Free amiga hardware software for linux

Atomix project is a very nice mind game. You have to build molecules out of single atoms laying around. Of course there is a time limit and the handling is not as easy as you might expect.
This game is inspiried by the original Amiga game Atomix. It uses the GNOME libraries.
Main features:
- easy gameplay (keyboard or mouse handling)
- nice graphics
- different levels (currently 22)
- themes, which can be shared between different levels
- level editor (Atomixed)

AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray on black colored bash shell revive like in the old days. Just like on Amiga(tm), blue, white, orange, black at its finest. With a nice informational bar at the top.
Installation
(be root)
make install
amigashell start
cd /etc/rc2.d
ln -s ../init.d/amigashell S99amigashell
Enhancements:
- cursors for xfree86 4.3
- left_ptr, right_ptr, busy
- added theme for wmpinboard as well

GUatu is a really, really fast (hardware accelerated) GTK/OpenGL-based comic book viewer for .cbz/.cbr files in all formats supported by GdkPixbuf (jpg, gif, xpm, tiff, pnm, bmp, ras, png). It uses an intuitive click-and-drag interface for navigation.
Main features:
- Hardware rendering for fast image display
- Image precaching for even faster image display
- Intuitive click-and-drag navigation interface
- Hardware rotation and zooming via bilinear interpolation
- Zoom to arbitrary amounts, by steps of 10%, or fit to window width, height, or size
- Cool name

UAE is a mostly complete software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000.
A Commodore Amiga, for those who dont know, is a 16/32 bit computer system based on the Motorola 680x0 CPU and a few specially designed custom chips that provide very good graphics and sound capabilities. Its first incarnation, the A1000, appeared in 1985, followed by the highly successful A500 and A2000 models.
UAE is written for Unixish systems; it is developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any half-recent Unix-like operating system. It has also been ported to a wide variety of machines and operating systems, including DOS, Windows 95/NT, MacOS, RiscOS, BeOS and NextStep.
UAE is free software: you are welcome to distribute copies of it and/or modify it, under certain conditions. There is no warranty of any kind for UAE. For more details concerning these issues, please read the GNU General Public License, which describes the terms under which UAE is distributed.
Main features:
- A 68000/010/020/040 CPU, optionally a 68881 FPU
- OCS, ECS and AGA Graphics Chipset (including sprite-playfield collisions)
- Up to 2MB Chip RAM and up to 8MB Fast RAM, or 8MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM
- Up to 64MB Zorro III Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only)
- Up to 1MB Slow RAM, for extended compatibility with problem software
- Up to 8MB of graphics card memory, usable by software that supports Picasso 96 compatible graphics cards
- 4 x 3.5" floppy disk drives (DF0:, DF1:, DF2: and DF3:). Its not possible to read Amiga disks, so these are emulated with disk files.
- A hard-disk: either a harddisk image file or part of the native filesystem
- Joystick support (with option of mapping joystick to numeric keypad)
- Mouse support
- Ability to run in various screen modes (for better display quality or better speed)
- Full stereo sound support, consisting of 4 x 8bit channels
- Simple parallel and serial port support. Note: the parallel port is not really implemented. Though its sufficient for printing.
- state-saving. you can save the state of your emulated Amiga and continue later on.
- some other things which dont work well enough to mention them here...

X Hardware Monitor is a hardware monitor that shows indicators for temperature, voltage, fan speed etc, of a running system with a graphical panel.

The default configuration allows to monitor up to 3 temperatures, 3 fan speeds and 6 voltages. This tool is more particularly adequate for bi-processor systems.

cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller manufactured by Individual Computers.
The Catweasel is a versatile Shugart bus controller, i.e., it can control floppy drives. It is extremely flexible and can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy disk in the world.
This driver supports all controller versions, ISA (MK1) and PCI (MK3 and MK4). The Amiga versions of the controller are currently not supported, but it should be easy to adapt the driver for Linux/m68k (so far nobody has expressed an interest in this, though).
Also, only the floppy is controlled by this driver. If you want to make use of the additional SID and joystick features present on the PCI cards, you must use the driver from Dirk Jagdmann and Michael Stickel.
As of yet, this driver supports the following formats (rw = read/write, ro = read-only):
- Amiga 3.5 DD [880KB] (rw)
- Amiga 3.5 HD [1760KB] (rw)
- Amiga 5.25 DD [880KB] (ro)
- MS-DOS 3.5 DD [720KB] (rw)
- MS-DOS 3.5 HD [1440KB] (rw)
Installation:
make (as root)
"make devices" to create the /dev entries for the Catweasel.
Enhancements:
- module.c: Look for MK4 Catweasel under both PCI subdevice IDs 0x0002 and 0x0003 (workaround for MK4 PCI-bridge bug).

AROS-Max is a AROS-based live-CD.

AROS Max is a pre-configured live bootable CD image, made to show off the best that AROS has to offer. It requires an AROS capable PC, your mileage may vary.

If you require help getting AROS-Max to run please ask for help on the Max area at the AROS-Exec messageboard, please do not email us directly with support problems!

AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. The source code is available under an open source license, which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.

The goals of the AROS project is it to create an OS which:

1. Is as compatible as possible with AmigaOS 3.1.
2. Can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other.
3. Should be binary compatible on Amiga and source compatible on any other hardware.
4. Can run as a standalone version which boots directly from hard disk and as an emulation which opens a window on an existing OS to develop software and run Amiga and native applications at the same time.
5. Improves upon the functionality of AmigaOS.

To reach this goal, we use a number of techniques. First of all, we make heavy use of the Internet. You can participate in our project even if you can write only one single OS function. The most current version of the source is accessible 24 hours per day and patches can be merged into it at any time. A small database with open tasks makes sure work is not duplicated.

Some time back in the year 1993, the situation for the Amiga looked somewhat worse than usual and some Amiga fans got together and discussed what should be done to increase the acceptance of our beloved machine. Immediately the main reason for the missing success of the Amiga became clear: it was propagation, or rather the lack thereof. The Amiga should get a more widespread basis to make it more attractive for everyone to use and to develop for. So plans were made to reach this goal. One of the plans was to fix the bugs of the AmigaOS, another was to make it an modern operating system. The AOS project was born.

But exactly what was a bug? And how should the bugs be fixed? What are the features a so-called modern OS must have? And how should they be implemented into the AmigaOS?

Two years later, people were still arguing about this and not even one line of code had been written (or at least no one had ever seen that code). Discussions were still of the pattern where someone stated that "we must have ..." and someone answered "read the old mails" or "this is impossible to do, because ..." which was shortly followed by "youre wrong because ..." and so on.

In the winter of 1995, Aaron Digulla got fed up with this situation and posted an RFC (request for comments) to the AOS mailing list in which I asked what the minimal common ground might be. Several options were given and the conclusion was that almost everyone would like to see an open OS which is compatible to AmigaOS 3.1 (kickstart 40.68) on which further discussions could be based upon to see what is possible and what is not.

So the work began and AROS was born.