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Re: Amiga Forever on a mini-ITX or nano-ITX x86 board...
« on: April 12, 2006, 05:09:40 PM »
Hi Chunder,

Yes, yes and yes, I've wanted to build a fake miggy using a mini-itx board. In fact, that's the _only_ reason I purchased a EPIA with a 1.3 Ghz cpu, 1 GB ram.

My project was a flop, but I kept the EPIA board anyway and made a fabulous media pc with it. It sits under my entertainment system and is now equipped with a Hauppaugge 350, a zapstream remote, and RF mouse/keyboard combo. I added a 400GB SATA HD to make sure there was enough room for all my recordings.

Here's what happened with the fake miggy project. I installed a via mini-itx epia in a small case. I included 1 GB ram, large capacity hard drive, a Catweasel MK IV and installed Windows XP home. The idea was to disable the Windows boot screen and auto-load Amikit at startup so that the machine would automatically run in Amiga Emulation with a floppy drive that could read Amiga diskettes.

Sounded like a great idea, but for some reason AF 2005 just froze solid on this pc. It wouldn't go anywhere. When I tried to install Amikit on top, it miserably failed with errors. So I went back to installing AF 2005 on my other pc, which has XP pro, not home. It works fine there and runs Amikit perfectly.

Had I known others would play with this idea, I would have taken care of documenting my problems...
 

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Re: Amiga Forever on a mini-ITX or nano-ITX x86 board...
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 05:12:15 PM »
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Oh, and if you've got an old case and keyboard kicking around after a tower conversion (or the motherboard has ksploded), then please let me know! I don't want to buy-and-butcher a working machine :-)


I have a spare 1200 case and keyboard, including LEDS. I live in the US. I wouldn't mind shipping it to you if you pay shipping...

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