The Virtual Amigaos Runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)
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As the "Wine for Amiga" moniker sparks confusion, it becomes clear that the vamos project is actually about running AmigaOS m68k CLI binaries on modern Macs and PCs, not the other way around. Commenters geek out over the project's potential, with some poking fun at the naming conventions - "AINU - Ainu Is Not UAE?" - while others point out the challenges of searching for "amiga" and "vamos" due to their presence in the Spanish language. Meanwhile, a stroll down memory lane reveals that the Amiga line was around for 19 years and that its emulator, UAE, is now over 30 years old, with AmiNet still surprisingly alive and kicking.
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Just spitballing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
Hint: other helicopters were named Kiowa, Cheyenne, Blackhawk, Sioux, Mojave, Iroquois.
UAE was released in 1995, so it's over 30 years old.
> vamos is a tool that allows to run AmigaOS m68k CLI binaries directly on your Mac or PC.
So far it runs command-line Amiga programs only, but there's an open merge request to add GUI support.
They explicitly states that in the link: "It will run typical console binaries that do not rely on user interface [...] This approach will not run any applications or games using direct hardware register access - for this use case a machine emulator like FS-UAE is the tool you will need..."
VAMOS writes as few 68000 instructions into the emulator's memory as possible; as soon as the program calls an AmigaOS API, the emulator traps it and handles the implementation in Python.
Couple that with AROS providing implementations of all the important parts of AmigaOS, it'd be possible create something that supported the GUI as well. It's a decade+ since I did any work on the AROS source, so I don't remember how much work it might be to retarget the window rendering to open and update actual windows of the OS it runs on, instead of compositing to a window representing the full screen.
The caveat is that a lot of AmigaOS apps open their own "screens" (virtual desktops) and expect to be able to open windows on them, in which case you might end up with a bunch of full-screen sized windows anyway. Then you might as well run full AROS.
For that reason I think the limitation of this is probably fine: Use this for command line programs you want to run in your regular terminal, and just spin up AROS or FS-UAE to run programs with a gui. I can spawn AROS with a custom StartupSequence to "boot" right into FrexxEd (an editor co-written by the guy behind Curl) and have it spin up the entire OS and the editor faster than a typical Emacs session...
https://www.aminet.net/
maybe start your searching there
https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/loader/main....
vAmos is just CPU and an embedded ROM/OS replacement that does just enough to run (some) AmigaOS command line programs. The primary use case is for cross-development (running Amiga compilers/tools, testing simple stuff, etc.) without having to boot a full system emulator for each command and better integration with e.g. host-side Makefiles.
With the vAmos=WINE analogy, Amiga Forever=VirtualBox/VMWare.
What you're looking for is a ROM with a full implementation of AmigaOS, that can manage real Amiga hardware: that is only possible with the official ROMs or projects like AROS