Unfortunately the driver didn't detect this resolution in my screen when I checked ScreenMode prefs - this may not be a problem for everyone, it is likely screen dependant:

Flicking over to the Monitors tab, I only have 800x600 and 1024x768 detected automatically:

It is easy to fix though. So I unchecked the detect automatically setting, and manually added the 1920x1080 screen resolution in this section as below:

I then selected my new 1920x1080 entry in the Monitors section of ScreenMode prefs:

When I save the settings in ScreenMode prefs it prompts me to reboot for the settings to take effect:

On reboot I now have a 1080p Workbench screen. Excellent:

The SGrab tool is included in the recovery USB disk image, so I could start to grab screenshots from here on:

Going back into ScreenMode prefs, you can see the new screen setup setting in effect now:

Now, for those who haven't used AmigaOS 4.1 Final edition before, or are coming from a classic Amiga environment like AmigaOS 3.x or even earlier, I thought it would be helpful to also walk through some of the features included under AmigaOS 4.1 final edition on the A1222.

For those who already know all this I guess you might likely skim read over parts of it... :-)

The Workbench partition uses the whole drive capacity, now unlocked from the 2GB/4GB limits in AmigaOS 3.1 and earlier. (yes I know AmigaOS 3.2 also allows larger partitions now)

In the Utilities drawer, there is a lot installed here. Some of these programs are included in the standard AmigaOS 4.1 install CD, which is included as an ISO on the partition (more on this later). Others are installed as part of the A-EON Enhancer package

On the Tune tab you can see the output levels, music file type and options to adjust balance and volume. 

Naturally, I don't want to have to navigate to the TuneNet drawer every time I want to run it, so I can drag the TuneNet icon from the program drawer onto the dock at the bottom of the AmigaOS 4.1 Workbench screen. This dock is called X-Dock, and is started automatically each boot. It is also located in the Utilities drawer and is part of the A-EON Enhancer bundle.

Also included in the Utilities drawer is a program called DvPlayer, included with the Enhancer bundle. It is used to playback videos. This program was developed a long time ago in the mid 2000's (I registered it back then), and was purchased and updated a little bit by A-EON to be included in Enhancer. You can buy it separately though - which I showed on this blog.

DvPlayer is quite limited though due to its age, and I couldn't get it to play mp4 videos on the A1222 as delivered. I know from trying it in 2022 on my X1000 that it needs Radeon HD v5 drivers to play other formats well, which is sold separately to Enhancer.  

I also added the DvPlayer program icon to the x-dock dock. I think I'll call it the dock from now on, but I mention it is actually x-dock, rather than the Amidock that is included with AmigaOS 4.1. You can enable Amidock instead if you prefer from the WBStartup in the Prefs drawer.

As you can see the TuneNet and DvPlayer icons I added to the dock appear in places I don't want in the dock.

I can add separators and then move the icon positions around until it looks how I want:

There are plenty of other options too - X-Dock is very customisable:

As a side note, you can right click on the Workbench desktop screen to access commonly accessed programs such as those in the System, Utilities, and Prefs drawer:

I mention this as it is not necessary to add shortcuts to all the programs into the dock, as you have other quick ways to access them.

The next included utility is MultiEdit, part of the Enhancer bundle:

Personally I normally use Cubic IDE for editing, but this utility is simple to use, and allows multiple files to be edited and switched within the same program - below I am editing the startup-sequence file, which is located in the S drawer, and is executed every time the system boots up:

Next program I wanted to try in the utilities drawer was PlayCD, but it didn't find my CD drive. Normally it expects to find it as CD0, which under AmigaOS 3.1 is the usual name for the CD drive.

The Workbench partition device name is DH0: and USB0: is the device name for the USB stick I had inserted into the A1222 USB port at the time.

 

PlayCD then worked - I could play an Audio CD, but it needed to be inserted when the system booted, otherwise the system didn't see it. It also stutters playback. Hopefully this bug is just because I am using on older A1222 board and it can be fixed.

Also in the Utilities drawer is a Audio Mixer program for the A1222 to adjust input and output volumes:

Next up is the Calendar program (again from Enhancer), which you can leave running on the Workbench, and launch on boot using the WBStartup preferences program. 

On the subject of the Clock, it is the Enhancer version (rather than the original AmigaOS 4.1 Clock), and it is displayed on the top right when the system is booted.

You can change if there are sounds on quarter hour, hour, etc, and how loud:

You can also change the appearance of the clock with a number of theme styles available to choose from as delivered:

Here is a few examples - you can do Square shaped ones too:

I then tried Multiviewer, which is a fancy upgraded version of Multiview from AmigaOS 3.1. 

Naturally, we need a web browser, and included on the A1222 is the latest available AmigaOS 4.1 version of Odyssey from 2022:

The recovery usb stick sets up the network interfaces on the A1222 board using DHCP, so make sure it is connected before you proceed. Make sure to download the fonts using the supplied installer, which is downloaded from the internet.

os4depot.net is the place to go for AmigaOS 4.1 files, and you can also get files from Aminet.net too, as long as they are Workbench friendly and don't require the custom chips from the original Amiga in order to work:

You can also go to my website EpsilonsWorld.com as it works fine in Odyssey. But hey, you are already here :-)

In my testing, sadlyYouTube doesn't work in Odyssey, even when spoofing as Firefox, Chrome, or iPad / iPhone web browsers:

There is also a Technical Reference Manual for the A1222 board, and a guide to installing Debian linux on the A1222, both in PDF format.

You can see you can select the chapters of the PDF's on the left side to skip sections you are not interested in reading, which is handy.

I will move now to the System drawer, to see what is included there:

I realise some people who use AmigaOS 4 regularly already know this stuff, but I think it is helpful to cover as many people who have never owned an AmigaOS 4 system would not be aware of this. The A1222 is targeted to those people, so I think a quick coverage is potentially useful.

