#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #AROS #Amiga #OdysseyWebBrowser #Odyssey

Catch of the Day: The Spirit of the Amiga Lives On! 🦋💾

Hey Retro Fans!
Anyone who thinks the era of Commodore and the legendary AmigaOS is long gone hasn't reckoned with our FrogFind radar. Today we caught an exotic guest in the frog pond that proves: Legends never die, they just recompile!

Our bouncer welcomed this fantastic entry:
Mozilla/5.0 (AROS x86_64; Odyssey Web Browser; rv:2.1) ...

What we are looking at here is AROS (AROS Research Operating System). This is not an emulator, but a completely independent, open-source operating system that has recreated the APIs of the classic AmigaOS 3.1 from scratch—designed to run natively and lightning-fast on modern x86_64 PC processors! Booting AROS brings that unmistakable, lightweight Amiga feeling straight to a modern machine.

And what do you use to browse the web? The Odyssey Web Browser (OWB), of course, the absolute undisputed champion of "next-gen" Amiga-like systems (such as MorphOS, AmigaOS 4, and AROS). The fact that someone boots up their alternative, enthusiast operating system and deliberately navigates to FrogFind shows just how deeply rooted our search engine has become in the scene.

Cheers to the alternative operating system community! May your Guru Meditation always stay away.

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Hollywood: Ogg Vorbis-Plugin 2.0

Press Release: Airsoft Softwair is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the Ogg Vorbis plugin for Hollywood.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00004-EN.html

#Amiga #programming #Hollywood #AROS #MorphOS

AirScanner 0.63: Scan programm for the eSCL protocol (AirScan)

Tomasz Paul is working on a program for scanners that support the eSCL protocol ("AirScan") in versions 2.5 and 2.62. The Epson models XP-322 and ET L3160 as well as the Canon G6050 have been confirmed to work. As a Hollywood program, it is available for AROS, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-04-00121-EN.html

#Amiga #AmigaOS4 #MorphOS #AROS #Airscan #scanner

QEMU frontend for running AmigaOS 4/MorphOS/AROS: Kyvos 2.0.0

George @walkero Sokianos' QEMU frontend Kyvos, designed to significantly simplify the setup and launch of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and AROS under QEMU, is now available in version 2.0.0, which aims to further improve the user experience and, for example, automates the entire installation process for AmigaOS 4.1 FE, including updates.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-04-00117-EN.html

#QEMU #frontend #AmigaOS4 #AROS #MorphOS

AROS: Experimental USB 3 support in Poseidon

In mid-December 2025, we reported that USB 3.0 support for the Poseidon USB stack was under development by Nick 'Kalamatee' Andrews, and that an initial experimental ISO was already available. Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz has now improved this approach to such an extent that AROS 64-bit can be booted from USB sticks on motherboards with USB 3 support.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-04-00077-EN.html

#AROS #USB3 #Poseidon