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Semi-related, I recently installed the BMC64 distro on my unused Raspberry Pi. It boots directly to VICE, no "Linux" to be seen. It's like booting a C64. You turn it off by unplugging, just like the real thing. The only thing that tells you this is not a real C64 (besides lacking the keyboard/case) is that you can bring up a menu with lots of options with F12 (necessary to mount disk images, at the very least).

Wow, does it take me back to my childhood!

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Semi-semi-related, there was a commercial distro named Amithlon that booted straight into AmigaOS 3.9. Alas, it was discontinued, but it had a really nice AmigaOS feel to it.

Cool! I missed the boat back then and never did own an Amiga. It was too expensive for my parents to buy. Later I heard it was an incredible machine and young me would have loved to toy with it.

It was a cool machine, and AmigaOS was simply awesome compared to contemporary consumer operating systems, but alas Commodore went belly-up before they managed to modernize the platform.

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