THANK YOU ALL FOR A GREAT PIANETA AMIGA

An extraordinary edition of Pianeta Amiga has just come to an end! Two unforgettable days filled with enthusiasm, passion, nostalgia and big news for the future. Seeing the community gathered together again with so much warmth was truly moving.

A heartfelt thank you to all the visitors, enthusiasts and curious onlookers who joined us and helped make the event a success!

THE TALKS

A special thank you to all the speakers who took the stage to share projects, stories and visions with the community:

Francesco Fiorentini, Leonardo Vettori, Lorenzo Mancini and Fabrizio Radica

They took the (virtual) stage at Pianeta Amiga to tell us how they brought their idea to life: converting old text adventures written in BASIC into something more modern, making the most of the Amiga's special features and the AMOS language without distorting their original spirit. A talk full of passion for the work done, but also rich in truly interesting technical details.

Mike Battilana (Amiga)

Surely one of the most anticipated moments for the entire Italian and international Amiga community. Mike Battilana talked about the past, present and future of Amiga, and about his vision of what the future of the 68k soul of our beloved platform should look like. He didn't shy away from questions, even the difficult ones, and spoke about the past legal disputes and the agreements that put an end to them. The icing on the cake of his talk was the world-premiere unboxing of the THEA1200.

 

Andrea Palmatè and George Sokianos (AmigaLabs)

AmigaLabs' talk, besides illustrating the history and philosophy behind this group of developers, focused on their latest projects for AmigaOS 4. And what projects! Among other things, they presented a new Bluetooth driver and the new LWIP TCP/IP stack. But the real stars of the show were two monumental projects: the new PowerFox browser, with support for all the most modern web technologies, and above all the surprise of surprises: a new alternative kernel for AmigaOS 4 derived from the AROS kernel, with SMP support and markedly improved performance. News that is bound to make waves.

 

ACube Systems

The Italian hardware (and software) manufacturer par excellence could not be missing. Through its motherboards, it has contributed significantly to the survival of AmigaOS 4. At Pianeta Amiga it announced the imminent release of components such as the new NVMe driver, the new driver for Radeon graphics cards, updates to the SATA drivers and a new version of U-Boot. But the highlight of ACube's talk was undoubtedly the presentation of the first prototypes of the new Tyche PowerPC board (developed in close collaboration with Power Progress Community), which is a contender to become the most powerful PPC motherboard on the market. Finally, at the close of the talk, the porting of NetBSD to the Sam460ex was announced, along with a demonstration of the current state of the art of the latest AmigaOS 3.3 betas.

Paolo D'Urso (Darkage Software)

The flamboyant and likeable founder of Darkage Software, and creator of Passione Amiga magazine, presented the new game he is working on, for which a Kickstarter campaign will soon be launched: Eldemar, an old-school 3D hack & slash able to run on a stock Amiga 1200 and on the Amiga CD32, yet capable of taking advantage of any beefier configuration it comes across! Paolo ended his presentation with a sneak peek of the football game that marks the return to the Amiga scene of the Dardari brothers (authors of games of the caliber of Over The Net). We can't wait to play them!

SPECIAL GUESTS

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our special guests for their presence, their availability and for making this event even more unique:

• Amiga - Mike Battilana
• Hyperion Entertainment - Timothy De Groote
• Toni Ianiri

THE EXHIBITORS

Thank you to all the exhibitors who filled the hall with their stands, hardware, software, games and systems running live demonstrations:

• ACube Systems – showing all the new products presented during Pianeta Amiga
• Passione Amiga – Nicola Morocutti, the magazine's editor-in-chief, was there with the latest issue and was also hosting the magazine Zzap!
• Darkage Software – Paolo D'Urso showed off, and let visitors try, his latest productions such as Hyper Runner and Eldemar
• Amiga Life – Daniele Franza, from the editorial team of Amiga Life (the historic Amiga magazine), was there with several copies and other material
• Simone Lo Gioco – showing his classic Amigas in various configurations
• Amiga-NG.org - Mehdi "K-L" Boulahia, who came all the way from France; at the Amiga-NG.org table visitors could admire LightwaveRTG and various systems including the Apollo A6000 and Sam460ex
• Vicoretrò - Alberto Peri – present at the event with an Amiga 4000 Tower and a few publications
• GDG Entertainment Indie Games - Gianluca Girelli and Davide Palombo – showing their latest efforts in gaming for AmigaNG
• AmigaLabs - Andrea Palmatè and George Sokianos – showing the various projects presented at Pianeta Amiga up and running, and letting visitors get hands-on with them
• AROS - Deremon and Farox – showing what AROS can do and why it can be a valid alternative, especially thanks to its wide range of supported hardware
• Francesco Fiorentini, Leonardo Vettori, Lorenzo Mancini e Fabrizio Radica – presenting their engine for converting text adventures
  
• Stefano Guidetti – showing, and making available to visitors, both classic systems (an Amiga 500 Plus with a Shuffle interface and an Amiga CD32 expanded with a TerribleFire 030 and AmigaOS 3.2), as well as his Sam460ex
  

A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes to each and every one of you: organizers, volunteers, speakers, exhibitors, guests and visitors.

Without the contribution, support and passion of each and every one of you, the great comeback of Pianeta Amiga simply would not have been possible.

Thank you for making the heart of Amiga beat again.

See you at the next edition!

PHOTOS FROM PIANETA AMIGA

THE TALKS

We'll be publishing the videos of the talks shortly. Check back soon!