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The AmigaOS may just be remembered as an operating system from the 80's and 90's, but it is still alive, and has evolved into a modern OS, the latest release being 4.1 in Dec. 2014, with a modern UI Workbench supporting a lot of modern software.
However, the main hardware family seems to still be PowerPC, and it is not clear to me if it can run natively on an x86 architecture. Of course, I can in worst case go after specific hardware, like from this list, but does anybody has a straight forward approach for doing this on standard x86?
I am not looking for some retro emulator, as that has nothing to do with the modern Amiga, but a VM approach, Linux preferably, might be possible if x86 is not.
Any good ways to get the AmigaOS 4.1 to run on x86?
Edit: There seems like a tutorial for installing an earlier version, AmigaOS XL, from 2002, at x86 systems. The hardware emulation seems pretty straight forward, so if something similar for the 4.x series exist, I will be very thankful.
Its worth adding nearly all of those are out of stock :( – Journeyman Geek – 2016-03-26T13:13:09.707
It seems like the only option left is to run the OS 4.1 through the Amiga Forever. That works well on normal PC hardware. – SE - stop firing the good guys – 2016-03-26T13:36:11.517
Check eBay maybe you can find used – SeanClt – 2016-03-26T14:20:25.430
Thanks anyway, it seems pretty clear now that PowerPC is the hardware I need, although there are some pretty decent emulators out there. – SE - stop firing the good guys – 2016-03-26T15:49:17.997