Help me build an amithlon machine? Please?

[rdolores]

I've been using Amithlon for over 5 years now and it is great. My sysem is a PIII-1000 with 768 MB RAM and 49 GB of Hard Drive Space (1-40 GB IDE and 1-9 GB SCSI). It has a 3COM (3C905C-TX) NIC and a SoundBlaster 128 sound card. It has a 32 MB NVidia TNT2 video card and can do resolutions up to 1280x1024 at 16.7 million colors. I even have a working CD-Writer on it (using MakeCD software).

I have it hooked up to my home network running at 100Mb/Full. I use AWeb 3.5.08 for browsing.

I have gotton AHI working on my sound card and can play both MOD's (HippoPlayer) and MP3's (AMPlifier).

I have it on my Windows network so it can access my file server and use my network printer.(with SAMBA).

I use the Genesis TCP/IP stack that came with Amithlon's OS3.9 system.  I never got DHCP to work, so I configured it with a static IP.  Works fine.

An old PIII-1000 should be plentiful and cheap (even free). And 8/9 year old hardware should be supported by the available kernals.  Using some of the newer kernals, you should be able to install on P4 and new x86 machines.  But even with the PIII, its a speed demon compared to the classic Amigas and even some of the NG Amigas.