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Alternative ISA General is a discussion thread about non x86 hardware. "Alternative" doesn't mean "unpopular" it means "alternative to x86". While there have been such threads in the past, they were usually sporadic and not very well connected with one another, which meant that whatever transpired in one thread wasn't carried over to the next one.

Due to the rise of desktop-class ARM chips, interest in alternative hardware has risen, with many Anons even coming up with projects of their own. Therefore, a centralised place was needed, where we could keep track of the development and goals of the community.

While discussion of Intel or AMD hardware is not absolutely prohibited (and even if it were, who is gonna enforce this? LOL), due to the ubiquity of x86 hardware, it is assumed that whatever concerns such architecture can be discussed in any of the other gorillion threads on the board.

Ongoing projects

Anons are currently interested in porting several open source projects to the PowerPC architecture. Currently the following proposals have been made:

Grand Theft Auto III

Re3 is a homebrew engine intended to replace proprietay RenderWare with an open source implementation. Anons have been discussing making a port for the 32-bit PowerPC version of Mac OS X.

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-Alternative ISA General is a discussion thread about non x86 hardware. While there have been such threads in the past, they were usually sporadic and not very well connected with one another, which meant that whatever transpired in one thread wasn't carried over to the next one.
+'''Alternative ISA General is a discussion thread about non x86 hardware'''. "Alternative" doesn't mean "unpopular" it means "alternative to x86". While there have been such threads in the past, they were usually sporadic and not very well connected with one another, which meant that whatever transpired in one thread wasn't carried over to the next one.
 Due to the rise of desktop-class ARM chips, interest in alternative hardware has risen, with many Anons even coming up with projects of their own. Therefore, a centralised place was needed, where we could keep track of the development and goals of the community.
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 == Links ==
-'''Amiga'''
+'''Amiga (Motorola 68k)'''
 [https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases/ amigaXfer, an easy-to-use GUI tool for lightning fast disk/file transfers on the serial port with the Amiga]
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 [https://github.com/grovdata/Amiga_Sources Compiled list of free/open sources related to classic Commodore Amiga computers]
-'''M68K'''
+[https://fs-uae.net/2021/06/09/builds-for-macos-arm64-m1-apple-silicon-have-arrived FS-UAE (Amiga emulator) released for Apple Silicon arm architecture]
+[https://blitterstudio.com/amiberry/ Amiberry (Emulate an Amiga on on your Raspberry Pi)]
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PMx9l002Rs Amiberry how-to]
+'''Atari (Motorola 68k)'''
 [http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/computers.html Atari Museum]
+[http://firebee.org/fb-bin/index FireBee Atari-compatible computer]
+[https://freemint.github.io FreeMiNT Project Website]
+[https://aranym.github.io/index.html ARAnyM (Atari Running on Any Machine) VM Software]
+'''Other Motorola 68k Links'''
 [https://hackaday.io/project/7242-motorola-68000-computer Motorola 68000 computer]
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 [http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/ Motorola 680x0 Resources]
 '''MIPS'''
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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgj9MfkUJp8 Windows NT 3.50/MIPS installation on QEMU/MIPS]
 '''NMOS 6502'''
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 [http://6502.org/ The 6502 microprocessor resorce]
 '''POWER/PowerPC'''
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 [http://bgafc.t-hosting.hu/oses4ppc.php http://bgafc.t-hosting.hu/oses4ppc.php Operating Systems for PowerPC]
+[http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh Power Macintosh]
 '''RISC-V'''
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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpGmerzSVI SiFive: The Direction and Magnitude of SiFive Intelligence]
 '''SPARC'''
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 [https://sparc.org/ SPARC Internacional, Inc.]
 '''SuperH'''
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 [https://www.renesas.com/us/en/superh-risc-engine-family-features SuperH RISC engine Family Features]
 '''VAX'''
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 [http://oboguev.net/vax_mp/ VAX MP: SIMH VAX simulator able to execute OpenVMS (VAX/VMS)]
+[https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html VAX in FPGA]
+[https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003903.html VAX extended to 64 bits]
 '''Z80'''
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 [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2 ZX Spectrum Next]
 '''Hardware Reimplementation'''
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 [https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki MiSTer wiki]
+'''Raspberry Pi (arm)'''
+[https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/ Raspberry Pi hardware]
+'''Apple Silicon (arm)'''
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1 Apple M1 SoC Tech Specs]
+[https://doesitarm.com Check if an app is native Apple Silicon or not yet]
+[https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ Apple MacBook Air (2020, M1)]
 '''Other'''

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