x and the AmigaOne, has a page dedicated to all the tested hardware for the AmigaOne. Sort by name, manufacturer, chipset, part number, OS4/Linux compatibility and more.
• Hop on over to Amiga WARP and get their new 2026 calendar before they're all gone!

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 31
  • “As likely as lightning striking twice”

• Random Links...

• AmiVision: An IPTV frontend for AmigaOS 3.2 – featuring channel search, channel list by country, favorites list, profiles, ARexx automation, and server-based transcoding. AmiVision brings a modern IPTV experience to classic Amiga computers. The app connects to a dedicated server (runs locally inside your home network) that handles IPTV requests—delivering optimized output for AmigaOS via an RxMUI-based interface.
• {AmigaOne} Compatible Hardware: {A list of 400+ tested pieces of hardware for the AmigaOne. You can sort by part number, chipset, type, OS4/Linux compatibility and more.}
• PS/2 mouse to Amiga CD32: Amiga mouse translator tested on CD32
• Aminet CD FAQ: {Information directly from the source about these famous CDs}
• adafruit Amiga search link results: {The direct link to the adafruit Amiga search results page. Currently returning 120 posts.
• Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing: description
• Amifuse: native Amiga filesystems on macOS and Linux with FUSE: Mount Amiga filesystem images on macOS/Linux/Windows using native AmigaOS filesystem handlers via FUSE. amifuse runs actual Amiga filesystem drivers (like PFS3) through m68k CPU emulation, allowing you to read Amiga hard disk images without relying on reverse-engineered implementations.
• Vacuum forming keyboards – the outcome: The main goal of this project is to vacuum-wrap keyboard keycaps with vinyl foil so it is protected and colored. IMO this is a way better solution than painting with semi-transparent paint which I covered too in some of my EXTREME series blog posts:
• Amiga JuiceBox kit USB-C power for Amiga A500(+), A600 & A1200: {Build your own USB-C to 5 pin din for your A500(+), A600 or A1200}
• Open Cubic Player: What is it? UNIX port of Open Cubic Player, which is a text-based player with some few graphical views. Visual output can be done through nCurses, Linux console (VCSA + FrameBuffer), X11 or SDL/SDL2. It can be compiled on various different unix based operating systems. What can it play? Amiga style modules files with more (Amiga compressed files will be decompressed using ancient):
• Important Amiga 68060 Libs and Files Guide: Here is the guide for you that needs 68060 libs for your Amiga. There are various 68060 libs that are made, but the most important thing is that all of the files from the various 68060 libs packages must be present in the Libs/ folder in AmigaOS. Do not mix them.
• 68060 Amiga Buyers Guide: When it is time to upgrade any Classic Amiga. You really want to buy a 68060! But this CPU is no more made and those that are on the market are difficult to get hands-on. However, if you’re not too picky you can get one that isn’t too expensive. So, let me guide you! With new 68060 accelerators coming for the Amiga market. I decided to write this article about the availability of 68060 CPU’s and this is what I found out to share with Amiga users.
• From Commodore Amiga to toxic legacy: the rise and fall of Norristown’s chip fab: In the rolling outskirts of Norristown, Pennsylvania, an unassuming industrial complex once powered one of the most revolutionary personal computers ever made. Long before GPUs and sound cards became standard, Commodore’s Amiga dazzled the world with graphics and audio years ahead of its time—and much of that magic began inside a semiconductor fab operated by Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG), formerly MOS Technology.
• Amiga 500's Insert Disk hand: the boot screen everyone remembers: After a brief hardware check, a familiar image appears: a cartoon hand holding a floppy disk. This “insert disk” screen greeted millions of Commodore Amiga 500 users from the late 80s onward, becoming one of the most recognizable boot images in home computing. It’s more than a startup screen—it’s a time machine back to clacking floppy drives, CRT glow, and long gaming nights. But why did it look so bold and blocky? Because it had to.
• Amiga Real-Time 3D Graphics: {Large, multi chapter article covering everything from what is art? What a 16 bit machine can do? The Amiga OS, modeling a 3d world, drawing on the screen, code examples and MUCH MUCH more!

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! I would like give a shout out to Amiga Game List for passing the 15,000 mark. Starting back on 1991 by David Brunet, this monumental feat stands as a testament to perseverance and the legacy of a great machine!. Congratulations! For a bit more insight read the Amiga News write up.

