Building an Amiga 4000T Replica Into a PC AT Tower Case

Posted on June 20, 2026 by erkorh

I built an Amiga 4000T motherboard replica two years ago. It was a fun build and a great way of getting to know the A4000T model that I have had little experience with. Naturally, when the PCB was offered for sale I jumped on the possibility to buy one even though I did not really have a master plan.

A freshly built Amiga 4000T replica motherboard

An example of this no-plan setup was that I had no idea what case I would use for it. Though I assumed the situation would fix itself either one way or another in the future (as it usually does).

The A4000T is an interesting Amiga. It is the last C= Amiga computer and it is different from other Amiga models in certain areas.

For example Commodore used daughterboards for various functions and offered it in a really cool full tower that later was replaced with another style (even more cool looking) full tower by Amiga Technologies.

Difference between Amiga 4000D and Amiga 4000T

Compared to an Amiga 4000D the difference between A4000T and A4000D are:

	Amiga 4000D	Amiga 4000T
Case	Desktop case	Full tower case
Form factor	Baby-AT (like)	AT
SCSI	No SCSI on board	SCSI2 on board
Zorro slots	4 Zorro slots	5 Zorro slots
Video slots	1 video slot	2 video slots
ISA slots	3 ISA slots	4 ISA slots
Internal speaker	No	Yes
Daughterboard	Zorro/ISA/VS	Sound/IO/Ports

While the A4000D is sort of Baby-AT in its form factor it does not follow PC guidelines for the Baby-AT format as it has ports soldered to it on the back and i slightly larger.

Amiga 4000T compatible cases and finding the right case

The Amiga 4000T motherboard follows the AT standard and should fit large AT cases. It can also fit EATX (Extended ATX) cases with modifications.

Original Amiga Technologies Amiga 4000T case

When I was a teenager this was the coolest Amiga case ever -I think- but from todays perspective I think it has some problems.

First problem, it is a huge case and the space is not really optimized well, and even if it was optimized well I would not need that much drive bays these days.
Second problem, it is impossible to find one. Good luck finding one!

The Amiga Technologies A4000T case was actually just a regular PC case from Enlight. There are similar cases from Enlight that occasionally pop up on Ebay that can be used but if you want the original prepare to wait and save money for the rare occasion it shows up or hope that someone makes a replica.

AT cases

Can you use AT cases for the Amiga 4000T motherboard? Yes in some cases, depending on if the case has enough space for the motherboard. In the 90ies, there was both AT and Baby-AT cases.

The A4000T is AT, it is a larger size than Baby-AT. When I researched cases I found that many full size AT towers could fit the A4000T if you ditched the internal 3.5″ bay.

Most AT cases has the DB9 and DB25 cutouts at the back for the IO module and mounting holes for the motherboard should match.

ATX cases

Can you use a modern PC ATX case for the Amiga 4000T motherboard? Yes, with some modifications it is possible to use a standard PC EATX (extended ATX) case for the A4000T motherboard.

The A4000 is a huge motherboard so it wont fit shallower ATX cases. The case has to support EATX. EATX is wider than regular ATX.

There are a few problems with going the ATX route. But all of these can be fixed by modding the case.

Some screw holes for the motherboard do not line up correctly in the case.
There is no space for the IO module. To be able to access mouse, joystick, parallell and serial ports from the back you will need a special A4000T ATX I/O board that is available here (or wire up ports directly to the motherboard pin header).
There is no space for the disk module to be accessed from the back of the case.

PC AT tower case for A4000T case mod

A classic PC AT computer case from the middle of the 90ies

As said above I did not really have any plans on what case to use but I found this old beige PC AT case on a local trading website and I instantly thought for myself, could the A4000T motherboard fit into that?!

I thought it looked small, but after spending an hour in Photoshop adding the A4000T motherboard on top of a side pic of it it in a separate layer I thought it could actually fit inside.

Believe it or not, I actually had an AMD K6 in exactly this case almost 30 years ago. Maybe it is the same case? What comes around goes around.

The case has three 5.25″ drive bays and one external 3.5″ drive bay and two internal 3.5″ drive bays. It also has space for a front 80 mm fan. As the case will be heavily modified I expected all of the drive bays to be non usable once the A4000T motherboard is fitted inside. The case also has this unnecesarry door that slides up and covers all the drive bays. I remember it was a major PITA BITD, but it sure makes the case look clean with the door closed.

DISCLAIMER

I want to point out, the aim of this project was to find a case for an Amiga 4000T replica motherboard. As such the goal was not to make a showstopper but an actually working setup that would enable the Amiga 4000T to be used regularly and reliably. It is not the most beautiful case in the world but for real world use this project makes the A4000T motherboard usable without hunting down an unobtainium or 1000+ euro case.

Could the PC AT case be converted to fit the A4000T?

The picture above shows the case with the cover removed. Cases do not look like this anymore, it was nostalgic to see a case like this again, though I prefer modern black cases.

The AT and Baby-AT form factors disapeared from the markets almost 30 years ago and was replaced by ATX. ATX gave us bigger cases until Mini-ITX became viable alternative. Some ITX cases are the same size as Baby-AT cases. I always wanted a BoXeR in a small Baby-AT case. That never happened though and after 30 years, I think it is fine and not something to get upset about anymore, there are so many badass alternatives these days that the BoXeR is just a faded, if not very cool, memory now, if all.

The case would need a lot of work to be able to fit the A4000T motherboard

This picture shows one of the problems the case had. There was simply no way of installing the large Amiga 4000T motherboard in the case without cutting off the 3.5″ drive bays and the horizontal support shelf under the PSU at the back of the case. The A4000T motherboard is simply too tall to fit otherwise.

The picture from the back of the AT case shows cutouts for DB9 and DB25 connectors. The IO daughterboard can simply be installed here, however some other modifications are needed, more on that later.

Also, take notice of the keyboard connector hole that lines up with the A4000T motherboard beautifully and the 7 slot card openings that lines up with the A4000T video slots, daughter boards and Zorro slots. Inside, the motherboard almost lines up with every hole inside.

That horizontal part has to be sawed off

Another look at the inner piece I had to cut off. I do not have access to power tools so I had to come up with a way of sawing it off with a metal saw.

I do not enjoy doing sheet metal work in my living room, often it turns out really bad and amateurish looking. But sometimes you have to be bold, I think this was such a time.

