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- <f1><c000> Aranym For Newbies <f0>
- by Mark Duckworth a.k.a. Piku
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- One day I decided that I wanted to set up a nice Amiga system. I set out on my
- path to learn about Amigas and what I would need to reproduce a system with a
- screenshot not reminiscent of an A500. I quickly learned that this is a rather
- daunting task! First of all you must download and get your emulator running,
- which in my choice was UAE. Soon after I learned that you must have Kickstart
- ROM's, workbench and other stuff on top of that! Once I have all of this
- software how do I setup the Amiga side of things to do what I like? Who knows.
- The average outside person interested in Atari has probably seen screenshots
- of high resolution, high color atari systems with cool windowing setups, custom
- buttons or even winframe for magx. They see movie players running and
- everything else. So perhaps they purchase a 520 ST thinking they might get this
- and are quickly proven wrong ;-)
-
- But perhaps there is the other person like me who would try to use emulation to
- dip their feet in the pool of this alternative architecture. They download
- Aranym 2.0 which currently comes with EmuTOS. The system boots to a TOS desktop
- with a putrid green background. In a very low resolution to boot. There's
- a "drive A" and a "drive B" both of which are non-functional. What do you do?
- This my friend is the question I aim to answer for all!
-
- First of all you will want to read through the Aranym documentation. Even if
- you don't understand some of what it is saying you will need to learn how to
- configure Aranym properly. Secondly you need to find a TOS rom. EmuTOS is
- pretty far along but you might not get the experience without using a TOS4.04
- ROM from a genuine Falcon. The easiest way to find this is to do a search on
- Google for TOS 4.04 ROM and I guarantee you will find one a lot easier then you
- would find a kickstart rom!
-
- Third of all you need to setup a hard disk image to work from. The interesting
- thing about this is that there are several multitasking systems you can use.
- Under Aranym though I do not believe MagiC will work eliminating the
- possibility of cool window frames like this:
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- No for Aranym the best way to get a cool system is to use Easymint.
- Unfortunately Easymint no matter how easy it is to install on a genuine Atari
- will not install properly. No matter though, there's an easymint disk archive
- flying around that will help you out! This easymintdisk.zip contains an Aranym
- disk image with a completely setup FREE MiNT system that boots to a FREE XaAES
- AES. That's right. Pure Open source software with the exception of the
- HD-Driver drive used to boot (and even then you can substitute with Aranym).
- Pretty good. Now you want to use the editor QED located under
- C:\apps\qed\qed.app to edit the file C:\fvdi.sys and enable a large res and
- a high bitdepth like 24. The line should read something like 1024 x 768 x 24.
- This will leave you when you reboot with a very nice desktop for Atari with
- shareware messages about Thing ;-). Just ignore those. Now you are at a setup
- where you can run a lot of things. Follow instructions to properly setup the
- sound and you can run the media player Aniplayer to play video or audio files.
- You can download software from the web. tar.gz files? Just use tar and gzip
- from a tos2win window, zip file? Search for stzip on the
- http://atari-source.com mirrors. Same with lzh files. Pretty self explanatory.
-
- Find cool icons you want at http://ataricq.atari-users.net. Gokmase has
- collected hundreds of pages of cool icons you can use to beautify your new
- Aranym system. A shot below details Aniplayer and some nifty icons under MagiC
- (can't run this under Aranym), get a Falcon!
-
- Most importantly ask us for help. Good Atarians will be willing to help
- someone, especially a talented and intelligent someone join our community.
- I regularly chat on #atariscne on the irc server irc-1.stealth.net (ircnet).
-
- We want you to join us and see why Atari is the greatest place to be!
-
-
- Easymint disk available from the atari-source.com mirrors at:
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- http://pikachu.atari-source.com/~storage/atari/personal/mint/
- aranym/easymintdisk.zip
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- Aranym is available at http://aranym.sourceforge.net
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- TOS Roms are available by searching Google, also worth mentioning is that
- EmuTOS is coming along way, and I might be a bit premature by saying it isn't
- better than authentic TOS 4.04 ROMS.
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- Aniplayer is available at http://aniplayer.atari.org.
-
- Cool icons are available from http://ataricq.atari-users.net
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- Enjoy the Atari open source community's hard work and devotion! Also check out
- the new web browser Highwire, at http://highwire.atari-users.net.
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- CHOSNECK team contact us:
- growin' up with atari community greymsb@poczta.fm
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