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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: AmiKit on December 25, 2011, 01:41:31 AM
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(http://amikit.amiga.sk/image/amikit-usb_small.png) We are proud to present the biggest AmiKit update ever. We spent countless hours, days and weeks working on this project so we could deliver a real high-quality product for the Amiga community out there. And we succeeded. This long awaited version introduces exciting new features and, in addition, comes on a luxury 4GB USB flash disk! (free public link will be available later). We hope you will enjoy AmiKit as much as we did during its development!
Main features:
- introducing new full version applications like AmIRC, FroggerNG and FryingPan.
- full video replaying support: simply doubleclick and play most of the modern video formats
- new emulation engine (WinUAE 2.4.0 AmiKit preview)
- new graphics artwork by Kenneth E. Lester, Jr.
- new integrated software like NetSurf, ScummVM, AmiTwitter, OpenSSL, Wazp3D, etc.
- dozens of updated applications like AfA_OS, FlashPlayer, MCP, Scalos, WHDLoad, YAM, etc.
- enhanced compatibility with the latest Amiga Forever versions
- many improvements and fixes... and much more!
(http://amikit.amiga.sk/image/amikit-usb_girl.png)
Plus one more thing... FULL & REGISTERED VERSION OF DIRECTORY OPUS MAGELLAN II (license granted by GPSoftware)
Special thanks to
Ken Lester, Rex Schilasky, Toni Wilen, GPSoftware, Cloanto and all the other people involved (http://amikit.amiga.sk/credits.htm).
This release would not be possible without your help!
What is AmiKit?
It turns your Windows, Mac or Linux machine into high-end classic Amiga environment. We've done all the hard work for you. Once AmiKit is installed, everything is in place so that your emulated Amiga will be immediately usable.
For more information please visit AmiKit website at http://amikit.amiga.sk/ (http://amikit.amiga.sk/)
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Awesome! We are going to Buy Now! Everyone else should do the same!
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Excellent news, I'm a big fan of Amikit.
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This is interesting. Just a quick question though and that is do we still need the Workbench disk if we purchase it?
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Awesome news and awesome product.
Already bought and donated :)
Merry X-mas to all AmiKit team and I hope we're gonna see progress of AmiKit over the years to come \o/
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Other Christmas gift and they are four!
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I just ordered mine!!
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but is this update available on live update from amikit?
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Hi!! Congrats for keep improving this more and more!!!!
Just out of curiosity: will this update work in a real Amiga??
Kind Regards
Sebastian
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Congratulations.
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Ordered mine and did a donation. Can't wait to get hold of mine.
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Ordered also...
I'm eager to see how well this works in the absence of a Windows environment.
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It's certainly a project I don't mind investing in at all.
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Thank you all for your kind reactions and support!
Just a quick question though and that is do we still need the Workbench disk if we purchase it?
Yes, you still need to feed AmiKit with AmigaOS files.
but is this update available on live update from amikit?
The live update as well as full installer will be available for download soon.
Just out of curiosity: will this update work in a real Amiga??
Sure, all the files in the update are OS3.x compatible.
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What kind of system resources would I need to get this running on a classic system. I have a 600 with 25mhz, 32mb accelerator.
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What kind of system resources would I need to get this running on a classic system. I have a 600 with 25mhz, 32mb accelerator.
I am afraid that's not enough. A1200 or A4000 with 68060 is recommended. Check this document: http://amikit.amiga.sk/download/misc/documents/AmiKit_on_real_Amiga.pdf
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Just received my download links via email and was surprised that there was a link for Mac, as well as the Windows and Linux links.
Great work Jan!
I hope you will continue this project long into the future. It is by far the best implementation of AmigaOS3.x on non-Amiga hardware.
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I am afraid that's not enough. A1200 or A4000 with 68060 is recommended. Check this document: http://amikit.amiga.sk/download/misc/documents/AmiKit_on_real_Amiga.pdf
I figured it might not. But didn't know if I missed a kind of "light" version that would go on it. But no matter as I will be installing it later today, after getting some sleep, on my laptop. Might even get round to doing a review of it if I get a chance. ;)
James
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I figured it might not. But didn't know if I missed a kind of "light" version that would go on it.
There isn't any light version or official version for 'real' Amiga. Only the guide I mentioned before. Sorry.
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Not to worry. Just gives me an excuse to get a 4000 lol.
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AmiKit 1.6.0 is now available for download. Enjoy!
http://amikit.amiga.sk/
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great news keep good work guys
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Posting here on IBrowse within Amikit 1.6
Looks great so far. Great to see this updated.
Well done.
Best regards, Rodomoc
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Posting here on IBrowse within Amikit 1.6
Looks great so far. Great to see this updated.
Well done.
Best regards, Rodomoc
DITTO!
I'm replying using netsurf though. Never used it so I thought I'd put it through the paces :) Anyone know how to resize the screen and have netsurf refresh to the new window size?