Modifying the PC AT case for the Amiga 4000T motherboard

Drilling out the rivets to be able to work on the case better

To be able to do the nesesarry modifications I used a hand powered drill -that I suspect is 100 years old- to drill out the rivets for the upper side plates. This drill has been with me through many Amiga case mods during the years, a lot of Amiga case mods, maybe too many Amiga case mods.

The side plates had to have the horizontal stability plate that sat under the PSU cut off. The internal 3.5″ drive bay was easy to remove as it was just riveted to the case and just had to have its rivets drilled out.

I did not take any picture of sawing pieces off but imagine spending four evenings with a metal saw blade like a mad man. Whatever it takes.

First test fit of the Amiga 4000T moterboard in the PC AT case

I could finally do a test fit of the motherboard when the pieces that blocked the motherboard from being installed in the case was sawed off.

I was really surprised to find out that there was space left to use the upper 5.25″ drive bay even after the motherboard was installed in the case. I was really happy to find it fit the case well but there was still a ton of stuff to do. I had to push on.

As you see on the image, there is no way I will be able to use a regular AT or ATX PSU, not even an SFX PSU would fit so that was something I had to solve.

Test fit of A4000T motherboard from the front. No way most of the 5.25″ slots can be used.

Here is another image from the front from test fitting the A4000T motherboard. There is an alignment issue with the upper part of the case so I had to use shorter hex standoffs there. The case was a bit flimsy at this point as the upper right sheet was removed.

PC AT case from the back with the A4000T motherboard inside it

And here is a picture from the back of the case to see if the keyboard connector would line up with the hole for it – and it did.

The Amiga 4000T motherboard is secured to the case as most screw holes matches

Another picture that displays the space left over the A4000T motherboard.

I used this riveting tool to rivet the sides back to the case once they had been cut off and modified. I bought it back in 1999 when I was modding my then A4000D into a PC mini tower case. See that case below.

And here I am almost 30 years later using it again (for the second time) for the same purpose.

Make no mistake, the rivets and riveting tool works great for securing case sides and makes for a very stable case again.

Test fitting Amiga 4000T motherboard, daughter boards and Zorro cards in the modified case

More test runs with the case, this time trying out a 5.25″ unit in the top bay

I was now at a point were I could test fit cards and other hardware in the case to get a feel for what would fit and what would not fit.

Trying out A4000T daughter boards in the case. They fit fine.

One thing that hit me is how roomy the case is, inserting full size Zorro cards is a no-brainer in this case and is a real pleasure to do. The daughter boards unique for the Amiga 4000T also fits great in the case.

The daughter boards for the A4000T line up beautifully on the back of the case.

The daughter boards can be accessed fine from the backside.

Testing out a few Zorro cards in the A4000T.

Full size Zorro cards fit without problems in the old AT case. Even my A2386SX slides in and out without problems here. That is great for being such a small case relative to the original A4000T case.

Oops, we have a problem with the gap for the Zorro card brackets.

But one problem was quickly noticeable, the Zorro boards are offset slightly. I fixed it by adding spacers under the brackets.

Finding and installing a PSU that would fit in the case for the Amiga 4000T

There was no space for a regular ATX, AT or SFX PSU. After an intense brainstorm session were I played with the idea of using a Pico-PSU and an laptop charger I Instead opted for a NOS thin Flex-ATX PSU.

Flex ATX PSUs are smaller than a regular PSU and are quite popular these days because of tiny PCs. This PSU has 12a on the 5V line and has a total wattage of 250W. I have always steered away from PSUs with 40 mm fans because they usually create a ton of noise. This PSU is not an exception, but the noise level is not that bad to what I have heard before.

So how do you fit an Flex-ATX PSU to an AT/ATX case? I found this ATX-PSU to Flex-ATX PSU converter on ebay. It is a thick plate of aluminium and makes it possible to use the Flex-ATX PSU in a normal case.

Flex-ATX PSU installed and working in Amiga 4000T PC AT case conversion

The adapter plate fit great and holds the Flex-PSU securely in the case.

The Flex-ATX PSU saves a lot of space inside the case

This picture shows that there are plenty of space for the A4000T P8/P9 power connectors and the turbo card. As the Flex-ATX PSU is short the case can still take a full length 5.25″ drive in the upper bay.

The PSU cables takes up a lot of room in the case and are not needed

One problem with the Flex-ATX PSU was the cables. They were long and took up a lot of space in the case. Just look at the image above. What is not shown is the AT to ATX adapter taking up even more space.

Cables for the Flex-ATX PSU are seen pruned

So I cut off cables I would not need. I also wired the AT to ATX adapter directly to the PSU and shortened cables. This made a huge improvement to cable management in the case.

The AT to ATX converter was wired directly to the Flex-ATX case.

A picture from the top shows cables neatly tucked under the PSU. I saved some SATA power cables because you never know, could be usefull in the future.

Wiring up the I/O board to the A4000T motherboard

Test fitting I/O board, that is missing 25p DB connectors

The I/O board gave me a couple of problems. The first problem was to find suitable D-SUB connectors. The D-SUB connectors on the Amiga 4000T I/O board has to be a little bit taller than regular straight D-SUB connectors as otherwise the I/O PCB board will hit the case.

DB25 pin F/M straight connectors with hex nuts glued on to them

The D-SUB connectors I got was quite expensive but options were few. The only ones I found was D-SUB connectors without threads for the hex nut so I had to glue nuts to the D-SUB connectors with Epoxy glue. It was a nasty solution but works.

I used a strong epoxy glue and let it cure for a few days. The picture above clearly shows the extended D-SUBs needed.

40p headers are desoldered and waiting to be soldered to the back of the I/O board

During a test fit of the I/O board I found out that there was no space for the pin header. The I/O board is hooked up to the A4000T through two 40 pin cables called short and long. The pin header is usually facing down from the board on the front side but that would not work as the they would hit the case.

So what I did was that I desoldered the angled pin headers and soldered straight pin headers to the back of the I/O board instead.

Amiga 4000 I/O board with pin headers soldered on the back of the board

Then I ordered four 20 pin single row cables from AliExpress and hooked everything up. As it was not entirely clear how to exactly mount the cables I accidently hooked them up wrong.

But after thinking really hard for 30 minutes (including drawing up a routing scheme) I figured out the right way the cables should be mounted and everything worked as is should. Please keep in mind that the cable is installed in the wrong direction on the picture above and below! This part of the project was extremely confusing for some reason.

A4000T I/O board finally mounted with short cables

I am very happy with how it turned out. However I would prefer 40 pin cables as they are easier to insert and remove. Maybe I will wire up custom 40 pin cables in the future because these 20 pin cables need a lot of force to be inserted correct into the pinheaders.

