[Coco] Amiga Systems

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 19:08:07 John Donaldson did opine:

> I have done some research on the Net and from what I have found a A2000
> or A3000 may be what I am looking for. As long as I can boot either
> AmigaOS or Linux. I know I can get the C compiler for Linux but was
> there a C compiler for AmigaOS?
> 
> John Donaldson, AB8YZ

There was John, and I still have a full copy of it, SAS C V6.58 at last 
upgrade.  Its docs are still taking up around 8.5" of shelf space here.

> 
> On 1/14/2014 10:06 PM, Christopher Barnett Fox wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > I had an ECS Amiga 500 in the '90s. Great fun.
> > 
> > I just recently uncovered an old stock Amiga 1200, and I'm in the
> > process of upgrading it. I've got a Mot 68882 FPU, 8MB Fast RAM and
> > RTC upgrade in the trapdoor slot, and I've got Kickstart 3.1 ROM
> > chips on the way from AmigaKit. I've built a CF-based HD replacement,
> > using an inexpensive 44-pin laptop IDE to CF adapter available
> > online. Be aware, on older versions of the AmigaOS (up to 3.1, I
> > think?), the formatting and partitioning for the card has specific
> > limitations - no support over 4GB, I believe. However, 4GB is quite a
> > bit of storage for these old machines. Also note, I believe some RAM
> > upgrades, (over 4MB?) conflict with the use of the PCMCIA slot.
> > 
> > I have to say, if you really just want to play around with the AmigaOS
> > and run some of the games, modern emulators are amazing. I picked up
> > Amiga Forever, really for licensed copies of all the Kickstart ROMs
> > and Workbench disk sets. I built my CF card to boot my Amiga hardware
> > inside of UAE using the Workbench 3.1 installer ADFs that come with
> > Amiga Forever. It's a great way to support the scene and legally
> > obtain the OS and ROMs.
> > 
> > http://www.amigaforever.com
> > http://www.amigakit.com
> > 
> > If you want the flavor of AmigaOS and the ability to dual-boot Linux,
> > you might take a look at the MorphOS project. It runs on some of the
> > older PowerPC-based Macs, which will also run some Linux distros.
> > 
> > http://www.morphos.de
> 
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