Should i buy OS4.1 Classic?

[nyteschayde]

Hi
Not sure if anyone remembers me on here? my Amiga has sat collecting dust the past few year and well i was wondering if OS4.1 is any good for classics?

What are the benefits? just hoping someone could give me the run down?
Thanks

My A1200T has always been slightly buggy. That being said, having everything including the early boot menu show up (after the OS4.x kernel loads) on my Radeon 9250 is like a dream come true. OS4.1 is (almost) everything I had ever hoped 4.0 would be.

I am having other issues with my internal IDE controller be despite those issues, I am still very much loving the crisp beautiful display and speed of OS4.x. (Long story short; I had a 4xIDE'99 device from Elbox that died on me and without the right cables setting up something directly on the motherboard for a HDD has been trying; awaiting a new FastATA 1200 MkIV from AmigaKit)

I just tried to put a SATA card in it auto detected both the card and HD right quick. As more and more drivers (and updates) get released, I think the OS4.1 is really the place to be.

As far as should you buy it, decided whether or not you actually want to spend $140 for a machine you don't use often (from the sounds of it). If you want to use it more and have used OS4.0, 4.1 is a no brainer (at least to me).

I found that I like OS 4.1 so much in fact that I've considered trying to find a non-classic PPC Amiga. I have other Amigas if I wanna get down and dirty retro. If anybody out there is interested in trading one of their extra (hehe) modern SAM or similar PPC Amigas for my pimped A1200T let me know.

The machine has:

Blizzard PowerPC (non-SCSI) 603e/233 68060/50 192MB RAM
Elbox Mediator 1200 SX
IDE CD-ROM (likely upgraded soon to a DVD-ROM)
ATI Radeon 9250 (256MB only 128MB visible; not sure why)
Subway USB
Indivision AGA (which I may want to keep for my other Amiga 1200)
Boots into OS 4.1 Classic Beautifully

The Radeon also works well in OS 3.9 and I a working on getting one of Mechy's PCI Spider USB cards as it will have much faster access than the Subway device.

[nyteschayde]

Obviously, that's your call, but I find there's a lot of emotional investment tied up in my old A1200T, given that I've had the base A1200 it's built from for 19 years. I doubt I could easily part with it

I may change my mind when I get the rest of the hardware I just ordered (the FastATA MkIV & the supported nic card for 4.1), but this Amiga was never converted to a tower by me.

I have done quite a bit to it since I got it, but nonetheless it never held the same warmth in my heart that my original A500 did. I actually bought this one after buying the Blizzard PPC. I foolishly thought I was going to use it in my A4000D which I also still have, collecting dust. I had just upgraded the A4000D with a mediator 4000Di and thought I was buying a PPC for it. I didn't pay attention that I had bought the wrong type. So I rushed out and picked up someone else's A1200T project and started over again.

Bought another mediator for the A1200. Got the BlizzardPPC and noticed the fan was going and found someone online to repair it. This person also upgraded the crystals and the onboard CPU from a 040 to an 060 and upgraded the RAM from 64 to 192.

I put in a Si3114 SATA card tonight and that helped normalize things a bit but I am still having some occasional weird issues that I need to track down. Specifically with copying large files. I still love OS4.1. I also have a mostly stock A1200 in a wedge case sitting behind me as I type running an old flying toasters screen saver.

So even if I do part out, sell as a single unit or keep my A1200T I still have other Amigas to keep me company. I am seriously thinking about it because I want an AmigaOne 500. Who know's I may eventually just fork out the cash and buy one and keep everything.