The Amiga XP x86 guide

[lelezetec]

Hello my friends!

I made that small guide for all Amiga users around the world.

Enjoy!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XSUD2RLE

[lelezetec]

First of: thank you guy for your support!

Second, I saw that on some machines my procedure to eliminate windows combos ALT-TAB, CTRL-ALT-DEL and F12, won't work so i suggest you to use a little software freeware called mapkeyboard to eliminate the ALT and ALTGR keys and the F12 key. So since I can't remember the last time I used ALT on Amiga I think is not a great loss. In that way you can ssing the ALT function to F11 and F12 so if you mnemonically hit ALT, nothing will happen

@ Steven: to make the C= on my Amiga 2400 I used the stiencil technique by first painting the part in blue, then I applied the C and the upper part of "=" and painted it in red. Once everything was dry I applied the lower part of the "=" and then painted in white. Once the white paint dried I removed the C= and this is the result.

[lelezetec]

Hello everyone again. Let's talk about my Amiga 2400 configuration.
This summer I decided to get the rid of my Athlon 64 x2 4200+ and give it to my father since I didn't use my computer to play anymore. So I made a small computer by myself using an Intel Little Falls 2 motherboard with everything embedded, 160Gb SATA 2.5" 5400rpm Hard Disk and a Wireless Netgear USB Board. I used that computer just to run MSN Messenger and browsing some sites since when I want to play I use my Xbox360. But I felt alone again because I missed my good old 2D/3D software. Imagine, Lightwave, Image FX, Scala MM 400... all things that made my Amiga 1200 great. I missed them so much so, since I work as Microsoft System Administrator and I understand very little about Linux, I tried to make my own version of AmigaOS on x86 by ripping off Windows.
I tried with virtual machines and when it was ready, I erased my windows installation in place of the ripped off version for AmigaOS.
Then I must say that I'm pretty satisfied. For a short period of time I owned an Amiga 4000/040 with Powerchanger and 68040 28MHz, Retina 24, Flicker fixer et all but man...my Amiga 2400 is a totally different thing! It's fast, it can run all the softwares I used to run at a totally different level. I can send by mail to the one that are interested my benchmarks with AIBB so you can see how fast it is! Right about now, I had no problems in running games or applications and I even made heavy rendering with Imagine v5. No problems at all. The Workbench is running on 1680 x 1050 and I still have plenty of RAM (512Mb) to run lot of applications at the same time.
The only bad side? Hard Disk speed during booting. Maybe it's because it's a 5400rpm hard disk but it took about 40 seconds from turning on the machine to having an usable Workbench, I will put the video on youtube as soon as possible. However I tried the same configuration over a more powerfull machine (Pentium D 3.0GHz) and it's definitely a warhead!
Maybe in the future I will upgrade to another, faster computer and I will of course, mod the case as well making, I don't know, the Amiga 4500... but right now, until NatAMI will be available for the masses I will continue using my Amiga 2400.
After 13 years without Amiga (I left it in May 1996) now I feel alive again.

[lelezetec]

@haywirepc: No I use the all embedded board. Maybe it's because the board you're using is aged and don't have some performance upgrade like mine one. However if you want to give it a try, the Intel Little Falls 2 is worth about $90. So you may think about it. There are new Mini-ITX boards that can be equipped with Core Duo processors. This will give a real big boost to the Amiga XP performances!

@Cicero: On the Amiga 2000 is possible and very easy to do. On the 4000 you have to use a mini-itx board like mine one but it's pretty more complicated.

@Ognix: Thanks my friend

Well guys what can I say to all of you? Thank you very much! I feel part of the community now.

[lelezetec]

Just a quick note to say that my AMD1400 is running great after installing an agp accellerated graphics card. Its only a 32meg card but it made a HUGE difference.
 
I guess having the GPU is what matters alot. WBasteroids and everything else I tried ran great. So in building your emulation machine, the lesson is that you should care just as much about an accellerated video card as you do about the cpu.
 
Before the new video card, the machine seemed to crawl when loading any games.
Now it flies, so what do you know, 1400mhz is plenty fast as an emulated amiga.
 
Steven

Good to hear that! Now build your own Amiga case