My review of Pegasos+MorphOS

[Spidey]

Hello Zorro,

"25 seconds... wow ! Let's hope that also the AOne/OS4 thing is capable of this (or better :-) )"

I think it will be as fast or faster now we saw the announcement of not needing registered RAM anymore :-D.
Furthermore both OS's (OS4 and MorphOS) aren't blown-up like most other OS's (to just be able to run the desktop) so the main difference will come from the hardware bootup. (I think :-))

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello JoannaK,

"...But it may well be dependent of some hardware you are having on your machine. I'll comment more when I have mine. "

I'm curious if it has something to do with my RAM.
So if someone with a Peg with different hardware configuration wants to give their total boot times, we could compare it.
You can see mine configuration in this thread! :-D

The software bootup could be less because now I see the MorphOS boot logo too. If I turn this off the software boottime would be a bit smaller than the 2-3 seconds of now.
(only, how to turn it off :-?:-))

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hi Warface,

Nice review :-)

You´ll do a review for OS4 too?

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hi Warface and HAK,

Unfortunately I don't have enough time to play around with the Peg, I did notice we've got also a sort of toolbar in the Prefs-dir: Pixload.
Or am I wrong?

Oh, in Prefs I see only ModeEdit, CyberGraphX, Pixload-Prefs and AHI.

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello Amon_Re,

"Well, considering the size of MOS (i'd estimate that the OS itself isn't much bigger then 50MB), how long does the hardware init take?"

I checked the latest bootcd and the size of it is around 12 MB

"Speaking of hardware init, does the Peg have a POST screen? I don't recall from what i saw @ WOASE."

Well sort of, you don't see anything going on from the hardware, but I think there is a possibility to turn it on in the BIOS?

"As for WXP booting in 35secs, that's actually quite fast considering all the stuff XP pulls at booting...."

Yes that particular friend is a very happy dude! :-D

"25 seconds certainly isn't long, but i'd like to know just what MOS does while booting "

The first 22-23 seconds are reserved for HW startup/check/initialisation. Also a second or so plain waiting like HAK said. The user should have the possibility to push the F9-button to get in the BIOS! :-D
The last seconds are for SW startup.

Perhaps someone knows details??

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hi Amon_Re,

I too was surprised about the games.
Don't forget about TurboPrint. That one is also part of the package, but it's not finished yet or so?

Yes, I'm certain OS4 will have the same responsetime as MorphOS :-D

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hi Leo42,

I don't understand your remark. :-?
On that picture I see you aplied one of the skins from the FTP-site. It is ofcourse nice, but...

I'm afraid I'm a bit confused here.

Spidey

ps: did you tried the other skins too? :-)

[Spidey]

Hi takemehomegrandma,

So your total boottime is around the same as mine?
Didn't you have 256 MB RAM? (I've got 512)
This would mean the startup isn't affected by the amount of memory??

Yes, SW boot time is quick ;-)

Spidey

[Spidey]

Wow!

You got UAE running?!
Please help me out with it!!!
I'm asking questions everywhere.

Please see the thread at MorphZone

Thanks in advance!!!

Spidey

[Spidey]

@Warface

"As to the bootlogo removal: Go to Prefs drawer, then CyberGraphX, then the Tooltypes tab and there BOOTLOGO"

You know, I did see it but didn't think it would actually work!
I'll try this tomorrow.

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello takemehomegrandma,

"Wasn't this discussed on the beta2 mailing list a while ago?"

Yes and also by me :-)
But the responsives weren't enough.
I saw an email adressing my question about UAE this morning, so'll look into it this evening when I0m home from work.

The problems with UAE I'm having now are:

- RX doesn't work, so I can't start UAEGui.rexx with that. I can only start it with "muirexx uaegui.rexx"
- What for is UAEWB.rexx? This one doesn't do anything except polling the dir (with SnoopDOS I see the command "changedir"
- I've extracted my 3.1 ROM but PPC UAE gets in a loop when starting. The 68k UAE does show the 3.1 kickstart screen.
- How to adress and get running a hardfile/partition.
- With UnDMS you don't need to change your DMS files into ADF files. Where to find UnDMS?
- If someone could give me an example ".uaesrc" for the PPC UAE with the available commands, I would be very happy!

Ok, I'll stop now :-D (I've got a few more actually)

About the memory, with us both having the same amount of RAM, it isn´t a surprise we have the same boottime! :-D

If I remember correctly HAK has 256 MB.
HAk, can you give the exact total boot time?
You did say something about the idle time, it was around 5 seconds?
I´ll see what my idle time is, but it isn´t 5 whole seconds though.
More of this "total boot time" this evening :-)

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello Leo,

I just took a closer look at your picture and I understand it now :-)

I have to make you a compliment, because the first time I thought the first window was the actual window after applying the skin. Well made! :-D

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello Zorro and olegil,

My guess is that software startup will also be 2-3 seconds at most :-D
The main part of the startup will be determined by the hardware (unlike some other systems where the software startup takes ages and after that the harddisk "refuses" to stop spinning and loading something :-))

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hello Zorro and olegil,

And if we want to compare it, give also the relevant hardware configuration.

I'm thinking: the type of RAM inside the Peg is of a registered one. Can anyone explain what's the difference between a registered one and unregistered.
Also, is it possible that startup with registered RAM takes more time than with unregistered RAM?

(oh, please help out with UAE :-D...somebody?? :-D check my questions :-))

Spidey

[Spidey]

Hi ple3003,

So this would mean that starting up with registered RAM takes more time than starting up with unregistered RAM?

Thanks for the info! :-D

@everybody
A lot of people have received their A1's and Peg's. Perhaps a good idea to start a new thread with these people telling their experiences?? :-)

Spidey