Category Archives: Blogging

Amiga 4000 The A4000 is getting most of my attention at the moment.  I’m working on a decent setup so that I can compare a nice A4000 against a nice Amithlon system.  With a Video Toaster4000, a Video Flyer and an … Continue reading →

I happened across a crazy deal that resulted in me being the proud owner of an Amiga 4000 once again 🙂   It was probably the mid 90’s that I’ve last owned an Amiga computer so with all the emulation … Continue reading →

After many different apps installed and removed, partitions created, deleted, recreated with different filesystems (pfs3 vs. ffs) my Amithlon machine started flaking out when writing to the IDE hard drive (500 GB).  Not completely unexpected, this hard drive had been … Continue reading →

***Bonus tweak It was mentioned to me that adding crusoe to the init string will allow Amithlon to boot in Virtualbox without the need to time a key press.  I’ve tested and it does appear to function. kern310 init=/linuxrc console_level=0 root=/dev/ram0 … Continue reading →

I finally settled on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard based on a few postings by fishy_fiz on EAB and another site, Amiga.org.   3 PCI slots (Nic, Video, Audio) and heavily overclockable.  Runing (2) 512 MB chips, a PCI Soundblaster Live, PCI … Continue reading →

So I have AmigaOS XL now (QNX and Amiga XL/Amithlon cds).  Using some old PCs I had (one and old AMD Slot 1 900 Mhz CPU and one a “not as old” AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+) I ran a … Continue reading →

As mentioned in the “About me” section, I am a former Amiga owner.  I started computing on a Commodore 64 as a teenager and was mostly in to gaming though I did try a little assembly programming.  I had read … Continue reading →

I’ll post the journey I’ve had with Amithlon, from hardware I’ve used, installing issues and tweaks and eventually to compiling the kernel based on Milan’s “Kernel 4” tree.   Make sure to visit http://amithlon.snkbitten.com/ for downloads of patches, kernels and miscellaneous files.  … Continue reading →