History & Credits - Amiga Imager

Inspiration

Amiga Imager started as a macOS-native alternative to the Windows-only Emu68 Imager for Windows by mja65. That tool pioneered the idea of a one-click builder for PiStorm/Emu68 SD card images - taking the user from raw SD card to a fully configured, bootable Amiga Workbench in a single workflow. Without that reference implementation to study and build upon, Amiga Imager for macOS would not exist.

Amiga Imager for macOS expands the concept to three platforms (PiStorm, Classic Amiga hardware, and MiSTer FPGA), adds a native SwiftUI interface, and brings the workflow to Mac users who had no equivalent tool.

Tools & Libraries

hst-imager & hst-amiga

Henrik Stengaard

Amiga Imager relies on hst-imager and hst-amiga for all disk image operations - creating RDB partition layouts, formatting AmigaDOS partitions, copying files into Amiga filesystems, and reading and writing Amiga icon tooltypes. These tools are the backbone of the entire build pipeline. Henrik's work on cross-platform Amiga disk tooling made a macOS implementation practical.

Required Software

Amiga Imager installs and configures the following commercial and freely available Amiga software. You will need to supply your own licensed copies of AmigaOS and, where applicable, Picasso96 and Roadshow.

AmigaOS 3.x

Hyperion Entertainment

AmigaOS 3.2 and 3.2.x are available from Hyperion Entertainment. AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.1.4 are available from Cloanto AmigaForever. A valid AmigaOS install ISO or ADF set is required to build an image.

Picasso96 (P96)

iComp

Picasso96 is the RTG (Retargetable Graphics) system that enables high-colour, high-resolution display on Amiga RTG graphics cards - and on PiStorm's VideoCore GPU and MiSTer's UAEGFX driver. The current commercial release is available from iComp. A shareware version (v40) covering basic functionality is downloaded automatically for PiStorm and MiSTer builds.

Roadshow TCP/IP

APC&TCP / Oliver Wagner

Roadshow is a full-featured TCP/IP network stack for AmigaOS, providing bsdsocket.library compatibility for networked applications including web browsers, FTP clients, and more. Available from roadshow.apc-tcp.de. A valid Roadshow install archive is required to enable networking in built images.