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Linux on the Atari Jaguar
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#22Wow, i recognized the 68000 before i even saw the caption. That little chip sure powered a lot of different things back then.
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#23This is a deep dive on what is necessary to get Linux on the 68000-based Atari Jaguar. No specialized hardware/flash carts. All runs within the original hardware vision (2 megabytes of RAM) and gets to a Busybox shell. Linux repository with the changes: https://github.com/cakehonolulu/linux_jag
On of the few things where getting Doom to run on it wouldn’t be that cool. But I love the post, except for the part where you reminded me I was old by acting like no one remembers that thing.
It had me looking up the specs for the Atari Lynx II that I had as a kid in lieu of a more popular handheld.
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#24Very neat!
Re: Linux on the Atari Jaguar
#25This is a deep dive on what is necessary to get Linux on the 68000-based Atari Jaguar. No specialized hardware/flash carts. All runs within the original hardware vision (2 megabytes of RAM) and gets to a Busybox shell. Linux repository with the changes: https://github.com/cakehonolulu/linux_jag
On of the few things where getting Doom to run on it wouldn’t be that cool. But I love the post, except for the part where you reminded me I was old by acting like no one remembers that thing.
Heh. I had already been programming for 28 years when it came out.
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#27> The Motorola 68000 > Overall, it got lots of traction commercially; it .... Before ARM the m68k was possibly the most deployed processor architecture in history. In the late 1990s it was in printers, cars, personal digital assistants, erc, as well as all the home computers, arcades and unix workstations it found it's way into in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's sucessor, the Coldfire, could have taken ARMs place...…
> Before ARM the m68k was possibly the most deployed processor architecture in history
My money would be on something smaller such as the 8051 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51)
Also, between m68k and ARM there was PowerPC. It got used a lot in embedded systems. Because “the newer the car, the more microprocessors it has”, chances are it got used more than m68k.
FWIW, Google’s AI gives me:
- for the m68k: “industry analysis and historical data indicate that hundreds of millions of units were produced across the architecture's lifespan”
- for PowerPC: “By 2008, Freescale Semiconductor had already shipped over 100 million Power Architecture-based MCUs for automotive powertrain management alone. Hundreds of millions more have since been produced for networking, industrial automation, and aerospace applications.”
- for the 8051: “according to industry accounts and semiconductor historians, the cumulative production of 8051-based microcontrollers is estimated to be on the order of billions to tens of billions of units”
Re: Linux on the Atari Jaguar
#28Still occasionally bring out my old jaguar for Alien vs Predator to try and remember what the excitement was all about, but as to putting Linux on it, amazing effort, but I think I'm going to pass :-)
Not that I blame you... in comparison with pretty much the rest of cartridge-based systems, the available flash cart is priced higher (And AFAIK no DIY open-source ones exist). AvP is one of the best games to play on the system, it was future technology at the time it came out.
I see, this would've been totally rad in 1994:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhrLC4cL2Y&t=1856
(Not a good player, though)
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#29Am I the only one who clicks on these kind of articles holding out hope to see the glimmer of Linux on an actual CRT from composit outputs? But it's always just screen shots from an emulator...
I'm awaiting some screenies from a peer that has the flash cart for the Jaguar; don't worry, they'll get added! I have both the Jaguar and the Jaguar CD but don't have the flash cart...
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#30It should be possible to build a custom cartridge to use some of that 8MB address space for RAM.
Absolutely! You could possibly develop a custom mapper that provides extra RAM (I guess memory bank switching would need to happen) plus the ROM but as far as I'm aware it's not available.