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Amigo (WinUAE for iPad) is out of beta — now free on the App Store
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Amigo (WinUAE for iPad) is out of beta — now free on the App Store

As of yesterday, Amigo cleared App Review and is live on the App Store — free, no ads, no IAP, GPL-2 open source.

Quick recap for anyone who missed the beta thread: it's a port of current upstream WinUAE — 68000–68060, OCS/ECS/AGA, RTG (Picasso96), HDF/RDB hard drives, WHDLoad, bsdsocket networking. iPad extras: 1:1 touch mouse, Apple Pencil (hover = pointer, squeeze = click), full hardware keyboard/mouse/trackpad support, TV out via USB-C or AirPlay, save states. Boots the open-source AROS ROM out of the box; bring your own Kickstarts for the real thing.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/amigo-amiga-emulator/id6792285150
Source: https://github.com/thomas-luebker/iPadUAE

Thanks again to the testers — and to Toni Wilen and everyone behind WinUAE/UAE. If you find bugs, I want them: report here or on GitHub.

u/DotMatrixHead — 7 days ago
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amiagent 0.5.3 — a small TCP daemon that lets another machine drive a real Amiga (AmigaOS 2.0+, 68000 and 020 builds)

amiagent is a small daemon for AmigaOS 2.0 and up. It lets a program on another machine work on the Amiga: run AmigaDOS commands, read and write files, list drawers, report system state, capture the screen, and inject mouse and keyboard input. Plain C against the OS libraries, no third-party dependencies, ~85 KB.

The other half is an MCP server, which is how an AI assistant drives it. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for handing an assistant a set of tools it can call — here amiga_shell, amiga_screenshot, amiga_click and a dozen more. The server is model-agnostic — it never learns which model is on the other end:

Model Reach it through
Claude (Anthropic) Claude Code, Claude Desktop — what it's tested with
GPT / ChatGPT (OpenAI) Codex CLI
Gemini (Google) Gemini CLI
Local / open weights LM Studio, Goose, Cline, Continue
Whatever your editor uses Cursor, Zed, Windsurf

Same server in every case — only the config file differs. Stdlib Python 3, no pip, no venv.

Where it earns its keep is when you can't use the machine to fix the machine. Pick a Picasso96 mode your monitor won't sync to and you have an Amiga running perfectly and showing you nothing — you can't read the screen to fix the screen. The agent is still there over the network: read DEVS:Monitors, capture what the machine thinks it's displaying, put a working mode back. It's a service running on the Amiga, not a rescue system, so the machine does have to be up and on the network.

None of that is required, though. The wire protocol is documented and simple enough to drive from a shell script, so it works as a plain remote-control daemon with no AI involved.

New in 0.5.3: file reads use a 64 KB buffer instead of 8 KB, so pulling a big file off a real Amiga is noticeably quicker. Falls back to the old path on a machine short of memory. No protocol change.

Also in the release: amibench 1.0, a standalone CPU/memory benchmark for comparing two Amigas — runs in about ten seconds, needs nothing else installed.

Security, plainly: the connection is not encrypted and the agent runs whatever it's sent. Set a TOKEN, keep it on a LAN you trust, and never forward the port.

https://github.com/thomas-luebker/amimcp/releases/tag/v0.5.3

u/LokiBC — 9 days ago
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Amiga Imager v0.99 is out — the release candidate for 1.0, and we need your hardware for the last round of testing (macOS)

Following up on v0.98: Amiga Imager v0.99 is out now — and it's the release candidate for 1.0.

The project has been feature-frozen since 0.98, so this is a bugfix and polish release with one deliberate exception. The plan from here is simple: 1.0 will be this exact code plus whatever you find. If something's wrong on your hardware, now is the moment it gets fixed.

What's new in v0.99

  • Apollo/Vampire 68080 support — SAGA RTG with the correct boot screen mode, V4Net/V2ExpEth networking, auto-mounted SD slot, Apollo Kickstart tools staged on the image (validated on a real Icedrake A1200)
  • FreeWay CP USB cards get their correct dedicated driver
  • Much more reliable first boot on Classic builds (locale setup and the dock now come up dependably; USB is a short one-time Trident setup, described in the handbook)
  • HDToolBox now points at the right device on UAE/Amiberry builds
  • Readable NewMeter colors on Classic RTG, drawer icon fixes, AmiSSL compatibility fix
  • Opt-in package with the prerequisites for the IMP3 chat client
  • Every first-boot helper on the images is now a plain, readable AmigaDOS script — you can open and inspect everything the build puts on your Amiga
  • Completely rewritten handbook, 12 chapters, with a print-friendly PDF

Where testing helps most

  • Classic hardware breadth: RTG cards (ZZ9000, P-Vision, VA2000, CyberVision, Picasso…), network cards (PCMCIA, Zorro, clockport, A314), USB cards (Subway, Highway, Algor, FreeWay)
  • Vampire owners: V4 family and especially V2 cards — the support is new and has so far been validated on one Icedrake
  • PiStorm on all board types (classic PiStorm, PiStorm32-lite, PiStorm16)
  • UAE, Amiberry, and MiSTer builds
  • On any platform: the first boot itself — locale question, automatic reboot, dock appearing

If you hit anything, a comment here is perfect. Most useful details: your machine and board, ROM version, the configuration you selected, and the build log the app exports next to the image — that log usually tells us exactly what happened.

Beta release, macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Current build: 260715

Thanks to everyone who tested the previous releases — the fixes in 0.99 exist because of those reports. One more round and we ship 1.0 (and there will be some bigger news around then, too).

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u/LokiBC — 1 month ago
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Amiga Imager v0.92 Beta is out now

Hi All,

v0.90 was mainly about making the native disk engine trustworthy. v0.92 is where that work starts to show up much more clearly in the actual workflow.

The biggest step in this release is that Amiga Imager now feels less like only an image builder and more like a broader native Amiga toolkit on macOS.

What is new in v0.92:

Amiga File Manager for browsing images, SD, CF, and SSD media, ADFs, drawers, and archives directly on macOS native Greaseweazle floppy support in Swift, with no additional software required read real disks to ADF, write ADFs back, browse floppy contents, and capture raw flux when needed faster Build & Write to Card, with a direct path from settings to real SD, CF, or SSD media and no separate export step a more complete AmigaDiskKit engine, now covering the core FFS, PFS3, ADF, LHA, and PiStorm FAT32 workflows natively in Swift Platform coverage has also moved forward. UAE and Amiberry are now confirmed tested and working, and MiSTer is now also confirmed with RTG support.

So compared with v0.90, this one is much more visible from a user point of view. The native engine work is still the foundation, but v0.92 is where it starts turning into a much broader day-to-day workflow.

Beta release, macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Current build: 260716

Website: https://amiga-imager.com

Downloads: https://amiga-imager.com/downloads/

Release notes: https://amiga-imager.com/release-notes-v0.92/

As always, feedback is very welcome, especially from anyone testing on real PiStorm, Classic Amiga, MiSTer, UAE, or Amiberry setups.

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u/LokiBC — 2 months ago