What OS?

[Pete]

Ok guys, I have finally got rid of years of Amiga stuff on Ebay. I am now ready to choose an Amiga OS on my PC. But Its been that long that I have lost touch with everything. I still have one called 'Cloanto' and I have one called 'QNX', but I'm not too happy with Cloanto and unfortunatly QNX of which I think is a lovely system will not run on my machine now, I think it has something to do with NTFS and you have to boot from floppy. I don't fancy all that, so can anyone tell me what the latest and best Miggy OS is for the PC, and where can I purchase it?

Thanx in advance
Pete
Wigan
Lancs
UK

[KennyR]

You mean an emulator? UAE or Amiga Forever (which is UAE with legal Amiga ROM images).

You mean an actual OS? Only AROS will run on a PC (it's free), but installing that will need you to do more than you did with QNX.

Oh, and QNX was no Amiga OS.

[Pete]

Yep, excuse my ignorance on these things, best way I can explain this is; I'm after my PC having the option of being exactly like my old miggy with all the icons as I remember them. I can soon dedicate another pc solely for an Amiga type system like qnx. Whats this AROS? where can I get it from?

Thanks
Pete

[Argo]

Well, there is Cloanto's Amiga Forever 6.0. Check it out. It's most likely better than the version you currently have.
Amithlon/AmigaXL, ah, I'll let someone else tackle that mess.
AROS (Amiga Research Operating System)
  You can get it from http://www.aros.org also stop by http://www.aros-exec.org (AROS Community Site)
There is no native implimentation of Amiga OS on PC X86 architecture. Exept for AROS, which is an Open Source ground up compatable rewrite.

[dammy]

by Pete on 2004/4/24 14:52:32

Whats this AROS? where can I get it from?

AROS can be down loaded from here.  I suggest grabbing one of the nightlys vs the snapshot since the snapshot is rather dated now.  For AROS portal try AROS-Exec and for financially supporting AROS, you can look at TeamAROS's home page.

Dammy
Black Troll Technology Corporation

[Pete]

Thanks for that everyone. Will I be able to run all my zillions of Amiga ADF's and DMS's classics on them?

[Methuselas]

Amithlon is good if you plan on using applications. I have it booting directly from the linux kernel, bypassing QNX. Hardware specs aren't that much of a problem, if you get specific types, such as a SB card or an AC97 chipset. You can dowload an updated kernel from here:

Gary's Amithon Page

It's got more mobo, chipset support and drivers for GeForceFX cards. The kernel itself is VERY stable and I've been using it for a few months without error.

As for your games, you can download various Virtual Floppy proggies off Aminet which will allow you to read your ADF files. If you want to run UAE, you can, but I was only able to get it to run from the CLI. The GUI never worked for me. Any games that bang the hardware are moot. All of the chipset emulation was ripped out from Amithlon. It's basically just a CPU shell, using your GFX card through P96.

The downside is, it's hard to find Amithlon in the first place. Few places that I know of still carry it and I don't condone what happened between Bernd and H&P, but it *IS* a trick piece of software.

Hope that helps. :-D

[EDIT] I have had outstanding success using WHDLoad and it's various games on Amithlon. If you're wanting to play a bunch of games, get the newest version of it, register it and play those. Most of those will not require the ADFs. Bane of the Cosmic Forge works flawlessly, much to my happiness. :-P You'll just be limited to those that are 3.1 rom compliant.

[Tomas]

You cannot run AmigaOS on a pc, you gotta get a real amiga for that..

The closest thing you can get to Amiga on pc, is a emulator or Aros.

[cecilia]

I've successfully had WinUAE on my laptop for tha last year. I'm very happy with it!
And I've got OS3.9 running and have added PowerIcons!

[tormedhammaren]

This thread doesn't belong in this conference. The moderators should move it to "Amiga Emulation".

[Pete]

My apologies for inserting in the wrong thread, I'll graciously follow when its moved.

Ok fellas, I have downloaded 11 files from the nightly set, So what am I suppose to do with the files? Nothing runs. :-? Doesn't it load like when you run an exe file? If not, then its a job for one of my more techie friends.

[dammy]

Ok fellas, I have downloaded 11 files from the nightly set, So what am I suppose to do with the files? Nothing runs.  Doesn't it load like when you run an exe file? If not, then its a job for one of my more techie friends.

Did you download the floppy or CD ISO?  UnBzip2 it (if your using Windbloat, use Winrar) and then burn the ISO, then reboot.  The CD and floppy are "live" so you can run it without having to install it first.

Dammy

[Pete]

Thank you for that, I will pass this info on to a friend who should be able to suss it all out.

Regards