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  1. amiga - Why did AmigaOS use #? instead of the asterisk for multi ...

    3 days ago · Earlier releases of the AmigaOS shell did wildcarding with the #? pattern which translated to "multiple iterations (#) of any character (?)". All well and good, but using asterisk (*) for wildcards …

  2. amiga - What's the most recent version of AmigaOS?

    Sep 24, 2023 · The last version of AmigaOS released by Commodore before their bankruptcy was 3.1. At this point all Amiga models were exclusively on the Motorola 68000 series of CPUs.

  3. AmigaOS 3.9 - where can I buy it? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange

    Sep 25, 2023 · You probably can't buy AmigaOS 3.9 any more. For a time, various Amiga retailers had stock of the physical AmigaOS 3.9 CD-ROM - the only format it was available in - but it would seem …

  4. How hard would it be to port Amiga OS4 to x86 or ARM?

    Sep 30, 2017 · AmigaOS 4 only runs on PowerPC CPUs, but was largely based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code which only ran on 68k CPUs. So the code base has already been ported from one architecture …

  5. Creating a new locale.library language support for AmigaOS

    Aug 14, 2017 · The .language file contains the "language driver", which is basically an Amiga system library (i.e. just like a .library file) that contains a bunch of localization-related functions that mostly …

  6. amiga - Is there a seamless, Wine-like AmigaOS emulator for Linux ...

    Nov 15, 2020 · AmigaOS has stdin and stdout just like Linux has. What I am after here is an Amiga emulator that maps the AmigaOS stdin and stdout to Linux stdin and stdout, not to the Amiga …

  7. How does stack size affect functioning of AmigaOS and programs?

    For amiga, nobody checks that (AmigaOS is not using benefits of virtual memory) and the programs just ends up using non-allocated memory, corrupting other programs memory, OS, etc.

  8. Amiga OS 3.1 vs 3.5 vs 3.9 system difference

    Oct 14, 2020 · 5 From what I've read over time, AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 do not make any changes to the underlying operating system other than they now requires at least a 68020 processor. AmigaOS 3.5 …

  9. Why was preemptive multitasking so slow in coming to consumer OS's?

    Sep 27, 2018 · I'd summarise the Macintosh's problem in a slightly different way: having first offered a single-tasking 128kb machine with no memory protection, it is a given that programmers would cheat …

  10. Were all Amigas except for A1000 un-upgradeable OS-wise?

    Feb 19, 2022 · 3 Each AmigaOS release is divided into: a ROM-based part — called Kickstart — and a disk-based part — originally provided on two floppies labeled as Workbench and Extras, but in later …