09 January 2022, 04:09 | #1 |
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Amilator Update
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I've been working on updating Amilator, by Winloze99. No new features have been added, just updating of the software and adding a few things I wanted. from the Readme... Modifications by vk3heg Updated to Debian 11 Bullseye, and kernel 5.10.0-10 Updated FS-UAE from 3.0.5 to 3.1.64-0 Added SSH with root login Added the Debian 11 & FS-UAE repo for easy updating Added Midnight Commander https://amiga.vk3heg.net Feed back welcome. Stephen Last edited by vk3heg; 13 July 2022 at 15:11. Reason: Updated link |
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Exciting news. Thank you!
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This is very exciting. Especially the addition of mc.
The link is broken for me however. Also, your timing is rather uncanny for me. For the past couple of weeks I've been working on a personal project. It is based entirely on Amilator HDD install. I resurrected an old WYSE terminal now running as an A1200. I am having a few minor issues. Most importantly, I've edited all funcs and host-props and several other scripts I looked at to "spawn-shell" but I still be my debian session interupted by uae starting up again. I'm also trying to eliminate as much "extra" items as possible. For the most part I have it working well with a few different Amiga OS installations including AFed of SYS4. Been having a lot of fun with it so far. I'm trying to strip it down as much as possible and retain the stabile functionality thus far. I think when I'm done, I can put together a hard drive installation as easily as the USB installation. Direct to HDD, It's a lot more usable than Cloanto's KDE-Lite solution. Anyway, thanks for this, can't wait to get it when the link is updated. |
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Removing some of the crud will be the next thing I look at. Or even creating one that isn't a live install to make it easy for Linux newbies. Stephen Last edited by vk3heg; 09 July 2023 at 04:01. |
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Yeah. I'm definitely a Linux newbie. This is great. Download successful. I'll be testing and playing with it this coming weekend.
Thank you much for making Amilator better. |
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I've just written the following to make the instructions better. I've not updated the archive yet, but will include them with the next update.
1. Prepare drive for installation with "HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool" in "0.prepare drive" folder. 2. Make the drive bootable with syslinux in "1.install syslinux In cmd with admin privilages run syslinux.exe -m -a X: replacing X with the drive letter of your media. This will install suitable MBR code into your flash drive and mark the partition on it as active. 3. Copy all of the files in "2. copy to destination drive" to the staorage device your using. 4. File Paths. /configs Configuration files /cd-roms for .iso files /floppies for .adf floppy images /harddirs directoory storage (Workbench/Work/WHDload) /hardfiles for .hdf files /roms kickstart rom's Files in the configs directory, can be edited when the system is running, but wont take affect unless the system is rebooted. "host-props" contains the default fs-uae config to load (amiga-1200) "amiga*.fs-uae" the fs-uae config files. "vswm.cfg" WiFi wireless settings. 5. Once booted into linux and the FS-uae system, the usb drive is mounted on path "/amiga" on the linux side, and won't appear in FS-UAE. 6. To mount a Real Amiga hard drive or Partition: Add these options to your .fs-uae config file. To find the HD name follow these steps. Once the system is booted, press the Ctrl-Alt-F1 keys all at once. This will switch you to the console. Login as the user "root" with password of "root". Then issue the following command: dmesg |grep sd Take a note of the drive number, all of the hd's will be listed. Then follow these steps. Change your *.fs-uae config file as required. Reboot the system with "shutdown -r now", once fs-uae has rebooted, you will then have access to a amiga formated drive. If doing a new install, you need to change the tooltype of HDToolbox for the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME to "uaehf.device. # Full drive hard_drive_1_controller = uaehf.device hard_drive_1_type = rdb hard_drive_1 = /dev/sdb # Partition number two on first hd hard_drive_2_controller = uaehf.device hard_drive_2_type = rdb hard_drive_2 = /dev/sdb2 7. WiFi confiuration. Enter your wifi details in the file vswm.cfg |
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OS4.1 can't be emulated on your version of Amilator, PlugIn qemu-uae.so is not found With previous releases of Amilator the PlugIn folder was detected and OS4.1 worked fine ! |
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As Amilator is 32bit, I've PM'd Frode Solheim and asked if he could compile and send me the 32bit version. (There are only 64bit versions on the FS-UAE website). Compiling them on my system brought so many dependency's it was a rabbit hole. Stephen Last edited by vk3heg; 09 July 2023 at 04:02. |
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If you are talking about "qemu-uae.so" it exists in 32Bit !
