> Does anyone else here have a system dedicated to Amithlon?
> If so, what are it's specs?
I've been using a 2nd-hand PC for Amithlon for a bit over a year now. It's an IBM NetVista (I don't recall the model #), with PIII 933MHz, 256MB RAM, 30GB HD, SoundBlaster 128, and a Matrox graphics card (Millennium?).
It was cheap and the performance is really good with AmigaOS 3.9!
I have recently put a DVD-RW drive in it, and it works using MakeCD! I haven't tried over 4GB (I expect that to be a problem) but I have written >3GB discs. The MakeCD GUI doesn't like the extra digits in the numbers but otherwise seems to work OK with DVD-R media (haven't tried others yet). Disks don't get finalised sometimes, that's the only trouble. I have to reboot and try finalising again until it works.
Amithlon doesn't like the graphics or sound chips that are on the motherboard, but that doesn't really matter. It also didn't like the NIC that was in the machine - the SoundBlaster wouldn't work with the NIC plugged in. I don't have a use for a NIC at the moment so that's not a problem.
This machine will boot from the original Amithlon CD if I have troubles, and I like that. I'd like to upgrade my hardware, but I'll need to figure out how to make a bootable Amithlon CD with Gary's kernel.
Oh... I installed Amithlon on the HD using a FreeDOS floppy image that someone had put on Aminet. That worked really well for me. No trouble at all.