Editing partitions looks the same as HDToolbox too, but one thing to mention is that the A1222, like the X5000, using NGFS as the file system, not SFS2 as used on the AmigaOne X1000 and Sam460. Classic Amiga system generally use Fast File System (FFS), but also can run SFS and other file systems like PFS too. A1222 only supports using NGFS on the boot partition, same as for the X5000.

Moving on in the System drawer now, DiskImageGUI is next. This allows us to mount virtual CD's (ISO files) as device ICD0 or ICD1, and Amiga virtual floppy disks (ADF) as IDF0 or IDF1:

 

We can also eject them from the same interface. Once launched, we can bring it up anytime (as it is a AmigaOS commodity) with the keyboard shortcut CTRL ALT D.

Next I ejected it, and mounted the AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition ISO: 

 

Being able to adjust how much history is kept, and the ability to save the history into a file on exit is great.

You can make the Shell colours to your preference too. Note that AmigaOS has no "dark mode" theme, so you have to adjust in multiple places to achieve a similar outcome. Personally, I don't think it is worth it, but YMMV.

There are two updaters included, one called Updater for updates issued from A-EON products you have installed on your system, either from Enhancer, or purchased and installed from their AmiStore application that is also included.

The other update program is called AmiUpdate, which checks what updates are available from Hyperion Entertainment for the AmigaOS 4.1 operating system. 

Double clicking on the resultant files will open them in the associated application for that file type, if there is one.

Next up in the System drawer is SDBackup. This is a very useful utility that allows you to backup and restore the firmware of the A1222 to/from a file. It also has a number of other functions.

On the A1222, the firmware is stored on a MicroSD card on the board itself. So here I decided to backup my current A1222 firmware to the Workbench partition, using a new SDBackup drawer which I created for the purpose.

With this setup, I am ready to start:

The backup completes within a second:

You can see the resultant file in the SDBackup drawer I created earlier:

FYI you can also create a new drawer in any open partition or drawer window on the Workbench by right clicking and choosing New > New Drawer - you can also use a keyboard shortcut Amiga-N or select from the Titlebar workbench menu - lots of options...even from the shell using makedir (but note the shell method will not create a icon for the drawer)

MUI 5 is also included in the System drawer, but note that it is the unregistered version, which does have limitations on the functionality. MUI is used by a lot of Amiga software these days, and it is a good thing it is included in the A1222 system from the start.

You can register it from the www.sasg.com website. Place the resultant mud.key in the S drawer to activate its full functionality. Even without that, you can still change a lot of settings:

You can see that MUI applications have two extra buttons on the top right of their window to iconify and resize (small):

An example MUI application is Odyssey, and in it's titlebar menu is an MUI options section, which presents the options which will only apply to Odyssey (not every MUI application):

Next up in the System drawer is the Commodities drawer, which contains tools that run and stay resident while the system is running. You can run them from here or launch automatically each boot via WBStartup preferences. When running as a commodity, you can invoke them with Amiga keyboard shortcuts to use/customise them:

There are many tools for this on the Amiga, but none are included standard with AmigaOS 4.1 (or 3.x for that matter). Normally I copy lha and zip handlers to the C drawer from Aminet and use the shell. I know there are GUI options but I rarely use them. 

It worked fine - here is the resulting archive:

Locale works much the same as it did in AmigaOS 3.1, but it knows about Daylight savings time nowadays in AmigaOS 4.1:

AmiUpdate preferences allow you to change the behaviour of AmiUpdate when downloading, applying and rolling back updates:

A-EON provided their own version of Time prefs. Not sure this was really needed as AmigaOS 4.1 has it's own...but the option to adjust Daylight saving time automatically is nice.

Printer preferences have been updated from AmigaOS 3.1, but driver support is limited. Postscript is your best bet.

You can specific USB printers as a device or print to file, but as mentioned driver support is limited when it comes to printers (USB or parallel). It might work, or more likely not.

There are ways to print to network printers, but it is something I have only read about and not tried yet - I will have to try it one of these days, but I guess printing is something I rarely need to do from the Amiga. I assume it is the same for others too given the driver situation.

CANDI prefs are also present, but at the moment CANDI does not work on the A1222. IT works fine on the X1000 and X5000, so I expect there will be a fix in the pipeline. But for now, I wouldn't try to use it as it will hang the system.

Moving on, the URL preferences allow you to define actions to launch Amiga web browsers from a right click context menu.

Input preferences allows to setup the mouse and keyboard to your liking:

The Workbench preferences allows you hide devices, set the Screen title information in the Titlebar, if the traditional volume gauge is visible in device windows in workbench, Icon display options, transparency and more!

Naturally I change the titlebar screen text to include EpsilonsWorld.com, as I do on all my builds:

Serial preferences are next up, and look similar to AmigaOS 3.1

Screenblanker allows you to set the screen saver you want to use, and setting associated with it, timeouts. etc.

Pointer preferences allows you to change the design of the mouse pointer if you desire it. Back in Workbench 1.3 I used to do this, but since AmigaOS 3.1 I haven't bothered. But if you like to do this kind of thing, you can still do it!

AmigaInput allows settings for devices like USB joysticks and scanners, and testing/calibration settings. For joysticks you can test that the directional functions and fire buttons work as expected.

That completes the look at the Preferences drawer. 

To be honest, I think not enough attention is given to how much functionality is included in the AmigaOS 4,.1 Final Edition, and I hope I have helped to show some of it in this post. 

That completes Part 1 of this build. In the next part of this A1222 build I will add a lot more software to the base system, and look in more detail at the performance of the A1222 system compared to other AmigaOS 4 systems. See you soon!