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Vintage Computing, Retro Gaming, and other Geekeries.

#Amiberry v8.0.0 is out! The biggest release ever, with 400+ changes:

- Migrated to SDL3
- Windows, Android & Haiku support
- Built-in auto-updater
- Linux package repos (APT/YUM/PPA/COPR)
- JIT on ARM64, x86-64 & Android
- OpenGL renderer with CRT shaders
- Networking stack rewrite
- SIMD display pipeline (~4x faster)
- RetroArch/Libretro core
- Dear ImGui GUI with WinUAE parity
- Synced with WinUAE 6.1.0

Full details and download links:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Amiberry-v8-0-0-is-here-K3K31W2QGW

#Amiga #Emulation

Amiberry v8.0.0 is here!

MiDWaN published a post on Ko-fi

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Hi, yes, welcome to Mozilla Burger. It's true our burgers come with asbestos but the good news is you can pick it off yourself. Look how easy that is. No we can't make a burger without it and let you add it yourself later. Why would we do that?

“If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

> If you’re adding sparkly icon “now with AI!” features to your software, you’re in quarterly driven failure mode

If users notice your software, you’re already a loser

Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones. I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone! And Fairphone will even sell you it with the G…

Pivot to AI

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Tech Policy Press

I felt that Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Office, could use a mascot. So I asked Copilot to design something in the spirit of Clippy.

Let me introduce you to Sloppy, a cheerful slightly gooey assistant with glasses and a headset.

#Microslop

jotd666 works his arcade porting magic again and releases another classic from #Namco with this Dig Dug 2 conversion for the #Commodore #Amiga

https://jotd666.itch.io/dig-dug-2

#retrogame #retrogaming

Dig Dug 2 by jotd666

Port of DigDug 2 arcade game for Amiga

itch.io
I didn't get serious with my art until around July or so of this year so I'm not going to do one of those 12 month wrap-ups. Instead, it's art vs. artist with some of my favorite pieces done this year. #artvsartist #artvsartist2025 #mastoart #furryart #digitalart #traditionalart

Halo Zero (Unofficial remake - Amiga/MD/NeoGeoCD) by Earok gets a preview build! 👇
https://www.indieretronews.com/2025/12/halo-zero-unofficial-remake.html (copy and paste)

#Halo #HaloZero #Commodore #Amiga #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Amiga Game Selector 3.0 AGS 3.0 Downloads available now - Retro32

https://sopuli.xyz/post/38585435

Amiga Game Selector 3.0 AGS 3.0 Downloads available now - Retro32 - Sopuli

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