37-year-old Amiga platform gets updates to Linux kernel, AmigaOS SDK
Amiga's big German conference also happened for the first time since COVID. Enlarge / Linux 6.0, implemented in a Fienix distribution on dedicated Amiga user xeno74's desktop. (credit: xeno74 / Hyperion Entertainment) The last.....»»
AROS One x86 v1.7 and MorphOS 3.17 PPC Released
Mike Bouma writes: Version 1.7 of AROS One for x86 has just been released and it's a distro of the "AROS Research Operating System," originally "Amiga Research Operating System." It's a standalone, free and open-source multi-media centric operating s.....»»
"Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit"
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on Windows, macOS, and Linux (as well as running on classic 68K Amigas expanded with a Vampire upgrade card)......»»
AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux
Mike Bouma writes: Despite being expensive and having been sold out for quite some time at the main Amiga Dealers, two days after Linus Torvalds' release of Linux 5.18, Christian "xeno74" Zigotzky made the latest PPC kernel available for the AmigaOne.....»»
How to Write Your Own Games - for the Amiga
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: With the release of the A500 mini (which also supports A1200 games) and its side loading feature you may be interested to get started with Amiga Retro games development. This is why I collected some recent.....»»
Discover your public cloud exposure with Recon.Cloud
In this video for Help Net Security, Gafnit Amiga, Director of Security Research at Lightspin, talks about the firm’s latest tool: Recon.Cloud. Recon.Cloud is a public and free tool that searches for publicly exposed clouds assets on any domain.....»»
What Andy Warhol Was Really Thinking on Commodore"s Amiga Demo Day
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Thirty five years after Andy Warhol's death, the NY Times reports on a new wave of Warhol-Mania as the famed pop artist is currently the subject of a Netflix documentary series (The Andy Warhol Diaries), an ex.....»»
Exclusive First "The A500 Mini" Prototype Playtest
Longtime Slashdot reader Mike Bouma writes: Retro Recipes LLC has previewed prototype serial #01 of the "A500 mini" Amiga retro console on YouTube. The console comes with 25 preinstalled games including Worms: The Director's Cut, Simon the Sorcerer,.....»»
The Last Days of Amiga - and the Lost Amiga CD64
This week Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) looked back nearly 30 years to the glory days of the world's first true 32-bit CD based home console — Commodore's Amiga32. In the final three months of 1993, the company had sold 100,000 in just t.....»»
Amazingly, New Commercial Amiga Games are Under Development
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Pixelglass Games and BitBeamCannon are working on new commercial Amiga games. Metro Siege is a 2-player beat 'em up for the Amiga 500 with 1 MB of Ram. You can watch a teaser trailer here. Alarcity is a sh.....»»
A mini version of the legendary Amiga 500 is on the way
As we explain in The Commodore Story: Gone but not forgotten, the company introduced its first machine to carry the name, the Amiga 1000, on July 23, 1985. But most people familiar with the computers owned an Amiga 500. That model was released in Jan.....»»
1990s Amiga classic Zool returns this month
Released in 1992 by Gremlin Graphics, which was behind retro classics HeroQuest and the Lotus series, Zool did little to hide the fact it was a Sonic clone. Viewed through my rose-tinted nostalgia glasses, I vaguely recall it being a pretty good Amig.....»»
A New Motherboard For Amiga, The Platform That Refuses To Die
Hackaday writes: In the early years of personal computing there were a slew of serious contenders. A PC, a Mac, an Atari ST, an Amiga, and several more that all demanded serious consideration on the general purpose desktop computer market. Of all th.....»»