18 June 2021, 19:28 | #1 |
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NetBSD 9.2 on the Amiga 1200
So I am going to attempt to install NetBSD 9.2 one of my A1200 computers. The candidate I have picked has a Phase 5 Blizzard 1230 MK IV w/ a 50MHz MC68030RC50C, the 68882 FPU and 128MB RAM. I also have an OSSC for display issues and a 3COM EtherLink III PCMCIA Ethernet adapter (I checked, it is supported in NetBSD 9.2, 9.1 too)
Anyone here done this before? What issues have you faced? What physical ROMS should I use? Cheers! |
19 June 2021, 13:00 | #2 |
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I've installed NetBSD 9.2 on my A4000. As long as you have an MMU you should be good to go. Just expect it to be very very slow and the WSCONS kernel doesn't appear to support X11 (at least on AGA)
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As for AGA graphics and x11… does this help? https://www.amigareport.com/ar315/ftp14.html |
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Not really. That's an X11 Window Manager available in NetBSD. The issue is that there's no direct WSCONS support the Amiga's custom chips. There's Amidisplaycc which provides the minimum console support but that's it. |
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Maybe OpenBSD? https://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html
Seems the last release to support Amiga was 2002's 3.2... X.org server didn't come out until 2004. |
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I haven't tried OpenBSD but someone else did here: https://hup.hu/node/166365 (Google Translate might help). You might get better something more modern from a pre-Xorg NetBSD.
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