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The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev
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Amiga computers may have been popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in media production, but their filesystems are not directly compatible with modern computers. The new 'amifuse' project aims to fix that with a new filesystem driver built around an invisible m68k CPU emulator.

Amifuse is a FUSE driver for macOS and Linux, allowing you to natively mount disk images using the Amiga's Professional File System 3 (PFS3). The project's documentation says other Amiga filesystems might work, "but have not been tested." Disks are read-only by default, but you can enable the experimental read-write support through a command-line argument.

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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 day ago

This is of course perfect timing, as memory has become so expensive that 2MB games is all we can afford.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time to bust out marble madness

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah. Marble Madness FTW

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am honestly surprised there aren't a bit more mature Amiga filesystem drivers on Linux.

Howtogeek has real articles? I thought it was an SEO scheme.

[–] cm0002@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Howtogeek has real articles? I thought it was an SEO scheme.

Surprisingly, they do, they have some low quality misses sometimes but overall I think they have some fine articles lol. Def not in-line with their name though lmfao

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I think HTG used to be, but they seem to have pivoted to more than just their tech listicles and have a few writers that cover niche tech topics

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

I think the novelty here is “actual” Amiga drivers in that you are running the Amiga code and not a reverse engineered implementation.

[–] Vintor@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 day ago

PFS is great, but not one of the Amiga's native file systems. The standard file systems OFS and FFS have been available as Linux drivers at least since 2000. I remember rescuing my Amiga hard disk back then. It was still experimental and had to be specially compiled into the kernel, but it was possible.

[–] rzr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

Skip the SOE slop and head to:

https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse