Subj : LUnix on the Commodore 64
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : Dave Drum
Date : Mon Jan 06 2020 11:20 am

-=> Andreas Kohlbach wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-

 >  AK> XPost: comp.emulators.cbm

 >  AK> I don't own a Commodore 64 anymore. Recently I looked up if it's 
possible

 >  AK> to run Linux on a C64. Amazingly there is a UNIX-like OS called LUnix.
 >  AK> Since I don't own hardware I used the VICE emulator. But it fails, see
 >  AK> settings for IDE64 and kernel panic at

 > I'm kinda confussed. Are you trying to run a C64 emulator under Linux? or 
run
 > a C64 emulator under windows, and the emulator runs linux?

 AK> To confuse you and others even more: none of this. I try to run LUnix,
 AK> which is a UNIX-like operating system naively on a Commodore64. But
 AK> since I don't own a real C64, I emulate it with VICE. So I want to run
 AK> a Commodore 64 emulator (VICE, that already works) and in that emulated
 AK> Commodore 64 emulator LUnix.

 > There's Amiga Forever, it has emulation for the C's and Amigas. I've been
 > playing with it. It's pretty simple

 AK> I use UAE when it comes to the Amiga. But my question has nothing to do
 AK> with the Amiga. But am now interested to emulate a C64 inside an Amiga,
 AK> which is also an emulation. I might even find something to emulate in
 AK> the emulated C64. ;-)

I've been sort of following along with this (leaping from lurker mode)
and it begins to look ...

"Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel,
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever-spinning reel

     8<----- CUT ----->B

Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!"

-- Alan & Marilyn Bergman (1968)

But hang in there it's wild goose chases like this that sometimes yield
amazing discoveries.

.... The Amiga Trinity: Dave Haynie, Jay Miner, Fred Fish
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