AmiKit on a real Amiga and other news!

[AmiKit]

How to install AmiKit on a real Amiga computer.

Dimitris Panokostas, the editor of Greek Amiga magazine called Amigahellas, has written a detailed guide describing how to install the AmiKit package on a real Amiga computer.
The English language document is provided in PDF format and can be found at AmiKit Knowledge Base. Enjoy!


AmiKit Live Update 1.5.9

AmiKit package has been updated as well. The latest version is installed automatically via the built-in Live Update mechanism:
- ADDED:      ChaosPro 3.3.3 by Martin Pfingstl  (AmiKit:Utilities/ChaosPro)
- ADDED:      ffmpeg 0.5 (SVN-r18880), Amiga port by Piotr Bandurski
- UPDATED:  AfA_OS 4.4
- UPDATED:  AmigaAMP 2.21
- UPDATED:  ixemul library 61.1
- UPDATED:  playOGG 10.0c
- UPDATED:  PicShow 1.31 (build 31.438)
- UPDATED:  SabreMSN alpha 49
- UPDATED:  WookieChat 2.12 beta 3
Thanks to the donors who contributed recently!


AmiKit WinUAE Add-on 1.6.0

In addition, you can update the emulation engine of your AmiKit to the latest WinUAE version easily. Simply download and run the new Add-on installer available from the AmiKit Add-on  section.

Have a nice day!

[AmiKit]

With next live update, can one risk that it overwrites "real amiga" files with "uae amiga" files. Like 68000 version vs. 680x00 versions, or other UAE spesific drivers or prefs files?

Good point, thanks! The document was updated:

If you use AmiKit’s LiveUpdate feature to install future releases, it might happen that your CPU specific files will be replaced by the generic 68k versions (most likely 020+FPU). To avoid this, create a file named “AmiKitReal” in “AmiKit:Prefs/Env-Archive” folder containing one of the following lines according to your CPU:

020
020FPU
030
040
060

Then copy this newly created file to RAM:ENV folder as well. This way the LiveUpdate will exactly know what to install on your system.

[AmiKit]

OWB works under OS3.9. It just needs some extra libraries installed. Check the documentation. In addition I remember the previous versions of OWB required 040 CPU. I am not sure whether it was fixed in latest version.