The Commodore Sanctuary

The Amiga wing (ruled 2026-07-02). Commodore OS Vision exists, and it is useful — as a quarry, not a foundation. This sanctuary harvests from it where it makes sense and discards the rest: all the garish underglow theatrics go, the emulation plumbing and the catalogue of Commodore-blessed software stay. What gets built on top is the thing Vision never quite commits to — a proper Amiga desktop. Workbench grammar taken seriously: the grey, the blue, the orange, drawers that behave like drawers.

Underneath, the standard habitat law applies. This is a Distrobox sanctuary on the shared Guix store, not another distribution to babysit — Vision’s Debian base is substituted with declarations, applications arrive as Flatpaks and AppImages where that is the honest path, and the whole habitat is a configuration, not a disk image. Adding the Amiga wing to the fleet cost a declaration and some taste.

The point is the same as everywhere in the Castle: the Amiga was an alternative answer, and a good one — preemptive multitasking and custom silicon while the rest of the industry was still arguing about memory models. It deserves a desk, not a shrine. Screenshots when it breathes.