Modifying the 3.5″ drive bay to fit the case with the A4000T motherboard installed

3.5″ floppy drive for the Amiga 4000T mounted in its drive cage

I do not use floppy drives anymore but I had this 1.76 MB floppy drive in my stash that I got in a trade for free and thought why not. Could come in handy in the future. To fit the drive bay it had to be cut on one of the sides to make way for the motherboard and I had to figure out a way of securing it to the case as it was riveted to the case.

The drive cage has a PC speaker that the A4000T has a pin header for

Interestingly it has a small speaker on the underside. The small speaker actually comes in handy since the Amiga 4000T has a pin header on the motherboard for a speaker that can play Paula output (controlled by the turbo button).

How the 3.5″ drive bay was mounted to the case once it was modded

To secure the 3.5″ drive bay I screwed it down on one side with a nut and screw. As the 3.5″ floppy drive sits a bit tight in the front of the case it does not really matter that only one half is screwed to the case. It is not perfect, it is a bit flexy when ejecting floppy disks but works fine.

How the floppy drive looks like on the front of the A4000T case

And here is the Amiga floppy drive installed in the A4000T case. Now, what to do with the upper 5.25″ bay?

Installing something in the 5.25″ bay

I installed a CD-ROM drive in the upper 5.25″ bay just for completion purposes. It is not like I actively use CD-ROMs anymore. I would prefer a ZuluSCSI or Compact Flash bay here instead and will probably exchange it in the future for that.

Installing power button

Installing a power switch for the A400oT

With all DIY projects there are problems that needs to be solved, even with a silly power button. The screw holes for the power button did not fit the case so I super glued hex brass nuts to the front and screwed down the power switch to them.

I did try to find a better fitting power switch but found nothing that would fit better.

Figuring out a better way of mounting the Amiga 4000T motherboard to the case

Experimenting with hex standoff nuts and plastic plugs to securing the A4000T motherboard

Some mounting holes on the motherboard lined up with hex standoff nuts already installed for installing the motherboard in the case. There was also space for these plastic plugs. I was disappointed that the motherboard was not really that securely attached to case with the mounting solution of a few brass hex standoffs and plastic plugs so I looked for an alternative.

Going the hex standoff nut and spacer route to secure the motherboard to the case

What I came up with was to use two washers and a brass standoff with a slightly longer thread.

Here is a hex standoff with a washer.

This is how I secured brass hex standoffs to the case where the hole was too big

And here is how the brass hex standoffs are secured to the case by screwing it down with a nut having the case back wedged between two washers. I put Loctite on the threads to make them stick and I also glued washers to the case before screwing them down tightly.

All brass hex standoffs secured to the case, time to install the A4000T motherboard

This is a great picture that shows all mount points for the motherboard. What I especially like is the full support around the ISA and Zorro area. Inserting or removing a Zorro card leads to minimal flex in the motherboard or the case. Inserting and removing Zorro cards is pure pleasure in this case, even bridgeboards thats slots into both the Zorro and ISA slot. Please note that there are hex standoffs on the upper area too, the A4000T motherboard is huge!

Amiga 4000T motherboard fully secured to case

The Amiga 4000T motherboard is fully secured in the AT case. I thought everything was fine but I had just created a big problem, can you guess what?

Fixing offset problems for daughter cards and Zorro cards

The problem was that adding a 1 mm washer under the hex standoff pushes the motherboard further out. That meant that cards did not sit flush against the back of the case.

Off course I could have fixed this with shorter brass hex standoffs. But as they were already screwed down tight and glued and loctited I just decided to find another solution. And that was to add some thin washers under the bracket for the daughter boards.

Kinda weird but the Zorro boards sits further out than the daughter boards. So I needed thicker spacers here. I do not know what it is but no matter what Amiga project build I work on I always have problems with offset cards in all my builds – so I was not surprised here.

I used epoxy glue to fix them to the back. It is possible to 3D print something to fit here or to order some custom machined plate. Maybe in the future. It might look naff but the spacers actually work, cards sit very solid in the case.

Final thoughts

The A4000T is populated with some Zorro cards and a BFG9060.

While the build is not finished yet, the case sure is. In its current state it has a Multifix scandoubler, and a Matze graphics card. A 256MB memory card and a Zorro-LAN-IDE card. There is also an AmiGUS in it and a cool red BFG9060. There are small things to do here and there like cleaning up the cables, adding power to the CF adapter and installing a ZuluSCSI, a bridgeboard with ISA cards will also go into this case. Building a bad-ass PPC workstation is also a potential future for this build as it has the potential for much better case cooling than the A4000D has.

And I must not forget, I need a boing ball badge for the front.

Changing heatsink on the TerribleFire 1260 in my Amiga 1200

Posted on June 16, 2026 by erkorh

TerribleFire 1260 with heatsinks. A taller/longer heatsink wont fit on the 060 with the case closed.

I just updated the heatsink on one of the CPLDs on the TerribleFire 1260 in my Amiga 1200.

The modified heatsink on the TerribleFire1260.

The heatsink I used was modified so that the compact flash adapter I had could be fitted on the TF1260. And it was so ugly.

The new compact flash adapter doi not need a modified heatsink on the CPLD closest to it.

Not that I would see the heatsink when I used the computer. But it still bothered me. So I ordered a new heatsink and installed it instead.

Ahhh… much better. *The more heatsinks, the better!*

And tadaaa suddenly my Amiga 1200 is dangerously close to being finished!

PowerShark USB-C Amiga Power Adapter

Posted on May 31, 2026 by erkorh

PowerShark Amiga Power Adapter for USB-C PSUs

I finally got my hands on the PowerShark Power Adapter for the Amiga 500/600/1200. There are many PSU options for wedge Amigas these days but the PowerShark power adapter in combination with a USB-C PSU for the Amiga was a nobrainer for me to choose because of two reasons: It is USB-C and it has a power switch close to the Amiga 1200.

USB-C Amiga PSU

I highly suspect USB-C will become even more widespread in the future for retro gear, not just for Amiga computers. I suspect most vintage hardware will be able to be modded or will be able to made run on USB-C with some hardware device – meaning, one main PSU could drive many devices instead of having multiple aging PSUs.

The power switch situation

Having a power switch close to the Amiga is a luxury. No need to reach for the switch on the floor anymore.

Lets take a closer look at the PowerShark Power Adapter for Amiga

Top of the PowerShark Power Adapter, notice the USB-C socket in the mouth of the shark

The PowerShark power adapter is a neat little piece of hardware that inserts into the power socket on the Amiga 500, 600 or 1200. It has a LED that lights up in either red or green, red if the PSU driving it fails or green if everything works. The plastic shell is quite nice and looks professional.

