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http://aros.sourceforge.net/

A reimplementation of AmigaOS. It's fairly complete.

Runs on x86 and RPi too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COUrcZat6oc

Complete VM version: http://vmwaros.blogspot.nl/

Given that my phone is magnitudes more powerful than those embedded systems, sure, it makes a big difference. Those network monitoring boxes were expensive - today you can buy a whole board with a GB plus of memory and several GB of flash and multiple cores for less than the cost of just the CPU (some 486 clone) on that device... If you've got a GB of memory and several GB of flash, most people won't bother to optimize at all unless they have very specific hard requirements when it comes to startup times etc.

E.g. there's no inherent reason why your phone should take 20-30 seconds to boot, other than that it has sufficient resources that nobody bothers to optimize things, and people boot their phones rarely enough that there's just insufficient demand to make any money off of optimizing the boot process much and so it gets little attention.

The irony is that this has actually made us go backwards in many ways.

I play with AROS on occasion- a reimplementation of sorts of AmigaOS. It can run native, but it can also run hosted under Linux (and others). I can get AROS to boot hosted on Linux on my laptop, and start a text editor faster than I can start Emacs on the same laptop. That is, it brings up a full OS and graphical UI and executes a startup script to start the text editor faster than Emacs starts....

There's nothing special done to achieve that, other than a system design that was developed to work on a machine with 512KB RAM and a 7.16MHz 68000 CPU...

I'd sooner use C with Zune than JS.

Web developers aren't gonna start making a desktop environment, nor DE developers will suddenly stop trying to write good software.

You can run some Amiga-based and Amiga-like OSes on x86/x64.

Check out

• AROS http://aros.sourceforge.net/
• Aeros http://www.aeros-os.org/
• Amithlon http://www.hd-zone.com/amithlon/

Amithlon is really difficult to get working, but will give you the most authentic AmigaOS experience if you do. The other two are no more difficult to install than a Linux distro.

amikit is a pack of amiga apps, for various platforms (including native amiga) - not sure what exactly is in the mac port though

http://amikit.amiga.sk/downloads.htm

edit: aros has ppc port that runs under mac os - http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly.php

Crap...

If some one is actually interested in Amiga, check out AROS.

EDIT: I think bowling4meth summed it up nicely in a comment on r/amiga... http://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/r7r1j/your_thoughts_on_the_new_amiga_mini/c43p3jp

Yeah, I'm fully aware of that and I find the whole business model of cashing in on Commodore nostalgia and other people's hard work completely bonkers and borderline tasteless.

If they really wanted to resurrect the days when people really loved their Commodore machines, why not do something useful like contributing to the AROS Operating System with genuine new quality software and maybe create some really cool hardware to go with it?

AROS aka 'The AROS Research Operating System' on x86, PPC and 68K CPUs.

>AROS Research Operating System (AROS - pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Designed to be portable and flexible, ports are currently available for x86-based and PowerPC-based PCs in native and hosted flavors, with other architectures in development. Also ported to m68k-based Amiga 1200.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

and it works quite happily in VirtualBox on an X86 host.

If download all the bells and whistles, it still comes out smaller (after adding games and emulators) than if you tried to get a similar setup on TinyCore or Damn Small Linux. It's also faster and less RAM. I just thought it would be worth looking into for running DOSBox since it's nearly instant in booting up compared to anything else I've found.

There is a system called AROS that's an Amiga/UNIX like something or other that includes DOSBox and many others that might be worth checking out if you're really looking for something to scratch your head over. http://aros.sourceforge.net/

There's only so much the old 68k hardware can do. There's AROS which increasingly seems like the new focus since it runs on x86, and even has the beginnings of multiprocessor support without breaking API compatibility.

Does anyone know if AROS' status page gets updated? http://aros.sourceforge.net/introduction/status/everything.php

I'm mainly interested in AmigaOS 3.1 and Extensions, but it seems like everything's been stalled for years.

Has there been progress in those areas or is the status page up to date and literally nothing's been done?

Try AEROS. It's an AROS version build on top of Debian. I bought the AEROS premium edition to play with all past weekend, it's 20 Euro, but the site offers a free older test image. Workbench-like behaviour on an Raspi, it's great.