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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Dalamar on February 17, 2004, 04:25:37 AM

Title: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Dalamar on February 17, 2004, 04:25:37 AM

Or at least anyone that tinkers/plays with it?  I'm trying to set it up for fun and I'm running into issues making boot disks.  It's most likely something simple I'm doing wrong but I figured I'd throw it out cause I seem unable to resolve it on my own:

I've created boot floppies from the images found on the mmhart web site, but when I try to boot from them on my 3000D it pops up with "Not a valid DOS disk" or something similar.  I'm rather frustrated as it would appear nobody has ever had this issue.  Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Crusher on February 17, 2004, 06:54:43 AM

I´m going to start playing with Amix as soon as possible.

Sorry no help from me at the moment, only few things that popped up in my mind: Init? Bootblock? Different Kicks?

I have the Amix disks, but haven´t tried´em yet, I´ll return. :o)

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: whabang on February 17, 2004, 07:30:18 AM

How compatible is AMIX? Can it use any modern apps if recompiled (it is supposed to be POSIX-compliant, right?)?

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: whabang on February 17, 2004, 11:36:51 AM

BTW, is it possible to run AMIX on WinUAE? That would be kinda cool! 8-)

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: MrZammler on February 17, 2004, 12:00:45 PM

I've gotten up to the point that AMIX boots from diskettes, and displays the SYS V info...

But, I've never gone down installing it, cause of the 040 in my A3000.

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Steady on February 17, 2004, 01:17:53 PM

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whabang wrote:
BTW, is it possible to run AMIX on WinUAE? That would be kinda cool! 8-)

I've not tried, but I imagine it isn't because AMIX probably requires an MMU which is not really emulated in WinUAE.

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: whabang on February 17, 2004, 01:28:42 PM

Dang! :-(

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Dalamar on February 17, 2004, 05:32:39 PM

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MrZammler wrote:
I've gotten up to the point that AMIX boots from diskettes, and displays the SYS V info...

But, I've never gone down installing it, cause of the 040 in my A3000.

I'd be happy to just get that far.

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Crusher on February 20, 2004, 12:07:57 AM

Have you checked these out?
http://www.mmhart.com/amix_download.htm
http://www.mmhart.com/AMIX.htm

Title: Re: Any AMIX users out there?
Post by: Dalamar on February 20, 2004, 12:24:53 AM

@Crusher

Yup.  It's a great site.  In fact I emailed Mark there and he was great at replying.  I think the problem may be with the internal floppy drive.  I don't think it's working at 100%, so I'm going to rebuild/replace it and try again.  I'm hoping this allows progress.  According to all that I have conversed with about this, it should be very straightforward to get this working which is why I'm leaning towards a hardware issue.