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Amiga Linux / Watchtower 2
Grab your towels hoopy froods, this is one of the best real time technical games I ever played on my A1200 (DKB Cobra 030/882 with Ferret and 32Mb fast) -- the object of the game, is to get the m68k linux OS booting and being somewhat useful, following the clues & hints scattered about these files, in howtos, readmes, and usenet snippet posts.
Seems I managed to archive most of the useful stuff, including some m68k-amiga binaries (including gcc toolchain), and in the words of Eric'O ..."If I can do it, you can do it!"...and you get a warm fuzzy when you finally see it work. Then you can level-up, and start compiling your own m68k-amiga binaries, and engage in multi sessions of rage-against-the-machine mode, when you realize when it comes to crunching numbers, the clock-speed of the (back then) first pentium i686 cpus, meant you could save half your life & mortality, by setting up a m68k-amiga cross compile toolchain on the x86, and get things compiled orders of 10 quicker compared to even the 060's that got about back in the day. Guaranteed to represent a challenge ~ become a master ~ impress your friends!! @TCD -- I've hoisted it to the mega link below, primary because gzipped tar is 'historically' correct... ie; back in the day you had to obtain 'untgz' for AmigaOS, before you could do anything with these files..I don't think I could find Amiga Linux on the ftp? It likely deserves a place there down in /Misc/ or such? HTML Code:
https://mega.nz/file/WUYjhZSY#7PQwQWKJKz1ugKN-y4Ov-rTtEYHZ3bGZTcVjhr5Mgf8 |
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Looking forward to giving this a try (even if I don't succeed!)
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http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/saynotowatchtower.html The situation was improved somewhat with the second release, 'Watchtower-2', but you still had a pretty steep learning curve to follow, if you hadn't done Unix in your youth... https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/r...1996/1117.html This whole rigamarole was later supplanted, once the m68k install path was adopted by debian/redhat for example ... it removed the reliance of using the Amiga host side, to get a lot of the installation process done. A pretty good treatise of those times... https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2090 Doth that sate thou curiosity? =) |
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