Amikit on a real Amiga

[CountRaven]

Just wanted to know if anybody has managed to run it nd what type of experience there is to share with us all? I made it run on my 4000 but still got some little probs. If there are people down there trying the same spor, lets discuss.

[Tumbleweed]

I've tried installing it on my A4000D with CS 060 MKII 128MB and CV64 3D. I've also got a deneb card, so I'm running amikit off an SD card via a card reader. I followed the installation on a real amiga instructions on the Amikit web site, but they didn't work for me. I'm not sure if it was because of something I did wrong or if it had something to do with my hardware configuration. I got it working (sort of) after reworkign the startup-sequence for setpatch to work. Even so I've still got problems booting and it doesn't recognise my IDE DVD-Rom drive as CD0: I think this is because IDEFIX is not running, which I need because I am running SFS on an 80GB hard drive.

Performance wise its alot slower than under UAE and its visibly slower than OS3.9.

How have you configured your startup-sequence?

Weed.

[swift240]

I have used Dopus from Amikit and that works ok on my system.

Mike.

[CountRaven]

@Tumbleweed

There is a lot need to be done on SS for Amikit to work.

(It is a Amiga 4000PPC with CyberStormPPC, PicassoIV Gfx card, Paloma TV Card, Deneb USB card, 80 Giga HDD, a USB @ Ethernet network adapter and of course DVD-RW).

I sitll can not ctach your point of loading it off an SD card / card reader. IS there a way you can boot from the SD card on early-boot menu? That would be cool.

I installed Amikit on my PC plus boing balls plus patches. Then I made an LZX and put all the stuff on an empty partition. Then I brought back some stuff form the original 3.9 install for example the Devs folder -including monitors- and the math libraries. I deleted the uae gfx drivers from the monitors folder. Also Warp3D libraries are UAE versions. You can find the regular versions in Libs:bak drawer and replace them. Also watch out for P96 rtg.library as it's also UAE optimased. Bring all the originals back.

I did some edit on startup sequence and user startup.

Those are some useful steps (source Amikit support forum, they worked for me):

Edit the startup-sequence and disable the boot picture (SYS:Utilities/Expansion/ShowAmiga96/Bin/ShowAmiga96_Rev239C18 line).


Also it might happen that IPrefs crashes during the boot (especially if AfA_OS is disabled). Therefore enable "C:Wait 1" line in front of C:IPrefs command in startup-sequence. Also enable this command in front of "Run >NIL: SYS:Utilities/Expansion/Birdie/Birdie ?
Also enable "BindDrivers" command and disable "C:Picasso96fix" command.

In case of low of memory, decrease "C:StackAttack 32768" command to something like "C:StackAttack 8192". You might want to do the same in DOpus/Environmet preferences.

Also you should edit the paths of some programs on Startup sequence and user startup with the one son the new Amikit partition -I did so-, for example Picasso96. /

Do not forget to install Poseidon as well after your first boot.

If you want to avoid new installs, you can copy the original C,S,Classes,L,Libs and Devs folders from your original 3.9 to your Amikit partition, this will bring back the original libraries and will add the extra installed stuff -for example Poseidon-.

More info can be found here:

http://amikit.amiga.sk/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=215&page=0

and here:

http://amikit.amiga.sk/download/misc/documents/AmiKit_on_real_Amiga.pdf

This greta guide that Dimitris Panokostas created will guide you from scratch, and he has similar configuration as yours. You can go on this page right now and start form zero.

-those are the main sources for my task as well and for advice that I am putting here-.

[Tumbleweed]

@Tumbleweed

I sitll can not ctach your point of loading it off an SD card / card reader. IS there a way you can boot from the SD card on early-boot menu? That would be cool.

If you install poseidon in the flash rom of the Deneb card you can boot off the SD card via a card reader. I dsable DH0: (boot partition) using HDToolbox. I installed the SD card with Fast File system from OS3.9 and formatted it on the amiga, I then transferred it to my PC and copied Amikit to it from within UAE. I then transferred the SD card back to the Amiga and after a bit of fiddling it worked. I have replaced Picasso96 within Amikit with the native Amiga version (from aminet) and copied my settings across from my real Amiga. It works but not without hitches - ie my DVD-RW doesn't show (I have CD0 in devs/dosdrivers) but it still doesn't show.  I also haven't tried to get internet working yet, I have an X-Surf board and am running Miami on my real Amiga.

I am on vacation at the moment so won't be able to fiddle with it until I get back home (2 weeks).