Long before bedroom producers had unlimited audio tracks, polished plug-ins and gigabytes of sample libraries, Amiga…
Category: Amiga news
Amiga hardware is thriving, but the platform needs new software to survive
The Amiga still refuses to become merely history. Against all commercial logic, dedicated people continue to…
Harald Speyer: the forgotten executive behind Commodore Europe
In the history of Commodore, the brightest spotlight usually falls on the American names: Jack Tramiel,…
How a Commodore mistake helped Peter Molyneux build a video game empire
Before Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fable, Peter Molyneux was not a…
Foundation Gold Amiga retrospective: building an empire in the later Amiga years
By the year 2000, the Amiga games market was no longer the crowded battlefield it had…
ShapeShifter explained: the Amiga emulator that brought Macintosh to Commodore
There are moments in computer history when a piece of software does more than perform a…
A-10 Tank Killer retrospective: why Dynamix’s Warthog sim still matters
Some flight simulators arrive wearing mirrored sunglasses, polished medals and a Top Gun grin. A-10 Tank…
Jon Hare: The British game designer who made the Commodore Amiga unforgettable
Before football games became glossy television simulations, before war games turned into cinematic blockbusters, and before…
Silent Service on Amiga: Sid Meier’s submarine simulation classic revisited
There are action games that shout at you from the first second, all explosions, flashing sprites…
Fallout 2 on AmigaOS enters beta, and it is wonderfully absurd
Some games get remasters. Some get re-releases. Some get lovingly preserved by fans with the sort…
Amiga vs Archimedes: multimedia muscle against ARM-powered speed
There was a moment, before the personal computer became standardised into the familiar shape of the…
The forgotten Commodore Amiga story behind seaQuest DSV’s 90s CGI
By the time seaQuest DSV arrived on television in 1993, science fiction was changing. For decades,…
Amiga CD32 gets better MiSTer FPGA support with updated Amiga core
The latest Amiga core developments on MiSTer are important because they make the Amiga CD32 and…
Fallout 1 beta released for AmigaOS: classic RPG gets a native Amiga port
The original Fallout has reached classic AmigaOS in a new native port (beta relase), bringing Interplay’s…
How Cinema 4D started on the Commodore Amiga and changed 3D design
On a beige desk somewhere in Europe in the early 1990s, an Amiga whirred to life.…
The man who made racing games feel real: Geoff Crammond’s legacy
By the time your car leaves the track in Stunt Car Racer, there is a small,…
Long-awaited Amiga brawler Metro Siege launches Kickstarter campaign
Metro Siege has launched on Kickstarter and reached €28,000 in backing within two days. That is…
Classic Amiga word processor FinalWriter returns with major AmigaOS update
FinalWriter 7.3 is set to arrive for AmigaOS end June 2026, bringing one of the platform’s…
Eric Graham’s 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer recovered from original disk image
Nearly 40 years after Eric Graham’s Juggler helped define what the Commodore Amiga could be, the…
The billionaire who might have saved Amiga: Pentti Kouri, Hyperion and AmigaOS 4
For most Amiga users, the story of the machine is a story of chips, demos, strange…
AROS gets Nvidia support, and that is bigger than it sounds
AROS is an Amiga-compatible operating system based on x86, built to carry the ideas of the…
WinUAE escapes Windows: the Amiga emulator heavyweight comes to Linux and macOS
For decades, Amiga fans have been very good at waiting. They waited for new hardware. They…
Ghosts’N Goblins AGA Amiga port gets CD32 release and control improvements
There are difficult games, there are unfair games, and then there is Ghosts’N Goblins, a game…
KickSmash32 2.0 makes Kickstart ROM swapping easier for big-box Amiga users
The Amiga has seen many upgrades over the decades: accelerators, flicker fixers, CompactFlash cards, network adapters,…
AmiBlitz 3.12.0 update improves Amiga development with Reaction groundwork
The Amiga scene has always had a strange and wonderful relationship with time. The rest of…
Razor 1911 and the Amiga demoscene: outlaws, cracktros and computer art
In the pre-broadband age, before Steam libraries, Discord servers and YouTube explainers, computer culture travelled by…
MorphOS 3.20 brings Mirari support, Radeon improvements and major system updates
In a computing world increasingly ruled by cloud accounts, monthly subscriptions and assistants that pop up…