New Amiga Operating System

[SidVicious]

Is there any replacement operating system that can replace the Workbench 2.05? Any UNIX based OS? Any other OS? A port of some sort of Commodore 64 OS with Commodore emulation?

I got:

1mb RAM
40mb HD
68000 Processor


Btw...my Amiga 500 got 1mb too, but i can only run games like Bubba 'n' Stix and Monkey Island on the 500. If i run them on the Amiga 600HD they i only get "More RAM is needed" or something like that...
The Amiga 600HD got 1mb RAM by default, righ? Doez someone knows why i got this problem?

[TjLaZer]

Yes there is AmigaOS 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9!

Any some UNIX/LINIX .

Your 600HD is eating some RAM so you really need to get that 1MB Chip RAM expansion to get games to run from HD, you can also get a SRAM PCMCIA card (upto 4MB) for 16-bit Fast RAM.

[Holley]

It's worth noting that upgrading the operating system won't affect what games work on your A600 much, it's a pretty basic machine and you have to go out of your way to do more than add the extra 1Mb of memory.

Some old games require 1/2Mb of fast mem, adding the extra 1Mb to an A600 will make 2Mb of chip mem, and no fast, so additional patching may be needed ...

[srg86]

As far as alternative operating systems use, you'll need more than a RAM upgrade. You'll need to upgrade the CPU to one that has a "Memory Management Unit" as *nix os's need this.

The A600 has a 68000 cpu which does not have one, neither do the 68EC020 of the A1200 or the 68EC030 of the A4000/030.

CPU's that'll work:
68020 + 68851 (The 68851 is a seperate chip), does any amiga have these?
68030, this came stock with the A3000 but AFAIK A600 '030 boards are a bit of a mod.
Not forgetting the '040 and '060, BTW AFAIK NetBSD doesn't support the '060.

Plus you may need an FPU either 68881 or '2.

Also I think they need a good amount of RAM as well.

(basically I wouldn't bother)
srg

[SidVicious]

Where can i find extra RAM? The SRAM PCMCIA card cost around 1500-2500kr...(150-250$)

[leirbag28]

@SidVicious

You can buy Apple Newton PCMCIA memory cards of 1, 2 or 4 Megabytes and tghey will work on your A600 once you format them as RAM using PrepCard inside the "Tools" drawer of your workbench.

You can find the cards for like $19.00 US dollars.sometimes they go higher becausse they are highly sought after.  I would not pay more than $30.00 for a 4 Meg card...........even that is a little high, but really the only option besides the 1Mb chip that goes under the TrapDoor (which you should definitely get)

[SidVicious]

leirbag28: Thanks!

[leirbag28]

No Problem! anytime I can be of help to an Amiga user.especially an A600 user :-)

I love my A600 :-)

[Holley]

AmigaKit.com have a trapdoor memory board in at the mo, here.