Pros and Cons of Amithlon type systems

[haywirepc]

Seemed like the best way forward for amiga at that time. I think the lack of amiga chipset did kind of leave alot of people out though. Games was such a huge part of the amiga experience.
 
Today, you can install winuae on top of windows, remove windows shell and other things and get the same functionality along with the games. It won't boot or render as fast as an amithlon system, but I think being able to run any games is worth a few more seconds at boot time.
 
As I recall, amithlon was a bitch to get working on some hardware. You had to use a supported sound,video and network card I think.
 
Someone should post a list of the supported graphics, sound and network cards. I think I still have a couple of isos of amithlon around.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Also remember that os3.x is closed sourced. Amithlon loads the os 3.x system files on top of its emulation/translation to x86 layer.
 
This means you won't likely get far with ox3.x closed to your development and improvement efforts.
 
In short, without os3.x sources, its a dead end.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Thats a huge project but I wish you the best. Good luck, please let us all know how it goes.

[haywirepc]

While we're on this subject, can someone please post a list of compattible hardware for amithlon? I tried some time ago but it didn't like any machine I tried to put it on, and I tried older era pcs (800-1500mhz)
 
I think alot like aros, you need a certain video, sound and network card to get it going easily. I have a few old pcs around and I'd be interested in giving it a go.
 
I have a couple of amithlon iso's around still.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Franko,
 
That info is for an updated kernel. First, you need to install and get the system working before you can update the kernel.
 
I'm interested in what hardware the original amithlon cd supported, which I have a copy of but no docs, or hw supported info for.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

Thanks Franko, that would be awesome to see.

So far I know sb 128 pci will work. Still a bit confused on the network and video cards. Anyone with an amithlon system care to chime in with appropriate parts?

Steven

[haywirepc]

Technically, under the hood beos/haiku is very awesome, but the look and the gui is so but horrible and ugly. If they made it skinnable and allowed you to modify the interface alot, I think it would be alot more usable. Its so horrid ugly. If the gui looked like/worked like amiga os, I'd use it I think.
 
The multitasking/multi-threading is better than anything out there. Its smooth and fast and effecient...