amigaux.org

Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026 Amiga Unix, again Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood.

amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as it happens in the grimoire.

Keymap, disk, partition sizes, package set — then it shows you what it is about to do. Real time, with the long waits taken out. First boot. It names itself, sets the clock, writes its hosts file — including the package repository — and comes up at a login prompt.

The kernel: asokero/amix-040-060-port Z3660 accelerator — native SCSI and ethernet drivers, proven on real hardware A4091 / A4092 — a Zorro III SCSI driver and an auto-detecting kernel Installation — from floppy + CD-ROM on a real machine, or floppy image + ISO image under emulation, interactive or unattended; the classic tape install follows later apkg — a remote package client with a hosted repository (catalog, dependencies, upgrades), and the first modern GNU tools packaged: grep, gzip, less, patch, zlib A cross toolchain — Linux-hosted m68k-cbm-sysv4, building all of the above An OpenLook desktop that comes up ready on a fresh install Quake — runs; a benchmark more than a game, for now In progress RTG graphics for the Z3660 (ZZ9000-compatible) — running under emulation, real hardware next Ethernet throughput in the accelerator firmware X11R6.3 and Mesa as packages, from the community ports; the wider userland after that A read-only CD filesystem (ODFileSystem port) Install-media polish: a repair path, guard rails; the tape version Next A native, modern gcc on the box RTG on the real accelerator The packaged X11R6.3 / Mesa stack The firmware ethernet fixes Then the full launch here: packages, source, instructions and manuals How it's built Part of this work is done with generative AI in the loop — models reading the old kernels in binary, as no source is available, and writing drivers and notes — with people setting direction, reviewing every change and testing on real hardware, where it either boots or it doesn't. Other parts are done the classic way. The grimoire records both, confidence-tagged, so you can see what is verified and what is still a guess.

The code The kernel asokero/amix-040-060-port — Amix 2.1 kernel for the 68040 and 68060 asokero/amix-unix-boot — patches that make Markus Wild's unix_boot load an Amix kernel on a 68040 or 68060 Drivers and hardware jusii/amix-z3660scsi — SCSI driver for the Z3660's PiStorm piscsi mailbox jusii/amix-z3660net — STREAMS/DLPI ethernet driver for the Z3660 jusii/Z3660-amix — Amix-aware fork of the Z3660 firmware jusii/amix-a4091 — SCSI driver for the Commodore A4091/A4092 (NCR 53C710) isoriano1968/zz9000-amix — ZZ9000 RTG driver isoriano1968/hydra-amix — Hydra ethernet driver asokero/va2000-amix — MNT VA2000 RTG driver Graphics and X11 asokero/xrtg-amix — Xrtg, an X11R5 RTG server isoriano1968/x11r6.3-amix — X11R6.3 for Amix isoriano1968/mesa-amix — Mesa for Amix Built on shanshe/Z3660 — the Z3660 accelerator firmware reinauer/ODFileSystem — the CD filesystem we are porting BlitterStudio/amiberry — the emulator on our bench (our fork: jusii/amiberry) Tools and docs isoriano1968/gcc-cross-amix — the m68k-cbm-sysv4 cross toolchain jusii/amix-kerntools — kernel build hub: patches your own Amix tree, driver.conf-driven jusii/grimoire-amix — the documentation, as a repo asokero/quake-amix — Quake for Amix