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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Argus on February 12, 2006, 11:06:39 AM
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My brother gave me an old dual P3 Gateway server yesterday for nothing, proceeded to put 256MB of ram in it and plan on placing a 128MB pci graphics card in it. It's got a scsi raid array setup so the drives are fast. Right now it's got an 18Gb Seagate and another 9Gb IBM UW drive.
The thing is, the whole time we're working on it and then installing Windows, I kept looking at it and thinking back to the Jeff Schindler/Joe Torre/Jim Collas situation. Man, this thing is enormous and full of pretty neat kit (for a pc at the time). If only they (Gateway) could have released a next gen Amiga, even on x86, we'd still be seeing Amiga as a viable platform today (apologies and best wishes to Hyperion). Talk about Gateway blowing it.
Oh well, my question is thus: I'd like to add a third UW SCSI drive and setup an Amiga Forever partition. I don't know much about it but was wondering if I can use the Amiga emulation just like a real Amiga on it (with Workbench frontscreen or Windows somehow minimized). In other words, I know I probably need Windows to boot it, but does Amiga Forever allow you to work in Amiga rtg mode just like a real fast Amiga?
That way, I'd look at this as Payback for the Gateway debacle.
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If it runs Windows, it will run Amiga Forever. If you install P96 with the UAEgfx driver then you will be able to use full screen RTG.
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moto
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the cd of amiga forever 6 that i have can boot direct to winuae and amiga os through a linux boot kernel. probably there is a trick/configuration to do it run and from the hard disk without the need of windows.
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You can also replace the windows explorer (the thing that starts normally when windows starts up) with WinUAE. If you set up the emulation to start automagically you'll drop into the Amiga desktop eventually.
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Replacing windows explorer? How? What do you mean exactly?
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That way, I'd look at this as Payback for the Gateway debacle.
No, payback is the fact that your Gateway server is worth 50 cents and the last Amigas ever made which are twice as old and cost about the same (A4000D/T) are worth $1000.00 upwards.
Tch! Some of these big companies are more stupid than pond life. Gateway could have had huge glory from 98 - Now for very little cost. They were probably too scared of M$ before M$ got cowed by Linux and the Europian Union.
It reminds me a little of IBM now. They wilfully lost their last general purpose computing platform customer for the PPC. Linux developer systems are two a penny. Imagine the interest they could generate for a PPC platform by associating with the Amiga name. It still has A LOT of power even to this day! :-)
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It is an unexplained mystery why Gateway pulled the rug out from under Collas. My point was simply that from a hardware standpoint, Gateway had the resources to put a next gen Amiga on the shelves. Via AmigaForever, I'm going to get that next gen machine circa 2003 running. I was wondering if I could set up a dual boot machine, WindowsXP or UAE (sort of like with a Linux setup).
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_ThEcRoW wrote:
Replacing windows explorer? How? What do you mean exactly?
Try to google for windows shell replacement and you'll find the info you need.