[ubuntu-uk] C64 running Ubuntu?

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

Indeed. It's called Minimig & it's very impressive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig

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