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Please let me know when you have it running in linux...

• prettyStandard 4y ago
  Doubtful. But per this page you could get a Linux like system running on it. http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=560 http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=560 > I think its not possible to port Linux on a 6502, maybe Minix could be used as a base for a port. As far as I know (??), early versions of Minix did not require an MMU. But check out the LUnix Project, its a kind of unix for c64 and c128 from scratch, ports to other systems should be possible: > http://lng.sourceforge.net/ http://lng.sourceforge.net/
  • nuc1e0n 4y ago
    The actual furby chip was probably a glop top right? You can't do a lot with that other than mess with the sensor input lines. Getting the code here to run on other stuff is the real prize I think.
• squarefoot 4y ago
  Not possible with real Linux, the CPU on the Furby is too limited while the smallest Linux out there still requires some more resources. Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks https://github.com/jbruchon/elks I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.
  • mrlonglong 4y ago
    I'd suggest Fuzix instead. It will run on 6502, z80 etc. http://fuzix.org/ http://fuzix.org/ The great Alan Cox had an hand with the development.