The Ultimate Amithlon Hardware?

[nicholas]

I'll admit, I'm not an Amithlon expert and I've never tinkered with "Setconfig dosmount """, Ramithlon, or DMA settings. Can you guys elaborate some more?

Thanks!


Fish, yes UAE is useless for things such as OctaMED, so overkill is now the name of the game, though I'm sure I'll find plenty more to do with my  box, especially if I get Nova's ZDOOM port working in it...

I'm not sure anyone understands what ZDOOM is, no one's talking about it here, strange.

Ramithlon patches the CopyMem routines to use x86 native code instead of emulated 68k code.

I've always found it to provide a big speed increase.

[fishy_fiz]

I used Ramithlon for awhile, but found it too unstable when large amounts of bandwidth is used (quake2 for example ceases to work, and wazp3d ends up very crash happy).
Copymem040 is similar in speed, plus nice and stable.

[Methanoid]

Are any of you Amithloners using Kernel4 and more than 1Gb of Ram physically present in system?

I have only had one board that would even boot with 2Gb present, even if Amithlon is restricted to 512Mb to use... I want to dual boot and would prefer to have 4-8Gb of Ram present for other OS.

[lumi]

Anybody got Amithlon working on motherboard with SiS 741GX north bridge and SiS 963L south bridge chipsets? I found such motherboard (ASROCK K7S41GX2) still available in our local shop.

[Methanoid]

Anybody got Amithlon working on motherboard with SiS 741GX north bridge and SiS 963L south bridge chipsets? I found such motherboard (ASROCK K7S41GX2) still available in our local shop.

From memory thats a complete waste of time. SIS VGA would be VESA only, LAN & Sound unlikely to be supported unless added by Milanca kernel. Basically you'd have to add VGA, LAN & Sound cards.. might as well choose something else!

[Methanoid]

Anyone remind me if Amithlon needs PS2 KB & Mouse or if I can use USB KB & Mouse?

[nyteschayde]

Are any of you Amithloners using Kernel4 and more than 1Gb of Ram physically present in system?

I have only had one board that would even boot with 2Gb present, even if Amithlon is restricted to 512Mb to use... I want to dual boot and would prefer to have 4-8Gb of Ram present for other OS.

Yeah I have the same issue as you. I have an old P4 Amithlon system. It takes 4GB on the motherboard but if I even think about putting more than 1GB in it won't boot Amithlon.

[nyteschayde]

Anyone remind me if Amithlon needs PS2 KB & Mouse or if I can use USB KB & Mouse?

Both work, but if you're running Poseidon for any other USB devices, it can sometimes conflict. I've found it's safe if you have the stuff to use the PS/2 ports, but you can definitely guy by without if you need to.