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Re: New x86 "accelerator" for Classic Amiga?
« on: December 12, 2007, 02:47:08 PM »
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What's the deal with amiga-people and custom hw anyway? What about just porting the os for x86 based machines? Apple did it...  


That has already been done.

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Re: New x86 "accelerator" for Classic Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 03:14:15 PM »
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AROS would be my #1 choice if it could seamlessly (and flawlessly) run the good old 68k games and demos out-of-the-box.


EvilRich is working on that very project.  Donations toward his work is always welcomed. :-D

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Re: New x86 "accelerator" for Classic Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 11:38:45 AM »
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"If you came here because you thought AROS was a finished, complete and fully usable operating system, you will most likely be disappointed." <- In my book, that's a no.


Or outdated documentation on AROS.org.  There is only one major "gotcha" left with AROS and that can be neutralized during a fresh install by creating a very small AFFS for booting and make work partition as SFS.  I have AROS running natively on a laptop and a desktop without issues.

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