[ubuntu-uk] C64 running Ubuntu?

[Rob Beard]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:20 +0000, Steve wrote:
>>     
>>> I thought I’d seen it before.  Looks like a nice idea for those that
>>> don’t  want  a big box but dislike the dinky little screens and odd
>>> keyboard  layout of a laptop.
>>>       
>> But why pretend it's a C64? That's like BMW pretending they build
>> Minis. :)
>>     
>
> I'd rather a C21 Amiga, myself - but they went PowerPC, meaning they
> are in an even smaller niche today than they used to be.
>
> If only Transmeta were still going. It would have been possible, with
> the right "CodeMorphing" firmware, for a Transmeta machine to run
> PowerPC or MC68060 code... Or maybe even both. Such a shame they
> died... :¬(
>   
I guess the nearest thing for those of us who can't afford the exotic 
hardware is to run something like the UAE Amiga emulator) :-)

I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that someone had managed to 
emulate the Amiga hardware on an FPGA.

Rob