Monthly Archives: August 2017

Intel PRO-1000 PCIe card installed

Great news, the Intel PRO-1000 Desktop PCIe network card works with Amithlon, Kernel 4.  I pulled my PCI RTL8169 and installed the PCIe Intel Pro-1000 card.  I had already compiled the kernel with the Intel card embedded so booted my … Continue reading

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Catweasel installed and it’s awesome.

The Catweasel is in and this thing is pretty freakin’ cool! Unplugged the floppy cable from the motherboard and plugged the end into the black connector on the Catweasel.  I then Plugged the included white cable into my motherboard’s floppy … Continue reading

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A PCIe video card successfully tested

I read that Pedro Cotter was using a PCIe Matro G550 card in his Amithlon system so I decided to test one out.  I had removed all the additional framebuffer drivers from my kernel so I did a quick compile … Continue reading

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My Amithlon System

For grins, here’s my Amithlon system, from power on to running AmigaOS (video) and a picture of my Workbench and SysInfo v4 speed test. System configuration: Gigabyte Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard Intel Core2Duo @ 4.00 Ghz (2) 512 MB ram modules … Continue reading

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Catweasel Mk4 PCI

Picking up a Catweasel Mk4 PCI card, hoping this will work well with Amithlon allowing me to read/write Amiga formatted floppies. The device allows reading/writing Amiga DD/HD, PC DD/HD and Mac formatted disk with a standard PC floppy drive. The … Continue reading

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Kernel compiling, what’s really needed?

If you’ve followed my guide for compiling a kernel and have spent any amount of time looking at the .config file…..I’m curious if anyone has experimented with what’s really needed or not?  I launched VirtualBox the other day, booted my … Continue reading

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