Experiments with Amithlon

Aside from the legal issues of the release of Amithlon in the previous Decade, last week I was going through some old CD-ROMs that I had in my collection. I stumbled across my copy of Amithlon. Two weeks ago I was doing some technical reading on the Internet in regard to Amithlon. When I first acquired Amithlon, I wasn't too aware of the differences between it and other emulated Amiga software such as WinUAE and E-UAE. After learning of many of the technical differences, I wanted to give it a try.

I had two desktop computers on which I tried to boot Amithlon. An i3 Intel machine and an AMD machine. Amithlon wouldn't boot on either of them. After pondering an hour or two, I remembered that I had an old Pentium 4 Celeron computer (a Compaq S6100NX) that my mother-in-law had given me when they moved houses two years ago. It wasn't running anything anyways, so I decided to plug it in and try to boot Amithlon on it. The result? It booted with no problem! The only problem encountered was that I couldn't find a PS/2 keyboard in my computer collection nor was there an internal 3.5" IDE hard disk inside the computer.

So my plan at this point is to see if someone I know near me has an old PS/2 keyboard and maybe an old 3.5" IDE hard disk they're willing to part with. I'd really like to get Amithlon fully working and installed on this old computer. That way I have a dedicated Amiga computer as my A1200 is not doing well (I'll blog about this sad story soon.).