Amix was Commodore’s System V Release 4 implementation for the Amiga. It shipped with the A2500UX and A3000UX from 1990 to 1992, then remained frozen. The unofficial amigaux.org community project presents 2026 as the Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop and is extending Amix 2.1 to 68040 and 68060 systems, including current accelerator hardware. Its work is public and documented in the grimoire-amix project by asokero, isoriano1968 and jusii.

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A new installer is planned for real machines and emulators. It boots from floppy and CD-ROM on Amiga hardware, while emulation uses a floppy image and an ISO. The process supports interactive and unattended operation, with the classic tape installation scheduled for a later stage. The `apkg` client retrieves packages from pkg.amigaux.org. The initial set includes grep, gzip, less, patch and zlib, followed by additional GNU and BSD tools as they are built and tested. An example catalog update reports 39 packages and installs less-704.

On a real 68060, the installer handles the keymap, disk, partition sizes and package selection, then displays its planned actions. The first boot assigns the machine name, sets the clock, creates a hosts file containing the package repository and reaches a login prompt.

Current work covers 68040 and 68060 processors. Amix 2.1 runs on a real 68060 with or without an FPU, while an MMU is required. The asokero/amix-040-060-port repository contains the kernel. Z3660 hardware has native SCSI and Ethernet drivers tested on real systems. The A4091 and A4092 have a Zorro III SCSI driver and an auto-detecting kernel. The project also has a cross toolchain named m68k-cbm-sysv4, an `apkg` repository with catalogs, dependency handling and upgrades, an OpenLook desktop ready after installation, and a working Quake port that currently serves mainly as a benchmark.

Several parts remain unfinished. ZZ9000-compatible RTG graphics for the Z3660 work under emulation and are planned for real accelerators. Ethernet throughput improvements are being developed in the accelerator firmware. X11R6.3 and Mesa are being packaged from community ports, followed by the broader userland. The team is also working on the read-only CD filesystem port ODFileSystem, installer repair and safety paths, and the later tape version. Planned milestones include a native modern gcc, real-accelerator RTG, the packaged X11R6.3 and Mesa stack, firmware Ethernet fixes, and a complete public release with packages, source, instructions and manuals.

Generative AI is used for parts of the work, including analysis of old kernels in binary form because their source is unavailable, plus driver and documentation work. People set the direction, review every change and test the results on real hardware. The grimoire marks verified results and unresolved guesses with confidence labels.

The code is spread across several repositories. asokero/amix-unix-boot patches Markus Wild’s unix_boot to load Amix on 68040 and 68060 systems. jusii/amix-z3660scsi provides the Z3660 PiStorm piscsi mailbox SCSI driver, jusii/amix-z3660net provides a STREAMS/DLPI Ethernet driver, and jusii/Z3660-amix contains an Amix-aware firmware fork. jusii/amix-a4091 supports the Commodore A4091 and A4092 through the NCR 53C710. isoriano1968/zz9000-amix, isoriano1968/hydra-amix and asokero/va2000-amix provide RTG or Ethernet drivers for ZZ9000, Hydra and MNT VA2000 hardware.

Graphics repositories include asokero/xrtg-amix, an X11R5 RTG server, plus isoriano1968/x11r6.3-amix and isoriano1968/mesa-amix. The project uses shanshe/Z3660 firmware, reinauer/ODFileSystem for the CD filesystem port and BlitterStudio/amiberry as its emulator, with a jusii/amiberry fork. Documentation and build tooling include isoriano1968/gcc-cross-amix, jusii/amix-kerntools, jusii/grimoire-amix and asokero/quake-amix.

The 68040/68060 launch is scheduled for 19 September 2026 at 17:00 during Saku 2026 at Oulun Tetra in Oulu, Finland. The full release is planned after that event. amigaux.org is independent and has no affiliation with or endorsement from Amiga Corporation, Commodore or other trademark holders. Amiga, AmigaOS and Amiga UNIX belong to their respective owners, while UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.