Amiga Forever and Intel Mac Mini

[beller]

My new Mac mini with an Intel chip arrived yesterday. This evening I installed Windows XP, and then Amiga Forever.

I'm happy to report that the Mac mini under XP makes a dandy Amiga.  I'm logged in on the mini with AmigaOS 3.1 running!

A Mac, PC, Amiga.  This mini does it all!



Bob

[T_Bone]

Anyone try Amithlon with the OSX/Win/Linux bootloader yet?

[Erol]

nice,  but 3.1..?    

[T_Bone]

Erol wrote:
nice,  but 3.1..?    

The only commercial emulation products that were ever able to (or wanted to anyway) license 3.9 from H&P were AmigaXL and Amithlon IIRC.

[amigadave]

beller wrote:
My new Mac mini with an Intel chip arrived yesterday. This evening I installed Windows XP, and then Amiga Forever.

I'm happy to report that the Mac mini under XP makes a dandy Amiga.  I'm logged in on the mini with AmigaOS 3.1 running!

A Mac, PC, Amiga.  This mini does it all!



Bob

Great to hear they all installed easily, I am planning my next computer purchase (probably a MacBook) and want to do the same.

How's the speed of XP and AmigaForever?

[bloodline]

amigadave wrote:

beller wrote:
My new Mac mini with an Intel chip arrived yesterday. This evening I installed Windows XP, and then Amiga Forever.

I'm happy to report that the Mac mini under XP makes a dandy Amiga.  I'm logged in on the mini with AmigaOS 3.1 running!

A Mac, PC, Amiga.  This mini does it all!



Bob

Great to hear they all installed easily, I am planning my next computer purchase (probably a MacBook) and want to do the same.

How's the speed of XP and AmigaForever?

My MacBook Pro 2.0Ghz runs XP faster than my dedicated XP boxes... though none of them have a dual core :-)

[beller]

amigadave wrote:

Great to hear they all installed easily, I am planning my next computer purchase (probably a MacBook) and want to do the same.

How's the speed of XP and AmigaForever?

The speed is FULL!  It's not an emulation, it's running native.  Actually, I've been having issues with OSX 10.4.6 connecting to the web.  The connection is slow...under xp I'm getting much faster connections to my cable system.  I'm up to the promised 3MB level.  Lately the Apple systems in my house have been under 1MB.  

Someone asked about 3.1...I was referring to the stock 3.x settings of Amiga Forever.  

Someone asked about other boot loaders.  I tried to boot Amiga Forever from the Linux boot on the CD.  I didn't have much time to test but it appeared as if it would boot but needed a bit of debugging to run.  

Bob

[Floid]

beller wrote:

The speed is FULL!  It's not an emulation, it's running native.  Actually, I've been having issues with OSX 10.4.6 connecting to the web.  The connection is slow...under xp I'm getting much faster connections to my cable system.  I'm up to the promised 3MB level.  Lately the Apple systems in my house have been under 1MB.

Okay, I'll bite on this one.  Is your cable system straight bridged ethernet, or do they have you using PPPoE for some reason?  Have you tried forcing the ethernet adapters in the Macs to 'standard' half-duplex operation, which most Windows drivers probably end up doing by default?

[You can adjust this GUIly through the 'advanced' 'manual' section of the Ethernet tab of the Network control panel, and confirm it with `ifconfig` from the shell.]

[beller]

Floid...

Thanks for the tip...certainly worth a shot. Comcast isn't using PPPoE.  This is more advice than I've gotten from the Apple board!

Update:  Success!!  This is exactly the problem.  I set the ethernet on the Mac off automatic and set it to tbase 100 and half.  Bam!!  Faster than a jackrabbit on tequila!

A toast to you Floid!  Thanks!!!!!

Best,
Bob