• Steve Jones has posted that he has a limited amount of new Checkmate A1500 Plus and Mini cases available. If you've been holding out for a better opportunity or just sitting on the fence NOW is the time to get one before they're all gone for good.
• Generation Amiga has a good write up on the how the Amiga evolved in 2025. Definitely worth a read.
• datagubbe is at it again. This time with a well done Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing presentation. If you like looking at various WB 2.x-3.1 then this is for you!
• New event: The Technik Museum Speyer is holding a two day retro market. So if you happen to find yourself in Speyer, DE on the 24-25 of January then drop by and get yourself some some nice things!
• New event: This Aug 7-8 the third annual Kickstart Uk is being held in Derby UK. Workshops, user groups, gaming sessions, talks from Amiga luminaries, a VIP meal and more are planned. This event will have bigger accommodations, amenities and easy accessibility so a good time can be had by all. Sounds like another good time!

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 30
  • “A cold day in July” (Note: This only make sense in the northern hemisphere}

• Random Links...

• Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing - Screenshots from another era: Digital Rubbernecking. For a long time, I didn't understand magazines about interior decoration. How could people possibly be interested in seeing yet another photo spread of Scandinavian minimalism and "Live, Laugh, Love"? Then, one day, I suddenly realized I'm just as bad, or perhaps worse - except my interest isn't in fashion furniture or tasteful couch pillows, but rather in other people's computer desktops. {...} A note on the screenshots below. All of the screenshots depict Workbench version 2.0 and up, most of them are 3.0 or 3.1.
• Dave Haynie Online Conference March 6, 1996: This is a transcript of a Compuserve conference with Dave Haynie on 6-Mar-96 at 10PM EST until about 2 AM EST. Thanks to Skal Loret for helping get Dave in a conference, and thanks to our moderator, Asha DeVelder.
• Why Commodore Amiga laughs at Q-Day: retro's unbreakable shield: The quantum apocalypse (2030-2035), or Q-Day, crashes down when super-advanced computers break the hidden codes protecting our online world. If ever abused by forces of tyranny, banks, emails, apps, and websites suddenly lose their locks—everything from shopping secrets to government files could spill out. The modern digital life we all depend on falls into panic and confusion. But classic computers like the Amiga? They just keep running smoothly, untouched and safe in their old-school world.
• The Amiga A1200 remake officially arrives in June 2026, but I'm starting to worry about modern retro console pricing: As promised during GamesCom, the Amiga A1200 remake just got its "full global reveal." The October announcement confirms that the beloved microcomputer will return in June 2026, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't flinch at the price.
• Converting the A500 Mini to an Amiga 4000 (with WB 3.1): Because a real Amiga 4000 is way to expensive, I bought “The A500 Mini” from RetroGames. This can be easily modified, to run as an A4000 (with WB 3.1), it can even connect to the internet (via WiFi) with little effort, and a cheap ESP32 module ! (Or use it with other serial hardware, like printers or a null-modem for games...) (you only need to solder a few wires and modify some the firmware a bit ...)
• Amiga fails to deliver cash, loses naming rights to Kent arena: The city of Kent dumped tech company Amiga as naming-rights sponsor for the city's planned hockey arena after the company failed to deliver...
• Kent Ends Naming-Rights Talks With Software Company Amiga: The city of Kent, Washington, has dropped N.Y.-based software maker Amiga as the naming-rights partner for a planned arena “after the company failed to deliver a promised down payment" yesterday, according to Jim Brunner of the SEATTLE TIMES
• AmiStreamRaider: A modern Twitch frontend for AmigaOS 3.2 – featuring search, categories, live channels, favorites, profiles, ARexx automation, and server-based transcoding. AmiStreamRaider brings a modern Twitch experience to classic Amiga computers. The app connects to a dedicated server (runs locally inside your home network) that handles Twitch API requests—delivering optimized output for AmigaOS via an RxMUI-based interface.
• The Mirari PPC: a modern miracle for Amiga enthusiasts: Few thought we’d ever see new PowerPC hardware for the Amiga platform again, but a small team of Dutch indie engineers is about to prove otherwise. Their project, Mirari PPC, sets out to revive the classic spirit of Amiga computing with a blend of community passion and modern engineering — and in true poetic fashion, mirari means miracle in Portuguese. Built around a QorlQ T1042 quad-core PPC processor clocked at up to 1.6 GHz, the Mirari PPC promises to deliver respectable performance within a compact micro-ATX (244 x 170 mm) form factor.
• ZZ9000 works fine also on Amiga OS4.1 FE with PowerPC !: After several attempts at the end I found the correct way to achieve the purpose or to obtain the video modes of the ZZ9000 also working on Amiga OS4.1 F.E. on my Amiga 4000 with CyberStormPPC. The card can work as I always suspected, but never having much time available, I have never been able to put all the necessary tests to verify the feasibility at least until today.
• S-Video from the A520 {ARCHIVED 10 Jul 2023}: The A520 video modulator was made by Commodore to allow TV sets to display Amiga graphics. It provided a standard UHF RF output as well as a standard composite video output. Unfortunately, with the exception of a few early versions, the A520 has atrocious video quality - being little better than VHS. Fortunately, by the deletion of a few components, and a little rearranging, it is possible to have it generate full bandwidth S-Video.
• Hollywood Powered by Amiga: Dick Van Dyke & the Video Toaster : {Dick Van Dyke at Siggraph 2004 talking about the Amiga Video Toaster"
• Emulating the Amiga 1000 Keyboard: My steps towards emulating an Amiga 1000 keyboard, using the GPIO (input/output) pins of a Raspberry Pi, and implementing parts of the keyboard protocol in Python.
• Amiga Pointer Archive: A browsable collection of all Amiga mouse pointers ever. Now that’s a mouthful! It’s an archive. It’s an editor. It can create a bootable Amiga disk with your pointer on it! Um, what is this, exactly? It’s a mouse pointer museum for the Amiga, with a bit of interactivity sprinkled in. You know, for the kids! 100,685 Disks scanned for mouse pointers. 49,601 Preferences files found. 8,953 Pointers after deduplication. 8,112 Pointers without blank and single-pixel ones. 7 Jan 2026 Latest database update
• 4champ: An app that provides a mobile interface to Amiga Music Preservation database on iOS devices

