Discolata wrote:
Hello people 
These days I am really thinking of bulding a PC which will work as an Amiga Like Box. Let me share my thought with you. I am gonna built a Computer based on 815 chipset, Celeron 533MHz, 256MB SDRAM, 1GB HD and ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics Card. It is gonna be an Amiga experiment. I have Amithlon and I have downloaded Aros. What you think that is gonna be the best emulation? I have also the idea to boot in Windows and load WinUAE ar Amiga In A Box and then Amiga is Real Thanx in advance
Just a reminder to anyone building a PC for Amithlon : make sure of compatibility first. There is lots and lots of hardware that will not work at all or will only work poorly with Amithlon.
My sixty-second guide to compatibility is :
CPUs: Pretty much anything except oddballs like the VIA C3 or Transmeta Crusoe. Pentium 4s work, but are not a good choice.
Chipsets: Intel Slot-1 or S-370 chipsets are okay, as are the VIA KX-133 and KT-133. The KT266/333/400 work, but only do hard disk DMA with my beta kernel.
Graphics: Matrox G-series and nVidia TNT/GeForce cards are the only ones that work fully. GeForce 4s require my beta kernel to work. Cards like the Voodoo 3/4/5, ATI Rage, ATI Radeon, S3 Savage and SiS stuff either don't work or will only give you a slow 60Hz 640x480 screen.
Sound: VIA AC'97 audio (KX133/KT133), SoundBlaster 128 (ES1371/1373/5880 chips only) are supported by default. The latest AHI build adds a SoundBlaster Live driver.
Network: NICs based on RealTek RTL8029 and 8139D chips only.
The Amithlon, AmithlonOpen and AmithlonDev lists on YahooGroups are very good sources for more information.
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Gary "Dr Bombcrater" Colville
