But then with enough people starting to flock to the project it suddenly could boot AmigaDOS. Originally it stood for “Unusable Amiga Emulator” and well it was unusable. Years later and the topic of m68k emulation came up, as there were simple cross assemblers and simulators, and I can remember in college searching to see if anyone had started an Amiga emulator… And there was one project! Passing it through a hex editor showed a copy of an Amiga ROM tacked on the end, but it didn’t actually emulate anything.īut I didn’t realize it at the time, and it cemented my decision to buy the 286. Running it just simply threw up a picture of the Amiga’s insert a workbench diskette, and clicked the drive madly. So I was toying with the idea of buying this 286 8Mhz board for $30 CDN when I saw this program that a kid had brought in… It needed VGA, but it could apparently emulate a Commodore Amiga!
#Mini vmac compile Pc#
And of course the big appeal at the time was that you could build your own PC in a kit fashion (well it still is!). Windows 3.0 was out, suddenly the protected mode of the 80286 could be exploited for only a few hundred dollars, vs the thousands for a UNIX port, or what OS/2 cost. However the world was starting to accept the IBM PC swing of things. Then it hat hit me, I’ve never really written about some of the great emulators for the Commodore Amiga.īack when I was in highschool I wanted a Commodore Amiga, as at the time I was stuck with a Commodore 64. I was enjoying that great site, stumbleupon when I came across a commented listing of the Amiga 1.2 ROM. Posted in m68k, Macintosh, minix | Leave a reply WinUAE 2.2.0 released! The only real downside will be that the C compiler is ancient… It really can’t compare to MINT’s GCC.
#Mini vmac compile install#
I’ve detailed some of the install steps on gunkies. To start, Brad Pliner has an excellent site, with lots of documentation for this port of Minix, including some PDF’s of the instructions.
#Mini vmac compile mac#
The best parts being, that it had vi, and even a C compiler! Although without documentation getting things in & out of the Mac seemed impossible, and I kind of gave up on it.īut after digging around these ancient Linux things, I thought I’d take a look at MacMinix again.
The best part of the Mac port being that you didn’t have to format, repartition or anything, as it was essentially and operating environment! Then someone at college pointed out that Minix actually supported a bunch of 68000 based machines, namely the Amiga, Atari ST, and the Macintosh!!! Then I started using it for a foot rest, as I couldn’t do anything really more with it. I thought it was so cool, I even got a cable to talk to a normal external modem, and used it as a compact terminal to BBS, although the 800Kb floppies were a bit of a pain….Īnyways it was OK for a while but system 6 is so… limiting. Once upon a time, I bought a Mac Plus, and decked it out with 4MB of ram, and a 40MB SCSI hard disk.
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