mjnurney
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After a week of testing , crashing , freezing and running stable for no obvious reason if have a few pointers and questions about OS3.9 and ultimately a mini review.
Features
AmigaOS 3.9 from Haage&Partner supplied on CDROM with Emergency Boot Floppy disk.
Workbench
(AsyncWB adds asynchronous copying and delete functionality to Workbench)
Multimedia programs
(MP3 player, AVI & QT player, new CD player)
Web browser AWEB 3.4 SE
(new version)
GENESIS
(full Internet and network access)
AmiDOCK
(new program start bar)
WarpOS 5.0
(new version)
IomegaTools
(for Zip and Jaz)
new powerful Shell
(with extensive prefs)
automatic datatype recognition
(powerful and very flexible)
integrated unpacker
(lha, lzx, dms, zip...)
fast search
(search for, and in, files)
new picture datatype
(PPC-optimized)
many new Tools
(ASLPrefs, new Info requester, new watch, font cache, new color wheel, etc.)
extensive HTML documentation
(in English and German)
but here are the features I have
1) Amidock
it looks nice but after boing bag 2 (I think or 1) is installed it locks the system and now gurus.
2) boing bag 3 & 4
They seem to kill PPC acceleration or at the very least is buggy and cause problems.
3) CD-ROM support and or fastATA problems ... my cd-rom / dvd-rom is just a pain in the butt. I can view some files but not others , some discs but not others and it freezes the system. Works just fine in 3.1
4) PPC acceleration.
I could not (after 6 hours of effort) get PPC acceleration to work from a clean CD install of 3.9. library files out of date , warpup updates , boing bag updates and then ..... slow file access and choppy PPC acceleration. Now this is no doubt down to me as other people use OS3.9 with no trouble at all but this however escaped me by a country mile.
I gave up and used Steves HDF of 3.9 classic. it works....
but on the plus side.
I like it more than 3.1 for some reason that I cannot explain really its a bigger 3.1 install with more features and integrated tools that Classic workbench adds for free but its not as bloated as the classic install but expect add a lot of tools / apps to it oh and boing bag updates too.
Over all I think I will stay with 3.9 now as its new to me and feels like a semi modern update to 3.1 , after all ive been using that since the 90s...
I will post pics of it running and being tested.
min specs :
For improved performance, we recommend:
My system
A1200 3.1 roms
PPC accelerator 260mhz
68060 60mhz
128mb ram
20gig 2.5 IDE
fastATA3
IDE / SCSI DVD
Indivision AGA
and a big fan.
After a week of testing , crashing , freezing and running stable for no obvious reason if have a few pointers and questions about OS3.9 and ultimately a mini review.
Features
AmigaOS 3.9 from Haage&Partner supplied on CDROM with Emergency Boot Floppy disk.
Workbench
(AsyncWB adds asynchronous copying and delete functionality to Workbench)
Multimedia programs
(MP3 player, AVI & QT player, new CD player)
Web browser AWEB 3.4 SE
(new version)
GENESIS
(full Internet and network access)
AmiDOCK
(new program start bar)
WarpOS 5.0
(new version)
IomegaTools
(for Zip and Jaz)
new powerful Shell
(with extensive prefs)
automatic datatype recognition
(powerful and very flexible)
integrated unpacker
(lha, lzx, dms, zip...)
fast search
(search for, and in, files)
new picture datatype
(PPC-optimized)
many new Tools
(ASLPrefs, new Info requester, new watch, font cache, new color wheel, etc.)
extensive HTML documentation
(in English and German)
but here are the features I have
1) Amidock
it looks nice but after boing bag 2 (I think or 1) is installed it locks the system and now gurus.
2) boing bag 3 & 4
They seem to kill PPC acceleration or at the very least is buggy and cause problems.
3) CD-ROM support and or fastATA problems ... my cd-rom / dvd-rom is just a pain in the butt. I can view some files but not others , some discs but not others and it freezes the system. Works just fine in 3.1
4) PPC acceleration.
I could not (after 6 hours of effort) get PPC acceleration to work from a clean CD install of 3.9. library files out of date , warpup updates , boing bag updates and then ..... slow file access and choppy PPC acceleration. Now this is no doubt down to me as other people use OS3.9 with no trouble at all but this however escaped me by a country mile.
I gave up and used Steves HDF of 3.9 classic. it works....
but on the plus side.
I like it more than 3.1 for some reason that I cannot explain really its a bigger 3.1 install with more features and integrated tools that Classic workbench adds for free but its not as bloated as the classic install but expect add a lot of tools / apps to it oh and boing bag updates too.
Over all I think I will stay with 3.9 now as its new to me and feels like a semi modern update to 3.1 , after all ive been using that since the 90s...
I will post pics of it running and being tested.
min specs :
For improved performance, we recommend:
- 68030 or higher processor
- 8 MB Fast RAM
- Graphics accelerator and/or scandoubler
- Modem
- 68060 processor with PowerPC accelerator card
- 16-bit sound card
- 32 MB Fast RAM
- I/O Accelerator
My system
A1200 3.1 roms
PPC accelerator 260mhz
68060 60mhz
128mb ram
20gig 2.5 IDE
fastATA3
IDE / SCSI DVD
Indivision AGA
and a big fan.