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Well it's the first full week back from the holidays and I hope everyone getting groove back. I know I'm still working on it! LOL! 

  - Stone Oakvalley Studios needs our help. During some recent research on the history of a personally owned CD-32, the deep dive into the demonstration CD turned up indications of a v1.0 may have 'officially' existed in some form. What follows is an INCREDIBLY detailed article covering virtually all aspects of the various disks and clues point to a v1.0.

  - Oh and with today's links this brings my unofficial TOTAL link count past the 5000 mark. 5010 to be unexactly exact! Not to shabby hun? ;-)

• Prolific Amiga blogger Alexander Grupe has a page in which he has cataloged over 8000 custom mouse points covering over 100,000 scanned disks. This is the kind of dedication that truly inspires me! Also check of the rest of his website for TONS of interesting Amiga postings.
• New issue: Komoda & Amiga Plus #29 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 29
  • “Might as well wish for the moon”

• Random Links...

• Help needed: Does v1.0 of the Amiga CD32 "The Demo Disc" CD exist?: During my research and hunt / whereabouts / history of my own Amiga CD32 bought in early 1994 I dug deep into the particular Demonstration Disc CD that Commodore included with every Amiga CD32 package.
  covering virtually all aspects of the various disks and clues point to a v1.0.
• Amiga Sources: This is a compiled list of free/open sources related to classic Commodore Amiga computers. The list was getting quite long, so I split it into sub-pages: Hardware, Development & Software. {For some unknown reason I REALLY like this site ;-)}
• Running LightWave 5 on AmigaOS 4: LightWave 5 is one of the best 3D applications, that was born on the classic Amigas. Plenty of people started their career in CGI and 3D graphics using it. Let's see how this can be configured to run on a PowerPC based Amiga system, running AmigaOS 4.1 FE.
• Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1: {Bruce Dawson reflects on his career long and, among other topics, he talks about the development of the Mandelbrot programs MandFXP, Mand2000 and Fractal eXtreme, games Test Drive, Grand Prix, and the famous text editor CygnusEd.}
• Motorola 68k Processors: Currently, this page focuses on 68020, 68030, and 68040 processors. This is a best effort, cross-referencing multiple fragmented sources to provide as complete a picture as possible. More exact (but unsourced) information exists in some cases, which may be useful to provide additional data. I have refrained from using those sources here in order to provide only provably accurate information. {VERY detailed information}
• MC1: Amiga hardware and software {Used parts, software, SCSI, and more}...
• AWeb 3: This is AWeb 3 APL open source version, an HTML 3 web browser for Amiga. amigazen project uses modern software development tools and methods to update and rerelease classic Amiga open source software. Our releases include this new AWeb, a new Amiga Python 2, and the ToolKit project - a universal SDK for Amiga.
• AWeb 3.6 The Amiga Web Browser: AWeb 3.6 is the beginning of a comprehensive fork and modernization of the legendary AWeb web browser for Amiga.
• AWeb announcement {ARCHIVED 03 Dec 2023}: June 8, 2002 - source code released. I regret that I haven't got the time to continue development of the AWeb browser. Bringing the browser up to date to today's standards (like support for CSS) would take more time than can be justified by the remaining Amiga market. I like to express my thanks to the Amiga community for using my browser. In return I will release the source code of AWeb, so others in the Amiga community have a chance to continue development.
• Welcome to the official AWeb Open Source Project {ARCHIVED 06 Oct 2009}: "Developers: you are strongly suggested to join this project if you want to help further development of AWeb, instead of starting something on your own." Yvon Rozijn, original author of AWeb
• Fixing a ZZ9000 - Trace cutting: I am the proud owner of a Vintage Amiga 3000 that I rebuilt/fixed recently, on which I added a wonderful mnt ZZ9000 add-on card {...} All was well until I got a mail describing a bug on the pcb. {...} This is causing overheating of the FPGA, and of course is plain bad ... So there are two options to correct the issue : either drill a hole through the PCB, or cut a trace near the connector between the card that plugs in the amiga and the FPGA daughter card. I chose to cut the trace, I fortunately have good eyesight :-)
• Amiga wolfSSL port: This is a port of wolfSSL designed to run on a 68030 or higher Amiga. With some minor tweaking this should work on lower CPUs as well.
• decrypt-amigaforever: This will decrypt Amiga Forver kickstart ROMs so they can be used in a real Amiga. To use it you will need a copy of the rom.key file in the current folder from your copy of Amiga Forever.
• The crucial Sanyo-Commodore pact: forging the Amiga 1000: The Commodore Amiga 1000, launched in July 1985, revolutionized personal computing with its multimedia power, but its exterior stole the show. Young Commodore industrial designer Howard Stolz, despite his inexperience, crafted a sleek case that overpowerd bulkier rivals like the Apple Macintosh or IBM PC, & compatibles. {...} Stolz's enclosure framed these perfectly, turning hardware into a legacy of the 80s. Stolz's deepest collaboration unfolded with Sanyo Electric Co. in Japan, a pivotal story of global manufacturing finesse.

