16-bit hits
For many, us included, the golden age of computing was characterised by the Amiga 500 or Atari ST.
Our favourite home computer was the Commodore Amiga. In particular the A500, which launched in 1987. The machine, being the successor to the immensely popular C64, had big shoes to fill. And fill them it did. Up until questionable management effectively killed it off.
That being said, Hyperion Entertainment produced a version of AmigaOS (see www.amigaos.net) for PowerPC-based machines. A-EON technology, in collaboration with Hyperion, led to the AmigaOne X5000, the latest in a series of machines capable of running AmigaOS. These can emulate the Motorola 68000 at the heart of the first Amigas without batting an eyelid, though at €2,400, you might say the X5000 is eye-wateringly expensive.
EMULATING AMIGA TECH “A-EON technology, in collaboration with Hyperion, produced the AmigaOne X5000, the latest in a series of machines capable of running AmigaOS.”
RetroPie 4.8 (the latest version at the time of writing) was released in March 2022, so some of its components, in particular some auxiliary pre-built binaries, are a little out of date. This can be worked around by building those components from source instead, which is what we’re going to do to get Amiberry working. Go to RetroPie Setup>Manage Packages> Manage optional packages and select Amiberry>Install from source. It doesn’t take very long to build at all. On a Pi 4 it takes less than the time to make a standard cup of tea. Once it’s done you’ll want to reboot (gracefully, using Restart System from the Emulation Station menu).