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Additionally, adding the -a option will pop up an application and return to the terminal prompt. I'm not that familiar with Unix/PC side that much, so I don't know if there's anything similar exists there. |
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20 May 2019, 13:48 | #2202 |
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Apple's "open" is (almost) equivalent to Amiga WBRun/WBLoad.
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20 May 2019, 14:35 | #2203 |
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Sure, I still run it in my 1.3 Amiga. Sometimes it's a bit problematic - if you boot off a disk with no dos commands, the ones on the HDD require arp.library.. An easy fix thankfully. :-)
Much of ARP was actually included into the OS with V36. Commodore purchased the project. |
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ARP was pretty much the default back in 1.3 for a more "modern" experience.
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I recall that there was some inconsistency with the tilde operator and command line regular expressions. I think it had the wrong precedence in ARP. Commodore implemented correct behaviour, but as a result you often had to wrap the expression after the tilde in parentheses. |
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22 May 2019, 08:07 | #2206 |
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Not 100% sure, but I remember seeing multiple references to this.
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22 May 2019, 10:20 | #2207 |
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24 May 2019, 18:35 | #2208 |
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I've installed kickstart roms 3.1.4 and AmigaDos 3.1.4 with CDROM. If I want to burn a CDROM on my PC so the Amiga can read it should it be in joliet format?
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That should work fine. The only time I have had an issue is when it is a mixed audio/data disk. For some reason I couldn't get the Heart of the Alien port to burn right.
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Why are there so many alternative 68060 libraries? I would think there would be one that detects the variants of the CPU and enable the features based on that?
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Yep, modern Amiga CD filesystems, including those shipped with OS 3.5, 3.9 and 3.1.4, will have no problem reading a PC (Joliet) formatted CD. You can also burn on the Amiga with Amiga extensions if you want to keep Amiga-specific file properties, such as protection bits and comments.
There is - the ThoR CPU library archive includes a CPU library that should work with pretty much any 68060 out there, and the same for the other 680x0 CPUs. The reason there are more of them floating around is because different manufacturers used different features and firmware on their boards, all of which possibly require slightly different software setups. Last edited by Daedalus; 25 May 2019 at 21:38. |
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'UNIX Certification' is pretty much meaningless
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If you have a habit of starting things from the command line on macOS, you can do so, but for application bundles (GUI apps, which is relevant here), you need to use 'open'. Quote:
Well, for me, if it passes my duck test I call it a UNIX. I have become used to and accept the various differences in package handling and how they sprinkle things around in '/etc' (and elsewhere). I agree with you, the most genuine UNIX we have today is BSD, and it is apparently not a real UNIX, LOL. If I were to get a vintage/retro UNIX experience today, the best bet is to pick some of the BSD variants around and run it on some retro hardware, or a small dev board. To go slightly off topic, I once worked on Windows (15 years ago) and tried to tame it somehow using a multiscreen desktop and using Emacs (do not even get me started on cygwin). It was always a frustrating half-working experience full of nasty surprises. After that 4 year stint, I sat down at my A3000 which was running NetBSD at the time having to fix some stuff in the system, using Emacs. Quickly my mind went into auto and mapped the steps to use to accomplish the task. Then I felt frustration fully boiling up inside of me, feeling that nothing would work as usual. After a couple of seconds, in fully agitated mode, it dawned to me. No, I am on a UNIX now, it will just work. I took several deep breaths to calm myself down, literally. Then followed the steps my mind initially plotted out, and it just all worked. |
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UNIX (ala it's varients like AIX and Solaris) is far from dead. It all depends on the industry and application. I will grant that Linux and BSD are more visible and common today.
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Sorry, read that 'all but dead' as in 'used only in specific industries like financial institutions and various other places where uptime goes into the astronomical areas (literally, like I think NASA probably still uses some various UNIX systems). AIX is pretty sweet. Solaris, I'm not sure where it's still being used, probably on some hardware that people want to move away from it, but can't for various reasons. Poor Sun. |
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I really like AIX. I actually have a bunch of PPC RS6000 AIX machines at home that have been discarded over the years/decades and they are still rock solid. Solaris on the other hand... Ever since Oracle bought Sun... Argh... We are using Solaris on SPARC at the moment because that is what the client wanted. |
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If you want a truely hilarious retro experience, try RetroBSD: https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd BSD2.11 for MIPS based PIC32 Microcontrollers. One of the nice things is that the codebase has been cleaned up to compile with GCC so its useful to loan from for other purposes too. On my Amiga setups i use a RetroBSD derived userland for my ixemul shell environment. |
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