I previously posted about the direction I felt Commodore was taking by focusing on a mobile phone with less user utility rather than finding innovative ways to free the user.

In this post I want to point to Nokia, a Finnish company that lost it all and the incredible 5 year returns it has had.

The Commodore brand, like Nokia has nostalgic value and captures retro vibe far more than Nokia could.

There are many great ideas that are bubbling up that Commodore could use to make itself relevant again.

If mobile is going to be the play then it should be competing with a combination of modern hardware, nostalgia, brand and novel ideas that free the user.

Rather than focus on just the Callback, please tell me why Commodore can’t do what Nokia has?

Both are using Android, both are outsourcing their manufacturing, both are nostalgia brands, both are a small group of people who had good ideas and were able to get the rights to a retro brand.

One of them is led by a former Star Wars actor who has an influential social media following and a Steve Jobs esque reality distortion field.

I would say Commodore should have the advantage!

Hoped to make a few to sell but I’ll
Need to make a few more just to get better at it. I may tried an opaque version

NOTE: No cases were harmed in this project. I took a silicone casting of the inside of my A1000 cover. I then used casting epoxy to make the cover you see here.

My 3 day expo ticket in my only visit to Chicago. I visited a Submarine as well.

I wanted a dedicated little Amiga box and figured I'd grab a Raspberry Pi 5. But by the time I added the board, PSU, case, cooler, and a decent SD card, the build was pushing past what I actually wanted to spend on this.

Meanwhile, I had an Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13" (i7-5557U, 16GB) that fell off Apple's support list and was doing nothing in a drawer, plus a spare 64GB microSD. So I used what I had. (If you're wondering how "PiMiga" runs on a Mac: PiMiga 5 ships an x86 build alongside the Pi image, so it works on basically any PC that can boot from SD or USB.)

The "Cartridge" Concept

The whole thing runs off that single microSD in the built-in card slot (second photo). PiMiga 5 lives entirely on the card: root, kickstart partition, EFI, all of it. The internal 500GB SSD is completely untouched, with macOS still sitting there on APFS.

• Slot it in: it's an Amiga.
• Pop it out: it boots normally as a Mac.

Fully reversible. No dual-boot menus, nothing overwritten.

Performance

The i7 turns out to be a monster for this. It's a 3.4GHz Broadwell with far stronger IPC than the Pi 5's A76 cores, and single-thread performance is exactly what UAE's JIT lives on. It has tons of headroom even for the heavier 040/060 WHDLoad configs. I ended up with more machine than the Pi would've been, for less money, out of parts I already owned.

The Clean Setup

Getting it wire-free was the fun part. Final closed-clamshell result in the first photo:

• Video: HDMI straight out to the monitor.
• Peripherals: A single Logitech Bolt receiver. I roam this dongle between a couple of machines depending on where I'm sitting.
• Network: The Broadcom BCM43602 Wi-Fi needs a driver that isn't on the PiMiga image at first boot. I plugged in a USB ethernet adapter just long enough to pull firmware-brcm80211, then unplugged it. Wi-Fi has been rock solid since.
• Thermals: Running a 28W chip lid-closed sounds like a bad idea, but the real problem was that stock Linux wasn't driving the fans at all. Installing mbpfan fixed it. The fan now tracks the CPU temp properly via applesmc, and it sits happily in the 70s under load with plenty of margin.

The end result is exactly the vibe I was after: a laptop that stays tucked away and boots straight into Workbench with zero clutter. Turns out the cheapest retro rig was the hardware I'd already written off.

After posting my setup some time ago I slightly optimised it and made it more ergonomic for use. Builded a little monitor riser / amiga garage to have everything right in front of me.
The wooden board was a leftover of the desk. The stands are printed in PLA.
Next steps:
- new purple case of a1200.net
- tank mouse black case and laser mod
- external keyboard adapter
- new mechanical keyboard in black
- rgbtohdmi
- external gotek drive

​I’m absolutely buzzing today! I just received a new Amiga 500 ( it's my second one) that I picked up from a super kind fellow Amiga fan via Kleinanzeigen.

