amigaux.org
Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026
Amiga Unix, once more
Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore’s System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the
A2500UX and A3000UX, then left the place it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial neighborhood venture that
picks it up once more: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on immediately’s accelerator {hardware}, with a
trendy toolchain, a package deal supervisor, and drivers for playing cards that by no means had any. The work is finished in
the open, and written down because it occurs within the
grimoire.
Soon: set up it your self
The set up medium boots from floppy and CD-ROM on actual {hardware} — floppy picture and ISO below
emulation — and takes care of the entire set up, interactively or unattended. With supported
{hardware}, getting Amix onto a machine comes right down to following the prompts. The traditional tape
set up follows later.
From there the community takes over: apkg installs packages straight from
pkg.amigaux.org — grep, gzip, much less, patch and zlib to start out with, and extra GNU and BSD
instruments as they’re constructed and examined.
# apkg replace
catalog up to date: 39 packages
# apkg set up much less
downloading further/less-704.pkg …
put in less-704
it reveals you what it’s about to do. Real time, with the lengthy waits taken out.
the package deal repository — and comes up at a login immediate.
Where we’re
Working immediately
- 68040/68060 help — Amix 2.1 on an actual 68060, with or with out FPU; an MMU is necessary.
The kernel: asokero/amix-040-060-port - Z3660 accelerator — native SCSI and ethernet drivers, confirmed on actual {hardware}
- A4091 / A4092 — a Zorro III SCSI driver and an auto-detecting kernel
- Installation — from floppy + CD-ROM on an actual machine, or floppy picture + ISO picture below
emulation, interactive or unattended; the traditional tape set up follows later - apkg — a distant package deal shopper with a hosted repository (catalog, dependencies, upgrades),
and the primary trendy GNU instruments packaged: grep, gzip, much less, patch, zlib - A cross toolchain — Linux-hosted
m68k-cbm-sysv4, constructing all the above - An OpenLook desktop that comes up prepared on a contemporary set up
- Quake — runs; a benchmark greater than a recreation, for now
In progress
- RTG graphics for the Z3660 (ZZ9000-compatible) — operating below emulation, actual {hardware} subsequent
- Ethernet throughput within the accelerator firmware
- X11R6.3 and Mesa as packages, from the neighborhood ports; the broader userland after that
- A read-only CD filesystem (ODFileSystem port)
- Install-media polish: a restore path, guard rails; the tape model
Next
- A local, trendy gcc on the field
- RTG on the actual accelerator
- The packaged X11R6.3 / Mesa stack
- The firmware ethernet fixes
- Then the total launch right here: packages, supply, directions and manuals
How it is constructed
Part of this work is finished with generative AI within the loop — fashions studying the previous kernels in binary, as no
supply is accessible, and writing drivers and notes — with folks setting path, reviewing each change and testing on actual
{hardware}, the place it both boots or it does not. Other elements are completed the traditional manner. The grimoire
information each, confidence-tagged, so you may see what’s verified and what’s nonetheless a guess.
