Subj : Re: What's in your retro closet?
To   : paulie420
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 06:50:17

paulie420 wrote to Niels Haedecke:
p>  NH> Yes, it's a nice machine and with a proper 68030 card like the Phase 
p>  NH> Blizzard
p>  NH>  it even runs NetBSD (although not very fast).
p> 
p> Dude - I saw this, too... I've been playing with putting Unix-like OSes on 
p> a 486 and saw that Amiga's could run BSD, too. I'd certainly play around 
p> with it if I had access to one... soon enough.
p> 

I suppose you heared of "PiStorm" which is a small CPU replacement board
containing the Wunderwaffe of computing, a Raspberry Pi to emulate any m68k
CPU. I have one here for my A500 but not yet tested it. Just in case that you
have a hard time finding a proper accelerator card. I am lucky to be in
possesion of said Phase 5 board which also includes a SCSI controller.

Keep in mind that NetBSD *requires* a MMU so if you decide to go hunting for 
an
 original accelerator card, make sure it has a MMU on it as well.

I remember that I ran the UNIX version of "DayDream BBS" on NetBSD 3.1 on my
A1200 and ist worked. But don't exprect X11 to be a pleasant experience - it
takes ages to load and doesn't fully make use of the Amiga's video
capabilities.
 

    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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