January 7, 2026
Retro vibes, format fights
Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
Retro Amiga files mount on modern machines as commenters spark OS wars and wild USB dreams
TLDR: A new tool runs original Amiga filesystem code in an emulator to mount vintage disks on modern systems. Commenters celebrated the authenticity but reignited the long-running gripe that there’s still no universal filesystem across Mac, Windows, and Linux—plus jokes about double-ended USB sticks and “Inception” storage tricks.
The retro crowd just dropped a nostalgia bomb: amifuse lets you open old Amiga disk images on today’s Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes by running the real Amiga filesystem brain inside a tiny emulator. Translation: it uses the original Amiga code to read your vintage files, not some remix. That got tech purists cheering—“finally the real thing!”—and others nitpicking whether this counts as native or just clever cosplay. The hottest debate? Not Amiga at all—it's the eternal OS turf war. One camp groaned that in 2026, we still don’t have a single plug-and-play filesystem that works everywhere. Cue the classic NTFS complaint: works on Windows, read-only on Mac. The vibe turned philosophical fast: in a world shouting about AI, we can’t even agree on how to share a USB drive without drama. Meanwhile, the comments spawned comedy gold. Someone pitched a double-ended USB stick so two computers could read the same files at once—like a friendship bracelet for data—with a wink that editing the same file would end in chaos. Another dreamed of “Inception” filesystems by stacking old tools to read FAT drives. Love it or roll your eyes, the community’s split: half retro romance, half modern frustration, all spicy energy.
Key Points
- •Amifuse mounts Amiga hard disk images using native AmigaOS filesystem handlers via FUSE, running actual drivers through m68k CPU emulation.
- •It supports macOS, Linux, and Windows, with macOS using macFUSE and Linux requiring FUSE packages; Windows uses the first free drive letter for mounts.
- •Setup requires Python 3.9+, 7z (p7zip on macOS), and a filesystem handler such as pfs3aio; installation uses a Git repository with submodules and amitools.
- •Users can inspect RDB partitions and embedded filesystem drivers and mount partitions with options for driver selection, mountpoint, partition, block size, volume name, debug, profiling, and experimental write mode.
- •An additional rdb-inspect tool provides RDB summaries, full details, JSON output, and the ability to extract embedded filesystem drivers.