@All His is a bit OT, but has some truth inside (although the wrong bit on cronologocal place of an Amiga): something on OSes
Enjoy. Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
Mitch wrote: Is anyone running stock ( no patches or gizmos ) levels of Workbench?
I tried recently, here is what I found:
Workbench 1.3
ARRRRGGGHHH!!! God this is AWFUL. Like the busy pointer though.
Workbench 2.04
Ugly, more pro looking but really ugly and doesn't do much. No backdrop picture!
Workbench 3.0
Disgusting. How was I ever persauded to use one of these?
Workbench 3.5
Hmm, almost like a real OS ;)
Workbench 3.9
Getting better, works pretty well off the CD.
Workbench 4.0 ( AmigaOS 4.0 )
Now that is what I call a decent out of the box experience.
I don't entirely agree. Appearance is a personal taste (I mean appearance besides the imposed standards/expectation of the specific time). Besides that every single AOS release brought in it's innovations (all of them except 3.5/3.9) or facelifts (3.5/3.9) that were a must when I look backward. Every single of them. And without any bloat. And that should be appreciated nowadays. And it was very Unix-ish OS when you take the multi-userness out, ant that's good imho.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
@all at the moment both my amigas's , a a3k and a a500/gvp 030 have un patched/modified wb 3.1 on em.. granted its not by choice but hell its reminded me of why i loved the AMIGA BRAND in the 1st place..
3.9 here i come..
ZanT
lu lu lu got some apples
best episodes Southpark season 11: Night of the living homeless, More c rap and Le petiet tourettes!
Yup At least Amiga wasn't mentioned as a part of the leitmotif.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
zant wrote: @all at the moment both my amigas's , a a3k and a a500/gvp 030 have un patched/modified wb 3.1 on em..
Great! Is that a GVP A530 expansion? I am using one of those too! With which processor speed is your expansion equipped? Mine has a 68030 processor running at 40MHZ. In my opinion, this is one of the best hardware devices ever made for the old Amiga. Great Valley Products was one of the most respected Amiga companies. Did you know that these expansions have become extremely rare nowadays? They are very expensive when you buy them second hand. You better keep the Amiga in a safe place.
zant wrote: @all at the moment both my amigas's , a a3k and a a500/gvp 030 have un patched/modified wb 3.1 on em..
Great! Is that a GVP A530 expansion? I am using one of those too! With which processor speed is your expansion equipped? Mine has a 68030 processor running at 40MHZ. In my opinion, this is one of the best hardware devices ever made for the old Amiga. Great Valley Products was one of the most respected Amiga companies. Did you know that these expansions have become extremely rare nowadays? They are very expensive when you buy them second hand. You better keep the Amiga in a safe place.
Reminds me the old days when I had an a500+a590 (afair) with 2MB of ram and extra 0.5 onboard modded to be swtchable to act as chip of fast ram. 3MB in total. It First I had an XT 20MB HD, then dumped it for 40MB scsi one and felt like riding a race car. On the pain 68000. When compared to it, 386 with windblows 3.1 felt like pulling a cart with stones in it.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
@Sister rita i have 2 with true 030's not the EC (with no built in MMU) both with 8mb ram and FPU's .. on top of that i have a GVP HD+8 with 8mb ram (and the XT card).. and 2 T-Rex II a4k/3k accelerators.. im in love with GVP :D
lu lu lu got some apples
best episodes Southpark season 11: Night of the living homeless, More c rap and Le petiet tourettes!
@romanceclip not that im aware of, although someone has mentioned a scsi<->ide adapter on IRC, personally i think amiga and scsi goes togeather like pea's n carrots
ZanT
lu lu lu got some apples
best episodes Southpark season 11: Night of the living homeless, More c rap and Le petiet tourettes!
According to Amiga hardware book, no (afaik). However there should be some non-GVP.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
i have tried one non gvp IDE product with my a500 and it was called AD-IDE the same company did an 010 (ad-speed) and a AD-RAM expansion that took your amiga up to 2mb chip and 4 fast through the trapdoor.. ahh the good ole days.. (for the life of me cant remember the companies name) if i remember rightly it was an aussie company... :-/
ZanT
(i still have my AD-RAM LOL)
lu lu lu got some apples
best episodes Southpark season 11: Night of the living homeless, More c rap and Le petiet tourettes!
zant wrote: i have tried one non gvp IDE product with my a500 and it was called AD-IDE the same company did an 010 (ad-speed) and a AD-RAM expansion that took your amiga up to 2mb chip and 4 fast through the trapdoor.. ahh the good ole days.. (for the life of me cant remember the companies name) if i remember rightly it was an aussie company... :-/
ZanT
(i still have my AD-RAM LOL)
That is interesting - the only one I have seen is on Australian Ebay! Trouble was I forgot to add it to my watch list and I couldn't find it again.
if your after an AD-RAM i'll part with mine for a reasonable price.. also have an unused a590
ZanT
Wow! Let me know how much you want! Is it an AdIDE2?
I'm not sure about the A590 - I think this wasn't IDE as such but Mitsumi and the like. It would be very hard to find a CDROM with these interfaces nowadays!
The AdIDE on Ebay went for $62.50 but it had a problem with the 68k male connector.
I'm not sure about the A590 - I think this wasn't IDE as such but Mitsumi and the like. It would be very hard to find a CDROM with these interfaces nowadays!
A590 is XT-scsi combo + ram. As afar as I knew about it when I had one.
Jack
"the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or swimming 'the art of not drowning.'. A. Schoenberg
I sometimes run just Workbench 1.3, but I really only do it to play with the SAY program.
I think the 1.3 Speech sounds a little different then the last version on 2.04 Workbench. 2.04 is better quality I think, but the one on 1.3 is the one I remeber playing with when I was younger.
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