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If you’re going to play with Amiga, I’d recommend buying a legal copy, just to support the community, and it’s so cheap, it’s really worth it for the nostalgia
by malux85 3y ago
If you’re going to play with Amiga, I’d recommend buying a legal copy, just to support the community, and it’s so cheap, it’s really worth it for the nostalgia alone.
I had a play with it last weekend, and it wasn’t very easy to setup, but after some faffing about and manually compiling the latest qemu, I was able to get it booting in a VM on my Linux desktop.
It’s nice to feel the nostalgia for the early machines, and then after 10 minutes of actually using it, feeling the gratitude for how much better my current desktop is, not just in compute power but usability too.
- snvzz 3y agoGod no. Please support the Open Source Software and Hardware community, not Hyperion or Cloanto of all things.
- malux85 3y agoOh I didn’t know, I was only looking for something packaged that could help me simulate the computing environment of my youth, and this is what came up when I googled it. Could you point me to the best open source efforts please? The AmigaOS CD ISO I purchased was very hard to get working, I am now curious if the alternatives are easier …
- snvzz 3y agoThe open alternative, for AmigaOS, is AROS[0]. But it is not great on the original hardware. There's a crowdfunding effort to support its developers[1]. Note the significant list of already Completed projects. Otherwise, there's plenty of Open Source projects around the Amiga in github and elsewhere. Look into winuae, fsuae, amiberry and miSTer if you need emulation (via software or fpga hardware). 0. http://aros.org/ http://aros.org/ 1. https://power2people.org/ https://power2people.org/