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   Message 2,978 of 4,328   
   Dave Drum to Andreas Kohlbach   
   LUnix on the Commodore 64   
   06 Jan 20 11:20:56   
   
   TZUTC: -0800   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   MSGID: 1:153/757.0 5e1323c3   
   REPLY: <877e25sy38.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> 266de72a   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-12-05   
   -=> Andreas Kohlbach wrote to Charles Stephenson <=-   
      
    >  AK> XPost: comp.emulators.cbm   
      
    >  AK> I don't own a Commodore 64 anymore. Recently I looked up if it's   
   possible   
      
    >  AK> to run Linux on a C64. Amazingly there is a UNIX-like OS called LUnix.   
    >  AK> Since I don't own hardware I used the VICE emulator. But it fails, see   
    >  AK> settings for IDE64 and kernel panic at   
      
    > I'm kinda confussed. Are you trying to run a C64 emulator under Linux? or   
   run   
    > a C64 emulator under windows, and the emulator runs linux?   
      
    AK> To confuse you and others even more: none of this. I try to run LUnix,   
    AK> which is a UNIX-like operating system naively on a Commodore64. But   
    AK> since I don't own a real C64, I emulate it with VICE. So I want to run   
    AK> a Commodore 64 emulator (VICE, that already works) and in that emulated   
    AK> Commodore 64 emulator LUnix.   
      
    > There's Amiga Forever, it has emulation for the C's and Amigas. I've been   
    > playing with it. It's pretty simple   
      
    AK> I use UAE when it comes to the Amiga. But my question has nothing to do   
    AK> with the Amiga. But am now interested to emulate a C64 inside an Amiga,   
    AK> which is also an emulation. I might even find something to emulate in   
    AK> the emulated C64. ;-)   
      
   I've been sort of following along with this (leaping from lurker mode)   
   and it begins to look ...   
      
   "Like a circle in a spiral   
   Like a wheel within a wheel,   
   Never ending or beginning,   
   On an ever-spinning reel   
      
        8<----- CUT ----->B   
      
   Whirling silently in space   
   Like the circles that you find   
   In the windmills of your mind!"   
      
   -- Alan & Marilyn Bergman (1968)   
      
   But hang in there it's wild goose chases like this that sometimes yield   
   amazing discoveries.   
      
   ... The Amiga Trinity: Dave Haynie, Jay Miner, Fred Fish   
   --- MultiMail/Win32   
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