What just happened? Although the Amiga hardware is long gone, a small team of developers and testers still works on the software side of things. A new update has been released for AmigaOS, bringing new features and bug fixes to a device that doesn’t want to die.
Hyperion Entertainment recently announced the availability of a second version update for AmigaOS 3.2, the operating system designed to run on classic Amiga devices based on the Motorola 68000 CPU series. company Formerly known as Commodore It no longer exists, and the history of the Amiga brand is complex mess Acquisitions, sales, lawsuits, and yet the company that now has a “perpetual worldwide license” to AmigaOS is still milking the cow of the Amiga fan base.
The new Update 2 comes more than a year after AmigaOS 3.2.1, which was released by Hyperion in December 2021 as a bug fix and feature update for AmigaOS 3.2 huge release. Instead of adopting the PowerPC CPU architecture as in AmigaOS 4, Amiga 3.2 came about 28 years after its last release point and still retained compatibility with classic Amiga machines and features of the original AmigaOS 3.1.
AmigaOS 3.1’s source code was eventually leaked to the web in 2015, while development of Amiga 3.2 took over two years of “extensive and tireless work” from a team of over 60 contributors. This particular release’s feature list included integration of the ReAction toolkit for GUI programming, and native support for mounting adf disk image files. – Standard format for Amiga software dumps within the emulation community – Integrated help, online documentation, and much more.
The first “minor” update to AmigaOS 3.2 was mostly a bug fix release that added some cosmetic improvements, support for the old Rexx programming language in the new text editor, and more. Since the release of AmigaOS 3.2.1, Hyperion now says, AmigaOS developers and testers have worked “tirelessly” to fix (more) bugs and implement some new features.
As listed on the company’s official website, highlights of the new AmigaOS 3.2.2 include several new improvements to the aforementioned text editor, revision ID for 68060 CPUs, and better handling of icon files. Furthermore, AmigaOS 3.2.2 can now coexist with previous versions of the operating system thanks to support for the legacy “Kickstart” boot component. Select gadgets have also been improved or fixed, and the RAM disk has been redesigned to reduce the possibility of it causing problems.
AmigaOS 3.2.2 is available as an official download from the Hyperion website for users who already own an officially licensed copy of AmigaOS 3.2. There is also a file Official AmigaOS Trade Store For die-hard platform fans.
