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== Legacy == Since the demise of Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to the original Amiga line: * [[Genesi]] sold PowerPC based hardware under the [[Pegasos]] brand running AmigaOS and [[MorphOS]]; * [[Eyetech]] sold PowerPC based hardware under the [[AmigaOne]] brand from 2002 to 2005 running AmigaOS 4; * Amiga Kit distributes and sells PowerPC based hardware under the [[AmigaOne]] brand from 2010 to present day running [[AmigaOS 4]]; * [[ACube Systems]] sells the AmigaOS 3 compatible [[Minimig]] system with a [[Freescale]] MC68SEC000 CPU (Motorola 68000 compatible) and AmigaOS 4 compatible [[Sam440]] / [[Sam460]] / AmigaOne 500 systems with PowerPC processors; * A-EON Technology Ltd sells the AmigaOS 4 compatible [[AmigaOne X1000]] system with P.A. Semi [[PWRficient]] PA6T-1682M processor, X5000 and A1222+ computers. * AmigaKit Ltd produce the A600GS and A1200NG computers systems. They also manufacture and sell a wide range of aftermarket components to refurbished classic systems. * ASB Computer Spain sell numerous items from aftermarket components to refurbished classic systems. AmigaOS and MorphOS are commercial proprietary operating systems. AmigaOS 4, based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code with some parts of version 3.9, is developed by [[Hyperion Entertainment]] and runs on PowerPC based hardware. MorphOS, based on some parts of AROS source code, is developed by MorphOS Team and is continued on [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and other PowerPC based hardware. There is also [[AROS]], a free and open source operating system (re-implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs), for Amiga 68k, x86 and ARM hardware (one version runs Linux-hosted on the [[Raspberry Pi]]). In particular, AROS for Amiga 68k hardware aims to create an open source Kickstart ROM replacement for emulation purpose and/or for use on real "classic" hardware.<ref name="AutoP5-39" /> === Magazines === ''[[Amiga Format]]'' continued publication until 2000. ''Amiga Active'' was launched in 1999 and was published until 2001. Several magazines are in publication today: Print magazine ''[[Amiga Addict]]'' started publication in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.addict.media/|title=Amiga Addict Magazine - Monthly Commodore Amiga Print Publication|website=www.addict.media|access-date=2024-03-14|archive-date=2024-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304150358/https://www.addict.media/|url-status=dead}}</ref>''Amiga Future'',<ref name="AutoP5-40" /> which is available in both English and German; ''Bitplane.it'',<ref name="AutoP5-41" /> a bimonthly magazine in Italian; and ''AmigaPower'',<ref name="AutoP5-42" /> a long-running French magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.passioneamiga.it/|title=Passione Amiga|website=www.passioneamiga.it}}</ref> === Trade shows === The Amiga continues to be popular enough that fans to support conferences such as Amiga37 which had over 50 vendors.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Purdy |first=Kevin |date=2022-10-17 |title=37-year-old Amiga platform gets updates to Linux kernel, AmigaOS SDK |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/37-year-old-amiga-platform-gets-updates-to-linux-kernel-amigaos-sdk/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}</ref>
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