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Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by kps »

PAPPPmAc wrote: post #7
hestefisk wrote: post #2

Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?

I used to have a Apple Centris 610 that ran NetBSD/mac68k. I got it as a side-effect of some horse-trading in the late '90s/early 2000s and I wanted another UNIX box to play with, so it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time. It was a 68LC040 model so I couldn't do A/UX on it without a CPU swap, and IIRC neither Linux/m68k nor mkLinux supported the hardware at the time, making NetBSD the only practical choice withou…

Similarly, in the '90s I had a second-hand Mac IIsi (with a second hard drive stuffed in place of the floppy) as a poor man's UNIX workstation. Later I worked my way through various other second-hand workstations (VAX, MIPS, Alpha) all running NetBSD.

Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by cogburnd02 »

Koshkin wrote: post #10

Fell in love with NetBSD seeing it work perfectly on my Sega Dreamcast (you could buy a keyboard and a mouse for it). Internet and all...

I have yet to get mine working. I got a GDEMU and then upon taking my DC apart realized I had the wrong model. Also have a PS2 trackball and PS2->DC kb/mouse adapter.

Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by jolmg »

Koshkin wrote: post #10

Fell in love with NetBSD seeing it work perfectly on my Sega Dreamcast (you could buy a keyboard and a mouse for it). Internet and all...

So, after reading your comment I was wondering: Why do that?

I found these links:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004...

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004...

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011...

The last one is the one I liked most, which is basically:

> To write video games.

I wonder if there are really people interested enough to do that, though.

Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by cogburnd02 »

jolmg wrote: post #14
Koshkin wrote: post #10

Fell in love with NetBSD seeing it work perfectly on my Sega Dreamcast (you could buy a keyboard and a mouse for it). Internet and all...

So, after reading your comment I was wondering: Why do that? I found these links: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011... The last one is the one I liked most, which is basically: > To write video games. I wonder if there are really people interested enough to do that…

mini-HTPC to watch movies on.

Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by [deleted] »

cogburnd02 wrote: post #15
jolmg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, after reading your comment I was wondering: Why do that? I found these links: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011... The last one is the one I liked most, which is basically: > To write video games. I wonder if there are really people interested enough to do that…

mini-HTPC to watch movies on.

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Re: NetBSD 9.1

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Post by kjs3 »

hestefisk wrote: post #2

Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?

I used to run NetBSD on all kinds of 68k based VME bus cards, and would occasionally do builds for a friends Amiga. I think he had a 33MHz '030 upgrade, so the 50Mhz '060 was quite a speed bump. The Amiga was cooler, tho. Still have a bunch of the VME kit.
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