Back of the PowerShark Amiga USB-C Power Adapter

The backside of the PowerShark power adapter for the Amiga has a small on/off switch and the USB-C socket for powering it from the USB-C PSU.

Sideview of the PowerShark Amiga PSU USB-C Power Adapter

The side view shows its small size. The size of the PowerShark is 25 x 27 x 58mm.

How to power the PowerShark Power Adapter for the Amiga?

A regular USB-C phone charger PSU and an old Apple USB-C Macbook charging cable

The PowerShark has to be fed power from a USB-C PSU. As you may know Amiga runs on different voltages so PowerShark Power Adapter has to be fed 12v. The 12v then gets converted into the different voltages the Amiga needs to run in the PowerShark. That means the USB-C PSU has to provide 12v or else it wont work.

Besides providing 12v the PSU has to provide enough amps or else there wont be enough power to power up the A1200 (a 5w phone USB-C charger wont run an A1200).

I tried with my laptop charger and it did not work because it did not provide 12v. But another USB-C laptop charger I had worked fine since it could provide 12v. If in doubt, it is usually specified on the charger if the USB-C PSU outputs 12v.

I also tried with a low end Apple charger (5-7w IIRC) and that did not work either as expected, the PowerShark just got a red LED.

For testing purposes I fell back on this 20w USB-C phone charger i found at home pictured above. I will for sure upgrade to a more beefy USB-C PSU later but for now this will do fine.

There are some details on the homepage about the USB-C cable that you should use. I just took the safe route here and used an old Apple USB-C cable that powered an old Apple laptop i had years ago.

A nice cheap alternative is to get the RaspberryPi 5 27w USB-C PSU. But that one seems not to be available in black.

PowerShark USB-C Power Adapter on my Amiga 1200

As my main Amiga 1200 is black I wanted a black PowerShark and I think it goes well together with it. It sticks out a bit at the back but it is not that bad I think.

PowerShark USB-C Power Adapter on my Amiga 1200 powered on and running fine

The Amiga 1200 I used for testing consists of the following hardware and is my main A1200 (and the Amiga that gets the most use by me except the A4000TX):

ReAmiga1200 1.5
TerribleFire 1260 128MB/060@100Mhz
Indivision MK3
Solas + one LED strip
MicroniK floppy drive
4GB Compact Flash
PicoWyfy
MouSTer + USB adapter for mouse

How much power does an Amiga 1200 use

Running a fractal generator stresses the 68060 CPU a lot

I wanted to test the stability of the PowerShark and came up with a mini test. I got an idea to run a few programs that pushes the Amiga 1200 hard. I ran both Quake and Quake 2 for a few minutes and also ran a fractal generator on my A1200 with 68060. Everything worked fine – keep in mind this was not a 24h test, but more a half hour test.

Power meter measuring the watt usage of my A1200 powered by PowerShark

I got this power meter years ago and it is quite fun measuring devices. While pushing the A1200 above hard the watt meter tops out at 23w. During idle it sits between 18-20w and during regular use around 21w.

My USB-C PSU is rated at 20w so I wont run this setup permanently as that cant be too good pushing it too hard but its interesting that stability was not an issue.

My Amiga 1200 computers, one basic one not so basic in setup

But that got me into thinking, how much power would a regular Amiga 1200 draw. I have a backup A1200 that is completely stock (except its also a ReAmiga 1.5).

This A1200 has: A CF adapter without CF card and a 3.5″ floppy drive, other than that, its completely basic.

Power meter measuring the watt usage of my basic A1200 powered by PowerShark

And here it is powered by the PowerShark Power Adapter and is hovering between 9 to 11 watts.

Final thoughts

I have no regrets, this is a great addition to my Amiga 1200.

You could say it is an expensive solution since the PowerShark costs 80 euros and you need to get a USB-C PSU (and USB-C cable if PSU does not have one) so that adds to the price.

You could also say it is a complex device because you need to have a specific 12v USB-C PSU that can provide sufficient amps. There are many great options for USB-C PSUs mentioned on the website and for the average Amiga user I highly suspect this is not a real problem.

It is what it is but I think that you pay a little bit premium to have a modern solution and that is something I happily will do. I would happily pick up another one if I was knee deep in wedge Amigas only!

A bad idea…

Posted on April 29, 2026 by erkorh

When space is small you do stupid things (both PCI cards, Voodoo 3 and PPC board connected to the Prometheus Resurrector).

SMB2FS setup on AmigaOS 4.1

Posted on April 18, 2026 by erkorh

I got an WIFI adapter for my Sam440EP last year. Since then I have wanted to get SAMBA shares up and running on the Amiga for easy file transfers and accessing data that lives on my workstation from my Amiga.

I played around with SAMBA for Amiga as early as 1998 when I bought an Amiga 3000 with an ASDG LanRover card (for 50 euro). I never got it going though as the SAMBA archive on Aminet was confusing to follow.

How I got SMB2FS working on AmigaOS 4.1

Getting SMB2FS working on AmigaOS 4.1 took a few tries…

First of all, a small disclaimer – this is how I got access to PC SAMBA shares on AmigaOS 4.1 working, it might not be the default way of doing it but it worked for me. I tried a lot of different configurations until this one worked.

Before doing the installation I recommend to double check that both machines can see each other on the network. That is done by pinging the PC from the Amiga and vice versa. To find out the IP number on the Amiga, I typed inshownetstatus in CLI. Once ping confirmed both computers shaking hands with each other, I decided to continue.

Step 1 – Download and install SMB2FS

The first thing I did was to download SMB2FS from OS4Depot. Once download I clicked on the install icon. Unlike the SAMBA installations of old on Amiga SMB2FS is much easier to setup and lets you add shares on the Amiga only. Seems like you do not have to be a Unix expert or MCSE geek to get it going anymore.

Step 2 – Adding a dosdriver for the share

I have removed username and my password (12345678AB) from the pic above

The next thing I did after installing SMB2FS was to copy a dosdriver in sys:storage/dosdrivers. I renamed the dosdriver to SMBShare. Then I opened the dosdriver in notepad and added:

Handler   = L:smb2-handler
StackSize = 65536
Priority  = 5
GlobVec   = -1
Startup   = "smb://username:password@ipnumber/share-on-pc VOLUME=volume-name"

Where:

Username = The username for logging in to my workstation running Windows 11.
Password = The local password I use to log into my workstation.
Share-on-pc = The name of the folder that I shared on my workstation.
VOLUME = The name the shared volume should have in AmigaOS4

Some notes here that I would have been glad if they were specified somewere.

