Collaborate Disseminate
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 thr… Continue reading The Last Days of Amiga – and the Lost Amiga CD64
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 shoo… Continue reading Amazingly, New Commercial Amiga Games are Under Development
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: A-EON Technology Ltd has released Enhancer Software Release 2.1 for AmigaOS4.1 FE update 2, which itself was released on 23 December 2020. It’s an OS enhancement package with large amounts of updated and upg… Continue reading AmigaOS Is Still Getting Updates and Upgrades
In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips the PC for Mission-Critical Computing at NASA
For all the fancy features of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, sometimes you just want to wrap yourself in the comfortable nostalgia of classic games. If you don’t have the original machine still yellowing in your attic, you can buy modernized mini… Continue reading Amiga 500 Mini retro console emerges from the archives
Back in the late 1980s, Commodore pulled the masterstroke of selling several models and generations of Amiga that were all powered by essentially the same speed 68000 and associated chipset. …read more Continue reading The Amiga 2000 You Always Wanted
The Amiga, well known as the best and greatest computer ever designed, is nonetheless a platform of yesteryear. Its 68K, and later PowerPC, architectures have both been abandoned by the …read more Continue reading PiStorm Brings Modern Muscle To The Amiga
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 thes… Continue reading A New Motherboard For Amiga, The Platform That Refuses To Die
A few years back, the Andy Warhol Museum ran into an unusual problem. They wanted to display digital pieces the pop artist created on his Amiga 1000 back in the 1980s, but putting the vintage computers on the floor and …read more
Continue reading Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
Folks who like the take the old Amiga out for the occasional Sunday drive usually do it because they have wistful memories of the simpler times. Back when you could edit documents or view spreadsheets on a machine that had …read more