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Amithlon in Virtualbox

As I update my installation guides I’ll add details on setting Amithlon up in Oracle’s Virtualbox.  It’s very similar to setting it up on a PC, I actually wrote my guides originally while installing in Virtualbox, allowing me to take … Continue reading

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I’m back

Amithlonblog is back!  It’s been a few months but hopefully it’s up for good now.  I still have some tweaking to do after importing the last backup I had from March 2019.   Site software is a newer version and I’m … Continue reading

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SysSpeed Module

For those interested, I’ve created a .dat module for SysSpeed on my Amithlon system you can load in to SysSpeed v2.6 and compare against your system. I uploaded it to Aminet, here is the link to it.. http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/Amithlon-SysSpeed-Dat

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Lightwave rendering

Rendering a scene downloaded from Aminet.net on my Amithlon system. It’s by “Muadib” and he remodeled Sean Kennedy’s Viper MK2 model to work with the Amiga version of Lightwave, and setup a few scenes using the modified model as well … Continue reading

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Amithlon 3.1.4-3.9

I side-stepped my 3.1.4 Amithlon setup and decided to use the 3.9 to 3.1.4 upgrade script from Aminet. http://aminet.net/package/misc/os/Updateto314 I followed the script (definitely don’t execute it on Amithlon) as you need to make sure the appropriate Amithlon files and … Continue reading

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Amithlon booting AmigaOS 3.1.4

Just booted the system off the latest Kickstart 3.1.4 and Workbench 3.1.4.  Definitely a bit of effort involved but it works. I replaced  the kickstart in smallird.gz with the A2000 3.1.4 Kickstart and installed WB 3.1.4 in WinUAE to give … Continue reading

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Interesting….and VIRUS :)

I had been running Lightwave 3d on my Amithlon system and doing a short quick image render was fine, anytime I tried to render an animation after a reboot my system would fail to boot properly and I’d have to … Continue reading

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Requesting some feedback please…

This goes out to those using and those who in the past used Amithlon…. Those who use it: Why do you use it compared to MorphOS or AROS? What do you like about it? What do you feel is missing? … Continue reading

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Choosing a graphics card for Amithlon

There are a limited number of supported graphics cards for Amithlon.  NVidia, Matrox, ATI and even Voodoo.  Some better than others, though it still revolves around older linux 2.4 framebuffer support.   Going through the kernel and gathering what we can … Continue reading

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Working on a few updates

Current status is “work in progress” but we have patched Amithlon to remove the 4 MB limit on Matrox video cards.  Linux 2.4 Matrox framebuffer drivers had issues crossing a 4 MB barrier which results in Amithlon only seeing 4 … Continue reading

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