AmigaOS m68k clone?

[dammy]

by wawrzon on 2009/5/10 16:08:00

sure i would, the problem is paypal:(

Contact Power2People and ask them for an alternative to PayPal.

[wawrzon]

will look into that. is anybody seriously looking into it? the 1 part of bounty was assigned afaik, but somehow there is no news on progress nor any other feedback.

[Belial6]

I'm with you.  I would really like to see AROS ported to MiniMig.  This would be a huge boost to the MiniMig platform.  I suspect that it would also bring a lot more attention to AROS.

[wawrzon]

i suppose so. i believe, from psyhological pov (lol) it is from the beginning on a major publicity disadvantage that there is no 68k aros. a link is missing. people like me just do not comprehend what it has to do with amiga running third party os on third party hw (and which system still needs uae to run legacy sw). it has nothing to do with reason.

[freqmax]

One could start with by only implement those library calls that are actually used just to get a CLI prompt. And then continue from there on..?
Just to get started.

[Piru]

@freqmax

One could start with by only implement those library calls that are actually used just to get a CLI prompt. And then continue from there on..?

That's a lot of stuff I'm afraid. Laymen often don't quite understand how much stuff is required to get to the CLI prompt. That's pretty much the whole OS minus Workbench and disk based files.

There's an earlier post about amiga startup procedure which should give you an idea how many things are going on during the process. And this doesn't even account for graphics.library, layers.library, intuition.library, console.device, shell etc which are required to display the "CLI".

The trouble with AROS is that it isn't fully binary compatible with AmigaOS anymore. It would be quite some work to find out the incompatibilities and fix them.

[HenryCase]

wawrzon wrote:
will look into that. is anybody seriously looking into it? the 1 part of bounty was assigned afaik, but somehow there is no news on progress nor any other feedback.

There has been some feedback. The feedback is that the developer is still interested but hasn't got enough documentation (Kernel Reference Manuals and suchlike) to do the job. So if anyone here reading this has some books that might help please contact bheron.

[wawrzon]

then hes not very determined about the job it seems. is that material so difficult to come by? on natami forum someone was even offering to supply these if need be.

[HenryCase]

wawrzon wrote:
then hes not very determined about the job it seems. is that material so difficult to come by? on natami forum someone was even offering to supply these if need be.

He has asked for documentation before, I can't help it if you haven't noticed before. If someone on the Natami forums offered to help then that's all good, but to say he's not interested is completely bloody false.

Anyone else have RKMs and suchlike they can donate to the Kickstart Replacement cause?

[jupo42]

Hm. I've got several RKMs from the 1.3 era, and I think a couple from 2.0 as well. Come to think of it, didn't the 3.x RKMs come on a developer CD at one time? I am going to have to do some digging when I get home...

[HenryCase]

jupo42 wrote:
Hm. I've got several RKMs from the 1.3 era, and I think a couple from 2.0 as well. Come to think of it, didn't the 3.x RKMs come on a developer CD at one time? I am going to have to do some digging when I get home...

Excellent. If you do manage to find these documents please e-mail bheron (real name Gregory Casamento) using the address greg_casamento AT yahoo DOT com, to see if they will be useful. Thanks jupo42. :-)

[hardlink]

freqmax wrote:
Is there any free AmigaOS clone for classic m68k Amigas?
Say for an A1200 etc..

The current alternatives AtheOS, Syllable, AROS are all for the x86 arhitecture asfaik.

I'm surprised - yes, NetBSD! Where are all the famous BSD fanboys?

[freqmax]

Time to make pool documentation at some location ..?