   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Hope everyone had a happy and relaxing holiday season with friends and family or home with your Amiga. Who knows what lays ahead in AmigaLand but if the current trend continues we should be in for a pretty good year. Commodore is STILL in business, several new systems are coming out and further OS updates are on the horizon. What's NOT to be happy about!! 

• Daniel 'Trixie' Jedlica has posted his latest Rear Window blog update in which he mentions he is now a part of the OS4 development team!! AWESOME!!
• The December 2025 AmigaOS 4 monthly roundup has been posted. As always it should be considered required reading and GREAT JOB Puni/Void a.k.a AmigaOldSkooler! Let's hope that Murari is VERY successful and THIS is the year for OS4.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 28
  • “Greater chance of winning the lottery”

• As we start this New Year filled hope and optimism, let's take a quick look back at some of 'what could have been'... LOL

• Amiga President Jim Collas Addresses Amiga99 Attendees: lease Note that this story was constructed from a rather fragmented IRC session. A fast-typing Amiga fan going by the nick of "cwall_SHO" was attending the show and passing on his notes in real time to the 60-70 people in the IRC channel, sponsored by the User Group Network. While some details may be missing or blurry, this is basically the gist of Collas' presentation. March 12, 1999 - Jim Collas, the newly named president of Amiga Inc. and formerly the senior vice president of Product Development and Management for Amiga's parent company, Gateway, addressed an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Henry VIII Hotel, site of the Amiga99 show in St. Louis, Mo. tonight.
  
• Corel Is Pleased To Be Chosen By Amiga To Supply Linux® Applications {ARCHIVED ON Jun 02, 2002}: Corel and Amiga work closely to support new Amiga Operating Environment Ottawa, Canada— July 27, 1999— Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) is pleased to announce that it has formed a new relationship with Amiga, to ensure that Corel’s award-winning software applications will be supported on Amiga’s new line of products that are scheduled to be released later this year.
  
• The Church of AMIGA {ARCHIVED ON Oct 22, 2000}: If you're not already part of the Amiga flock, entering the cramped exhibition hall at an Amiga convention can be profoundly disorienting. Browsing through the software racks and glancing at the aging Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 machines running demos at the AmiWest conference earlier this month in Sacramento, I felt as if I'd entered a parallel universe where software development stopped in the early '90s.
  
• Alienated Amiga Users Tempted by QNX/phase 5 Alternativ: In an intriguing development in the dynamic game that is Amiga development, QNX Software Systems Ltd has licensed its Neutrino operating system to phase 5 Digital Products to be ported to phase 5’s PowerUP accelerators for Amiga computers. When the port is completed, the companies plan to donate a runtime version of Neutrino free of charge to the Amiga community.
  
