I got an old pentium 500 doorstop laying around, and some time ago I bought amiga forever. I have been running aforever hosted on my windows box.
I decided to do a full kxlight hd install of amiga forever on this old pentium 500 so I could sort of have a dedicated amiga computer again.
When I boot the amiga forever cd in this p500, I got only 800x600 video.
This is strange because even with the built in video card, I got 1600x1200 under windows 98,xp or linux. Its on an ancient 20 inch crt monitor.
I did the install, and same thing, just 800x600 available in prefs for screen res, I mean thats the highest available. I tried rebooting the cd-rom and at the f2 screen, specifying a higher screen res. This works, but how do I get it to work when booting to hd. Is there an installer script or something for the knoppix boot that can be modified to alter the max resolution?
Also, this machine has an ancient 16 bit soundblaster 64. I get no sound.
The machine also has built in sound but I believe its disabled in bios.
I will try and see if sound is coming from the disabled built in sound card next...
Any help getting this working would be greatly appreciated. I plan on moving this motherboard and other parts to an old pc case I have which looks very much like an a2000/a4000.
I'd do kartwheels if I could get this working at higher resolution and with sound. Also, can someone suggest a better sound/video card for this kxlight installation if these don't work? I'd be happy to spend a few bucks on ebay to fix my problems.
Finally, can someone suggest a pc joystick that works well under amiga forever? I really want to play star control and some other older amiga games with the joystick.
Thanks for any thoughts or advice.
Steven
