Hi guys,
There has been a lot of talk about the Raspberry Pi lately. I found some cool videos by ClusterUK Development on YouTube about the new relationship between AROS, an Amiga operating system, and the Raspberry Pi. Thought you might enjoy watching them. 🙂
I’ve promised myself that this will be the week that I’ll install AROS on my old laptop. There is no way back now. 😉
Most of all I’d like to get hold an AmigaOS 4.x compatible system, but they are pretty expensive and I really can’t justify spending that much cash on another machine. I was hoping that the frequently discussed AmigaOS netbook would arrive in the near future, but as far as I’ve heard from other sources, it doesn’t seem like it’ll be out before Christmas or sometime next year. Meanwhile, AROS is getting better and better every week. We can clearly see that in the increasing interest the OS has received from a wide variety of sites on the Internet. The different distributions of it looks cool as well. I’ve even noticed that a German business, Vesalia, is selling AROS compatible systems!
Can’t wait to give it a try myself. 🙂 I’ll let you know when I have and I really want to do a video of it in action as well.
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Recapture the glory days of 16-bit computing by turning your Pi into a faithful Amiga emulator
The Commodore Amiga’s top-notch sound and graphics made it one of the most desirable home computers of the ’80s and early ’90s, at a time when your average IBM PC was still plodding along with EGA graphics and an internal beeper. Amiga games from the era have aged incredibly well, and look and play brilliantly on everything from a portable display to a widescreen TV. We’ll take you through turning your Raspberry Pi 3 into a perfect modern-day Amiga emulator. You’ll need a Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux desktop operating system to copy the Amibian Linux distribution to your SD card and unpack the Kickstart ROMs required to make it work smoothly.
The full article can be found in The MagPi 52 and was written by K.G. Orphanides.
You’ll need
- microSD card
- USB stick
- Wired Xbox 360 controller
Start by downloading the Amibian distro. Format a microSD card, decompress the Amibian RAR file, and use Win32DiskImager or Linux’s dd command to copy the IMG file to the card. A 4GB card should be plenty, as Amibian only occupies around 300MB.
Slot the microSD card into your Pi and power up. It’ll boot directly into the UAE4ARM emulator, but there’s some extra configuration to do before we start playing. Quit UAE4ARM to get to the command line and run: Where can i download doraemon anime.
Select Expand Filesystem, which will give you access to the entirety of the SD card’s capacity for storage, then Exit and select Yes to reboot.
If your Pi won’t output sound via HDMI properly, enter this at the command line:
If your Pi won’t output sound via HDMI properly, enter this at the command line:
Make sure the following lines are present and aren’t commented out with a preceding hash (#):