[SGVLUG] Amiga Unix

[Matthew Campbell via SGVLUG]

Wow Braddock, that takes me way back.

Thanks for sharing!

Matt

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:42 PM Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <
sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I had some fun last weekend with Amiga emulators and an obscure OS.
> Thought it might be of interest to some of you.
>
> In 1990 Commodore released a port of System V R4 Unix to the Amiga
> 3000 hardware.  I remember a 14 year old future Linux user drooling
> over this, but the OS was expensive, was only out for a couple years,
> and I never got to see it running.  Until now!
>
> I spent $30 to buy the Amiga Forever collection, which includes
> licensed ROM files for all the Amiga models.  Amiga Forever is
> unfortunately for Windows using the WinUAE emulator, but with Wine you
> can run an included tool to extract the disk images.  From there I
> fired up FS-UAE for Linux (the UNIX Amiga Emulator, although it now
> runs on everything).  My intention was just to play a game of Populous
> - which I did.
>
> Then I thought about that beautiful Amiga 3000 running Unix in the old
> issue of Amiga World.  Did Amiga Unix survive?  A google revealed a
> nice wiki devoted to the Amiga Unix and a few forum threads where
> people got it running in UAE in just the past few years!
>
> Well, I had to try that.  Some trial and error was involved - needed
> the latest FS-UAE, not the one in the Ubuntu repos, needed some custom
> magic configuration settings.  But after a couple hours, voila!, boot
> and even launch X Windows.  I used a configured hard disk image found
> online - you can also supposedly install it fresh from a "tape drive"
> but I couldn't get that to work.
>
> Some folks have even back-ported an older GCC and the GNU tools for
> it, and collected a few books of documentation and schematics.  I
> could not get networking to function - it might be the weird SysV
> syntax of route and ifconfig holding me back.
>
> Anyway, I thought it was interesting.  If anyone wants technical
> details just ask.
>
> -braddock
>
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