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Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« on: April 20, 2009, 03:41:57 AM »
Can a stock Amiga 2000 HD run the original Amiga UX that came with the 2500UX models?

Just wondering....

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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 03:43:54 AM »
Stock? As in 68000 and 1MB of RAM? No. Check the requirements.
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 03:51:48 AM »
Great Link Matt - and once again without an Accelerator, I am out of luck!  They just sooooo expensive!


Oh well, maybe I can get it to work in UAE! I just always wanted to mess with it.  I remember reviewing colleges when I was in high school and saw schools like Virginia Tech (Computer Engineering) could use Amigas with Unix for their curriculum...

Thanks for the info!
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 06:38:41 AM »
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Great Link Matt - and once again without an Accelerator, I am out of luck!  They just sooooo expensive!


Oh well, maybe I can get it to work in UAE! I just always wanted to mess with it.  I remember reviewing colleges when I was in high school and saw schools like Virginia Tech (Computer Engineering) could use Amigas with Unix for their curriculum...

Thanks for the info!


But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right?  At least that's what the 2500UX housed.
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 08:47:23 AM »
Yeah, AMIX would be interesting to get running in WinUAE. It's a challenge because it relies on some very specific hardware components. WinUAE is starting to get into the emulation of specifics, but I don't know if it's fully there yet.
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 10:31:33 AM »
Until UAE emulates a MMU who will be out of luck.


But if one is really into such things he could try to run down a copy of Minix.....
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 02:25:17 PM »
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But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right? At least that's what the 2500UX housed.


Cheapo huh?  Wonder where I could get one... haven't seen one of those for sale yet on ebay or Amibay - everthing I see is normally expensive - well over $100!

If anyone had one at the right price - I'd buy one, but haven't seen on yet!

BTW, Thanks for the info!

Mike
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 04:05:17 PM »
And just how much is "the right price"?
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 05:12:15 PM »
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Until UAE emulates a MMU who will be out of luck.


I thought that had been added sometime in the past few years. Guess not. Oh well.
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 05:54:40 PM »
You just can't buy an accelerator for an amiga  below 100 $. That's just wishful thinking.

A2630 or 2630 are pretty low end accelerators though, so around 100$ should be the right price. GVP 030's should be 100$-200$ (depending on how much RAM they have on) and 040-060 should be above 200$-300$ mark (AMIX won't run on 040-060 though AFAIK, so beware)
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 06:57:46 PM »
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But wait, you need only a cheapo A2620 or A2630, right? At least that's what the 2500UX housed.


Cheapo huh?  Wonder where I could get one... haven't seen one of those for sale yet on ebay or Amibay - everthing I see is normally expensive - well over $100!

If anyone had one at the right price - I'd buy one, but haven't seen on yet!

BTW, Thanks for the info!

Mike


What do you think is a fair price?  (I have extras.)
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2009, 07:20:02 PM »
Dave,

  I don't know what others would consider "fair", but with hardware this old you have to weigh scarcity/demand/reliability all together.  I guess its only worth what you can get for it or willing to pay for it!  And being a free market person I am, if you can get more, then do so because it is what I would do!  To me about $75 + shipping is all I could pay for an A2620/2630 accelerator.  



Thanks,
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Re: Amiga 2000HD run unix?
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2009, 10:17:13 PM »
Ahem - not an exactly Amiga-ish proposal, but why not run Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD on a cheap piece of PeeCee hardware? Amix doesn't really feel very Amiga actually (does any U*ix?). It's a very interesting piece of software in its own right, but there's nothing cheap modern hardware can't do.
For the sake of 'modern OS hits ancient hardware' I've resurrected a PowerMac 9500 running Mac OS Tiger (a BSD derivate with a Mach kernel) - just slightly younger than a 4000 and rather cheap.
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