Possible to turn a netbook into a tiny portable emulated Amiga?
 

I know I could just go "Linux Install... E-UAE DONE!" here but I'm curious as to...


1) Can I make it boot straight to, say, OS 3.1 or 3.5 with the emulated Amiga piggybacking the linux-run hardware so it could still go online, IRC, etc...

2) Would this be possible without a CD drive? As a netbook it's completely missing one, and I don't have an external.

I'm guessing Amithlon is the choice of choices here but I was curious to hear the experts ideas here.

You're better of installing Windows and using WinUAE.

For a mininal linux + e-uae you could try X-Amiga.

I'm sure installing from a USB-drive is possible showhow.

You can do a similar thing as X-Amiga using Windows XP and WinUAE - booting straight into a WinUAE config without seeing the XP logon or Explorer. Someone posted a step-by-step guide recently over at Amiga.org.

Haven't tried it yet, but plan to on a separate partition when I get my new PC!

Not only on Amiga.org : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=47693 ;)

Oops, I feel like a traitor to EAB now :-)

Thanks for the link TCD!

You better should ;) (only kidding) A tad little text in the thread, so it's hard to tell what it's about without downloading the file :)

just put windows 7 on my advent netbook (MSI wind clone)
Intel atom N270 1.6Ghz or is it 1.8 can`t remember at moment
2 GiG of memory , most it can take

Haven`t done full testing on it yet but I can def say WinUAE works on it

I could upload it to the Zone if it would be helpful, but I guess it would be polite to ask the author's permission first?

If it's the sort of thing that might go in the Zone, then I'll PM him and see if he's okay with it.

The zone is also only a temp place for files. I'll up it to the file server now :)

Edit : Done. In the folder 'Emulators'.

This is exactly what I was looking for! Awesome, shall try this out... mwa ha ha ha

I haven't tried it myself yet. Please let us know how it goes:)

Regarding USB install:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ve_USB_systems

UNetbootin supports Gentoo. Others might as well.

You can also install an operating system on a USB stick or a SD card in a USB adapter and pick whatever version of OS to run just by selecting boot device at startup.

I just set up an HP Mini 5101 with Windows 7 and WinUAE about 3 weeks ago and it's flawless (almost).

Used a 16gb flash drive to install Windows 7 (trivial process).

[Link removed - I assume this was an unfortunate error and you didn't intend to put some rather mild in there... - Graham]

The rest was just installing the WinUAE + environment.

I had to run WinUAE with the -ddsoftwarecolorkey option due to the flakey Intel graphics driver.

HP 5101 + 2GB RAM + HD (1366x768) display + 160GB HDD + 802.11g wifi

The built-in display works great in RTG and the Amiga native displays scale well (with correct aspect ratio).

For example the SuperHiRes Interlaced PAL mode works in 1366x768 as 1280x512 with small borders, or it can be stretched a bit and it will actually fill the entire screen (aspect ratio disabled) or fill top to bottom with side borders (aspect ratio enabled).

- Bogdan

Here's my new A1600 running Icaros Desktop (Aros). Aros is binary compatible with AmigaOS, and can run Amiga applications much faster than the original hardware or PPC Amigas can.

http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/A1600-Icaros.jpg

I thought AROS was only API compatible, i.e. AmigaOS programs need to be recompiled to run on AROS?

In any case AROS does look pretty neat and I want to try it out - but I think it'll have to be via VMWare for a while as I don't think AROS has much support for SATA drives yet?

Blaahhhhh I mean SOURCE compatible :p

Sorry I had a BIG night.

SATA drives seem to work fine, at least the one in this netbook does.

Oh really? That's good news, I might just have to try installing it on a new partition then...

I'd like to apologize for the inappropriate link. I should have checked the link upon posting, however I did not realize that the hotlinking to it would lead elsewhere.

Here's a link below that should not cause any problems. It also explains how to transfer the contents of a Windows 7 DVD to a flash drive for installation on a netbook:

http://www.blogsdna.com/2016/how-to-...-7-iso-dvd.htm


- Bogdan