The username is the name you see when you open a command line on Windows.
The password has to be a local password, it wont work with a Microsoft password (the password you use for you Microsoft account).

As I understood it you should then add a default tool “c:mount” to the icon and add “activate=1” to the tooltype of the dosdriver. If you drag it over to sys:devs/dosdrivers/ and reboot then you would see the share on the desktop. But it did not for some reason work for me.

Note:

What worked was setting tooltype “activate=0” and then activating device in shell like typing in “smbshare:” (if that is what it was named to). But I wanted the share to auto mount during startup.

Step 3 – Starting the share

Network-Startup is like User-Startup for network applications

I got it the share to mount if I kept the dosdriver in sys:storage/dosdrivers and mounted the dosdriver from CLI by running “mount replace dh1:storage/dosdrivers/smbshare” (if you wonder why sys: is dh1:, that was an error by me during installation, off course it should be dh0:).

So I added that line to Network-Startup inside S: (not sure if you have to add run >NIL: but did not try without). During testing, I had to add replace to the mount command. Not sure why, but that is why I added it to the line here.

Step 4 – Trying out Windows 11 SAMBA share on AmigaOS 4.1

The SAMBA share is added on the Workbench desktop and behaves like a regular device

After a reboot the share popped up on Workbench! The share from the PC is the bottom device “MP3”. I have added an icon to the share otherwise it defaults to the regular AmigaOS 4.1 HDD icon. The share can be snapshotted wherever I want it on the desktop.

Accessing folders on the share is no different than local drawers

I have two drawers from the share open here on my AmigaOS4.1 desktop. One showing the top level of the SAMBA share and one of a sub folder. Opening folders in the share can take some time if there are many files inside them, but it is not that bad.

Having access to shares on another computer makes file transfers quick!

I have dragged an MP3 file to AmigaAMP that plays the tune from the share over the network. Occasionally there is some lag. I think that is because I am running a wireless adapter, but it is not that bad.

Next steps

Install SMB2FS on my 68k Amiga systems. DONE, it was almost exactly the same procedure.
I would also like to share the full Amiga partitions to my workstation, that way I would for example be able to edit s:user-startup or restructuring partitions or add/remove files from my PC.

Amiga PPC card setup on the A4000D

Posted on March 28, 2026 by erkorh

Emerson-Motorola PrPMC8005E PPC PMC card

There has been an active initative at getting some PCI cards with PPC CPUs working on Amiga systems as old school PPC cards on PCI enabled big box Amiga computer. That means it is possible to run WarpUp PPC software on Amiga with modern PPC hardware. What is old is new again!

I have been following this project with some interest from time to time but never pulled the trigger to get the relevant hardware to get a setup going.

Partly it was because I was swamped with Amiga hardware projects, partly because PPC on 68k Amigas was not really that relevant anymore – unlike yesterday when it was the next logical step for the Amiga to evolve to. Secondly, I could not wrap my head around how to set it up or where to find an affordable card.

But times change and I reconsidered that last opinion about it not being relevant when I skimmed through the supported applications a year or so ago.

Emerson-Motorola PrPMC8005E-1259 PPC card

One supported PPC card by the initative to get PPC working on PCI Amigas is the Emerson-Motorola PrPMC8005E-1259 that I was lucky to be able to pick up for a very reasonable sum on Ebay. All I needed now was a weekend to get the this insane setup going.

The PrPMC8005E-1259 contains a 450 MHz MPC7410 G4 PPC CPU and 128 MB memory. It is a PMC card and fits a PCI card that acts as a PMC carrier on the Amiga.

Originally this CPU card is not meant to be used on an Amigas at all, I think the main use is in industrial applications and in telecommunication, but exactly how and why – No idea!

Before I continue, lets look at some previous Amiga PPC setups I toyed around with a few years ago.

Previous Amiga PPC setups, time flies…

Phase 5 CyberStormPPC 233Mhz PPC / 50Mhz 68060

This was a top of the line Phase 5 turbo board that I got when I purchased an Amiga 4000D second hand in 2007. This was the top model from Phase 5 that had a 233Mhz PPC chip and a 68060 68k CPU. I had a CVPPC graphics card for it and was running SCSI with a 10k HDD that sounded like a jet once spun up. It was a fast setup but was highly complex in setting up. It was also noisy and hot running. I remember I spent a few days trying to get it going before being successful. I think I paid 400 euros for the complete system.

Phase 5 BlizzardPPC 200Mhz PPC / 25Mhz 68040

Here is another Phase 5 turbo card, it is the Phase 5 BlizzardPPC, I remember that it had a 68040 68k CPU and a PPC clocked at 200Mhz (I think). I have forgotten where I got this card from, I guess it was in a bundle, possibly with an Amiga 1200 tower, I had the BlizzardVision graphics card for it too.

Amiga 4000D PPC setup from 2007 or so… those where the days

Here is my Amiga 4000D setup from 2007 with the CyberStormPPC installed. Not much has changed with today really, just the shape of the hardware and the amount of machines.

I got AmigaOS4 for classic PPC system and installed that on the computer above. Then I played around with some software in 68k Workbench, but no matter how I twisted and turned things I felt like I had expensive hardware that I used too little and just heated up the Amiga 4000 too much – So I sold it all!

…and now I am back (never sell stuff).

PMC PPC PCI carrier board

So to use the PMC PPC card above on the Amiga you have to add it to a PMC carrier that slots into a PCI slot. This version of the PMC carrier was made by a friend in the hobby that I met on a Discord channel we frequently visit. It has a small 5v 40 mm fan to cool the PPC card that sits under it.

PPC card fits over the PMC carrier card perfectly

The Emerson-Motorola PrPMC8005E-1259 PPC PMC card is mounted to the PMC carrier board. As you see it is a perfect fit. The 3D printed bracket has holes for ventilation.

PMC carrier and PPC card sandwiched together

As you can see, the card is really slim even though its a sandwich. The CPU on the PPC card sits under the heatsink on the left side.

Installing the PPC card in Amiga 4000D

PPC card + 3DFX Voodoo 3 cards – PCI hardware setup complete

My Amiga 4000D has a Firebird PCI daughter board installed. The PPC card is inserted in the top PCI slot. The card under the PPC card is a normal PC 3DFX Voodoo 3 card, without it the PPC card wont work.

