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Running AmigaOS on a PC (The Proper Way)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the with-a-pinch-of-salt dept.

AmiLover writes: "OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86 operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0 coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their involvement with AmigaOS?"

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  1. AROS ? by mirko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about the AROS Project which has been running for long ?

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    Trolling using another account since 2005.
  2. Vm_Ware by Wind_Walker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Has anybody tried to get this working under VMWare yet?

    For those of you who don't know, VMWare is a way in which multiple virtual machines can be created on your desktop. What VMWare actually does is it isolates a section of hard drive (appears as a regular file in Linux) and isolates sections of memory (I've had up to 128 MB allocated) and runs a "virtual machine" which runs through a "BIOS" and can do pretty much everything that another computer can do, including running Windows 98 Games!

    So, has anybody got this running under VMWare yet?