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billpglast Thursday at 8:40 AM4 repliesview on HN

Could this be a the basis of an independent implementation of AmigaOS? At the moment, (I think) you still need a licensed copy of Commodore's OS to run an emulator.


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mghackerladylast Thursday at 2:12 PM

There's the free AROS for that, and the less talked about but arguably cooler nonfree MorphOS. If you have an old PPC mac try a trial of MorphOS on it, it's a very interesting little system

amiga386last Thursday at 11:10 AM

It's about a million miles away from that. It's a 68000 CPU emulator, with no Amiga hardware, and just enough OS structures sprinkled into memory, such that quite a few Amiga CLI utilities work.

What you're looking for is a ROM with a full implementation of AmigaOS, that can manage real Amiga hardware: that is only possible with the official ROMs or projects like AROS

anthklast Thursday at 8:58 AM

You can use the ArOS roms for m68k and Aros m68k itself, but you need to set a highend setup.

actionfromafarlast Thursday at 8:44 AM

There is an open source version, named AROS, which you can use.