Running Amikit as ONLY installed "OS" on netbook

[J-Golden]

Hey all, been busy with other projects ect. but finally got my hands on a netbook to emulate mi Amiga!

My initial idea is to run ONLY Amikit but I'm in unfamiliar waters.  I have Amiga Forever but I only ever used real Amigas.  Mine's long gone so I'm down to emulation only.

Looking at the instructions for the Live CD / USB is nice and all, but it specifies that it doesn't access the hard drive of the host computer but that is what I need.

My main purpose is to FINALLY start on the survival horror game I concocted years ago.  So if this idea of mine isn't the best (I know Amikit is resource hungry but has all the latest libs., auto-updates, etc.) please offer me alternatives.

THANKZ!

[J-Golden]

@ Iggy Zactly!

There is a "Live" CD version that is built off of Linux that can also be run from a USB drive, but from the explanation of this version, it seems somewhat limited because of the medium it is working from.

I'm wanting to take that image and make it run from the hard drive, thus making it the only "OS" on it.

[J-Golden]

@ trekiej, I think that is what it runs TBH.

Here is the startup vid. they have on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zMpHC8saGew

[J-Golden]

I'll look at those pages ASAP!

I'm curious why you'd rather use the windows version?

[J-Golden]

Tried out both the Amiga Forever CD and the AmiKit versions and I'm still leaning towards modding the Amikit version.

The Amiga Forever version is clean and fast, but gives you little to no control out side the emulation.  At least nothing that I could find anyway.  Where as the AmiKit version does have a functional Linux layer you can use to control hardware the Amiga side doesn't have direct access to like Wireless networking, video settings, etc.

The only down side is that it does eat a TON of memory! so much that I cannot compile the AmiKit version on the netbook.  Since it loads EVERYTHING into memory (another thing I'd like to change) I could not upload all the Amiga Forever files for the initial installation.

Heh, if it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be Amiga, right.