The Voodoo 3 graphics card is the AGP version, that is why the bracket is not flush with the case as there is an adaptor that converts AGP to PCI and takes up some space. Bottom slot contains a Multifix-AGA scandoubler.

My original plan was to use a 3DFX Voodoo 4 card but my Voodoo 4 failed to work in my setup in combination with the PPC card for some reason. Thus so I chosed a Voodoo 3 instead that is better supported on the Amiga.

Here is the setup from the top. Even with active cooling this is a really hot running setup, no joke. The 3DFX Voodoo 3 graphics card gets very hot. I wont be running long sessions with the lid on (if at all) and will possibly move the PPC/3DFX setup to a tower setup in the future to enable better cooling if possible.

To run the A4000D/PPC/Voodoo 3 setup reliably with the case closed would take some extreme cooling mods and cooling improvements to the A4000D case. Not sure how to or if I want to chop up this 350 euro replica case to enable more fans, but clearly something has to be improved if this is the way forward.

Problems with running PPC based Warp 3D software

Firebird PCI Amiga daughterboard Molex power connector

As is de-rigeur when dealing with Amiga hardware something has to be weird and strange, unexplainable or simply illogical or based on an error or fault that can not be guessed by mere mortals (or it might be me who f”d up when building something in this Amiga).

In this case everything worked fine, including PPC programs, except Warp3D enabled PPC programs that crashed the system – All the time.

68k Warp3D applications worked fine. Non Warp3D PPC applications also ran fine. It was just PPC Warp3D applications that failed to run.

Can you guess how I fixed it? -By not running power to the Molex connector on the Firebird.

With the Molex connected, crashes.
With no Molex connected to Firebird, could run PPC GLQuake all day happily. Why? -No idea.

Some demo PPC software on the Amiga

PPC was thought of as the next generation CPU for the Amiga. It was logical because both PPC and 68k was made by Motorola and 68k was not developed anymore. Motorola was not Intel which was considered Wintel and was lame and dumb.

It was a different time back then and it was much more fanatical, had they chosed ARM or Intel for the Amiga in the middle of the 90ies then probably half the user base would have left the Amiga community in disgust. Even if it could have been better.

I still remember a guy on an IRC channel who wanted to #%&& Collas for 4-5 hours straight in a channel when Collas had said that the next gen Amiga would be based on Linux back in 1999.

In hindsight PPC was maybe not the right choice, but who knew it back then. What everyone wanted was the OS, Workbench, to be fully ported to PPC.

AmigaOS4 installed on an A4000D with a CyberStormPPC

That eventually happened with AmigaOS4 around 2006 for owners of a Phase 5 PPC accelerators. Using AmigaOS4 classic was nice but limited as it only supported system friendly software, understandable as it is just like AmigaOS4 for next gen hardware.

Thus for most PPC owners, they still run Workbench on 68k CPU while the PPC CPU is just sort of a co-processor that runs PPC applications launched from the 68k Workbench when needed.

But that does not mean there are no interesting PPC software to run. You wont see them here today though as I was just trying my PPC card out with some standard software such as:

Warp3D Gears demo

This is just a demo to check that Warp3D and PPC is working. Imagine the gear spinning around very smoothly. There is a 68k executable too, that is great stuff if one want to compare performance between PPC and 060.

WarpUp Voxelspace

This is another PPC demo, the Voxelspace demo where you can travel around a voxel landscape. Hit F1 to render the voxel landscape with 060 or PPC and see the impressive speed up with it running on the PPC CPU.

PPC GLQuake

Off course, the raison d’être for having hi-end Amiga systems – trying out Quake on it for 15 seconds and then doing something else.

Links

Here are some links about PPC on the Amiga:

N2630 Amiga 68030 CPU card metal bracket

Posted on March 20, 2026 by erkorh

N2630 is a great 68030 CPU card you can build yourself for the Amiga 2000 or A2000EATX project. You can find more information about the N2630 project on the website here.

N2630 CPU card with 3D-printed bracket (that has a part broken off)

There is a model for a bracket for the N2630 that you can 3D print. I did that but it was too flimsy and eventually broke in two pieces.

I was planning on ordering a 3D metal print of the bracket from JLC but heard of arymanx on Amibay who had made a small batch of metal brackets for the CPU card. In this hobby, you have to act fast, or the chance might never come up again so in less than a week a shiny metal N2630 Amiga 030 CPU card bracket arrived to me from UK.

If you are interested in a metal bracket for the N2630 too, feel free to contact arymanx directly about it on AmiBay.

Another view of the N2630 metal bracket.

Its just a bracket, but is a great reminder of that it is the small details that makes a DIY build great.

Metal bracket mounted on to the N2630, my A2000EATX is in the background.

I mounted the bracket to the N2630 with two screws and nuts. The nuts got a drop of blue Loctite to hold them secure. Fitment was excellent.

Back of my A2000EATX. One slot left for a NIC.

Not only does it hold the card better in the case it also looks better.

Pay no attention to the nut wedged between bracket and case. The CPU slot I used when building my A2000EATX motherboard was taller than a regular CPU slot used on the Amiga 2000 making the CPU card sit further out from the motherboard.

Installing 3DFX Voodoo 4 in Amiga 4000D with Firebird PCI daughterboard

Posted on March 8, 2026 by erkorh

Amiga 4000D setup for PCI card installation and test run

Here is my Amiga 4000D with PCI slots. It has an Firebird daughterboard that has PCI slots, Zorro slots and one video slot. More information about the Firebird PCI boards here.

Firebird PCI daughter board for Amiga 4000D

This is an older picture of my Firebird PCI daughterboard with no cards mounted to it to get a better look at it. This was before it was fully built, that is why it only has one PCI slot.

I tried PCI on the Amiga years ago on my A1200 with a Mediator A1200LT – I was not sold on the concept as I felt the performance was lacking. Since then I wanted to give PCI on the Amiga a fair chance again and so I had to get the Firebird to try out PCI on a big box Amiga properly!

Here is a 3DFX Voodoo 4 PCI graphics cad I got years ago, back when they sold for a reasonable sum. It has spent close to 15 years in storage. Along the way it got a capacitor knocked off (that I am pointing on). I replaced the capacitor, added a heatsink and fan to it and hoped that it would still work.

Amiga 4000D with PCI cards, Zorro cards and a video slot card

Here is a closeup of the Amiga 4000D with the Firebird PCI board holding the Voodoo4 PCI card and a PMC carrier holding a PPC card. I will make a separate post about the PPC card in the top slot in the future. The other cards you see is a purple Multifix-AGA, GottaGoFaZt3r and a CPLDICY.

