You may remember that in my A1200 post, I mentioned that I’d been testing out PiMiga. I say testing, as I knew that a new version was due before Xmas. True to the author’s word, version 5 ‘landed’ on December 23rd 2025. Now, because there are unscrupulous sites out there that try to sell you it, if you try to search for it, the link is buried within pages of crap, and reddit posts asking where the latest version is.
In the vain hope my little website pushes the original page up the rankings a bit, here’s the link to the Youtube announcement post and the place where you can download the appropriate torrent for your hardware. As before, you need to provide your own Amiga Kickstart ROM, but if you’ve read this far, I’m sure you’ve got the technical ability to do this. I don’t own the copyright, so please don’t ask me.
Earlier today I rished out and picked up a 256Gb MicroSD card, and at the time of typing, I’m flashing the image to this, so can’t comment on anything I find, but I might post my findings, or even do a capture or something.
I’m sure though, the first thing I’ll be doing is dropping to a console and doing “sudo passwd” or whatever it is. Ooo, the card has finished flashing (tee hee), so here goes nothing…
the test, for me at least, to see if these things go successfully is to load up ‘Arcade Pool’. Of course, this has it in its list of supported games, and yep, it works perfectly.
I did, of course, win the test game against the computer, but I didn’t take a screenshot of that. One thing I did take a screetshot is the desktop, and its stunning backdrops…
My not-far-off-50 year old eyes don’t think much of that resolution, but I’m sure after I’ve had a bit of a play, I can adjust it to something more readable.
Unlike the previous installation, this new one appears to be running Raspbian as its OS, so it was a breeze to actually update / upgrade the base OS to the latest version. The default setting, however, is for English (US), so the timezone and keyboard are all wrong. 10 seconds and a reboot later, it was all set up. In fact, it probably took me long enough to type this than it did to actually get that sorted.
Anyhoo, I shall continue to have a play.
