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Author:
Jenny List
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Aug 13, 2026
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id: 2421 |
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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. |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} 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. |
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{{ARCHIVED}} 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 |
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Tony Smith
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Sep 15, 2026
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id: 6046 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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CNET staff
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Sep 15, 2026
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id: 6044 |
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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. |
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CNET staff
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Sep 15, 2026
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id: 6043 |
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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. |
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ZDNet UK
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Sep 15, 2026
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id: 6045 |
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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. |
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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. Christian Simpson, better known to many retro fans as Peri Fractic, is not only trying to sell new Commodore hardware. He is trying to rebuild a broken technology mythology into a functioning modern company. That is a much harder job than producing a good retro computer. |
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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. |
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Sep 12, 2026
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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) |
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Aug 22, 2026
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id: 5968 |
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Recorded at Kickstart UK Amiga Expo 3, Derby, UK on August 8, 2026. Speakers: Paul Dziennik and Mike Battilana. Thomas Foss is also mentioned |
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Commodore Corner. I am Peri Fractic, of course, president, CEO and Chief Joystick Waggler here at Commodore, and we are coming up on a year since the launch of the Commodore 64 Ultimate. All of the original pre-orders have long since shipped, and we’re improving the logistics daily with some real and tangible changes — but not just the original pre-orders have shipped. |
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