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amigang 
2026 the Year of A1200 & Keyboards :)
Posted on 2-Jan-2026 10:30:56
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Firstly, welcome all Amiga users to 2026, we made it to another year!!!

I feel that the Amiga fans have never had it so good, so many interesting projects, A6000/vampire v4, Pistorm, Pocketstorm, AmigaOS 3.3, Mirari, Amibench, A1200NG, A400NG, The A1200 coming soon. Plus Amiga shows seem to be getting bigger and better (but then it was the 40 year) and there seem to be an increase in games / games projects for Amiga, the recent ports of Settlers 2, Openlaura, Outrun, etc .

In fact special shout out to Steffen Häuser, he ported
Serious Sam, Gorky 17, Hertic 2, Baldur Gate, Warcraft 2, and RetroArch

But after saying that, I also have acknowledge that there does seem to another slight drop in Amiga Forum activity, not just on here, on Amiga.org as well and other platform, which is a shame, I still like web forums over social networks, (that tend to put stuff you not fussed about in there all the time) Discord not really got into, but these platform seem to be where more of the community is now adays, a shame. Plus the whole Legal place of Amiga vs Hyperion seem to be not moving anywhere.

But anyway enough of the down turn, lets look to the future.

2026 looks to be another very interesting year for Amiga.

Why, well, we finally will get Amiga Keyboards, looks to be offered by pretty much every big player in the market, lol. A1200.Net, Amigastore.eu (already offering there) and Sordan. Then we will also have Retro Games The A1200, which I bet will be pretty easy if you wanted to, pull out the keyboard or mod for other purposes.

That brings us on to The A1200, again another big product that as much as I wish it would be a bit more ambitious with its goals and what it will likely offer (likely an A500 mini but in a bigger case with working keyboard) the one thing you cant deny, they do step outside of our little Amiga world and get bigger press outlets and shops to carry it.

So it be good to see something new Amiga related on the high street.

Then there the software developments, hopefully AmigaOs 3.3, maybe more news on AmigaOS4 and hopefully get easier to emulate it with the virtual GPU driver and maybe just maybe Pistorm PPC core will be able to run it, who knows.

But interesting times regardless of what happens.

What are you guys most looking forward to in 2026?

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klx300r 
Re: 2026 the Year of A1200 & Keyboards :)
Posted on 2-Jan-2026 14:36:30
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Indeed the last few years have felt like the early 90's Amiga days with new hardware/software and hope

As for the 'slight' drop here and amiga.org you've been around long enough to know why so no need to start another

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Re: 2026 the Year of A1200 & Keyboards :)
Posted on 3-Jan-2026 20:54:09
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Dave73 
Re: 2026 the Year of A1200 & Keyboards :)
Posted on 5-Jan-2026 16:31:00
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I'm looking forward to the delivery of my The A1200!

In the meantime, tired of waiting for new keyboards, I ordered a set of keycaps from Simulant and a UK-layout USB mechanical keyboard to install them on. I'm very pleased with my new DIY Amiga keyboard!

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