Just a quick little tidbit of information to those Amiga enthusiasts.. I've stumbled across something that I am sure would draw your attention if you are the owner of a Raspberry Pi 3 :D

There exists a distribution for the Pi called Amibian which when written to
SD card (and after obtaining kickstart and workbench images) transforms your
Pi into an almost perfecly emulated Amiga.

I have it installed and am currently running Amiga OS 3.9 with Genesis TCP/IP stack and inbount telnet connections work as if you were running real hardware

Google Amibian as the website link is rather odd looking, but the first hit
on goggle is where you need to go.

Other tools needed are Win32DiskImager and SDFormat

If people are having issues I can probably write up a short quick tutorial on how to get it running with basic Amiga 1200 settings. Once you are that far
the rest is trial and error :)

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Night Stalker wrote to All <=-

There exists a distribution for the Pi called Amibian which when
written to SD card (and after obtaining kickstart and workbench images) transforms your Pi into an almost perfecly emulated Amiga.

Interesting, I've bookmarked it for future reference. :)


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There exists a distribution for the Pi called Amibian which when written to
SD card (and after obtaining kickstart and workbench images) transforms your
Pi into an almost perfecly emulated Amiga.

Ooooo, going to try this, thanks!


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On 06/19/17, Vk3jed said the following...

Night Stalker wrote to All <=-

There exists a distribution for the Pi called Amibian which when written to SD card (and after obtaining kickstart and workbench image transforms your Pi into an almost perfecly emulated Amiga.

Interesting, I've bookmarked it for future reference. :)

After finding Amibian I'm coming across a couple more Pi distro's that are geared towards using UAE4ARM to boot into Amiga environment.. DietPi is
another very nicely put together distro for Amiga fanatics

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On 06/20/17, NuSkooler said the following...

Ooooo, going to try this, thanks!

It works fairly well.. you might want to check out DietPi distro also if
you're as big into Amiga as I am :)

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Night Stalker wrote to Vk3jed <=-

After finding Amibian I'm coming across a couple more Pi distro's that
are geared towards using UAE4ARM to boot into Amiga environment..
DietPi is another very nicely put together distro for Amiga fanatics

Gee, choice, that's good to see. Seems the Pi can do just about anything. :)


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On 06/24/17, Vk3jed said the following...

Gee, choice, that's good to see. Seems the Pi can do just about
anything. :)

Apparently so.. it's a friggin sweet little $35 computer..

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Night Stalker wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Apparently so.. it's a friggin sweet little $35 computer..

Yeah, they're pretty bloody good! :)


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I'm going to have to look into this.

I have a few Pi3's laying around I could use..

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I am using WinUAE as of now to run my CNet/5 BBS. Now I need to look into this! Nice!!!

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On 06/01/18, Spitfire said the following...

I am using WinUAE as of now to run my CNet/5 BBS. Now I need to look into this! Nice!!!

The Pi Amiga emulator lacks alot of functionality that WinUAE does. For one,
it will not allow incoming telnet sessions using bsdsocket.library which
pretty much puts a solid halt to using it for any sort of BBS..

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Did you get around to making that guide on how to setup Ambian on the Pi? I would be interested in reading/using your guide for my RPi3 as well!
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On 09/11/18, Crackerjak said the following...

Did you get around to making that guide on how to setup Ambian on the
Pi? I would be interested in reading/using your guide for my RPi3 as
well!

Sorry, no.. I actually forgot all about it lmao.. I am definatly going to do
it I just need to find the time to write up a step-by-step

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I need to get me a new Pi4 to see if it runs any better. It's ok on a Pi3B+ but it does boot pretty slow.

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Hi SHIFT838!

13 Jun 2020 23:12, from SHIFT838 -> Spitfire:

I need to get me a new Pi4 to see if it runs any better. It's ok on a Pi3B+ but it does boot pretty slow.

It should run faster.
CPU is a big step ahead on RPi4.

CU, Ricsi

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Was there any up-date to this?

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lt to using it for any sort of BBS..

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Was there any up-date to this?

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On Thu 28-Mar-2024 4:20p, Spitfire@80:774/1.0 said to Night Stalker:

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(80:519/0)

Was there any up-date to this?

Wow.. thats been awhile.. I've have my own domain for 3 years now lol thats an ancient message :D

All of my BBS's are connecable on their respective ports @ bbs.idbbs.ca
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