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  https://amiga.com/news/20260804-amiga-update "Amiga and Commodore International Corporation have entered into a licensing agreement recognizing their respective rights. [..] Under the same agreement, Amiga licenses CBM 8-bit software and documentation to Commodore for use in its products." Oh boy. But Amiga hardware wasn't 8 bit. So it doesn't cover #Commodore shipping an FPGA #Amiga system (yet)? #retrocomputing

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  I wouldn't be surprised if the Apollo A6000 by Apollo Computer became the base for a future "Amiga Ultimate" sold by #Commodore. #Amiga #Commodore #ApolloA6000 #RetroComputing

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  The new #Commodore 77 uses an Artix XC7A100T instead of the XC7A50T used in the Commodore 64 Ultimate. It has twice as much of everything, except I/O pins (250 vs. 300). Is this really just necessary to reach the fabled 77 MHz, or might there be more behind it? #Commdore77 #C64Ultimate #C64U #retroComputing

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  The #AI hype has been over for a while. Stocks no longer rising, valutations falling, data centers not being built, companies having trouble attracting investment. Whoever starts the next hype gets lots of money. Now is the time to make sure it's something mankind actually needs. Defenses against the #ClimateCatastrophe, #Renewables, #EnergyStorage, #Fusion, Chemistry without fossils, #Biotech, Advanced Medicine, Hardened crops, etc. Not #Blockchain, AI, #Crypto or some of that crap a...

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  The (poor...) way #Linux handles Out Of Memory situations, and the lack of sophisticated application lifecycle management in FOSS toolkits, can make life on #LinuxMobile not so much fun. When memory fills up too much, devices lag and random stuff breaks. @fakeshell from @furilabs ported #lmkd from Android to "pure" Linux and improved it in many ways. It consumes much less resources than #earlyoom and took my #FLX1 to over 5 days uptime for the first time! https://github.com/F...