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kwanbix
Wine for Amiga sounds like I can run Wine on my Amiga. Is to run Amiga software on a PC instead.
dizzy9
Unfortunately, both "amiga" and "vamos" are common Spanish words, making it difficult to search.

So far it runs command-line Amiga programs only, but there's an open merge request to add GUI support.

Narishma
Wine for Amiga is as confusing as Windows Subsystem for Linux. I thought it would be a port of Wine for the Amiga but it's instead something to run Amiga software on PC.
Wowfunhappy
I guess a better description would be “Wine for Amiga software”.
easyThrowaway
IIRC Amiga Forever by Cloanto already did something similar?
doener
The official name of this software is vamos - virtual Amiga OS.
layer8
Being preceded by “virtual AmigaOS runtime”, I somehow had no trouble understanding it.
billpg
Could this be a the basis of an independent implementation of AmigaOS? At the moment, (I think) you still need a licensed copy of Commodore's OS to run an emulator.
mghackerlady
There's the free AROS for that, and the less talked about but arguably cooler nonfree MorphOS. If you have an old PPC mac try a trial of MorphOS on it, it's a very interesting little system