This truly is amazing! I'm going to try to setup my programing enviroment in it to so how well it will work.
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I physically altered the preference file as resizing doesn't seem to do anything. Just set it to something like 1280x800.
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I physically altered the preference file as resizing doesn't seem to do anything. Just set it to something like 1280x800.
Worked like a charm! TANKZ!
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This version of Amikit is just super, will be donating ASAP.
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Just got my USB device through the post today. It is packed with loads of stuff and I am now trying it on my MacBook as we speak.
THANKS!!
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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).
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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!
BRB ;)
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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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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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New limited batch of AmiKit USB flash disks is now available. If you haven't ordered yet, take your chance now! (http://amikit.amiga.sk/amikit-usb.htm) 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.
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So the new one's have material not present on the previous one's?
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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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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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New limited batch of AmiKit USB flash disks is now available. If you haven't ordered yet, take your chance now! (http://amikit.amiga.sk/amikit-usb.htm) 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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I am afraid my only recommendation is to use Mac with Intel CPU. AmiKit flies on such a machine.
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Just ordered one from the new batch ;-)
I`ve already installed the latest version and it really worths every cent
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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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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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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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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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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 (http://www.geit.de/eng_grunch.html) in the future? That would be a great! :)
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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...
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.
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.
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 :)
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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Jag är ledsen.
:)
Hmm, the installer should be unicode...
The Swedish language uses three special letters; Åå, Äö and Öö, the two latter works just fine AFAICT...
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.
Then this is probably the better way after all...
Oops. I forgot to set the relative paths in the revision I uploaded this night.
Oops. Another stupid mistake. From now on I won't upload anything during nights anymore :)
Thanks god :-)
I will re-upload fixed version, could you please test it for me? I will send you a PM. Thanks.
Sure! :)
Another thing, I seem to be having an issue with saving the prefs.
I found a web page discussing this issue (regarding WinUAE on Windows Vista and Windows 7), see the "Important" paragraph:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Amiga_3.html
I don't know if that's related to the ROM/HDD path issue I mentioned above? Maybe so? Maybe the configuration files should be saved in the user's personal folder path instead?
I have close to zero experience with UAE myself, so please forgive my ignorance...
:)
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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?
It's a bit difficult with NetSurf. You have to set the window size in a file (AmiKit:Internet/NetSurf/Resources/Choices).
Is there a plan to make use of Grunch (http://www.geit.de/eng_grunch.html) in the future? That would be a great! :)
AmiKit already has its own live update (http://amikit.amiga.sk/liveupdate.htm) system.
Another thing, I seem to be having an issue with saving the prefs.
What issue exactly? To save the WinUAE configuration settings, simply switch to Configurations section, mark the "AmiKit" entry and hit the Save button.
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What issue exactly? To save the WinUAE configuration settings, simply switch to Configurations section, mark the "AmiKit" entry and hit the Save button.
Of course, that's what I do, tried it many times. But after a restart, it turns out that nothing was really saved.
Strange...
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Check if it has been saved as Default.
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I had to install some Microsoft Visual something-or-other in order to get Amikit to work, even when I used the supposedly fixed installer.
Other than that it's been a real treat.
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I had to install some Microsoft Visual something-or-other in order to get Amikit to work, even when I used the supposedly fixed installer.
Other than that it's been a real treat.
Thanks for the feedback. The installer is fixed for real now :-)
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Hi,
@amigadave,
"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."
Take G4 Mac computer, down to river, now I will be nice and say gently lower in the river and let go. There it is now sped up. It probably will sink faster then it floats, but then again since you pay for all the excess fat on a G4, it just might float because in all reality Sh#t floats.
smerf
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Thanks for the feedback. The installer is fixed for real now :-)
Cool. I'll have to grab the updated installer just in case I do a re-install at some point.
That's assuming there won't be 1.6.1 etc. installers, and point updates will just be automatic updates to 1.6.0.
Is that correct?
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Cool. I'll have to grab the updated installer just in case I do a re-install at some point.
That's assuming there won't be 1.6.1 etc. installers, and point updates will just be automatic updates to 1.6.0.
Is that correct?
Exactly. It's just a minor bugfix of Windows version of installer. Since no Amiga files were modified inside, increasing version number to 1.6.1 would be confusing compared to Linux and Mac 1.6.0 archives.
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Thanks for the feedback. The installer is fixed for real now :-)
I've tried the fixed version and can confirm that the ROM-path and HDD-path is now correctly set from the installer, and the CD-ROM recognition works.
:)
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Got my card in the mail yesterday...
Pretty handy I must say! I believe I'm going to keep it in my wallet to bring over and share with friends. :)
So who's the chick holding the card in that photo above?
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Got my card in the mail yesterday...
Pretty handy I must say! I believe I'm going to keep it in my wallet to bring over and share with friends. :)
:)
So who's the chick holding the card in that photo above?
can't say ;)
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:)
can't say ;)
Aghhh, but we MUST meet, it's our destiny!!!!