Now that it is finally available—gated by a reasonable non-commercial license—the legacy of the Amiga is no longer just about nostalgia for Defender of the Crown or Xenon 2 . It is about the engineering brilliance of Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, and Dale Luck.
When Commodore International declared bankruptcy in April 1994, the company's assets were liquidated. The Amiga intellectual property (IP) went on a chaotic journey. It passed through the hands of Escom, then Viscorp, and eventually landed with Gateway 2000 (later Gateway). In 2001, the IP was sold again to a company called Amino Development, which later became
Most stunningly, the exec directory contained full assembly source for the scheduler and memory pools, annotated with comments from Carl Sassenrath (the original architect). These comments revealed optimization tricks and hardware quirks that had been lost for decades. Amigaos 3.1 Source Code
The 2018 source is not Open Source (fails the OSI definition). It is source-available for non-commercial study.
| Feature | Details | |---------|---------| | | Non-commercial, educational, and personal use only. Derivatives cannot be sold. | | Content | ~95% of OS 3.1 components. Missing parts: some third-party drivers, font files, and licensed algorithms (e.g., Lempel-Ziv compression). | | Format | 68k assembly, C, and custom build scripts. Organized by module (exec, dos, graphics, intuition, etc.). | | Language mix | Approximately 70% C, 30% assembly (hand-tuned for 68000). | | Notable omissions | mathieee* libraries (patented code), some printer drivers. | Now that it is finally available—gated by a
Extract the archive. You will find a Makefile designed for a very old SAS/C compiler. However, the community has ported it to vbcc (Volker Barthelmann’s C compiler) and vasm .
| Entity | Role / Rights | |--------|----------------| | | Holds a license to distribute the 3.1 source code non-commercially. | | Hyperion | Owns rights to develop AmigaOS 3.x (they released 3.2 in 2021, but not from this source dump – they had their own codebase derived from 3.1). | | Amiga Corporation | Former owner; now defunct. | | Open Source community | Can study but not commercially use the 2018 source. However, AROS (an open reimplementation) is legally separate and clean-room. | The Amiga intellectual property (IP) went on a
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