​The condition is great, and it gave me the perfect chance to do something I haven't done since the 90s: I pulled the original box of my all-time favorite game, Lionheart, off the shelf and fired it up.

​Seeing that intro sequence and listening to rhat awesome GameStar music on original hardware again hit me right in the nostalgia. Lionheart is one of the best games ever made for the system to me. I just had to share this moment with all of you 🙂

​Happy gaming, everyone!

LumiPass - a Password manager for your Amiga Workbench - with Import/Export, Generator, Pwned-Online-Check and ARexx-Bridge.

https://www.amigaworld.de/software/lumipass/

#commodore #amiga #amigaos #amigaworld #software #password #crypto #retro

When I was 10, I genuinely didn't like playing games. It felt like time stolen from the real fun — fighting with C64 BASIC and, later, Amiga assembler. But there was one game that consistently beat my own code for my attention: Ports of Call. Running a little shipping company, counting every mark, sweating through those docking approaches... it didn't feel like playing. It felt like thinking.

This year I finally paid that debt. I built Ports of Callback — a browser remake of that feeling, reworked for what I became: a software developer.

• The ports are cities named after TCP ports — Port 22 is SSH Harbor, Port 443 is Fort TLS (you have to complete a 3-beat TLS handshake before its berth opens)
• The cargo is Docker containers, npm packages and legacy COBOL (which only loads onto your oldest ship, obviously)
• The Kraken only hunts ships that departed on a Friday, because every developer knows you don't deploy on Fridays
• And yes — you still dock by hand, and it's still the best part

Every wave, ship and port is drawn procedurally in code — no image assets, which felt like the right way to honor the era. Every Monday the game generates one world for everyone, and the fastest IPO tops a global leaderboard.

It's free, runs in the browser, no install, no ads: https://ports-of-callback.dev

I've also written to Rolf-Dieter Klein, the original author, to tell him what his game did to a stubborn 10-year-old programmer. Fingers crossed he approves.

Happy to answer anything about the game or how it's built. And if you were also an Amiga kid who lost hours to the original — the docking minigame is waiting for you. It remembers.

What could possibly go wrong…? 😅

If you grew up in the UK, you already know this wasn’t just a cartoon—it was a rite of passage. Countless childhoods were left emotionally scarred by what parents genuinely thought was “a nice film about rabbits.” 🥹💔

Beautiful animation, unforgettable music… and enough trauma to keep an entire generation talking about it decades later.

Who else watched this way too young? 🙋‍♂️

#WatershipDown #VHS #RetroMovies #80sKids #90sKids #ChildhoodTrauma #ClassicAnimation #BritishAnimation #RichardAdams #Nostalgia #RetroMemories #MovieNight #FamilyMovie #VintageVHS #CultClassic #GrowingUpInThe80s #GrowingUpInThe90s #CoreMemory #RetroCollectibles #MemoryUnlocked

If you owned an Amiga in the early ’90s, chances are you remember the adrenaline rush of Wings by Cinemaware.

Dogfights in fragile biplanes, bombing runs, strafing missions, and a surprisingly emotional campaign that made every fallen pilot feel like a real loss. It wasn’t just another flying game—it was one of the most cinematic gaming experiences of its era.

For many gamers, Wings proved that video games could tell unforgettable stories long before modern graphics and cutscenes.

Did you ever make it through the war… or did the Red Baron always get you? ✈️👇

#Wings #Cinemaware #Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #RetroGaming

I am using eagle player with this player but every time I try to save the samples ripped using samplesaver, it just brings up the samplesaver window like in the video I mentioned. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?. I'm emulating a 1200 because trying to play the turrican 2 module on a 500 causes the emulator to lock up. If anyone could help me or send me the samples you ripped yourselves that would be great. Thanks.

Not easy to see her hologram/glitter effect, but she looks great, especially with a mechanical keyboard from Amigastore.eu

Jednostavan kao (“simple as”, Croat)