• Czech Amiga News: Dear Amiga users, dear Amiga companies, Another year, in which we brought you daily news from the world of Amiga, has passed. We are standing at the cross road once again, and as one year ago, we have to do our decision upon further continuation or closure of Czech Amiga News service. {...} So we decided to CONTINUE, at least till 21st March of 2000.
  
• Conversation with Fleecy Moss in IRC chat: {Covering various topics such as OS5Dev, Linux, Gateway 2K, Amiga.com and more}
  
• Dave Haynie discussing PCI vs Zorro: {Correspondence between Dave and Marc Albrecht, the man behind the German company A.C.T., w/cc Petr Krenzelok (REBOL)}
  
• Smells Like Transmeta {ARCHIVED ON Jun 17, 2001}: Could a legendary computer and a rebellious OS shine a little light on the shadowy Transmeta? Out of the batcave called Transmeta, where wealthy playboys mix with programming superheroes, may come the final ingredients in the computer of the future: a networked unit geared for maximum multimedia performance, with a "next generation" superprocessor equipped with a software-programmable microchip. Would you expect anything less from Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and major Transmeta Corporation investor; Linus Torvalds, "father of Linux" and Transmeta's most famous employee; and the never-say-die true believers at Amiga?
  
• Amiga Inc answers your questions (updated): {A thread at Amiga.org where 'Starting last week, {2006/9/13 where they} started collecting questions from the Amiga community for a question and answer session with Amiga Inc's own Bill McEwen. What follows are his answers to those very difficult questions.'
  
• Gateway's Amiga prepares for return: Direct PC maker Gateway appears to be revving up a strategy for decidedly un-PC like "information appliances" through its independent subsidiary, Amiga. Gateway's purchase of Amiga in 1997 mystified many in the computer industry. Amiga's time in the spotlight had long since passed, although it still had many devotees using it for its advanced multimedia capabilities. Two years later, however, the plan is beginning to take shape.
  
• Gateway shelves plans for new Amiga PC: In another twist in the long saga of the Amiga computer, Gateway--the company's would-be savior--apparently won't be making a new Amiga machine anytime soon. Instead, the PC maker will focus on opportunities in the emerging information appliance market, according to sources, and its Amiga subsidiary is redefining itself as a software company. That was unwelcome news to long-suffering fans of the Amiga computer, which has become something of a cult-like icon with a following to match.
  
• Gateway's plan to bring back Amiga: Gateway is set to revive the Amiga legend. But will it be the real McCoy? Two years ago, PC maker Gateway acquired the rights to the personal-computer industry's most famous cult product, the Amiga PC. The Amiga made its debut in 1985, and still has fans, partly as a result of a James Dean-like history: a rapid rise, then a tragic end.
  
• Amiga preps dual-OS plan, outlines hardware line-up: Amiga, inc. is turning itself into Be, if this weekend's revelations from the Amiga 2000 show, held in St. Louis, are anything to go by. During the show, the company said it had entered into partnerships with a series of companies, most notably Sun, Red Hat and Corel, put Java at the forefront of its software efforts and outlined its hardware plans. The key announcement on the hardware front was an upcoming developer-oriented machine, designed to get coders working with Amiga's software technology as quickly as possible. Based on a 500MHz AMD K6-II and 64MB of RAM, it's not exactly the most powerful box out there, but it should be cheap.
  
• Meet new Amiga: Not like old Amiga: Can the reconstituted company recapture its former glory? If it does, Linux, Java and Jini will loom large. Amiga fans wondering whether their beloved brand will recapture its former glory will need to wait a bit longer for a definitive answer. No, Amiga is not getting back into the PC business, per se. Instead, the reconstituted company acquired by Gateway Inc. a couple of years ago will supply operating system software and hardware reference specifications to makers of PCs and appliances. Amiga designs will use Linux as well as off-the-shelf components, such as Universal Serial Bus, for connecting peripherals.
  
• Gateway 'could have had it all': Gateway Inc. may have big plans for Linux-based Internet appliances. But Amiga Inc. -- the company Gateway bought in 1997 and subsequently sold off last year -- has aspirations and agreements of its own to bring Linux to "Amigans." "We're doing exactly what Gateway said they'd do with us," said Bill McEwen, president and CEO of the Snoqualmie, Wash.-based U.S. arm of Amiga. "Gateway could have had it all."
  

   - Time to stick a fork in yet another year... Bye bye 2025... You're out-of-here!!! All anyone can do is wish for is a better 2026!!

Wishing everyone a safe and productive New Year from the whole AmigaSource family.