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A600GS/A1200NG: AmiBench 46.2.1425 (02. Mar. 2026)
AmiBench is a desktop environment provided by AmigaKit for the A600GS and A1200NG computers. It is based on AmigaKit's "System Release V46" distribution, supplemented by several AROS components. The following updates have been provided: 46.2.1414 (2...

File manager: "Dir Me Up" V4.20 for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4 (22. Dec. 2025)
After introducing version 4 in July last year, Boing Attitude released version 4.15, the first update to its commercial file manager "Dir Me Up", which for the first time supported AmigaOS 3.2 on fast RTG systems (Vampire V4, A600GS, PiStorm, WinUAE, etc....

A600GS/A1200NG: AmiPDF-NG for AmiBench announced (14. Dec. 2025)
Since 2016, the PDF viewer AmiPDF has been part of the AmigaKit Enhancer package. Now AmiPDF-NG has been announced for the "AmiBench" Workbench of the emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems. It will be available with the next free system update and is...

File manager: "Dir Me Up" v4.15 for AmigaOS 3.2 and 4 (21. Nov. 2025)
Following the release of version 4 in July last year, Boing Attitude has now released the first update to its commercial file manager "Dir Me Up". The new version 4.15 now supports AmigaOS 3.2 (video) on fast RTG systems (Vampire V4, A600GS, PiStorm, WinU...

A600GS and A1200NG: System update including new AmiBrowser version (27. Oct. 2025)
AmigaKit regularly releases system updates for its emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems, which existing customers receive directly via the built-in Live Updater. The latest update includes a new version of AmiBrowser and ScummVM V3. Users can now...

Event: Personal reflections on the Amiga40 (27. Oct. 2025)
If you didn't make it to the Amiga40 event in Mönchengladbach last weekend, three blog entries offer you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the events after the fact. Under the title "Glad in Gladbach", AmigaOS4 developer Daniel 'Trixie' Jedlicka...

A600GS and A1200NG: AmiBrowser V46.20 (Pre Release 2) (15. Sep. 2025)
AmigaKit has released Pre Release 2 of its AmiBrowser for its emulation-based systems A600GS and A1200NG. Changes: Add support for downloading files: currently supports downloading to drawer based and true disks only. RAM: and hardfile based disks wi...

A600GS and A1200NG: System update including pre-release version of AmiBrowser (10. Aug. 2025)
AmigaKit regularly releases system updates for its emulation-based A600GS and A1200NG systems, which existing customers receive directly via the built-in Live Updater, which is why we only report on this in exceptional cases. However, it is worth menti...

Emulator hardware: AmiBrowser announced for A1200NG and A600GS (update) (06. Aug. 2025)
AmigaKit has announced its own web browser for its A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard, which would be available shortly (press release as PDF file). "AmiBrowser" runs on AmigaKit's desktop AmiBench, which is based on the rei...

Print magazine: Boing #10 (French/English) (28. Jul. 2025)
40 years of Amiga, 10 years of Boing Attitude: the publisher is celebrating these two anniversaries in a special way with the tenth issue of the Boing magazine. Instead of the usual 52 pages, there are now 104 pages of news and information about all Amiga...

Emulator hardware: Update 46.1.1151 for A1200NG and A600GS (10. Jul. 2025)
Another software update has been released for AmigaKit's A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard. It is available for download to registered AmiSphere customers and includes the following changes: Upgrade PlayVideo to 46.7 Avo...

Video: German-language field report on the A600GS, part 5 (02. Jul. 2025)
The YouTube channel "Tobonocom's Retro Journal" has added a fifth part to its video series on the A600GS, which is dedicated to the integration of a graphics card in the emulation environment under AmigaOS 3.2....

Emulator hardware: Update 46.1.1131 for A1200NG and A600GS (20. Jun. 2025)
Another software update has been released for AmigaKit's A600GS emulator platform and the ARM-based A1200NG motherboard. It is available for download to registered AmiSphere customers and includes the following changes: The video playback feature (am...

Emulator hardware: ARM accelerated video playback for A1200NG and A600GS (18. Jun. 2025)
As announced by AmigaKit, the next update will install the PlayVideo tool, enabling ARM accelerated video playback. (video). MPEG video files can be played either on the AmiBench screen or in full-screen mode. They can also be started using the correspon...

Hardware emulators: ARM-native MP3 decoding for A1200NG and A600GS (24. May. 2025)
As Amigakit announces in a post on amigaworld.net, they have released "ArmMP3File.library" that uses native ARM code to decode MP3 files. In addition to the text-based player already available, it is hoped that an MP3 player with a graphical user interfac...

AROS: The Register reports on the portable AROS distribution (23. May. 2025)
The Register is an online portal offering news and analyses from the world of technology companies. A current article is dedicated to the recently released portable AROS distribution (amiga-news.de reported) and explores how this live distribution works. ...

Emulator hardware: "A1200 NG" has been shipping to end customers since this week (24. Apr. 2025)
AmigaKit announces that it has started shipping the "A1200 NG" emulator solution after Easter. The company is working on an 'overclocking kit' that will soon be available and should increase computing power by up to 20 per cent. There will also be a port ...

Database: Amigamap.com now also catalogs A600GS and THEA500 Mini (20. Apr. 2025)
On Amigamap.com, Mario Wilkens catalogs all Amiga systems still in use, including MorphOS and AROS (amiga-news.de reported). At the suggestion of Michael Rupp, owners of a THEA500 Mini or an A600GS can now also register their device there....

A600GS: Software update 46.1.1015 (01. Mar. 2025)
A further software update has been released for AmigaKit's A600GS emulator platform, which is available for download to registered AmiSphere customers and includes the following changes: A600GS Add Italian language translation thanks to Samir Hawa...

Emulated Amiga: OctaMED 8 update for A600GS and A1200NG (24. Feb. 2025)
AmigaKit has released an update for the music tracker software OctaMED 8 for the Orange Pi based Amiga clone A600GS (amiga-news.de reported) and the ARM and emulator based mainboard A1200NG (amiga-news.de reported). The changes: The Open Recent Proje...