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Amiga Imager v0.99.10

Amiga Imager 0.99.10 looks after your Amigas once the image is built: the new Amiga Fleet console puts every machine on one board – live VNC screens, a remote shell, drag-and-drop file transfer. And with ami2ha, your Amiga joins Home Assistant: a build-time configured dashboard for the whole house.

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  • NEW: Amiga Fleet – all your Amigas on one board
  • NEW: ami2ha – Home Assistant on the Workbench
  • amiagent 0.10.0: TLS, ARexx, faster transfers
  • Bundles amipkg 0.7.11
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Feature release - macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Build: 260815.

Amiga Fleet: every machine on one board

File → Amiga Fleet… (⇧⌘L, or the toolbar button) opens a Workbench-blue board with a tile for every Amiga on your network that runs amiagent – the remote-access package Amiga Imager images can carry since 0.99.8.3. Each tile opens into a machine window: system report, a remote Shell, file transfer with drag and drop, and ARexx straight to the machine's ARexx ports.

The VNC button streams the live screen – a built-in VNC client made for AmiVNC's vintage dialect, which macOS Screen Sharing cannot talk to. Mouse and keyboard work, 8/16/32-bit screens render pixel-perfect (verified on a PiStorm at 1280×720 and an A4000 at 1920×1080), and if AmiVNC is not installed on the machine yet, the Fleet offers to install it for you – through amipkg, of course. When a machine's agent supports it, the connection upgrades to TLS transparently, with trust-on-first-use certificate pinning.

New images bundle amiagent 0.10.0 (the 0.99.9 images carried 0.5.5): TLS support, ARexx over the wire, and chunked transfers that make big files practical.

ami2ha: Home Assistant on the Workbench

ami2ha – Jan's (evil4dmin) Home Assistant client – joins the package list: read your sensors and flip your switches from a MUI dashboard on the Amiga, with an ARexx port so your own scripts can read and control the house too. Fill in host, access token and a label under Settings → Remote Access and the built image connects on first launch – ami2ha asks Home Assistant which entities carry the label and builds the dashboard by itself. The build installs the right binary for the image's CPU, and the install is amipkg-compatible: a later amipkg update on the Amiga updates it in place.

One warning, stated as plainly here as in the app: an image built with your Home Assistant token is personal. The token controls your house – never share such an image or pass the card on.

Also

  • UAE/Amiberry images now open the Workbench at 16-bit instead of 32-bit: uaegfx has no true 24-bit mode, so SDL applications (ScummVM) requesting one could hard-crash the emulator during the mode switch. 16-bit is the depth SDL matches exactly; Classic, MiSTer and PiStorm are untouched.
  • The bundled amipkg 0.7.11's Update All now skips packages that only exist as build-time installs instead of stopping on them.
  • Groundwork: the build-time package installers now describe themselves as portable amipkg recipes, keeping image builds and on-Amiga updates in lockstep.

Thanks to Jan (evil4dmin) for ami2ha, for the integration notes this release implements – and for testing all of it against a real house.