There’s nary existent data, but if we had to conjecture the least-favourite Disney movie of erstwhile Amiga owners would person to beryllium Frozen, because nary of them will ever beryllium capable to “Let it Go”. The Amiga-derived AROS Research Operating System has conscionable been ported to footwear bare-metal connected the Raspberry Pi, successful some 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Yes, there’s a 64-bit Amiga-compatible OS that runs connected ARM. It genuinely is simply a clip of wonders.
AROS has already been ported to a number of platforms. Besides x86, there’s a PPC larboard that provided a batch of codification to the MorphOS, which you tin publication astir here, and a back-port that brings AROS backmost to original Amiga 68k hardware. There is moreover a build for RISC V.
AROS developers are making judge that Amiga bequest isn’t stuck connected immoderate fixed hardware, truthful they ne'er person to fto it go. So while not wholly retired of near field, this improvement is “pretty nifty” some successful that it gives different ultralight operating strategy for the Pi, pinch footwear times to rival RiscOS, and different level for ex-Amiga users to play pinch that isn’t 40 years old. Previously if you wanted to tally AROS connected a Pi it was virtualized successful Linux, making it akin to each different Amiga emulators.
While immoderate package has been recompiled for ARM, the disposable package isn’t arsenic full-featured arsenic x86, but that’s almost definite to alteration arsenic clip goes on. It’s early days yet and this build is very overmuch a activity successful progress. Likewise we expect support for different Pi boards to expand, arsenic while correct now the target is the Pi3, the forum threads see chat of the Pi4 and moreover Zero2W.
You tin cheque the larboard retired successful action in a video by [Dan Wood] embedded below, sent to america by tipster [Stephen Walters]. Thanks [Stephen]!
We person featured AROS erstwhile before, thought it’s been a while.
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