Testing Voodoo 4 PCI RTG output in Workbench with HippoPlayer

…aaaaand surprise, the 3DFX Voodoo4 PCI graphics card worked!! Installation went really smooth even if it was not a simple point and click installation.

Looking at the cards listed on the PCI bus

There is only so much time on the weekend so I ran out of time installing the PPC card, hopefully I will look into it next time. I will also need to set up an automatic switcher between RTG and scandoubled output. As usual, you are never done in this hobby….

Removing PLCC sockets from A4000TX

Posted on February 15, 2026 by erkorh

A4000TX with PLCC sockets desoldered and custom chipset removed

The A4000TX in the picture above was one of the first Amiga hardware projects I built. I was clearly way over my head when I took the bold decision to build it with so little prior soldering experience. I got it working in the end – It was a great experience in patience finding the small errors I made before I got it going.

And then I proceeded to build a second A4000TX. The second A4000TX I built was arguable a better build with the custom chipset directly soldered to the PCB, components more neatly soldered and having no 030 CPU soldered to the motherboard. But I had a lot of fun building them both and the learning experience was signficant!

As most beginners chose to do, I built my first A4000TX with SMD PLCC sockets for all PLCC chips. I made the decision to cut off the inner sqare of the PLCC sockets to make them easier to solder. Since then, soldering PLCC sockets with the inner square left is something that pose no challenge for me anymore. So the thought of replacing the flimsy sockets with high quality full 3M sockets has lived rent free in my head for a long time, as has the thought of cleaning up the build a little here and there.

Anyway, I desoldered the PLCC sockets today with a hot air station, then I cleaned up the pads and resoldered some parts that was sloppily soldered. While investigating ways of desoldering the PLCC sockets I got the suggestion to just solder the chips directly to the motherboard. On a second thought, I decided that is the way to go forward as it makes for a more stable setup, better looking hardware and cooler running chips.

Besides, I already have a spare ReA1200 I purchased from another builder with full sockets if I want to test most PLCC chips.

Oldschool Amiga Workbench 3.1 setup ala 1997

Posted on February 6, 2026 by erkorh

My Amiga Workbench 3.1 installation running DOpus 5.91 Magellan II

I mostly log my Amiga hardware activities on this blog, but I thought it would be interesting taking a look at how I set up Workbench 3.1 for my Amiga 4000D.

I prefer to install Workbench from scratch on my Amiga computers because I think the prebuilt Workbench installations you can find here and there online are configured so different than what I am used to.

While I have moved on to Workbench 3.2 on my main system I still prefer to have an older Workbench 3.1 system running and tweaked the way things looked like back in 1997.

So lets go through my wild WB 3.1 AmigaOS installation “1997 edition” that I recently set up in WinUAE for my A4000D.

Magic Workbench icons

MagicWorkbench 2 was the second Amiga Icon replacement of MWB and much better looking than the first

Back in 1997 you where either running MWB2, NewIcons or the original Commodore Amiga icon set. I prefer MWB2 because it is a beautiful icon set with a lots of icons to download on AmiNet.

Off course this is Amiga, land of drama, conflicts and useless legal battles no matter we talk about peoples egos or the type of icons people prefer – Who remembers the MWB vs NI war from the 90ies (ketchup’n’mustard-look), predating the PowerUP vs WarpOS war a year or two IIRC?

New Icons was fine but I think the design of Magic Workbench icons is just more professional and better, even the third party Magic Workbench icons are generally better looking and faster loading than NI since they are only using 8 colors.

What I like with Magic Workbench is that there is a huge variety of drawers you can chose from. I tend to prefer GlowIcons these days but Magic Workbench is timelessness in icon format, take for example the HDD icon that is iconic Amiga. How would MWB3 have looked liked if it was made? Magic Workbench icons in 64 colors? What could have been – c’est la vie…

Directory Opus 5

I run DOpus5 (Directory Opus 5.91 Magellan II) as a Workbench replacement. DOpus5 is a complex program to talk about. But to explain it in simple terms: I use it to primary get the same functionality you get in Windows when you use Explorer to browse around the file system. But DOpus5 is so much more than just a Windows Explorer clone for Amiga and that is also why it is such a complex program to get into on the Amiga.

Check this out:

This is the content of a drawer containing music modules in a DOpus5 Lister

I have clicked on my Data partition on the image above and dived into the folder structure. I have set it up to open Data: as a DOpus Lister in text mode.

The reason why it is setup like that is the ability to browse in and out of folders quick and easy. See that blue icon in the toolbar with a green arrow pointing up?

One click on that icon takes you up in the file hierarchy. You do not have to open up 100s of drawers (and closing them), you do all the work in one window.

I have a huge module collection with thousands of drawers containing thousands of music modules. Browsing them in DOpus5 is so much more effcient than going through folders, clicking, open and closing drawers in Workbench.

Double clicking a module file opens up HippoPlayer automatically with file types set up

The function that sold DOpus5 for me on Amiga was the ability to browse folders up and down like you do in Windows Explorer (or any file explorer in any OS). But it was also the ability to click on a filetype and automatically open a program that plays or opens the file. Such as clicking on a module file and having it open HippoPlayer and playing the module automatically.

This functionality modernizes Workbench tremendously and makes exploring a huge tree of folders and files much more efficient, like the way you are used to interact with a computer these days.

Here is another cool function in DOpus5, you can enable outlines on fonts. Makes fonts on Workbench and folders more visible on backgrounds. No need to run a separate hack for this functionality.

DOpus 5 enables button banks if the user so wish to have one.

And here is a little button bank in the bottom left corner, off course you can configure this to be text instead of icons, or configure it to hide itself, or configure it to be an icon, or configure it to be a start menu, or add it as a menu in the WB bar, or change background to be a color or pattern, you get the point.

There are tons of ways of configuring even the smallest things in DOpus 5.

This is both a strength and a weakness. As a reviewer said in his conclusion in an Amiga mag from 1996 “It is very powerful, but I dont have the time to invest learning DOpus5“.

Listers can look like regular Drawers in Directory Opus 5

Just to show an example of how you can confugure DOpus5, I chose to display my Work: partition as a regular partition in icon mode to the left. But I have configured my Data partition to be displayed in a Lister as text only on the right as it contains only data files.

Amateur attempt at pitching DOpusMagellan for Amiga

There are tons of functionality in DOpus5 and I think the problem Directory Opus had BITD was that the authors crammed all possible features and functionality into the program and enabled it as default when you installed it.

