You’re going to like this: My biggest retro-computing project yet! It’s an app that gathers information, specs, community, new peripherals.. everything I can think of.

Here’s the public TestFlight beta. PLEASE let me know where I have made mistakes or omissions!

Retro Computers
https://testflight.apple.com/join/pY3ZksZz

#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

“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

"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/

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