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It may seem odd to bother with wireless networking on our next-generation Amigas; after all, they are -- at least for the moment -- all sedentary desktop systems. But wireless networking is still a very useful add-on, even if our machines don't see too much movement. For one thing most homes already have a wireless router, and having wireless capabilities on our Amigas mean being able to place it anywhere in the home or office we choose, without worrying about Ethernet cables.

How to organise your Amiga's OS: an alternative way 

An odd view about booting an Amiga

The steady flow over the years of OS4.0 and its upgrades upto and including 'OS4.0 Final 1', culminating in the appearence of 'OS4.1' halfway August 2008, combined with an utter lazyness on my part have led me to set up my Amiga a little bit different then usual.

Disclaimer: My Amiga is a bogstandard μA1, nothing fancy about it.

Before we begin

Before we begin it's important to make sure we have the following available:

After seeing numerous articles on Amigaworld on how to speed up OS4 I thought it was worth writing an article detailing the things discussed there. Hence, I preface this article by pointing out it is not all my own work - I have merely amalgamated it into one discrete package. I hope you find this useful.

Introduction

This is a step by step guide to installing AmigaOS4 and GNU/Linux Debian on separate harddisks.

The following article is an account of observations and solutions to problems which arose during the build of a Micro AmigaOne computer. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Any similarity to your real life experience is purely coincidental. All information in this document is believed to be accurate. The author accepts no responsibility for how you use it.

To begin: Things to watch out for:

It was somewhat of a struggle to get Personal Paint 7.1 running successfully on AmigaOS4.0-Pre. This paint application formerly ran on Amiga classic 68k hardware, but AmigaOS4 is targetted at AmigaOne PPC machines. This article endeavours to suggest how this might be accomplished...

- Why Make a Boot CD?

I find that a boot CD makes a good emergency recovery tool.   It is handy to have when the installation script of some OS3.x program, or my experimentation, corrupts OS4.   It is configured to provide easy access to the tools used to rebuild the OS4 libraries, datatypes, MUI, and etc.   This can be particularly important since the systems many of us run were not installed from a singe CD, but incrementally upgraded from OS4 pre-releases.

Carefully consider your reason(s) when planning the layout.

OS4 Speaks Out...

This is a tutorial on adding text-to-speech capabilities to OS4. It is written with the AmigaOne in mind but may also apply to Amigas 1200/4000 except for NallePuh which doesn't run on Classic hardware at this time and isn't needed anyway.

Some useful applications for speech are:
- Providing informations to a user who's away from the monitor
- Reading electronic books or emails
- Listening to what's being said on IRC while browsing the web
- Speaking clocks, reminders, alarms, etc.

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