An unofficial community project revives Amiga Unix (Amix) for 68040/68060 machines and modern accelerators, with a modern toolchain, package manager, and open grimoire of the work.
Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026
Amiga Unix, again
Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as it happens in the grimoire.
Soon: install it yourself
The install medium boots from floppy and CD-ROM on real hardware — floppy image and ISO under emulation — and takes care of the whole installation, interactively or unattended. With supported hardware, getting Amix onto a machine comes down to following the prompts. The classic tape install follows later.
From there the network takes over: apkg installs packages straight from
pkg.amigaux.org — grep, gzip, less, patch and zlib to start with, and more GNU and BSD
tools as they are built and tested.
Where we are
Working today
68040/68060 support — Amix 2.1 on a real 68060, with or without FPU; an MMU is mandatory.
The kernel: asokero/amix-040-060-port
Z3660 accelerator — native SCSI and ethernet drivers, proven on real hardware
A4091 / A4092 — a Zorro III SCSI driver and an auto-detecting kernel
Installation — from floppy + CD-ROM on a real machine, or floppy image + ISO image under
emulation, interactive or unattended; the classic tape install follows later
apkg — a remote package client with a hosted repository (catalog, dependencies, upgrades),
and the first modern GNU tools packaged: grep, gzip, less, patch, zlib
A cross toolchain — Linux-hostedm68k-cbm-sysv4 , building all of the above
An OpenLook desktop that comes up ready on a fresh install
Quake — runs; a benchmark more than a game, for now
In progress
RTG graphics for the Z3660 (ZZ9000-compatible) — running under emulation, real hardware next
Ethernet throughput in the accelerator firmware
X11R6.3 and Mesa as packages, from the community ports; the wider userland after that
A read-only CD filesystem (ODFileSystem port)
Install-media polish: a repair path, guard rails; the tape version
Next
A native, modern gcc on the box
RTG on the real accelerator
The packaged X11R6.3 / Mesa stack
The firmware ethernet fixes
Then the full launch here: packages, source, instructions and manuals
How it's built
Part of this work is done with generative AI in the loop — models reading the old kernels in binary, as no source is available, and writing drivers and notes — with people setting direction, reviewing every change and testing on real hardware, where it either boots or it doesn't. Other parts are done the classic way. The grimoire records both, confidence-tagged, so you can see what is verified and what is still a guess.
The code
The kernel
asokero/amix-040-060-port — Amix 2.1 kernel for the 68040 and 68060
asokero/amix-unix-boot — patches that make Markus Wild's unix_boot load an Amix kernel on a 68040 or 68060
Drivers and hardware
jusii/amix-z3660scsi — SCSI driver for the Z3660's PiStorm piscsi mailbox
jusii/amix-z3660net — STREAMS/DLPI ethernet driver for the Z3660
jusii/Z3660-amix — Amix-aware fork of the Z3660 firmware
jusii/amix-a4091 — SCSI driver for the Commodore A4091/A4092 (NCR 53C710)
isoriano1968/zz9000-amix — ZZ9000 RTG driver
isoriano1968/hydra-amix — Hydra ethernet driver
asokero/va2000-amix — MNT VA2000 RTG driver
Graphics and X11
asokero/xrtg-amix — Xrtg, an X11R5 RTG server
isoriano1968/x11r6.3-amix — X11R6.3 for Amix
isoriano1968/mesa-amix — Mesa for Amix
Built on
shanshe/Z3660 — the Z3660 accelerator firmware
reinauer/ODFileSystem — the CD filesystem we are porting
BlitterStudio/amiberry — the emulator on our bench (our fork: jusii/amiberry)
Tools and docs
isoriano1968/gcc-cross-amix — the m68k-cbm-sysv4 cross toolchain
jusii/amix-kerntools — kernel build hub: patches your own Amix tree, driver.conf-driven
jusii/grimoire-amix — the documentation, as a repo