[News] The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-May-2002 17:32 GMT by petros1815 | 122 comments View flat View list |
The AmigaOne was presented in Leeuwarden today. Unfortunately, only openfirmware bios was shown. Photos of the presentation at http://www.amigascene.nl/nieuws/nieuws.htm .
At around 15.00 Computer City brought the AmigaOne motherboard. It is the first sample of the 1.0a board. Because the motherboard was different from the one that Eyetech had, it was not possible to use the Linux from the old board. Because there was no more time for a new installation, we had to do only with the openfirmware bios. There are installed a IBM processor (without cooling!), 128MB, Soundblaster soundcard and a ATi Radeon 7500 AGP.
It now waits for OS4.
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Posted by Anonymous on 26-May-2002 15:10 GMT | So it's a tweaked (for "copy protection") POP motherboard with conventional PC I/O and external logic, which will be hosting a GNU ELF tool chain and associated userspace. In other words, the objective for the Amiga community this year is to build an expensive proprietary version of the cheap, open Linux box.
The remaining bits that are "Amiga" are the APIs (like AROS) and somes bits of bundled software (mostly OS utility software that wouldn't be needed in another operating system)
So it seems AROS was right all along, the "important" bit of the Amiga is just a bunch of structures and function calls.
Writing an Amiga emulation environment for Linux sounds like a fun project to give a student next year. All one needs to do is create some shared libraries and a magic "Amiga" runtime loader (new binfmt or binfmt_misc). Of course a single student probably wouldn't get much further than running Amiga 'Hello World' because so many key libraries on the Amiga are closed source, but it would still be a fun project. |
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