AmiKit on Amithlon.

[AMIGA-FAN]

Hi all. I have a fully functional and features rich Amithlon setup running on my P4 2.4Ghz, with a GeForce 2 MX400 graphic card.. I'll tell you what I did with Amikit. As my Amithlon environment is very stable (have sound, networking and USB stack handling all my USB devices) and did not want to go all over again through all the hassle of reinstalling/reconfiguring everything (something which tooks several weeks/months of hard work) in a new environment (Amikit under Amithlon), I actually proceeded the other way around: that is, instead of trying to get Amikit to run under Amithlon I used my original setup and added some extra features of Amikit (ShowAmiga96, AmiStart and various other apps) and
installed/configured them in my Amithlon environment, making some adjustments where necessary to reflect my current Amithlon system. I obviously left DOpus out as my Amithlon system is currently setup to use PNG icons (through PowerIcons by Elena Novaretti) and, as you know, DOpus can't handle PNG icons.
So my current Amikit system is actually a combination of my original Amithlon system and Amikit. In such a way, I can't really say that I have a full Amikit system running under Amithlon but I have a system that resembles the Amikit
environment that I have under WinUAE (including sound, networking and USB drivers) without actually being a TRUE Amikit system. This because I wanted to have everything I had under my original Amithlon working the same in my new
Amikit environment.

 :-)

[AMIGA-FAN]

Not many issues really, as far as I remember. I had some minor problems with datatypes, those I had under Amithlon were not all identical to those in Amikit. Some were up to date, some not. I have not tried to use DOpus as I think that PNG icons are faster at rendering and want to keep them on my WB. But I'm planning to experiment a new attempt. Will create a new partition and cross-port all Amikit files (from a second machine, over the network) onto the newly created partition. Will then make the necessary modifications (especially regarding Picasso drivers) in order to have a (full) working Amikit under Amithlon. Once I have achieved that, will eventually try to re-install (what a hassle) everything I need for sound, networking (MiamiDX, AmiTCP, AmiSSL, Samba etc.) and USB stack.
If I succeed in that (time permitting) will also use this platform on top of my current Amithlon system.
What I instead miss from Amikit is DOpus, DopusFTP (which, by the way, can be solved by using other FTP clients) and LiveUpdate.

I proceeded that way considering the fact that Amithlon is a lot more complicated to configure: considering that over the years I have achieved a very stable machine, I prefered to use this stable system and limit my effort at porting some extra-features from Amikit (only those I was interested in). Proceeding the other way around would have required a fresh new re-installation/re-configuring of all the above (sound, networking, USB etc.).

Regards.