Category Archives: Blogging

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I’ve been using a slim DVD drive that fits in a 5.25″ bracket that holds the slim drive and a 3.5″ device in my A4000T and really liked the look.  I thought about adding one to my Amithlon but didn’t … Continue reading →

Finally, i686be-amithlon-ahiusr.lha installed and functioning. I just wanted to get it working vs. the m68k-amigaos-ahiusr.lha version.   More of a challenge I guess since I kept hearing it was much more difficult to do than the 68k version. Bernie stated … Continue reading →

This weekend I formatted my system volume and installed Amithlon again.  Leaving all my other partitions alone provided access quickly to most of my installed software, just needed to spend time setting up my Workbench and patching/updating.  I also had … Continue reading →

I use Roadshow on my A4000T and enjoy the DHCP aspect (even though I reserve IP’s for my systems so they always have the same one), I enjoyed the “in the background” aspect it offered in that it launched at … Continue reading →