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Source code to the Amiga OS was posted!

By ksandstr in ksandstr's Diary
Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 08:19:08 AM EST
Tags: sodomy, horsecock, amigaos, native americans (all tags)

Then it was quickly redacted.

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Spose no-one's told them yet that the whole thing could be re-engineered from the API specs alone in about two months.
But why? Why not! Certainly everyone would like an operating system without memory protection, so that a misbehaving program will not just crash the system (lol) but also corrupt the disk cache. This'll motivate programmers to write better programs, i.e. ones that don't crash. Only Amiga makes it possible.
Advanced in comparison to MS-DOS and whatever the hell it was they shipped on the Atari ST, today the Amiga is a historical curiosity cum doorstop, and wank material to retro hipsters too young to have lived the day. Go C64 or stick with yer Java, fucccboi.

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Source code to the Amiga OS was posted! | 23 comments (23 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Why Do You Hate Freedom? (none / 1) (#1)
by Wexel Pixel on Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 08:21:03 AM EST

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It pist in me lager m8 /nt by ksandstr, 12/30/2015 09:06:02 AM EST (3.00 / 2)

that's why I drink coffee by Wexel Pixel, 12/30/2015 12:43:13 PM EST (none / 0)

But neither smell or taste? /nt by ksandstr, 12/30/2015 02:05:09 PM EST (3.00 / 2)

I'm a connoisseur of tea but not coffee by Wexel Pixel, 12/30/2015 07:13:27 PM EST (none / 1)

Too easy . . . by tdillo, 12/30/2015 08:46:31 PM EST (none / 1)

We don't have the freedom to hate freedom? by United Fools, 12/30/2015 02:59:26 PM EST (none / 1)

I have been reading quite a bit (3.00 / 2) (#3)
by tdillo on Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 10:03:09 AM EST

about the problems with Windows 10. Now, of course anything from the EVILCORP MicroSoft attracts tons of vitriol during every iteration. But of late even fanbois are starting to balk at some of the numerous problems, inconsistencies, bugs, underhanded marketing etc.

But for many there isn't really a good alternative. Thanks to Android, Ubuntu and Mint more mainstream users are learning about Linux. However, Office integration, Gaming, and device integration still lags. Although, these same OS's are making more choices for the user than ever before. Fuck your carefully crafted inits and configs. You'll eat Systemd or do without! Yes, when you search for files on your computer we will return advertisements why would we not?
You realize the GPL is just a guideline not like, Set In Stone?

Nor is Apple the answer. Apple has grown to be if not EVIL at least much more Borg-like in it's behaviour.

I was just thinking that now is the time for a challenger. An alternative system that we bearded ones can bang on and curse all while feeling morally superior to the non-technical Facetwatters, Instapinterestarians, Twitchers, Vineholes, etc. A bare-boned bleeding edge bastard OS that we can BASH into shape in our man-caves.

_{A community based on what you all like can fall apart when what you like changes, but a community based on what you all hate can last forever. - securit}

Yeah by ksandstr, 12/30/2015 10:28:10 AM EST (3.00 / 2)
20 years ago I cared by Del Griffith, 12/30/2015 11:07:12 AM EST (3.00 / 2)

re: reengineering from specs (none / 0) (#6)
by Vampire Zombie Abu Musab al Zarqawi on Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 11:47:24 AM EST

The AROS project still is about as half-baked as HaikuOS, despite having been under development for a couple of decades. A wiser choice for those who pine for the Amiga would perhaps be DragonflyBSD, which is an entirely different beast (pun retroactively intended) that's somewhat inspired by some of the good things from the Amiga.

AROS is a cascade of rewrites by ksandstr, 12/30/2015 02:13:37 PM EST (none / 1)

AmigaOS by Cable4096, 12/30/2015 02:37:57 PM EST (none / 0)

Also, dat business acumen by ksandstr, 12/30/2015 02:14:43 PM EST (none / 1)

I remember by Cable4096, 12/30/2015 07:56:06 PM EST (none / 0)

Nah by ksandstr, 12/31/2015 10:39:57 AM EST (none / 1)

Just read where Cruz announced (3.00 / 2) (#7)
by tdillo on Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 12:37:58 PM EST

when elected he will mandate the Federal Govt to switch to Temple OS exclusively.

Intends to replace Healthcare.gov with Flash version of Angry Birds.

_{A community based on what you all like can fall apart when what you like changes, but a community based on what you all hate can last forever. - securit}

Amiga stuff (3.00 / 2) (#9)
by Cable4096 on Wed Dec 30, 2015 at 01:02:43 PM EST

always some sort of horseplay involved.

Someone published a book on the Amiga API calls and someone else scanned it into a PDF and they downloaded it like crazy.

There used to be a big pirate ring for Amiga stuff. TOSEC has a large collection of it. TOSEC doesn't even have a Mac collection, hope they get one some day.

AmigaOS 3.1 is what was leaked by a French source on Twitter. It was quickly taken down.

AmigaOS 3.1 APIs are what made AROS and they used part of AROS to make AmigaOS 4.X so they steal from each other.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

AmigaOS 3.1 only runs on 68K and PowerPC Amiga systems, can't run it on a PC. AROS can run on a PC. So there is no point to AmigaOS 3.1 source code.

Already on Github (none / 1) (#18)
by Cable4096 on Thu Dec 31, 2015 at 02:16:55 AM EST

http://github.com/amigasource/amigaos/

You can stick a fork in it now, port it to X86 PCs or Macs.

You can see how it was written.

Oh fuck no by ksandstr, 12/31/2015 10:41:54 AM EST (3.00 / 2)

Good luck compiling the source code (none / 1) (#19)
by Cable4096 on Thu Dec 31, 2015 at 02:51:00 AM EST

You need an old SunOS system and C compiler, and two different Amiga C compilers that aren't made anymore to compile the source code.

Maybe someone can convert the source code to a modern C compiler like gcc or LLVM and cross compile for the Amiga.

As it turns out the source code was leaked in 1997 or 1998 when it looked like Amiga was going to go bankrupt again and they wanted the code to survive so they leaked it to different groups.

One of them made MorphOS out of it, which was supposed to replace AmigaOS.

Good luck getting the source code to compile on a modern compiler.

crawford could do it in an hour or so by tdillo, 12/31/2015 08:50:26 AM EST (none / 1)

He could by Cable4096, 01/01/2016 12:51:26 AM EST (none / 0)

Source code to the Amiga OS was posted! | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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