Amithlon VS WinUAE VS AROS question (OS 3.9 related)

[XDelusion]

AROS + UAE is not a friendly path to travel as of yet.

Amithlon would be my first vote though you may have to tinker for a while until you learn to understand how to set up your hardware. It ain't hard, but at first it seems like it.

My second vote would be for the WinUAE machine using MircorXP, but again you are going to be held back not only by Windows, but also by WinUAE's short comings, like OctaMED S.S. not working as it should, where as you can just run OctaMED S.S. native in Amithlon.

I feel ya, my 2000 mobo is dead, I tried to find someone to fix it for me, but no one was willing, so I tried my self, but to no avail. Pisses me off. :/

[XDelusion]

I second that, I do ever so much admire the simplicity of setting up UAE on AROS. That part is very well fleshed out. It's just UAE itself that I find too many faults with to find useable at the time being.

calling me "impartial" would be hard, however: I never used amithlon but AFAIK it might be difficult to find a proper kernel to support all moden hoardware out there, but here others (like Fishy_fis) might be better suited to make suggestions and give hints. For what it concerns user experience, however, it should be the nearest thing to a "steroid-powered" Amiga computer running OS 3.9. You'd be stuck to 68k emulation however.

I'd tell you to try Icaros Desktop coupled with Amiga Forever. You can buy the value edition (the most cheap one) of the latter, while the former is free, and look if it fits your needs. Icaros automates the phase of setting up the emulation environment for UAE and makes integration easy, and once you've installed Amiga Forever you have just to choose wether to run 68K emulation at startup or not. The good thing about AROS is that you can also run AROS games and applications along with classic ones.


Any choice you make, just pay attention to supported hardware. AROS runs very well on any modern processor, but support for peripherals, network and sound may vary. If you have room in the A2000 case for a pci-express video card, choose a Nvidia one, possibly GeForce 6, 7, 8 or 9.

[XDelusion]

All this talk reminds me of how much I hope that the Natami and FPGA see the light of day!

[XDelusion]

Let's not write off the a modded Classic XBOX or Modded 360 for the casual Amiga gamers either! I hate Microsoft (for which reason all my XBOX's were used or free and all games pirated except the one I use to hack them), but I have to say that XPort did wonders when he began to port over to many great emulators to the system. It's like a Video Game Jukebox!

And from what I've heard, the 360 incarnation of UAE is absolutely amazing, though I've not hacked any of my 360's yet to see for my self. In fact I've never anything besides plug them in and made sure they at least booted.


But ya, you are right, Amithlon is an easter egg waiting to be found. It may be a struggle, but once you got it worked out, you are in seventh heaven for the most part, though I do with it could have kept alive long enough for it's second incarnation to have become manifest.

I wish there was a way for someone to pick up that torch.