OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18697/AmiKit_1_4_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:08:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com linux? http://osnews.com/thread?275152 http://osnews.com/thread?275152 how am i supposed to install an .exe-file on a linux-system, or any other non-windows system? Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puenktchen) Comments RE: linux? http://osnews.com/thread?275168 http://osnews.com/thread?275168 There's an "AmiKit on Linux Guide" .pdf in the knowledge base on the AmiKit site. It would have been nice if they had linked to it from the Installation page. You will still need a Windows computer to run the .exe, or maybe Wine under Linux will work. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DHofmann) Comments Very Impressive http://osnews.com/thread?275173 http://osnews.com/thread?275173 I've been running this today, and I'm so impressed with what they've done with the ageing Amiga OS 3.9.

If anyone wants to play around with a pre-configured, hassle-free version of Amiga OS, then this is the way to do it. 100% recommended. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gleng) Comments RE: Very Impressive http://osnews.com/thread?275193 http://osnews.com/thread?275193 Hassle-free would be Amiga Forever, since it includes the ROM and OS as well as configurations that run the gamut from an ECS game machine to a fairly fancy and fairly modern (for the Amiga) desktop. Or maybe ClassicWB because it uses a somewhat more common version of the ROM and OS.

Granted, those AmiKit desktops look pretty slick. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MacTO) Comments RE: linux? http://osnews.com/thread?275202 http://osnews.com/thread?275202 Ever hear of WINE? It will allow you to install and run nearly any Windows exe. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ferrels) Comments RE[2]: linux? http://osnews.com/thread?275211 http://osnews.com/thread?275211 Ins't it better that he just get the same files and run them in UAE? ;/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aliquis) Comments Something I never understood..... http://osnews.com/thread?275228 http://osnews.com/thread?275228 Why is it that everyone always tries to make their Linux desktop look like a Macintosh when the Amiga desktop can look so much better?

Look at the icon sets that the Amiga has. MagicWB would just rock on a Gnome desktop, and it was made with a 16 color palette! The icons they have in the Amikit screenshots are just awesome.

Of course Amiga has always looked really great in my eyes. Probably one of the reasons I like Gnome / GTK so much, is that the themes remind me a lot of the way the old Amiga looked. I have tried to make my desktop more Amiga-like before, but never did get a response back from the author of MagicWB to see if I could convert the icons. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leech) Comments RE: Something I never understood..... http://osnews.com/thread?275233 http://osnews.com/thread?275233
Why is it that everyone always tries to make their Linux desktop look like a Macintosh when the Amiga desktop can look so much better?


Because lots and lots of us used to use Macs in the heady days of System 6 and 7 and we're trying to recreate the way it felt to us then. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Spellcheck) Comments RE[2]: linux? http://osnews.com/thread?275248 http://osnews.com/thread?275248 >Ever hear of WINE? It will allow you to install and run nearly any Windows exe.

More like "almost none Windows exe". If it was nearly any then i have an remarkable ability to only try the very few ones it can't run. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alleister) Comments linux/osx http://osnews.com/thread?275250 http://osnews.com/thread?275250 okay, this is the linux guid: http://amikit.amiga.sk/download/misc/documents/AmiKit_on_Linux_Guid...

could be much shorter: install under windows, copy everything to linux. the same method works for osx: http://amikit.amiga.sk/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=3&a... Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puenktchen) Comments I miss it http://osnews.com/thread?275253 http://osnews.com/thread?275253 Damn I miss Directory Opus Magellan... I tried Windows version for some time, but it wasn't that good, simple yet powerful.
I want Magellan for Linux ;) Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (merde) Comments Clone ROMs http://osnews.com/thread?275265 http://osnews.com/thread?275265 Why after all this time has someone not made a replacement for the Amiga ROMs. All the call points are documented (it is a series of jump tables at that) and no single call is that complex in code either.

All this years and so little progress from the Amiga Fans.

I am glad I jumped to BeOS, and I am watching Haiku closely.

Note the number of Amiga fans in it's hey-day, and compare to BeOS/Haiku-OS fans. BeOS was far out numbered and Amiga fans had a ten year head start yet today Haiku is the one showing real progress and the Amiga club is just sitting around boasting how good it will be once the right company buys out the rights to the Trade-Mark.

Why not go open-source and do it without depending on anal company officers? And why the refusal to use cheap off-the-shelf hardware. In 1985 the CPUs were not able to do it all, the custom hardware was needed. Today with quad-CPUs, high speed video cards, buffered-DMA sound cards all the function of a Amiga can be emulated for a very small percentage of the CPU load. Why demand PPC, it was not even the original CPU family in the Amiga line. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Earl Colby pottinger) Comments RE: Clone ROMs http://osnews.com/thread?275273 http://osnews.com/thread?275273
Why after all this time has someone not made a replacement for the Amiga ROMs. All the call points are documented (it is a series of jump tables at that) and no single call is that complex in code either.


It is happening. There's a Kickstart ROM replacement bounty, along with many others, here:

http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/index.php?query=open

Once the Kickstart replacement and the UAE integration is done, then AROS will be a fully Amiga OS 3.x compatible operating system. AROS is to Amiga OS what Haiku is to BeOS.

Nightly builds of AROS are available here:

http://www.aros.org/

All it needs is a web browser and it's good to go!

All this years and so little progress from the Amiga Fans.


The big problem is that there is a new version of Amiga OS waiting to be released, but the current legal battles have prevented its release for the past four years or so. The software and the hardware is ready. All we need is for the legal problems to be overcome.

Why not go open-source and do it without depending on anal company officers? And why the refusal to use cheap off-the-shelf hardware.


Well, that very argument is what created AROS in the first place. And now it's looking more and more like AROS is the only option for a desktop Amikalike operating system in the future. The current court battles between Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment could potentially go on for years, and it seems that MorphOS 2 is going to be more targeted at embedded computing applications.

Why demand PPC, it was not even the original CPU family in the Amiga line.


Back in the 90s, it made a lot of sense. For the same reasons that Mac OS went from m68k to PPC. I can't profess to know the technical details. ;) Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gleng) Comments RE[2]: Clone ROMs http://osnews.com/thread?275338 http://osnews.com/thread?275338 >> Why demand PPC, it was not even the original CPU family in the Amiga line.

> Back in the 90s, it made a lot of sense. For the same reasons that Mac OS went from m68k to PPC. I can't profess to know the technical details. ;)

m68 & ppc are both big-endian architectures, and the many registers of ppc are very usefull for emulation purposes. so ppc was the better alternative, at least until the end of the 90s. Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puenktchen) Comments