[HN Gopher] The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and mo...
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The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 72 points
Date : 2025-12-25 00:38 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| riedel wrote:
| https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/
| linguae wrote:
| As a fan of older Macs, I didn't know there were any 64-bit
| PowerPC chips made after the Power Mac G5 and the Cell processors
| used in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3.
|
| This is cool; it would be cool to play with a modern, hobbyist
| 64-bit PowerPC board. I will be keeping an eye on this project!
| pjmlp wrote:
| It is what powers (hehe) many IBM servers,
|
| https://www.ibm.com/products/power
| einr wrote:
| This board is based on an NXP QorIQ SoC which is designed for
| networking hardware, not really intended for general purpose
| computers. It is to my knowledge, and has been for years, the
| only game in town if you need to be compatible with the PowerPC
| ISA (IBM POWER processors, while part of the same lineage,
| cannot run _PowerPC_ code)
| Aurornis wrote:
| Amazing effort
|
| Be sure to click through to the details page
| https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/
| drbig wrote:
| As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these
| boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have
| always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade(s) old,
| all in the name of... really no idea what beyond "we can".
|
| Or in other words: I wonder what if all that time, money and
| effort went into say AROS[1] and/or emulation. I can imagine
| still using AmIRC and HippoPlayer if I could run them as any
| other software on Linux.
|
| 1: https://aros.sourceforge.io/introduction/
| 2000UltraDeluxe wrote:
| Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been
| the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.
|
| The refusal to port AmigaOS to anything but dead or near-dead
| architectures has always amazed me -- had the resources been
| spent on AROS instead, we'd have a usable modern ecosystem by
| now, rather than multiple different options that fall back on
| various ways of running 30 year-old binaries.
|
| All I want is a decent modern version of YAM and universal
| ARexx/datatype support! :(
| bluescrn wrote:
| > Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has
| been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.
|
| The Amiga was not just an OS. It was all about the custom
| chips that added such interesting and powerful capabilities
| to an otherwise unspectacular 68000. When combined with the
| OS, it created a system that was truly ahead of its time.
|
| But I don't see the appeal of AmigaOS on modern hardware.
| Most Amiga fans are more interested in the games and demos
| that didn't use the OS, and used the blitter/copper etc
| directly.
|
| And if you just want a faster Amiga, the PiStorm is pretty
| cool.
| anthk wrote:
| There's an AROS runtime for GNU/Linux and others.
| einpoklum wrote:
| I'm not an Amiga'n. When I was a kid in the late 1980s, a friend
| of mine had some Amiga, and I enjoyed a couple of games he let me
| play on it, and that's about the extent of my experience since
| then.
|
| So, I'm finding it difficult to understand what this project
| actually is: Is it hardware for running original Amiga games and
| apps, or has there been a continuing user community and SW
| development effort in Amiga-world that us PC-heads are just not
| aware of? And that is interesting and different than copycatting
| advances from non-Amiga environments?
| dizzy9 wrote:
| The Amiga has become a Ship of Theseus situation. After the
| 68000 CPU series was no longer developed, third-party expansion
| boards were developed to add a PowerPC CPU to existing Amigas.
| AmigaOS 4 was developed to run on PowerPC, and later PowerPC
| Amiga motherboards were developed which didn't require original
| Amiga hardware at all. There's also MorphOS, an Amiga-
| compatible PowerPC OS, and AROS, an open source OS which runs
| on x86.
|
| There's a substantial Amiga enthusiast community to this day,
| which is the main market for this stuff. The various "new
| Amiga" platforms can only run original Amiga games via
| emulation. There has been plenty of development in the Amiga
| field, including new games, software and hardware expansions,
| though it is a niche hobbyist thing and mainly for people who
| love Amiga. You can find more information on YouTube.
| sgt wrote:
| It's amazing how much enthusiasm and innovation is still coming
| from the Amiga community! Also one of the reasons why I follow
| Amiga Bill on YouTube. Great show.
| derriz wrote:
| What puts me off the Amiga scene is how little of the 30 or 40
| year old software has been released into the public domain.
|
| I have no issue with charging for new software for retro
| platforms in order to support the scene but find it slightly
| offensive that you have to pay to acquire a legal 1.3 kickstart
| ROM - released and unchanged since 1988. It just feels like
| copyright squatting.
| sgt wrote:
| Yeah but that's probably because the legal blocks are a bit
| complicated. Most people just pirate it, I'd assume. I find
| all that stuff on torrents if I need.
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