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  • Bitslingers-R-UsAnachronistJohn@zia.io
    Jun 27, 2026, 7:47 PM

    #NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q2 is now fully underway.

    There’s no easy way to move a kernel from NetBSD to an AmigaOS partition, so I had to xz it, split it, copy it over using MS-DOS disk images using a Gotek with FlashFloppy, then join and xz -d on the Amiga side.

    #m68k is really taking off! The virt68k port that @thorpej has made is nothing short of amazing. It can now compile practically anything in a VM with 3 gigs of memory and 4 gigs of swap, faster than a real m68060.

    This lets us compile large packages that weren’t previously possible or that required a lot of manual tweaking, like llvm-21.1.8, clang-21.1.8, webkit-gtk-2.36.8nb29.

    More to come!

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  • Bitslingers-R-UsAnachronistJohn@zia.io
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:08 PM

    @thorpej I took a picture.

    I’ve got to figure out how to make high density floppy images work properly on the smaller 32K SRAM AT32F415 based Gotek.

    This is a picture of an Amiga 4000 in a nice IKEA wood shelf with a plastic-less Mac Quadra 630 below it and a Mac Quadra 610 in a caseless motherboard mount above it.
In the corner one can see the corner of the AmigaOS screen where booting was interrupted so a new kernel could be copied.
The Amiga has a Gotek installed, and a USB stick is inserted. The track display shows "36".
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