This is a community revival of Amix (Commodore’s System V Release 4 for the Amiga) that ports and modernizes Amiga Unix for 68040 and 68060 hardware and contemporary accelerator boards. It provides a bootable install medium (floppy + CD or emulated images) that performs interactive or unattended installations, an apkg package manager with a hosted repository (initial GNU/BSD tools like grep, gzip, less, patch, zlib), an OpenLook desktop out of the box, and runnable software such as Quake as a performance test. Work includes a Linux-hosted m68k cross toolchain, kernel ports for 68040/68060, native drivers for Z3660 accelerator SCSI and ethernet, drivers for A4091/A4092 SCSI and various RTG cards, and plans to package X11R6.3 and Mesa.
Development combines traditional coding and generative-AI-assisted reverse engineering of binary kernels, with every change reviewed and tested on real hardware and documented in a confidence-tagged grimoire. Status highlights: a working Amix 2.1 kernel on 68060, proven Z3660 SCSI/eth drivers, installer media, apkg and cross-toolchain; in progress are RTG for Z3660, accelerator firmware ethernet throughput, X11/Mesa packaging, CD filesystem support and install polish. A full launch with packages, source, instructions and manuals follows a public Saku 2026 milestone. This is independent and unofficial work, not affiliated with any trademark holders.
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