Supported shells are bash, ash and zsh: If you want to run amigashelld under ash instead of bash (default) please change the first line in amigashelld (/usr/bin/amigashell/amigashelld), same with zsh.
The top bar shows you kernel version, free memory, load average, time and date.
amigashell start
will load the amiga font, change the cursor appearance, load amiga colors
(by default /dev/tty1 .. /dev/tty6)
The screen resolution is not touched. If you want a higher resolution use consolechars, fbset or SVGATextMode (or whatever) to set your resolution.
If you want the script run anytime
you boot your machine you can do this:
cd /etc/rc2.d
ln -s ../init.d/amigashell S99amigashell