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Title: Amithlon questions
Post by: lightning on August 21, 2003, 09:40:59 PM

I fried my Blizzard 2040 card and after looking around on the web a replacement will cost me close to $300. This is after just spending $60 for a
replacement motherboard. I am just getting ready to build an AMD Athlon 3000 system and am wondering if I would be better off buying the Amithlon emulator.

Will it run my software, like DPaintIV, Opus Magellan,
Lightwave, Cinema4D , games, AMiga cover disk software, etc? (I have a huge investment in Amiga hardware and software).

What graghics card will it support, and can it coexist with my current All in wonder 128 and my future AIW 9800 Pro?

What pitfalls, problems, incompatability issues are there?

What Amithlon websites can I check out?

Thanks a lot.

Lyle

Title: Re: Amithlon questions
Post by: alx on August 21, 2003, 10:14:00 PM

Welcome to A.org :-)

I've never used Amithlon so I cannot answer most of your questions, but...

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Will it run my software, like DPaintIV, Opus Magellan,
Lightwave, Cinema4D , games, AMiga cover disk software, etc? (I have a huge investment in Amiga hardware and software).

Amithlon won't run software that bangs the custom chipset like DPaint.

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What Amithlon websites can I check out?

www.amithlon.net (http://www.amithlon.net/) - see the big problem now? :-(

Title: Re: Amithlon questions
Post by: olegil on August 21, 2003, 10:17:28 PM

I would say go with Linux/UAE and/or Windows/UAE for now. Bernie has made it quite clear that Amithlon was supposed to be withdrawn from the market due to a breach of contract or something (ok, maybe it wasn't so clear after all, hehe).

UAE at least tries to emulate some custom things so games/classic software has half a chance to work.

Title: Re: Amithlon questions
Post by: bhoggett on August 21, 2003, 10:48:56 PM

@lightning

Don't bother with Amithlon. Just install UAE-JIT or WinUAE under Linux or Windows and you'll do better that way.

The legality of Amithlon distribution is under serious dispute, and it's effectively a dead end product anyway now that the main developer no longer supports it (and no one else has the source code). There are people trying to add new features to the kernel and to write various AmigaOS drivers for it, but progress is slow and the potential is very limited.  Under the circumstances, it would be a lot of money to throw at a product with virtually no future.

UAE is more likely to support all the software you want to use anyway.

Title: Re: Amithlon questions
Post by: T_Bone on August 22, 2003, 12:33:16 AM

 :cry:  :cry:  :-(  :cry:  :-(  :boohoo:  :cry:  :boohoo:  :-(  :boohoo: