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Title: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: TheMud on January 05, 2007, 01:55:23 PM
As the topic says...?! What is it ? Like AmiKit, and
where do I get it..?!

Cheers René :pint:
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: Nostalgiac on January 05, 2007, 01:59:06 PM
urm... :idea:  know google ?

first find:   http://www.amithlon.com/

ta
Tom
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: alexh on January 05, 2007, 02:00:46 PM
I think the question should be rephrased to : "What WAS Amithlon?"
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: odin on January 05, 2007, 02:01:29 PM
It was a transparent emulation-based thing to let AmigaOS 3.x run on x86 CPUs, with the added bonus of being able to compile and run Amiga programs to run on the x86 natively. In effect it was like running an x86 native AmigaOS as far as I gather.

Ofcourse it was killed off by licensing-issues, bickering, and big egos, like a lot of stuff in Amigaland. :-\
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: Piru on January 05, 2007, 02:07:30 PM
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with the added bonus of being able to compile and run Amiga programs to run on the x86 natively. In effect it was like running an x86 native AmigaOS as far as I gather.

Well you could build x86 native amithlon apps, but this doesn't mean that every amiga program would work out of the box if recompiled. Martin Blom's gcc did do automagic byteswapping, though.
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: TheMud on January 05, 2007, 02:12:22 PM
Yaaahoooo... 2 usefull answers, and 2 of the kind "I'll post to become Guru Meditator" ... :)  Well THX for the fast answers :)

If I could get answers for everything so fast as here, I'd be president within a week :) ...

Thx guys... Think I'll stick with AmiKit then :) And my beloved A1200..!

Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: Nostalgiac on January 05, 2007, 08:14:52 PM
oh gosh :-( I'm sorry - that wasn't the intention - I had vagely heard of Amithlon myself so used google... as I though everybody would  before posting :-?

 :-(
Tom
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: Homer on January 05, 2007, 10:17:08 PM
Nostalgiac: No worry there  :lol:
This place is all about helping each other. thats all that matters  :-)
Title: Re: What is Amithlon...?!
Post by: TheMud on January 05, 2007, 10:44:17 PM
I was only joking :)