Victim of Success
a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
The web moved on, but your Amiga can still come along. AmiFox lets a modern browser do the heavy lifting elsewhere, bringing contemporary websites, useful downloads and a little everyday convenience back to the machine you actually wanted to use.
Three retro projects prove old games still have new tricks: Mega Drive VR gives classic 16-bit worlds fresh depth, Monster World RPG turns Wonder Boy nostalgia into a fan-made adventure, and BBC Micro reverse-engineering opens the code behind the magic.
GentleOS/16 and GentleOS/32 give vintage PCs a fresh reason to boot, with lightweight interfaces, classic games, simple utilities and an open-source spirit built for retro hardware enthusiasts.
Three tools make Commodore collections easier to navigate. Master Bookmark Computer finds useful resources, D64 Hunter searches archived files, and D64 Cataloger indexes your local collection.
Commodore folded in 1994. The Commodore 64 never got the memo. Meet C64 OS: the mouse-driven, multi-desktop, app-store-equipped operating system that one determined developer built for a 40-year-old machine with 64 kilobytes of memory, and keeps updating for free.
AmiBlocks and AmiCC23 bring modern C development back to AmigaOS, combining coding, compiling and debugging in one native environment and making the Amiga a development machine again.
The Web Design Museum preserves the internet before templates, conventions and polished sameness took over. Its archive of early websites, Flash games, mobile apps and forgotten design tools reveals a web that was often chaotic, awkward and excessive, but also inventive, personal and full of character.
86Box emulates IBM PC hardware from the original 1981 era to late-1990s systems—recreating processors, BIOS, sound cards, graphics adapters and storage controllers to preserve the messy reality of early personal computing.
Point-and-click adventure engine lineages from Sierra AGI/SCI to SCUMM, ScummVM, AGS, Wintermute, Visionaire, Unity, Godot and modern frameworks—separating true lineages from influences and reimplementations.
MiniIRC and MiniTelnet bring the classic Amiga back online without the weight of the modern web. Small, sharp, and full of character, they reconnect old hardware to IRC channels and BBS worlds where the internet still feels personal, direct, and alive.
The Amiga never really died – it fractured into many futures. From Commodore’s collapse to today’s emulators, FPGA projects, PowerPC systems, and Apollo Vampire machines, this article follows the strange afterlife of a beloved platform and the community still trying to move it forward.
A light look at VOGONS, the old-school forum where retro PC games, DOSBox, vintage drivers, sound cards and beige-box troubleshooting are still very much alive.
Do you remember Commodore? And the Amiga?
Believe it or not, the Amiga is still very much alive. Here is a short whiteboard animation showing how to get started with the latest Amiga operating system available at the time of writing.
