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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: AmiKit on March 22, 2008, 04:38:05 PM

Title: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: AmiKit on March 22, 2008, 04:38:05 PM

We're very pleased to announce that the native Linux port of AmiKit is now available for download so the Linux users can experience the high-end Amiga system too.

We would like to especially thank to Tom Newsom and Daniel Westerberg, this would not happen without their help! For those who are interested there's an article (http://slackworld.berlios.de/2008/amikit.html) describing this history of the process of creating and debugging a working port of AmiKit to Linux.

What is AmiKit? It's a free and legal compilation of more than 300 of the finest Amiga programs running under emulation (Windows and Linux).

Free download: http://amikit.amiga.sk/ (http://amikit.amiga.sk/)

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: amigadave on March 22, 2008, 07:47:41 PM

Wow, that is great news!  I will download that today and try it out.  IMHO Amikit is the BEST Amiga emulation package.  Finally a no hassle high end Amiga emulated without the lead weight of having to run Windows underneath.  Thank you Jan Zahurancik! :-D

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: spihunter on March 22, 2008, 08:03:33 PM

I'm setting this up right now on an old P3 Dell laptop running Freespire (Only distro that supports my wireless)

Looking forward to trying Amikit. The screenshots have always looked great.

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: XDelusion on March 22, 2008, 09:50:04 PM

Going to see if I can set it up under BeOS.

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: XDelusion on March 22, 2008, 11:07:57 PM

Crap, EUAE for BeOS still has no Picasso support. :/

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: thanos on March 23, 2008, 02:29:03 AM

Cool...

I have basically stopped using my MS machine.  I am glad for linux installer.

I made a small donation to show my support.

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: hardlink on March 26, 2008, 03:25:20 PM

Quote

I have basically stopped using my MS machine. I am glad for linux installer.

I don't even HAVE an Evil Empire windblows machine or partition, and I'm damn proud of it!

Now I can finally try AmiKit!

Thanks!

Title: Re: AmiKit for Linux platforms released
Post by: AmiKit on March 26, 2008, 09:16:08 PM

A few minor bugs have been discovered in the archive. The easy fix is described here (http://amikit.amiga.sk/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=10&topic=469).

If you experience more issues or if you have any questions regarding AmiKit running on Linux, please use the newly created Linux area at AmiKit forums (http://amikit.amiga.sk/forum/index.php).