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I attach links where you can find "QEMU-UAE_3.8.2qemu2.2.0" and "CAPSImg_5.1fs3"
https://fs-uae.net/files/stable/plugins/QEMU-UAE/ https://fs-uae.net/files/stable/plugins/CAPSImg/ Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 14 January 2022 at 01:07. |
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Just wantged to report in with another thank you. Updating my local HDD install of Amilator went great. I basically copied all files to my local HDD except for my custom configuration files (host-props, funcs.sh, etc... Then I had to reinstall syslinux and everything came up fine as before except now i have mc in linux. What a great option and much needed so thanks for that. As an FYI, the computer I am using for my localHDD install of Amilator is actually an older WYSE dumb terminal. I have not connected it to the internet yet. So grepping anything like mc or updates and such is not yet possible. But that's OK.
Also, to AMILATOR above. I don't know the difference between "OS4" and "SYS4". But, I have DYD4 (Amiga Forever version) up and running run with this latest AMILATOR. If OS4 and SYS4 are two completely different things then I apologize for my ignorance. |
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They are two different things. OS4.x is the PPC version of the OS. Winuae/FS-UAE can now also emulate the cpu's for those systems. |
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OS4.1 Has now been confirmed to be working.
The following config was used to test. [fs-uae] accelerator = cyberstorm-ppc accelerator_memory = 131072 accelerator_rom = cyberstormppc.rom amiga_model = A4000/OS4 base_dir = /root/Documents/FS-UAE chip_memory = 2048 cpu = 68060-NOMMU #floppy_drive_volume_empty = 0 #floppy_image_0 = /amiga/floppies/OS41_boot.adf fullscreen_mode = window graphics_card = picasso-iv-z3 graphics_card_rom = picasso_iv_flash.rom hard_drive_0 = /amiga/hardfiles/os41F.hdf hard_drive_0_type = rdb joystick_port_1_mode = nothing kickstart_file = A4000-3.1-rev-40.068.rom mouse_integration = 0 mouse_speed = 75 network_card = a2065 uaem_write_flags = 0 zorro_iii_memory = 524288 The link in the first page will download the current version. Enjoy. Last edited by vk3heg; 09 July 2023 at 04:04. |
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Yes now works well OS 4.1 on Amilator, successfully tested also AfA One, see screenshot.
As mentioned in PM only AROS One 68k doesn't start, I need to understand why, on WinUAE AROS One works perfectly. Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 14 February 2022 at 10:00. |
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Also AROS One 68k with the new Rom works well on Amilator 64 Bit, see screenshot
The only problem is that it works without "JIT" this leads to a considerable slowdown of the system Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 14 February 2022 at 09:59. |
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You must remember that FS-UAE isn't using the latest Winuae base code. It says this on startup: UAE: Initializing core derived from WinUAE 3300b2 So once FS-UAE get's newer code things like Aros will always have issues.... |
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Yes I know that FS-UAE is based on the old WinUAE version!
But it's strange that "JIT" with AfA OS BB4 + AfA OS works perfectly, at the end we are always talking about 68k! |
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A noob question. Has anyone had problems with preparing the USB drive? Whatever I do it always says it's write-protected. Ran the tool as admin and normally. Used like 5 or so different USB flash drives (both 2.0 and 3.0), none larger than 32GB.
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