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}