Amiga Internet

[Piru]

What amigakit is selling there is the easy way to set things up.

You could also find all the required components by yourself:

- 2nd hand PCMCIA card (from ebay for example, compatibility list here)

- PCMCIA network drivers from aminet

- AmiTCP/IP, available for free, AmiTCP/IP installation guide

[Piru]

1 - by the way, can you only connect to internet on AMIGA if you have at least OS3.5?

AmiTPC/IP works OS2 and up.

2 - and what program is it?

AmiTCP/IP or Miami. There are some other older TCP/IP stacks aswell, but these are the two available. Miami is only available as time limited demo version.

[Piru]

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am i expected to find any of these on WB3.1 - or do you have to install one of them?

Nope.

WB 3.5 includes Miami demo, it disconnects after 30 mins. Workbench 3.5 was advertised to include full version of TCP/IP but it never happened.

WB 3.9 includes illegal copy of AmiTCP/IP (Genesis).

Needless to say, Haage & Partner (the entity responsible for AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) is not my favorite. They also screwed over Amithlon author (archive.org cache).


The best options are using the AmiTCP/IP nag-demo-version InTheSand pointed out, or using the free AmiTCP/IP GPL-version I already pointed out in the earlier post.

[Piru]

Well, assuming the PC is set up properly to route traffic, you should just need to select a static LAN IP address and then set your PC as the gateway. Nameservers should be the ones your ISP uses (unless if your PC acts as a DNS proxy, in which case you can use the PC IP for dns aswell).

[Piru]

Offtopic: Did the author eventually got paid? It surely is bad manner to sell something like that in such a way.

AmiTCP/IP author: No.
Workbench 3.9 is sold even today.


However, it should be pointed out that Cloanto seems to be doing the right thing with Amiga Forever.