Feature release

Amiga Imager v0.99.7

The Amiga File Manager grows up: it now shows your Amiga’s real Workbench icons, lets you edit them, and can create LHA archives. Finder learns to draw Amiga icons too. And the bundled package manager makes a big jump – anyone can now host their own package repository.

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  • NEW: real Workbench icons, incl. GlowIcons
  • Edit tool types, protection bits & comments
  • Pack a drawer into an LHA archive
  • Bundles amipkg 0.7.3 – host your own repository
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Feature release - macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel. Build: 260729.

Your Amiga’s icons, properly

The file manager no longer shows generic document icons – it shows the actual Workbench artwork from each .info, including modern GlowIcons (everything OS 3.5 and later ships, so all of OS 3.2). Select a file and press Space for a full-size preview.

Two things were quietly broken and are now right: drawer icons never displayed their artwork at all, and colour icons showed a placeholder instead of the real image. Both are fixed everywhere icons appear.

Workbench “Information”, on the Mac

Select any file and you get the panel you would expect on the Amiga – and it is editable:

  • Protection bits – the RWED and HSPA flags, as checkboxes
  • File comment – the Amiga’s own comment field
  • Tool types – one per line, exactly as Workbench shows them, plus default tool and stack size

Change SCSI_DEVICE_NAME on an HDToolBox icon, fix a tool’s stack, or set a comment, and it is written straight back into the disk image. Works on FFS and PFS3 alike.

Pack a drawer into an LHA archive

Amiga Imager can now write LHA archives, not just read them. Select a drawer anywhere – inside a disk image, on a host folder – and choose Pack as LHA Archive…. Real lh5 compression, produced natively with nothing installed. The same encoder shrank the bundled package files by more than half, so builds download less.

Amiga icons in Finder

Amiga Imager now draws Finder thumbnails for .info icons and IFF/ILBM pictures. Browse a folder of Amiga files in icon or gallery view and you see the actual artwork instead of a row of blank pages – without opening anything.

The package manager: host your own repository

The bundled amipkg jumps from 0.6.4 to 0.7.3, and the headline is that it is no longer tied to one catalog. Anyone can host a repository – a club, a developer shipping their own builds, or you for your own machines. A repository is two static files on any web server. Sign it and your users get exactly the same on-Amiga verification the official catalog has. The first external repository is already live, run by a community member.

  • A repository manager in both Amiga GUIs (GadTools and MUI)
  • Choose where each package installs – a tool can go to C: while everything else goes to SYS:Programs, remembered for future updates
  • Installing into system drawers does the right thing – programs land flat where the shell can find them, documentation goes beside them instead of on top
  • Submit packages straight from the Amiga
  • Adopt reads the version actually installed, from the program itself

amipkg is open source under Apache 2.0 – client, catalog, signing tool and schema are all inspectable. It is on Aminet, and it runs on any AmigaOS 3.x machine, with or without Amiga Imager.

Guided Build

The “Your own files” step now carries the full WHDLoad flow – your games collection, Kickstarts and target partition, with a summary on the review page.

Also in this build

  • Adopt Existing in Manage Amiga Software – take over an app you already installed, so updates land where you keep it
  • Errors now say what actually went wrong instead of showing an internal code
  • The active-pane highlight in dual-pane mode follows every click, not just selection changes
  • Icon previews render at crisp whole-pixel zoom

Updating

v0.99.7 and later check for updates automatically – you will be offered this one. Existing images can pull the new package manager with amipkg upgrade on the Amiga; newly built images ship it.