About X-Amiga

Introduction

X-Amiga provides a small, streamlined environment for Amiga emulation.

At its foundation is a minimal Linux operating system, designed to run E-UAE. It has a fraction of the overhead of Windows or OS X, but is nevertheless fully-featured: under 40MB for a full installation, with a bootup time of about 15 seconds - nearly as fast as a real Amiga.

X-Amiga currently runs on x86 platforms. PowerPC and 64-bit versions are planned.

Features

• Linux kernel 2.6.22
• Optimised for i586 processors and above
• Fast boot times
• Minimal (linked against uClibc)
• Secure (no root)
• Display optimised for LCD (60Hz refresh)
• Works in a multiboot system (GRUB)

Support

• USB storage devices
• Network cards (kernel, ndiswrapper)
• Sound cards (ALSA)
• CPU frequency scaling
• CD writing
• Amiga fast-filesystem

(Please note: some advanced features require manual configuration.)

Requirements

x86 computer; free hard drive or partition with at least 40 MB space (more for AmigaOS and applications); VESA-compliant graphics card (most modern cards); ALSA supported sound card.

The standard installer requires 256MB RAM. (This is because it's loaded into RAM, thus freeing up the CDROM drive.) A low memory version will soon be available, with a more modest memory requirement.

You'll also need to copy an Amiga KickStart ROM and operating system. If you don't own an Amiga, the best place to obtain these is from Cloanto's Amiga Forever package.

X-Amiga can easily co-exist with other OSs on the same computer.

Screenshots

Installer GUI...

Credits

Thanks to Marcus Comstedt (marcus@lysator.liu.se) for permission to use AmiWM; and to Scott Lawrence (amiwm10@umlautllama.com) for the AmiWM 1.x patch and excellent "UmlautLlama" fonts.

Site design, content, graphics: (c) Amir Ansari (Fractallyte). Everything else by the relevant authors.