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AROS AmigaOS recreation now runs on bare metal Raspberry Pi
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AROS, the all-FOSS re-implementation of AmigaOS, now boots and runs natively on bare metal Raspberry Pi hardware rather than as a hosted layer atop Linux.
The Pi's narrow hardware ecosystem and limited RAM suit AROS better than the sprawling x86 platform where driver coverage was infeasible for a small project. However, the current build lacks 680x0 emulation, so it cannot run classic Amiga applications, limiting its practical utility to experimentation rather than retro computing.
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Nightly builds now include raspi-aarch64-system for 64-bit Pi hardware and raspi-armhf-system for older ARMv6 devices.
Pi 3 boots to Workbench in about five seconds, but Pi 4 support lacks sound and networking.
The build is a prototype with no 680x0 emulation, meaning classic Amiga applications cannot run.
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