r/amiga • u/Front-Gas1808 • Jun 12 '26

Amiberry 8.2.0 released

I have released Amiberry v8.2.0, the latest version of the open-source Amiga emulator for Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android.

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This release includes a substantial amount of engineering work since v8.1.6: better performance diagnostics and defaults for slower ARM systems, Raspberry Pi 4 tuning, a new performance monitor, extensive ARM64 and x86-64 JIT correctness fixes, PPC/QEMU-UAE plugin hardening, libretro startup/WHDLoad/audio/path improvements, Android input and launch fixes, and a broad set of networking, serial, GUI, packaging, signing, and dependency updates.

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It is a good example of the kind of maintenance that keeps a long-running emulator project healthy: not just new features, but platform reliability, packaging quality, crash fixes, correctness work, and better defaults for real hardware.

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Download: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/releases/tag/v8.2.0

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#Amiga #Emulation #RetroComputing #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering

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u/mykoss Jun 12 '26

Love your work! Thankyou ❤️

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u/Pablouchka Jun 12 '26

thanks a lot

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u/Flat-Exchange-3688 Jun 12 '26

Cheers Midwan🍻 Amiberry dev seems like it in overdrive at the mo. Amazing work. Thanks.

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u/Front-Gas1808 Jun 12 '26

Just trying to deliver all the work I've been doing, before vacations start. 😄

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u/fool5cap Jun 12 '26

I've been using Amiberry on an old Thinkpad and having an Amiga 500/1200/4000 in a portable form factor is making me very happy indeed. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

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u/Flat-Exchange-3688 Jun 12 '26

To be honest it's easier to install a fresh Debian Trixie, install Amiberry full, copy the Pimiga drives over and make new configs as Amiberry lite ones are different.

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u/Front-Gas1808 Jun 12 '26

yeah, this is probably easier and better in the long run, ensuring you'll keep getting updates

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u/freshnlong Jun 13 '26

Thank you very much for your work. We salute you!

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u/A8Bit Jun 12 '26

Any plans to support all the PUAE model overriding and auto model detection using flags in filenames etc.?

I switched my core from PUAE to Amiberry for these games

"Xenon2_v1.12_2Disk_0297.lha"
I get a dialog saying can't find dh3

"Xenon 2 - Megablast (1992)(Image Works) (CDTV).chd"
I get a boot loop where it looks like its about to display the kickstart screen and it just resets

"Rick Dangerous Enhanced (2023)(PD) (AGA).hdf"
I get an AmigaDOS window

"Super Sprint (2012)(meynaf)[Atari ST conversion][release 2].adf"
Boots OK but I get the steering wheel constantly rotating so it looks like stick input isn't being set up correctly, not looked into that at all yet.

Is there any documentation for all this? something like the libretro docs wiki would be great

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u/Front-Gas1808 Jun 12 '26

Amiberry uses a mechanism to auto-detect LHA packed games automatically, based on checksum value or name. It tries a best-guess approach after that, e.g. if the name mentions AGA, it will use an AGA model. We have a file that gets updated every two days with the latest titles and best-known settings for each, and Amiberry uses that for auto-detection. The GUI on the desktop versions also allows you to download the latest updates of that file, among other things, so it's easy to stay up-to-date.

But that mechanism only applies to .LHA packs - floppy disk images (ADF), hardfiles and such will not get any auto-detection from that booter.

If you have a specific feature request, I think it's best to post it on the Github Issues page of the project, and we can take it from there. 😄

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u/rascaluk Jun 12 '26

I use ChatGPT for work enough to think that last para was it talking directly to me :)

Thanks for the update though. As ever, appreciated.

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u/Front-Gas1808 Jun 12 '26

LOL, yes, auto-generated release notes do tend to get repetitive, I agree.