For many gamers, the golden age of computing was characterized by the Amiga 500 and Atari ST

Atari TOS was superceded by MINT. Those are still copyrighted works, so here’s EmuTOS.

Amiga Format’s 1993 Christmas Special featured a glorious Cannon Soccer mashup.

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OUR FAVORITE HOME computer was the Commodore Amiga, in particular the A500, which launched in 1987. As the successor to the immensely popular C64, the machine had big shoes to fill. And fill them it did—right up until questionable management effectively killed it off.

That said, Hyperion Entertainment produced a version of AmigaOS (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 $2,500, you might say the X5000 is eye-wateringly expensive.

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was released in March 2022, so some of its components, in particular some auxiliary pre-built binaries, are a little out of date.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 long to build. On a Pi 4, it takes less time than making a cup of coffee. Once it’s done, you’ll want to reboot, using Restart System from the Emulation Station menu.