AmigaOS m68k clone?

[freqmax]

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.

[Matt_H]

Technically, yes: AROS 68k
Practically: no. AROS 68k hasn't been maintained for almost a decade now, I think, and was nowhere near usable when it was.

What's wrong with regular AmigaOS? It's easily and cheaply acquired from Amiga Forever...

[bloodline]

It wouldn't take too much time to get the 68k AROS flavour going... There is a bounty for it, someone on the mailing list is preparing to take it on too!

There was quite of bit of talk about using an ST emualtor to run 68k Linux and then start by getting AROS hosted on that first (which should be really quite a straight forward process), and then get the OS running native from there!

Would be great to have a free 68k Amiga OS :-)

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

Would be great to have a free 68k Amiga OS :-)

Is there a classic PPC flavour at all?

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Would be great to have a free 68k Amiga OS :-)

Is there a classic PPC flavour at all?

No, I don't think any of the AROS devs have enough documentation for the PPC boards... There are a few PPC flavours though!

[Karlos]

Isn't there a classic PPC linux port that could be dissected to glean the relevant information?

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
Isn't there a classic PPC linux port that could be dissected to glean the relevant information?

Well honestly I can see any motivation to do that... If you want a decent OS on your classic PPC machine MOS do a free version... Or you can buy OS4...

A royalty free 68k AmigaOS for UAE would on the other hand be rather good :-)

[McVenco]

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

You could give p.OS a try if you can lay your hands on a copy.

[Karlos]

Well honestly I can see any motivation to do that

By your own admission, the amiga as a platform is dead. Why, then, is there any motivation to develop AROS at all? Whatever that motivation is, it is presumably applicable to any hardware that is capable of running it.

AROS for the BPPC could theoretically run a lot faster on my classic machine than AROS for the 680x0. Getting more speed out of the hardware used to be motivation enough for the majority of amiga developers :-)

[freqmax]

The motivation is that a free AmigaOS 68k clone can be supplied with an equal free hardware clone.

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:

Well honestly I can see any motivation to do that

By your own admission, the amiga as a platform is dead. Why, then, is there any motivation to develop AROS at all? Whatever that motivation is, it is presumably applicable to any hardware that is capable of running it.

AROS for the BPPC could theoretically run a lot faster on my classic machine than AROS for the 680x0. Getting more speed out of the hardware used to be motivation enough for the majority of amiga developers :-)

I didn't mean to belittle your idea... I too have a BPPC and would love to have AROS running on it... But realisticaly, compared to 68k AROS for UAE and AROS for the x86... I can't see many devs getting very excited (BPPC boards are slow and dying)... If you want to give it a go... There are a lot of AROS PPC devs on the dev list waiting to give you advice... I guess the hardest is just setting up the BPPC hardware... Everything else is ready to go :-)

[wawrzon]

from my pov it would be great to have "classic" (phew!) aros distribution. bernd rosch ported some of aros functionality back to os3.x but i dont think it is going any further. then again allthough i have a ppc card in one of my a4000s too, i do not see any advantage in supporting these rare hw. i would rather aim for a wider common denominator and this is 68k.

[dammy]

from my pov it would be great to have "classic" (phew!) aros distribution. bernd rosch ported some of aros functionality back to os3.x but i dont think it is going any further. then again allthough i have a ppc card in one of my a4000s too, i do not see any advantage in supporting these rare hw. i would rather aim for a wider common denominator and this is 68k.

Then support the kickstart replacement bounties.  Apart of the Kickstart Replacement Phase I (no, I have no idea if the bounty is still assigned or is in the process of being relisted as open) is to reactivate AROS-68K branch in the AROS SVN.

[wawrzon]

sure i would, the problem is paypal:(

[dammy]

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

sure i would, the problem is paypal:(

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