The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver

6 months ago by cm0002 to c/linux

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.

thorhop 26 points 6 months ago

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

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Evil_Incarnate 18 points 6 months ago

Time to bust out marble madness

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watson387 7 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah. Marble Madness FTW

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Rekall_Incorporated 10 points 6 months ago

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.

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cm0002 9 points 6 months 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

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Flatfire 5 points 6 months 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

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LeFantome 3 points 6 months ago

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

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Vintor 3 points 6 months 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.

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rzr 3 points 6 months ago

Skip the SOE slop and head to:

https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse

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