Amithlon

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Amithlon working fine on an Asus AN8-SLI mobo, 7800 GTX PCIe.  AMD X2 4200+ CPU, 2 GB DDR - 4 x 512 MB.  500 watt Antec PSU.

SATA can be a bugger with Amithlon, but not having any issues with this combo with SATA hd's.  500 GB SATA HD, and an IDE CR-RW.  SATA optical drives were a bit on and off, so just used the onboard IDE with no issues.

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Amithlon runs just great.  It's staggeringly fast.  Obviously any code that hits hardware is going to have some burps, but that's to be expected.  I've got absolutely no gripes about Amithlon - actually, I find it a crying shame that development petered away on it, it's terrific.  Not terribly easy to set up, but once it works, it's just mind-blowing.

I've had friends pop by and use this machine, only to have them tell me "that's the fastest A1200T I've ever used, WOW!".  I've got the machine in an old generic mid tower case that doesn't look much different than your run of the mill A1200 tower conversion case, heh.  For the full effect I really should use an original Amiga keyboard and mouse, I suppose.

Even the guys that turn up their noses at commodity hardware and emulation do a double take when I pop the side panel off and they see x86 HW in there  

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What does AROS have anything to do with Amithlon?  Not trying to be snarky, but I'll be damned if I can even begin to understand why you'd want to run AROS 68k under an Amithlon type environment when Amithlon and 3.9 work absolutely flawlessly.  An afternoon putting together old hardware and skimming EAB for the latest Amithlon info and you'll have the best Amiga you ever owned for $50.

Perhaps I am failing to see the purpose of AROS 68k at all.  What does it bring to the table that WB 3.x doesn't?  I've tried it 100 times over in AF and UAE, and it still seems like re-inventing the wheel and it's a terrible experience, imo.  

I can grab AmiKit, AF, Amithlon and a 3.5 or 3.9 CD and be up and running a modern 68k based Amiga system on commodity hardware in mere minutes.  Literally.

Baffles me why AROS 68k is so fawned over.  I'm as much of an open source dreamer as the rest, but the idea of AROS 68k + Amithlon or even running AROS 68k on legacy HW makes little sense to me.  Seems like a solution in search of a problem, but then again, WB 3+ has always worked just great for me.  I never lost sleep over not having the source code for it.

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Was a good EAB thread on Amithlon, for those asking me via PM for info.

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I use onboard sound, nic and etc on the Asus mobo.  Only problem I ever ran into was some SATA issues.  Using latest Amithlon/kernel, nothing special.

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Download the iso and burn it to a CD, same as anything else.

Or virtually mount it, boot it off a USB stick, whatever you prefer.

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Try running the A8N-* board with only 2 sticks of RAM (1 GB) installed.  Been some reports of things acting up with 2 x 4 512 MB modules, esp on older Amithlon revs.

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Aye, Dimension 4000 are ideal Amithloo boxes with a 5200 card in them.  Likely the most pain free setup, at the very least, albeit not the most powerful.
They are as close to a plug and play experience as you'll get with Amithlon.

First time I tried Amilthon was on a Dell 4000 with a nVidia 5200 in it and I don't recall hitting a single snag.  Where as my current Amithlon box (Asus A8N-SLI MB, AMD X2 4200+, nVidia 7800, 2 GB RAM) is a little more dicky to get working right and can be a bit temperamental, especially when it comes to SATA.