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The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver (www.howtogeek.com)

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/44181300

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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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

I recognise that this is important, but for light usage, emulators are still required to run Amiga code, and they can read the disks (or, they emulate WorkBench which does?).

The Amiga disk format I know is ADF, or at least that's what the disk files come in.

I've never tried to run Amiga games/applications on my Mac, but it seems a better fit than Windows, though WinUAE is really the only Amiga tool for modern computers that I know.