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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #29 from previous page: January 06, 2012, 07:35:56 PM »
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I just tried it. It is awesome.

Anyone else thinks Amikit gives us an idea of what Amiga could be like today if it still existed? (excluding OS4).


++1!

I grabbed it too and LOVE it!

I'm kinda glad you posted here because I didn't have money to donate when I picked it up but now I do!

TANKZ for da' reminder!

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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #30 on: January 06, 2012, 08:46:02 PM »
This new version is great! Many thanks.
The holidays have left me truly flat - but I will have a donation in quite soon. I think your work is first class +.
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2012, 12:46:36 AM »
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I just tried it. It is awesome.
 
Anyone else thinks Amikit gives us an idea of what Amiga could be like today if it still existed? (excluding OS4).

+++1
 
It's starting to become my second OS choice on my PC now. Loving it.
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2012, 03:40:46 AM »
New limited batch of AmiKit USB flash disks is now available. If you haven't ordered yet, take your chance now! All the previous pending orders have been shipped.

The new flash disks contain updated emulation engine for Windows and more or updated bonus material like special edition of Icaros Desktop, AmiKit hardfile, wallpapers, etc.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2012, 03:52:48 AM by AmiKit »
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2012, 03:51:12 AM »
So the new one's have material not present on the previous one's?
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #34 on: January 21, 2012, 04:06:57 AM »
Yes. Wallpapers and other graphics, OS3.9 patches, Icaros update, etc. as well as fixed and updated AmiKit installer (which now contains new AmiKit preview of WinUAE 2.4.0). People who purchased previous flash disk version will receive a link to the new content.
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #35 on: January 21, 2012, 04:13:50 AM »
Cool.

I look forward to the day when UAE is fast enough and good enough on the three next gen Amiga variants to have their own Amikit distro too! :)
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #36 on: January 21, 2012, 07:34:22 AM »
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New limited batch of AmiKit USB flash disks is now available. If you haven't ordered yet, take your chance now! All the previous pending orders have been shipped.

The new flash disks contain updated emulation engine for Windows and more or updated bonus material like special edition of Icaros Desktop, AmiKit hardfile, wallpapers, etc.

My AmiKit USB flash disk arrived about a week ago, thanks Jan.

I installed it on my 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook and was surprised at the poor performance it provided.

Do you have any suggestions on how to speed up the performance on G4 Mac computers?  I know that E-UAE is lagging behind WinUAE and has no JIT to speed it up.  But I was not thinking that E-UAE on a 1.67GHz G4 would be slower when using AmiKit than bog standard AmigaOS3.1 when running WinUAE on a 500MHz Celeron laptop.

Any ideas?
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #37 on: January 21, 2012, 10:20:02 AM »
I am afraid my only recommendation is to use Mac with Intel CPU. AmiKit flies on such a machine.
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #38 on: January 21, 2012, 11:01:41 AM »
Just ordered one from the new batch ;-)
I`ve already installed the latest version and it really worths every cent
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2012, 12:47:38 PM »
Have never used AmiKit but I downloaded the Windows version just now to try it out. :)

Here is some feedback:

In the Swedish installer, the letter å isn't working, it displays some other strange character instead.

When the installer gets to the point where it says "installing more than 30,000 AmiKit files", the progress bar quickly reaches 100%, obviously before those 30,000 files are installed, because you have to wait quite some time at that point, giving the impression that the install process has stalled. IMHO a progress bar could be used in a better way.

I installed AmiKit on my E:\ partition, but WinUAE seems to be configured to load the ROM from C:\AmiKit\ROMs\ which in my case doesn't exist. The pre-configured HDD is also pointing at C:\AmiKit\AmiKit, which in my case doesn't exist.

Maybe I'm clueless, but it was impossible for me to install from either AmigaOS3.9 or Amiga Forever 2011. No matter what I did, it didn't find/recognize the volume. Only when I mounted the CD in WinUAE as a *HDD* it was found and the install process could go on.

And finally I got it working! :)
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2012, 01:01:38 PM »
Posting this from NetSurf in AmiKit... :)

(This browser was a real PITA to use BTW, not easy to use something else on an Amiga after you got used to Odyssey on MorphOS ;))
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #41 on: January 21, 2012, 01:10:49 PM »
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Just ordered one from the new batch ;-)
I`ve already installed the latest version and it really worths every cent

Thank you. Also for the donation!!
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #42 on: January 21, 2012, 01:19:57 PM »
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Posting this from NetSurf in AmiKit... :)

(This browser was a real PITA to use BTW, not easy to use something else on an Amiga after you got used to Odyssey on MorphOS ;))


Speaking of NetSurf (it was the first time I have come in contact with this program) - It's more than obvious that NetSurf isn't integrated to use the Amiga native GUI, which is one of the major shortcomings and probably a big reason to why it's so difficult to use (beyond it's limited feature set), but I must ask the question (look at the attached picture): Is this normal? Is there a setting to avoid this?
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2012, 01:31:43 PM »
Well, it's very obvious that a lot of work has been put into this AmiKit package, it's a very nice bundle! A very slick classic Amiga environment! :)

Is there a plan to make use of Grunch in the future? That would be a great! :)
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Re: AmiKit 1.6.0: The biggest update ever! Now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
« Reply #44 on: January 21, 2012, 01:40:12 PM »
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In the Swedish installer, the letter å isn't working, it displays some other strange character instead.

Jag är ledsen. Hmm, the installer should be unicode...

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When the installer gets to the point where it says "installing more than 30,000 AmiKit files", the progress bar quickly reaches 100%, obviously before those 30,000 files are installed, because you have to wait quite some time at that point, giving the impression that the install process has stalled. IMHO a progress bar could be used in a better way.

Yep, there's a large 7z archive unpacking in background.
In the past I used to have more 7z archives (each one containing a separate drawer of AmiKit structure, like C.7z, Classes.7z, etc.). This way I could update the progress step by step, drawer by drawer. But the overall size of the AmiKit archive was much bigger.

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I installed AmiKit on my E:\ partition, but WinUAE seems to be configured to load the ROM from C:\AmiKit\ROMs\ which in my case doesn't exist. The pre-configured HDD is also pointing at C:\AmiKit\AmiKit, which in my case doesn't exist.

Oops. Last night I added new WinUAE 2.4.0 Preview into the archive and forgot to set the relative paths.

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Maybe I'm clueless, but it was impossible for me to install from either AmigaOS3.9 or Amiga Forever 2011. No matter what I did, it didn't find/recognize the volume. Only when I mounted the CD in WinUAE as a *HDD* it was found and the install process could go on.

Oops. Another stupid mistake. From now on I won't upload anything during nights anymore :)

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And finally I got it working! :)

Thanks god :-)
I will re-upload fixed version, could you please test it for me? I will send you a PM. Thanks.
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