Hi All,

The next meetup of the Scottish Amiga Users Group will be:

Cambuslang Institute Main Hall
37 Greenlees Road,
Cambuslang, Glasgow.
G72 8JE

The event is on March 14th at 11.00am until 4.00pm
£10 per person to defray hall costs, under 16s go free

There will be a presentation by Fred 'OldAmigan' Booth - Amiga After Commodore

Tea and coffee provided
Biscuits, cakes and other munchables will be gratefully received

Also Scottish Amiga Users Group meetup

Saturday January 24th at 12.30

Lochwinnoch's first Retro gaming and console fair.
Come and see retro gaming at it finest.
Tables with old school gaming from the 70,80,90's.
If you want to show off your Retro , Tables are only £10.
Entry will be £5 plus tea/coffee

Lochwinnoch Community Annexe,
Lochlip Road, Lochwinnoch.
PA12

I have an A1222 and I get a crash when I try to start pixy or even if I open the readme file.

Different crashes, I can kill the program with the readme crash but with the pixy crash it opens up the program screen and freezes. I can open other programs after this though.

Language: English

OS4.1

Run from HD

@Reynolds

I too have an A1-XE, which I haven't used for quite some time. It was never a very stable machine for me but I remember I had it running nicely at one stage under AOS4.0. I never switched off for two years!

After the OS went to 4.1, it didn't seem to be as stable, but I have no idea why not.

I do remember I had a Soundblaster fitted. I also have a Terratec sound card. I wanted to swap it for the SB as I wanted to use that in an A1200 with Mediator but never got around to it.

I also had a SIL IDE card, which worked fine,.

I never managed to get good results using an AGP card for video. I tried several different cards but usually fell back to a Radeon 7000 in one of the lower standard PCI slots, as that also seemed to make a difference.

Reading this thread has enthused me to try to bring the old girl back to life, too.

The next meetup of the Scottish Amiga Users Group is on Saturday, 25th October 2025

Some of you will surely come back from the German Amiga party with new ideas, games, demos and mods to show off and talk about! I know I would
So 25th of October 2025 is where we'd like to see it!
Bring your new stuff, bring your old stuff, or just bring yourself.
Livingston Station Community Centre EH54 8BE
Saturday 25-Oct-2025
12:30 to 17:30
Please Note:
The organiser has requested only PAT tested devices and powerboard to be plugged in.

Usual donation via Fred Booth to cover costs.
There will be a presentation on Amiga/Atari history (The Intertwined History of the Amiga and AtariST), and a DVD of "The Amiga Years - From Bedroom to Billions."
If you have something to show, bring it along!

Tea and coffee provided
Donations of biscuits, cakes or whatever will be gratefully received!
Cost: £10 per person, under 16s go free

Hi guys,

I'm a A1222 Plus user, have been since they were first generally available, last April and I like my machine.

I'd like to be able to dual-boot into Linux, too, and I know that won't work with a Radeon RX card.

Does anyone know the highest Radeon HD card supported?

I'm thinking, maybe HD7770

Hello and welcome

Hi folks,

Just to let Amiga fans know, there's now a North East Amiga Group in UK.

Check us out on fb https://www.facebook.com/groups/1405697347407057

@Mr_byte

Some helpful advice above.

Check out amigang's blog, too at https://amigang.com/hardware-amigaone-a1222/

His blog and the others you mentioned were very helpful when I got mine

I'd been having a few (self imposed) problems with my OS 4.1 installation, so I decided I would reformat the SSD and start afresh.

I reinstalled the SSD and recreated the partitions, including an OSRecover partition, so I had another option in case of boot problems. So now I have DH1: Workbench, DH1: Work and DH2: OSRecover.

I then rebooted from the USB Installation media and, using the OS4.1.iso, reloaded the OS on both DH0: and DH2: and then the Enhancer software, so I definitely had the Radeon RX driver.

The system went through the normal boot sequence but then wouldn't show the workbench. Rebooted using the OSRecover partition, same thing!

Long story short - I RTFMed, followed the flaming instructions and used the provided shell script to reinstall the OS. Bingo!

The moral of the story is definitely....RTFM!!

@Boabster
I have an A1222+, but one I built myself into a Checkmate case. However, I bought the same SSD,Graphics card, etc as AAA specify, except for 8Gb RAM, rather than 4Gb.
I have left my system on overnight and it hasn't turned off.

@thread

So does the amount of RAM on the graphics cards make any difference to the framerate?

Double post

@dfstudios

Yes I've done that with Ww6, which has worked ok

@Szmn

Welcome

I see the same with my Amisphere login - only Image FX and PPaint Classic, although Enhacer 2.2 does show up in my Purchases folder in Workbench.

Have we all got our A1222+ boards through the Early Adopter scheme?

@joerg

I think someone said the other day that A1222+ running OS4.1 supports up to 4Gb but can support more under Linux

Hope so, 'cos I have 8Gb in mine just for Linux!

@dfstudios

Welcome. I too, am in the process of building my A1222.
Nice to see others doing that too

@thread

I've been following this thread with interest because I, too, have been building up my A1222+ and also have CD/DVD issues, although I think, in my case, it may be the particular CDs I'm trying to read.

I have a copy of Wordworth Office 6 and a copy of Vulcanology (the first 9 or so games by Vulcan Software - Bograts, etc), neither of which even show up on the desktop.

I have tried other CDs (mainly Amiga Future cover discs), which read OK.

The two particular ones I have problems with, I have tried in an iMac and a 2012 laptop, with no result, then in a 2015 laptop, where they do read.

The Amiga Future cover discs are professionally produced, whereas the Wordworth and Vulcanology are licensed copies, but produced by the vendor. I'm thinking that the professionally produced CDs were produced using a stronger laser, perhaps.

I seem to remember I used to have a CD/DVD writer and a CD writer in my old A1-XE, one of which was better at reading certain disks than the other.


The unit I have at present in my A1222+ is a new Asus CD/DVD/DL writer. I do have a slot loading CD/DVD writer which I'll try and see if that improves matters. I do also have an external drive which I'll try out.

@AmigaOldskooler

I emailed Laurent this morning to ask if there was any news of the Early Adopter boards.

He replied very promptly to tell me that the boards are undergoing testing at the factory and he hoped that they wouldn't take too much longer.

I am sooooo much looking forward to having a (working) NG Amiga.