This is a copy and paste of a post I made at AROS-Exec, but Ive been having so much fun with this that I wanted to share with any/every one who may be interested
The nostalgia was too strong so I caved and bought one despite having a dedicated x86 emulation box, an expanded a1200 and a Mister already.
I must admit I quite like it, theyve done a decent job.
I couldnt help myself though and had to tinker to try and get AmigaOS installed on it in a "standard" and usable fashion. People had been making whdload OS installs, but that's little more than a novelty due to it being read only.
Took a little while to to get my head around exactly how Retro Games Ltd. had gone about setting things up and they have some configuration settings on the internal storage (which is read only, so can't be changed).
Three days later however and I figured out some workarounds and managed to get AmigaOS installed to directory based "partitions" (ie. directories on a usb storage device that the emulated Amiga sees as partitions).
Once I managed to do that I wanted to do some more experimenting to see what I can get this little machine to do. It took a little more messing around, but in the end this was one of my successful experiments.
I have to admit for an emulated 68k cpu on a cheap ARM SoC I was surprised at how nippy it is.
Was and is great fun messing with it :-)
I just have to fix the naming "problem" (Ive got it calling AROS "AmigaOS"), but that's just a product of my laziness while doing my experiments :-)