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.