This is AmigaOS 3.9 XL, also known as Amithlon, I prefer calling it OS 3.9 XL. It is the successful attempt from Haage and partner in circa 2000-2001 to port AmigaOS to X86 hardware through emulation via a QNX linux type kernel to run AmigaOS 68k on Intel hardware, and it works VERY GOOD. The download archive contains currently 5,772 Downloads in 120 Categories. To date, these have been downloaded 625,144 times. Boot into OS 3.9; Find the 'Install' icon left out in the centre of the Workbench and double click it to begin installation. Halo 2 for mac os x full versioncookingbrown. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the ClassicWB OS39 HDF; Remove the OS 3.9 HDF from the Hard Drives tab, then move the 'System.hdf' from DH1: to DH0: Save the configuration and boot. Keymaps, locale.
Is your system ready for the AmigaOS 3.9 update?
If you have an
A1200 HD, A3000/T, A4000 Desktop or A4000 Tower
you will only need a CD-ROM drive and a little bit more memory if you do not already have 6 MB of Fast RAM. All earlier Amiga models must have an 68020 CPU and at least 6MB Chip and 4 MB Fast RAM. You also need a hard disk and a CD-ROM drive.
What is in the AmigaOS 3.9 box?
In the box you will find this manual and one AmigaOS 3.9 CD-ROM
Registration / support
Amiga Os 3.9
We offer technical support for this product. This suport service will be available after you registered your product. - Please, read the document 'Support' on the CD, before using the support.
The easiest way to register and also to get support is through the Internet:
If you do not have an Internet access, our support team is available to you Tuesday and Thursday from 4.00 p.m. until 6.00 p.m. (GST), phone number +49 700 800 900 24 or via fax +49 700 800 900 28.
The emergency disk
To avoid having to search floppy disks and drivers to re-install your system in case of an emergency you should let the installation program create a emergency disk for you. With this emergency disk you are able to boot into a plain AmigaOS 3.9 installation using the AmigaOS 3.9 CD-ROM. You just need a write-able DD disk to do this.
- Put your AmigaOS 3.9 Update CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive if not already done.
- Open the AmigaOS 3.9 symbol and the drawer 'OS-Version3.9' with double clicks.
- In the window that opens now you will see an installation icon.
- Double click the icon 'OS3.9-Installation'.
- The installer window opens and shows a selection of installation options. Select the option 'Create emergency disk' and click on 'Proceed'.
- Insert an empty floppy disk. The disk you inserted will now be formatted and all files that are needed to start the system and access the CD-ROM drive will now be copied. If you use a RTG system like CyberGraphX or Picasso 96 RTG system drivers will also be copied.
Thus you won't need to plug a 15 KHz monitor to you Amiga just to boot use the emergency system, because the emergency disk will initialize the RTG system during boot.
Note: The settings for CD-ROM and graphics board support on your emergency disk get invalid if you change your hardware configuration.
If you replace your graphics board or change the unit number of your CD-ROM drive, you have to create a new emergency disk or adapt your old one manually.
Update installation
You should do the update installation if you already have installed AMIGA OS 3.5 on your AMIGA successfully. During the update installation all new components will be installed.
You do not necessarily have to do this installation on your boot partition - you can choose any partition. Please note that the boot partition always must have the highest priority in your system. You can change this with HD Toolbox, if necessary.
Full installation
A full installation must be done, if you want to install the new AMIGA OS 3.9 on an empty partition or in case of emergency. Please boot from your emergency disk
before doing the full installation.
During the full installation all system components from AMIGA OS 3.1 up to AMIGA
OS 3.9 will be copied to your harddisk. If you do this installation after booting directly from the emergency disk, the CD-ROM driver and the driver of your grafics card will be installed too.
After the full installation you can boot from your new installed partition directly.
Internet software
- Put your AmigaOS 3.9 Update CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive if not already done.
- Open the AmigaOS 3.9 symbol and the drawer 'OS-Version3.9' with double clicks.
- In the window that opens now you will see an installation icon.
- Double click the icon 'OS3.9-Installation'.
- The installer window opens and shows a selection of installation options. Select the option 'Internet package' and click on 'Proceed'.
Three software packages will be installed. These are the TCP/IP stack, the browser and the email client. The installation is nearly completely automatic. Just choose the drawer you want to install the internet applications to. The default drawer is 'SYS:Internet'. To configure the programs to your internet provider please start them separately and enter the data for your internet connection.
Note: You can find more information about how to configure the internet software properly on the online documentation on the CD-ROM.
To configure your web browser properly please start the program 'AWebCfg'. Using the pull down menu 'Windows' you can access all configuration windows. There you can set all necessary options. Please have a look at the network settings and the configuration of mail and news especially.
To configure your email program start 'AmigaMail' and choose the menu 'Settings/Configure'. Enter all necessary options here.
PowerPC support
- Put your AmigaOS 3.9 Update CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive if not already done.
- Open the AmigaOS 3.9 symbol and the drawer 'OS-Version3.9' with double clicks.
- In the window that opens now you will see an installation icon.
- Double click the icon 'OS3.9-Installation'.
- The installer window opens and shows a selection of installation options. Select the option option 'PowerPC support' and click on 'Proceed'.
The installation is nearly completely automatic. You just have to choose the exact PowerPC board and graphics card that are installed in your computer.
Note: If you have installed the PowerUP kernel - look for the file 'ppc.library' in 'LIBS:' - incompatibilities can show up.
CD-ROM driver
To install AmigaOS 3.9 you need a CD-ROM drive. If you have done a pre installation on a partition that has no CD-ROM driver you will have to install a CD-ROM driver to that partition using this option.
- Put your AmigaOS 3.9 Update CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive if not already done.
- Open the AmigaOS 3.9 symbol and the drawer 'OS-Version3.9' with double clicks.
- In the window that opens now you will see an installation icon.
- Double click the icon 'OS3.9-Installation'.
- The installer window opens and shows a selection of installation options. Select the option 'CD-ROM driver' and click on 'Proceed'.
The installer script will ask you which partition you want to install the CD-ROM driver to. This should be the partition you want to install AmigaOS 3.9 to. During the installation you have to set some options. If you are unsure about one option please read the help text that you can show using the 'Help' button.
Did all your screenmodes disappear when you installed OS 3.9 Boing Bag 2? If so this is the same error that happened a few months back when a newer version of BlizKick was released. The problem is related to a version check of exec.library. Newer exec versions (> v40) cause problems when scanning the display database for cgxsystem.library less than version 42.6. Any exec.library patch or hack with a version > v40 runs into this problem. You will need cgxsystem.library 42.7 or higher. This can be found in the CGX 4.2pre11 or later release (found at http://vgr.com/v4/) for normal Amiga graphics card users, or G-Rex PCI card users can use the CGX V4.3beta R3 for G-Rex archive (found at http://vgr.com/g-rex/#software).
Note that you can use AmigaOS 3.9 and Boing Bag 3.9-2, but do not install the new ROM Update..or simply replace the 'SetPatch' line in your Startup-sequence with:
SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES 'exec.library' How do i download gimp user manual for mac.
or
Amiga Os 3.9 Hdf Download
SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES 'exec.library,scsi.device'
(when you have IDE-Fix) ..again, it's all documented.
SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES 'exec.library'
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