- 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: Please 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 07 Oct 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 22 Oct 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.
• Meet new Amiga: Not like old Amiga: 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."
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Amiga Inc answers your questions (updated) {ARCHIVED 25 Sep 2006}: {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.'
• Smells Like Transmeta {ARCHIVED 17 Jun 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?
• 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)
• Conversation with Fleecy Moss in IRC chat: {Covering various topics such as OS5Dev, Linux, Gateway 2K, Amiga.com and more}
• 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.
• Alienated Amiga Users Tempted by QNX/phase 5 Alternative: 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.

   - 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.