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How Icaros Desktop Brings the Amiga Experience To x86 PCs

Posted by timothy on from the bouncy-bouncy dept.

angry tapir writes "Icaros Desktop is an effort to build a modern Amiga-compatible operating system to standard x86 hardware. It's a distribution built atop AROS, which is an open source effort to create a system compatible at the API level with the AmigaOS 3.x series. I recently had a chat to the creator of Icaros, Paolo Besser, about the creation of the OS and why Amiga continues to inspire people today."

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  1. Deadest horse by glrotate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evar!

  2. Re:First Post by pipatron · · Score: 5, Funny

    The x86 architecture is actually still used a lot on the desktop and server market, but I understand what you mean. It's pretty dead in the tablets and cellphone market, the largest market for processors.

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    c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */
  3. I seem to recall the last time by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 3, Funny

    something was named Icarus, it went down in flames.

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    So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
  4. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a bird! It's a plane! No, just the joke you didn't get.