AMD system with Amiga Forever 6

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Hi Trinity, the answer to your question depends a bit on how exactly you intend to use the system.  It sounds like you want to boot straight into AmigaOS (emulated), and have storage space available for at least data.  The boot-from-CD option you will probably find less than satisfactory.  Boots more or less straight into AmigaOS, yes, but only gets a network address via DHCP, and no storage for your data without flitting off to the Linux console and doing fdisk and then mkfs.whatever_fs_you_want and then mounting it and then editing .uaerc (if there is one) and then resetting uae and then etc etc.

*edit* Also if you manage to crash UAE, the system will reboot.  I guess it's kinda like a real Amiga that way!

Ideally, unfortunately (at least I'm not a Windows fan) WinUAE is probably the most complete and stable freely available emulator out there.  E-UAE (the best UN*X/Linux choice) is getting there, particularly in CVS, but I've found it to be a bit crashy depending on how you configure it, particularly memory and the JIT.

At any rate, if you really want to use your emulated Amiga, you need some kind of OS installed.  Choice of Linux OS is an argument/flamewar waiting to happen so no comment there.  The boot-from-CD AmigaOS is nice to show off or just to try on various hardware.  I will say that KXlight is Knoppix based, and therefore *cough* Debian *cough* based ;-)

This is all AFAIK.  Maybe someone else knows different :-D

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First: WinUAE is not an OS.  It's like a virtual piece of hardware, and you run AmigaOS on top of it.  It pretends to be a classic Amiga system.

WinUAE runs on (you guessed it!) Windows.

UAE runs on Linux, and most any other UNIX.

E-UAE runs on Linux and most any other UNIX, and contains features ported over from WinUAE, since "old" UAE is basically dead and unmaintained.

The *best* experience, as in the most stable and easy to use solution, is WinUAE hands down.  OpenGL acceleration, a robust JIT, active development, supported out-of-the-box by Amiga Forever, and no compilers in sight.

The Free-est experience is E-UAE on Linux.  But you'll have to do some RTFM to get it to work.  You might even have to compile something, and you will probably want to edit some config files.  That means vi.  Or, if you have a gig of memory, emacs *dodges rocks and beer bottles*

Keep in mind that even booting from the CD, all you are doing is booting Linux and running UAE as the "window manager" in X.  UAE is not an OS.  So none of these solutions has any extra overhead, necessarily.

Good luck :-)

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Thomas wrote:

However you should try to make your posts more readable. What you are currently practicing here is not the correct format. Perhaps this page can help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
You should read it thoroughly. If you follow it, nobody will ever complain about your posts again.

Just should mention, ESR is a bit elitist about some things, and that particular document is one where he really lets it shine through.  It has a lot of good points, just try not to get the idea that we are all holier-than-thou geeks like ESR :-)  Worth a read though.

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@Trinity

I bet you ordered your AF6 through Software Hut.  They are including those CDs because they are probably not able to be sold due to age.  My last order I placed with them, I got some Aminet CD (forget which) and uh...Guiness Book of World Records for 1994 I think, for CD32.  Free.

So they don't necessarily have anything to do with AF6 unless you wanted to give them a shot with WinUAE.