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Wayfarer adds JavaScript speculative JIT and WebAssembly support
Wayfarer 11.6 with DFG JIT and WebAssembly with BBQ JIT is now available for MorphOS 3.20. This is the first time an Amiga-compatible 32-bit big-endian system has had a browser with a speculative JIT. This tier offers a typical speed improvement of 6x on...
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RGB2RTG v0.5 - Redirect your AMIGA 1200 RGB image to RTG display
What looks to be an incredible piece of homebrew software has arrived on Itch.io that could change the game for Amiga 1200 PiStorm owners. Developed by Astair86, RGB2RTG is an unofficial Emu68 fork designed to redirect the Amiga's native RGB video signal...
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Wolf Duology - Binary Asylum's 1994 Amiga 3D Shoot 'em up as an ultrawide PC modernization
It feels like only yesterday that we announced that the Amiga classics Ruff 'N' Tumble and Superfrog had received unofficial PC modernizations, complete with widescreen support, high-resolution details, all the while running at a smooth 50fps+.Well, fast...
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The AmiGoonies (1986) - Iconic MSX game 'The Goonies' gets an in-dev Amiga port [UPDATE]
Here's another great classic that wasn't just a movie, it had a game too! And that game, just like the movie was called The Goonies. Originally the game came out for the C64, Atari 8bit, Apple II, MSX, and was later ported to the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad...
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There and Back Again – The End of AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup
Hi everyone, Thanks for visiting my blog! My Amiga “career” started with an Amiga 500 many, many years ago. Bought it in the city of Tønsberg in Norway. The shop was Spaceworld. Best purchase I’ve ever made! Over the years I’ve had many computers, and at...
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Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended
Brussels – August 4, 2026 Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation have, after several months of intense negotiations, reached a new settlement...
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It's been a long love story, but it had to stop
If you click on the DOWNLOAD button or links on this site, you will get a 404 ERROR. This is not my will, of course. Google's operators took this decision, disabling and hiding my download page, because they think Icaros Desktop violates I-don-t-know-what...
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Say welcome to SiMBa
You know how it works: "make it work first, then make it better". I restarted toying with LUA to write a little configuration editor for Windows shares, making creation of share DOSDrivers files really quick and easy, but I wasn't satisfied at all. The...
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Serving a GUI to HyperV Server 2019
This is funny. While I was still working on Hostbridge, I had to test a procedure on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Core, which is a interface-less stripped down version of Windows Server acting only as hypervisor. But, after all, it's always Windows and, if...
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Goodbye old site!
Hello and welcome to the new Icaros Desktop's website. Starting from today, this will be the new look of our home in the Internet. We've changed our old blog template with a new one, because it didn't behave well with Blogspot's new interface and preview...
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Integrating unrar 5.90
Today I've been testing some new components of Icaros Desktop, including unrar 5.90. I had to modify ZuneARC'c configuration file, because the stack I already set for version 5.80, 400000, wasn't enough. I raised it to 800000, and now RAR archives can be...
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Transferring Trademark Registrations to Amiga Corporation
In early August, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion Entertainment announced that an out-of-court settlement had been reached in their long-running legal dispute. Today I browsed and […] The post Transferring Trademark Registrations to Amiga Corporation...
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New high level language for the Amiga
Hi, some might know me for porting Ambermoon to modern platforms, bugfixing the original and creating the extension (also for the Amiga). I also like to design new programming languages. I always had the dream to use a high level language which is not too...