Roadshow

Part of the Mastering Amiga Vampire 1200 v2 Guide

Updated on March 30, 2025

Introduction

This part of the guide describes all the steps to install Roadshow and configure it to use the ethernet card for the Vampire 1200 v2 card. Roadshow is probably the fastest TCP/IP stack around for AmigaOS and still in active development.

In this guide we are going to use the commercial version of Roadshow and you need to purchase a license for it (€25 EUR). Support Amiga developers, buy it :).

At the time of writing the latest version of Roadshow is 1.15.

Prerequisites

Roadshow (Full version)
AmiSpeedTest (Optional)

Step 1

On another computer copy the file "roadshow.lha" to the SD card and then boot your Amiga to the Workbench screen.

Step 2

Double click on the "SD0C" icon in "AmigaOS:Storage/DOSDrivers/" to mount your SD card.

Step 3

Now selected "Execute command.." from the Workbench menu to open the "Execute a file" window. Enter "newshell" and press enter or click on the "Execute" button.

Step 4

Now it's time to extract the files we need. Enter the following command and press enter.

lha e sd:roadshow.lha ram:

If you get operation successful like the picture above continue to the next step.

Step 5

Next we need to extract the installation archive and we are going to use the full installation file and not the smaller compact file. Enter the following command and press enter.

lha e ram:roadshow-1.15.lha ram:

If you get operation successful like the picture above close the "AmigaShell" window and continue to the next step.

Step 6

Open "RAM Disk".

Step 7

Open the "Roadshow-1.15" drawer and double click on the "Install_Roadshow" icon.

Step 8

I always choose "Expert User" so I can choose to not install things I don't want and know what files and where they are installed. Click "Proceed With Install".

Step 9

Click "Proceed".

Step 10

Click "Yes" to install optimised 68020 library and drivers.

Step 11

Click "Yes".

Step 12

Click "Yes".

Step 13

Select where you want to install Roadshow and a new folder named "Roadshow" will be created for you. I have created a folder named "Work" in the "AmigaOS" partition for all my software.

Step 14

Click "Proceed" to add Roadshow to your "User-Startup" file to have it run every time AmigaOS boots. It's really fast and maybe adds one second at startup.

You can see what the installation added to the "User-Startup" file and the content for the "Network-Startup" file in the pictures above.

Step 15

Click "Proceed".

Step 16

Installation complete! Click "Proceed" to close the installer.

Step 17

Now selected "Execute command.." from the Workbench menu to open the "Execute a file" window. Enter "newshell" and press enter or click on the "Execute" button.

Step 18

Now we need to copy the Vampire 1200 v2 configuration we want to use. Enter the following commands and press enter after each line.

copy sys:storage/netinterfaces/v2expeth devs:netinterfaces/
copy sys:storage/netinterfaces/v2expeth.info devs:netinterfaces/

Step 19

It's time to get online! Enter the following command and press enter.

addnetinterface v2expeth

Success! Roadshow has successfully connected to your network.

Step 20

Roadshow installed a few command tool in "AmigaOS:C/" like "Ping". Enter the following command and press enter.

ping -c 4 google.com

Success!

Performance

Speed in kb/s according to AmiSpeedTest v0.8