Re: m68k chat 21st Aug 2020 - "the Amitari - EmuTOS and Atari Software on the Amiga"

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:30 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> There did exist a small AmigaOS emulator for Amiga UNIX, basically
> implementing a hunk loader and a few exec.library and dos.library calls.
> This was rumored to be sufficient to run e.g. the SAS C compiler.
> I tried it once on Linux/m68k, and it could run a simple Hello World.
>
> The only entrypoint you need to provide to run AmigaOS binaries is a
> pointer to ExecBase at address 4.  If TOS doesn't use that location for
> something else, you can implement AmigaOS support.
>
> Good luck! ;-)

FTR:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000304080628/http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/bin/ados_linux.tar.gz


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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