<div>Wow Braddock, that takes me way back.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing!</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 5:42 PM Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi folks,<br class="gmail_msg">
I had some fun last weekend with Amiga emulators and an obscure OS.<br class="gmail_msg">
Thought it might be of interest to some of you.<br class="gmail_msg">
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In 1990 Commodore released a port of System V R4 Unix to the Amiga<br class="gmail_msg">
3000 hardware. I remember a 14 year old future Linux user drooling<br class="gmail_msg">
over this, but the OS was expensive, was only out for a couple years,<br class="gmail_msg">
and I never got to see it running. Until now!<br class="gmail_msg">
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I spent $30 to buy the Amiga Forever collection, which includes<br class="gmail_msg">
licensed ROM files for all the Amiga models. Amiga Forever is<br class="gmail_msg">
unfortunately for Windows using the WinUAE emulator, but with Wine you<br class="gmail_msg">
can run an included tool to extract the disk images. From there I<br class="gmail_msg">
fired up FS-UAE for Linux (the UNIX Amiga Emulator, although it now<br class="gmail_msg">
runs on everything). My intention was just to play a game of Populous<br class="gmail_msg">
- which I did.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Then I thought about that beautiful Amiga 3000 running Unix in the old<br class="gmail_msg">
issue of Amiga World. Did Amiga Unix survive? A google revealed a<br class="gmail_msg">
nice wiki devoted to the Amiga Unix and a few forum threads where<br class="gmail_msg">
people got it running in UAE in just the past few years!<br class="gmail_msg">
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Well, I had to try that. Some trial and error was involved - needed<br class="gmail_msg">
the latest FS-UAE, not the one in the Ubuntu repos, needed some custom<br class="gmail_msg">
magic configuration settings. But after a couple hours, voila!, boot<br class="gmail_msg">
and even launch X Windows. I used a configured hard disk image found<br class="gmail_msg">
online - you can also supposedly install it fresh from a "tape drive"<br class="gmail_msg">
but I couldn't get that to work.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Some folks have even back-ported an older GCC and the GNU tools for<br class="gmail_msg">
it, and collected a few books of documentation and schematics. I<br class="gmail_msg">
could not get networking to function - it might be the weird SysV<br class="gmail_msg">
syntax of route and ifconfig holding me back.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Anyway, I thought it was interesting. If anyone wants technical<br class="gmail_msg">
details just ask.<br class="gmail_msg">
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-braddock<br class="gmail_msg">
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