I have an A2000. Workbench is great, I'm just curious if theres some other os or DOS that someone made for the amiga?

Thanks!

@dommer416

No, not stupid at all. You can start with ... AROS
Then you may want to check NetBSD, Minix, Linux, Commodore AMIX, and I think there's a minimal port of UZI (Unix Z80 Implementation), a V7 Unix, somewhere on aminet.
Be sure you have a 68030, as the plain old 68000 is a bit anemic to handle heavyweight OSes

@dommer416

As written above, you need higher specs for most OSs other than AmigaOS. If I remeber correctly, you have still only OS1.2, so you can upgrade to OS3.1 - much more powerful and faster on the same hardware.

A2000 can use BridgeBoard card (hardware PC emulator) for full MS-DOS compatibility.

With 68020, Fast RAM and HDD, it may be possible to run ShapeShifter (Mac emulator) at good speed for Mac OS 7.x. Note scandoubler/flixerfixer is highly recomended for Mac emulation (interlace resolution is not pleasant to your eyes).

aros wont run on a vanilla a2k. one should be able boot from floppy or without s-s into a 68000 system with 1,5 mb ram. im not sure if this is what has been asked here.

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@dommer416

In terms of the GUI, Dopus had WB replacement mode in later versions.

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@dommer416


Workbench is very clunky in my opinion but throwing out the OS may be a bit extreme. Have you considered a Workbench replacement such as
Scalos?

or

ClassicWB?

@ferrels

I've been thinking about writing my own interface actually I just wanted to know what was out there. I also want to start documenting stuff for my own future purposes and for other new amiga users like myself. This is all very confusing.

Anyways, it can't be too difficult to make a tiling WM ala ratpoison and stuff amigaDOS with it on a disk and call it a day.

Edit 1: Huh, so scalos is what morph has. Thats really cool IMO.

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@dommer416

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Huh, so scalos is what morph has. Thats really cool IMO.

MorphOS has a native desktop manager called Ambient but there are versions of Scalos for all flavors of Amigas ranging from classic 68K Amigas thru the PPC NG Amigas and MorphOS boxes.

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@ferrels

while scalos is a fine piece of stuff imho, i have again my doubts if it is suited for a vanilla a2k.

@wawa

Quote from his earlier post, so he should be just fine.



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From what I have seen the V4 is supposed to be a beast and I will absolutely be getting one one it lands as long as it properly faces out of the rear of the case. I'll also be getting a ram card and an IDE controller IF the V4 doesn't have a SATA controller like the V3 had. Or at least the V3 supposedly had (I only know the pre-release notes on it).

@dommer416

Just to make sure, you can use your A2000 in the DOS way as well, via Amiga shell.
(then there are ways to improve shell, like http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/KingCON_1.3 )

Aminet seem to hint some OS options:
http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/Minix_Amiga
http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/posinstall
http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/linux2.6.28-m68k-amiga
http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/debian-m68k-1
http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/adf-bin.68k-aros
http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/Scalos

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@ferrels

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Quote from his earlier post, so he should be just fine.

ah he gets vampire?

ok, this definitely makes aros68k relevant as replacement os. especially aros is compatible with the genuine amiga (os) and runs its binaries.

aros provides also maintained version of scalos, which can be used as wanderer replacement.
the caveat is that i dont know how to make scalos open directly on an initial screen, rather opening its own, which leads to some complications in practice.

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@wawa

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ah he gets vampire? ok, this definitely makes aros68k relevant as replacement os. especially aros is compatible with the genuine amiga (os) and runs its binaries. aros provides also maintained version of scalos, which can be used as wanderer replacement. the caveat is that i dont know how to make scalos open directly on an initial screen, rather opening its own, which leads to some complications in practice.

I think tossing out OS3 is a bit extreme. He should be able to just install Scalos and edit his startup-sequence to load Scalos instead of loading the traditional workbench.

I don't think Scalos is supported on AROS 68K but it would be nice to know if he gets it to work under AROS. I may even try that myself when I get some more time. I have my hands in too many other projects at the moment.

@ferrels

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I think tossing out OS3 is a bit extreme. He should be able to just install Scalos and edit his startup-sequence to load Scalos instead of loading the traditional workbench.

he asked for an alternative os for his amiga, as i understand. which is the case with aros68k, running amiga applications. not that im trying to talk anybody into it.

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I don't think Scalos is supported on AROS 68K but it would be nice to know if he gets it to work under AROS. I may even try that myself when I get some more time. I have my hands in too many other projects at the moment.

scalos is not only supported by aros, it is part of aros contributions and is maintained there. it also works on aros68k, i among others have put a little work to ensure that.

@wawa

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scalos is not only supported by aros, it is part of aros contributions and is maintained there. it also works on aros68k, i among others have put a little work to ensure that.

Cool! I didn't know that. Thanks for informing me.

@ferrels

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Cool! I didn't know that. Thanks for informing me.

however as i mentioned on a real amiga hardware there is some caveats, which i (we) are aware of.
under uae it is usually all fine. but what the usage of the restricted vram amiga rtg cards prove (4mb as example), you can actually run out vram (or chipram fo that matter, depending if you are using amiga res/display or rtg).
the problem is that scalos imagery are saved there and apparently (thanks to aros cyber/graphics shortcomings) cannot be (dependably) swapped out to the fast ram. its not actually the issue with scalos, but cybergraphics. some considerable improvements have been done on this subsystem by georg and kalamatee, with 68k in mind. still not enough..