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Portable (not quite) Amiga
« on: January 31, 2008, 03:06:27 PM »
In my neverending quest to make all of my devices look like AmigaOS, I just finished installing NetBSD on my IBM Workpad z50.  (It's basically a PDA in a subnotebook formfactor.)



Basically, it's got a 4 gig Compact Flash card with NetBSD 4.0 on it.  That's nothing major... the magic came when I got my amiwm hack built on it;



It's not fast enough to run UAE and actually be useful, and this fits a niche for me perfectly, as-is, so I'm not too concerned about that.  About the only thing I'm going to change as far as the windowing is to finish up my window manager "boingwm", which is a modified "WindowLab", to add Amiga 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x as well as other classic OS themes. (Atari TOS, Mac System 7, Lisa, etc)

here's gallery of pics of Hector, the z50
 

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Re: Portable (not quite) Amiga
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2008, 06:30:56 PM »
Back in college, I had various hacks I'd downloaded to make 1.3 look more '3D', but i've since realized they just make it look more 'horrible. ;)

I used 2.04 back then as well, when I could, but I always liked the color, the feel, the simplicty, and the cartoonyness of 1.3.
 

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Re: Portable (not quite) Amiga
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2008, 09:43:57 PM »
The "Screens" come with the window manager "amiwm".  It's just its way of implementing multiple desktops on X11.
 

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Re: Portable (not quite) Amiga
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2010, 03:17:16 PM »
Because I didn't implement the clock in the menu bar properly.  It only updates when you right-click on it.  Heh.  It's good enough, so I left it that way.
 

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Re: Portable (not quite) Amiga
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2010, 03:18:19 PM »
Sorry.  This fell off of my radar.

It's using the 'amiwm' window mananger for X11t with some hacks I added to give it the 1.x look.

http://umlautllama.com/projects/amiwm/