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amiga-restoration

Amiga-restoration is a project mainly written in C, it's free.

Project to "restore" classic Amiga freeware so that it will build and run on AROS and AmigaOS 3.5+

Amiga Restoration

This repository contains a collection of programs selected from classic Amiga collections that I am in the process of "restoring" so that they will build on current versions of AmigaOS and AROS.

Currently I am starting primarily with apps from the Fish disks, because they contain a large selection of "classic" Amiga freeware that deserved to be restored.

Why do you do this?

Because I can... And because many of these programs are important parts of the Amiga legacy, and though they will run under UAE, I like the thought of cleaning them up, making them portable and "OS legal".

I also enjoy playing around with AROS and modern versions of AmigaOS, and restoring this code is a good learning exercise in terms of handling architecture portability (AROS on x86 vs. AmigaOS on 68k and PPC - little endian vs. big endian), as well as learning the quirks of "new" AmigaOS.

State of the software

Note that many of the programs I'm adding initially are likely to crash your machine.

Many of them were buggy, and I probably have introduced new ones too...