BB3 & BB4 - What do I REALLY need in there?

[Blatboy]

Greetings.

After fighting an epic battle that shall go in the anals of my memory, I was finally able to get my Retina BLTII Z3 card working on my A3000 in 3.9 using P96.  I was getting the dread Guru 800004 error... and never got a signal out of the card itself.  I tried a multitude of different things... installing libraries... reinstalling the OS a gazillion times, animal sacrifices etc etc etc

Finally, I tried installing P96 after a clean 3.9 install with only BB1 and BB2.  It worked.  My god.  It was incredible!

Just as a test, I installed BB3&4 on top of THAT installation... and yep... right back to the guru.  Fortunately, I made a backup of the working system and I went back to that state without a problem.

So... I'm new-ish to post WB 1.3 Amigas... what is in BB3&4 that I really need?  And can I get those individual parts via Aminet?  I don't know what in BB3&4 the Retina and P96 didn't like...  so obviously I don't want that (testing could eventually find the culprit.)

So far, working on an Amiga with only BB1&2, I've only noticed the shell... no autocomplete.  I know BB3&4 had some added internet stuff... I don't think I need that as RoadShow seems to do the job.

Thanks!

[Blatboy]

I really appreciate the input.  I feel like an idiot not to just look at the README from bb3&4.

That said, great to have your opinions.

I should probably just get KingCON from Aminet... as that's that main thing I'm noticing at this moment.

Maybe I'll slowly add stuff, backing up as I go, as I'm really curious what would be the thing that made P96 croak.  (I know I'm not the only one that had this problem...)

I'll def add the icon libraries.  

[Blatboy]

OS3.9 comes with ViNCEd that is way better than KingCON. Unless you spend a lot of time booting into first CLI (booting without startup-sequence) and want more than commodore CON in the kickstary, you are way better off using ViNCEd.

I think I'm using VinCEd now... or maybe it is an earlier version?  There isn't a tab-complete feature in the version I'm using, and I'm lazy.  That feature is key.  
 

Something to be aware of on A3000/A4000, BB3/4 installs card.resource which will make your machine crash randomly or during boot.

This is not supposed to be there for big box machines and it is only for A1200 or A600.  Hopefully some day this will be fixed.

Good to know.  Thanks.