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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.
The install medium boots from floppy and CD-ROM on real hardware — floppy image and ISO under
emulation — and takes care of the whole installation, interactively or unattended. With supported
hardware, getting Amix onto a machine comes down to following the prompts. The classic tape
install follows later.
From there the network takes over: apkg installs packages straight from
pkg.amigaux.org — grep, gzip, less, patch and zlib to start with, and more GNU and BSD
tools as they are built and tested.
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.
Sat 19 Sep 2026, 17:00 · Amiga Unix 68040/68060 launch ·
Saku 2026, Oulun Tetra, Oulu, Finland
Full launch — packages, source, instructions, manuals — after Saku.
amigaux.org is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with,
endorsed by, or sponsored by Amiga Corporation, Commodore, or any other trademark holder. Amiga,
AmigaOS and Amiga UNIX are trademarks of their respective owners; UNIX is a registered trademark
of The Open Group.