I think what they were going for was for the user to go absolute bonkers and excited over all the awesome functionality they managed to add to DOpus. Not expecting users to feel somewhat lost in all menus, options, functionality and occasional bizarre configuration logic.

I spent a week playing around with DOpus5 in the evenings before i got it configured to where I wanted it to be (almost) and when I reached that point it was a very satisfying Workbench experience.

But no doubt, this is a product of its time and it shows in the amount of time that one has to invest to get it going, to understand certain functionality, find solutions to potential problems and figuring out logic behind some configuration options or even get used to non-orthodox ways of handling stuff – such as selecting files and dragging them to another lister.

My suggestion is to disable all functionality that is not needed, the amount of things that can be configured is wild. For example, if you ever has tried a standard installation of DOpus5, you can see that I removed the buttons in the lister that I will never use (such as changing file attributes). That small change makes a huge change in user friendliness.

I also do not need a text button bank with every weird file operation thinkable. In every possible color combination. With secondary function if you click with right mouse button.

Also, it has to be said, that yin-yang symbol for the parent folder button in the Lister toolbar was stupid. Who came up with that idea for that icon must have been responsible for most of the UX in DOpus5, get ready for a crazy ride back to 1997 when bad UX was considered good -because it was not as it was on Windows- if you are brave enough to take the leap.

I mean, if the button is made to go up one level in the file hierarchy, i.e. “parent”, why not just have an arrow pointing up?!

Microknight – System font

Microknight is a great classic Amiga font

Lets talk about the font I am using for CLI and the icons on Workbench. The font is called Microknight. To be honest I do not remember where I found it, but IIRC you can find it somewhere on Aminet in some package, I think it is demo scene related, you just have to Google it.

Microknight is a classic Amiga font with just the right look. Works great in hi-res but also in hi-res laced. I have used it since 1997, will probably use it in 2037!

I use XEN as drawer icons just to get icons sorted more compact with outline enabled. Otherwise there would be huge space between them.

Statram

I found Statram on a BBS in 1998 and really liked it. It is a RAM disk that survives resets. Statram grows with the amount of files that is added to it (SD0:). It is perfect to extract files to. And it is also perfect these days when we can have 256 MB+ without paying through the nose in our top of the line hi end Amiga computers. Some even has 1 GB.

TitleShadow

TitleShadow is a cool Workbench hack that I found this year, wonder why I never found out about it before.

TitleShadow adds a shadow to the title of the drawer windows. Highly recommended. Wish it could be used on the icon text too.

Birdie 2000

Birdie 2000 is one of my all time favorite Amiga Workbench hacks/enhancements. It is much more than just a rotozooming image of a cool parrot. It is actually used to place an image file in the border of Workbench drawers (try clicking on the executable).

I remember when it came out, it took the Amiga community -including myself- by storm, suddenly everyone started to experiment with wild setups, from the most extreme to the more subtle – nothing was forbidden and everything had to be proved by taking a snapshot and uploading to AmiNET or shared on IRC.

In my Amiga Workbench setup I have a rather wild setup with many colors, this is supposed to be 1997 after all, but that is no reason not to go for something more subtle such as a light gradient as you can define two colors that creates a gradient from color A to color B.

The possibilities with Birdie for a highly personalized Workbench are endless and I had a ton of fun playing around with it BITD (and today) – I even ran it on my A1200 with AGA and 030 in 128 colors back in 1997!

This was hi end 3D rendered graphics and cool in 1995!

I remember that I emailed the author of Birdie back in late 90ies asking where he found the background image he used on the demo image of Birdie uploaded to AmiNET BITD. He did not have it or knew where he got it. But just recently, 2-3 years ago, I found the exact image as seen above, it is as wild as some Birdie enabled Workbench setups looked like – funny thing is I dont remember where I found it, what comes around goes around…

Birde is configured through CLI but there is a third party GUI for it, although from a usability perspective BirdiePrefs was highly confusing getting used to the first couple of times i used it. BirdiePrefs and Birdie should have been added to Workbench 3.2, make it happen in 3.3!

VisualPrefs

VisualPrefs is an awesome WB hack that lets you change the look of borders and other GUI parts of Amiga Workbench.

If you wonder where the look of the window gadgets comes from on the pictures it is from changing them in VisualPrefs.

I mainly use VisualPrefs to get chunkier buttons for drawer windows and to make the UI proportionally better. There are also some nice options to generally make the UI look better. I set it up to the same style I always run when installing it, XEN gadgets, with thicker title bars and proportional arrows. Exactly as how it looks like in the picture above.

Depending on what screenmode the Amiga is running the gadgets of a drawer can look disproportional. With VisualPrefs it is possible to change proportions of gadgets to make them look better depending on what screenmode you use.

The possibilities in VisualPrefs is huge, but as I said above, I tend to go for the same kind of setup all the time. Which is a shame since there is a ton of functionality and even possibilities of building themes and adding bitmaps to the workbench title bar in it. Maybe some day…

ClickToFront

This is placed in my WBStartup folder to make programs and drawers pop to the front by double clicking the upper border of a window.

KingCon and Amiga shell setup

KingCon is installed to enable tab completion of filenames. I think I will change to CSH as KingCon did not click with me. I have also set up CLI to have a black background with white text.

MUI, P96, AHI and all the rest…

Off course, no Amiga Workbench 3.1 installation is complete without the essential add-ons such as MUI, Picasso96, AHI, data types, a bunch of background images to keep Workbench fresh and that odd app and hack here and there…

I am also running a file requester replacement that I have forgotten how I installed. IIRC it was a replacement library. Main reason the swap file requester was to get directories to list before files in the file requester.

Partition setup

I also want to point out that I always install Workbench to a partition called Workbench (DH0:). I always create a Work partition (DH1:) that contains all programs. If I am installing on to a larger harddrive I also create a Data partition (DH2:) for files such as modules.

Typically I do not install any general use programs to the Workbench partition as that should contain the operating system and files relevant for Workbench only (such as Picasso96, MUI and so on). For example, I do not install Ibrowse to that partition as Ibrowse goes into the Net drawer in Work. Neither Deluxe Paint as that goes into the Graphics drawer in Work.

Some of the ready installations of Workbench floating around the net has a weird missmatch of installed software in different locations all around partitions with less structure than I am used to. It is not bad, just an example of the benefits and freedom of installing Workbench from scratch – You can get it exactly as you want it!

Conclusion

Using an Amiga running a Workbench that is tuned to your preferences is a great pleasure to use.