Amiga Unix, Again
3 hours ago
- Amix (Amiga Unix) was Commodore's System V Release 4 for Amiga, shipped 1990–92; now revived by community project for 68040/68060 machines and modern accelerators.
- Installation is done from floppy and CD-ROM on real hardware or under emulation, with interactive or unattended options; classic tape install to follow later.
- Package manager apkg installs tools like grep, gzip, less, patch, zlib from pkg.amigaux.org.
- Currently working: 68040/68060 kernel support, Z3660 accelerator with native SCSI/ethernet, A4091 SCSI driver, installation system, apkg, cross toolchain, OpenLook desktop, and Quake.
- In progress: RTG graphics for Z3660, ethernet throughput improvements, X11R6.3 and Mesa packages, CD filesystem, and install media refinements.
- Next steps: native modern gcc, RTG on real hardware, packaged X11/Mesa stack, firmware ethernet fixes, then full public launch with packages, source, and documentation.
- Development uses generative AI for analyzing binary kernels and writing drivers, combined with classic coding; all work is documented in a public grimoire with confidence tags.