AROS native on a 68k Powerbook

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mdma wrote:
Is this possible?  I've seen one going cheap.

Would it qualify as a laptop Amiga?  ;-)

HAhahah, Assuming we have an upto date 68K port of AROS (Other than the Palm version) then I guess it would pretty close to an Amiga laptop.
It would be able to run all OS legal Amiga software, out of the box, much like a Draco amiga "clone".

But it would be cheaper, and more powerful (better gfx, sound and battery life) to get a cheap x86 laptop and then either Run AROS on it or run AROS/Windoze and then UAE.

Nice idea though. If you do get the 68K laptop then you could port AROS to it, if you have the tech docs for it, it should not take more than a few nights to get it to run. (The AROS team would be happy to help you out of course). :-)

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mdma wrote:

But just imagine running the binarycompatible AROS 68k on a powerbook, mac colour classic, atari falcon or a Next workstation!!!!

Can you imagine it, AROS on an Atari???  It'd throw all the old ST vs Amiga arguments through the window.  I'd like to see it though!

Aggghhhh!!!!! I never thought of that... if only I hadn't thrown away that old ST I had... It would run like a blind, three legged dog (and low res gfx only if you want colour :-P ), but to see AROS on an ST would still be funny....

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mdma wrote:

Aggghhhh!!!!! I never thought of that... if only I hadn't thrown away that old ST I had...

You owned an ST? Shame on you!!!  ;-)

Hahaha, I was given it in 1996. I tried to play with it for a bit, but it was too limited compared to my PPC A1200, so I took it to bits... I still have the mainboard somewhere but that's all, and most of the chips have been damaged or lost.

Running AROS on an ST would be as painfull as it is pointless though.. I guess a Falcon would be a much more suitable machine, shame no one ever bought one :-D

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mdma wrote:

Running AROS on an ST would be as painfull as it is pointless though.. I guess a Falcon would be a much more suitable machine, shame no one ever bought one

I new a guy who had a TT (I think that s what it was called)  It ran some form of System/V UNIX on an 030/040 CPU.  I've only just moved back up north after six years, I'll try to find if he lives round here still and if he's still got it.

Well, if you get AROS running on that I'd love to see it... Posting the picture on a few Atari fan sites should warm the pot a little.  :-D

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mdma wrote:
btw Does AROS run on UAE / Amithlon?

Good question. At this time very little work has been done to get AROS to boot a real Amiga/UAE. I've thought about doing some work myself, but I'm not very good with C compilers/cross compilers :-(

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mdma wrote:

Yes, he said he's not interested.

More fool him then! ;-)

Couldn't the AROS team just use the UAE-JIT GPL code?

Yes, but apparently (RE: recent chat with Fabio), the JIT uses MP to trap memory access (or something like that), and thus AROS can't run it at full speed :-/