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Offline kolla

Re: Does Install erase a disk?
« on: September 13, 2021, 07:44:04 AM »
There’s a bug in these newish OS releases (OS 3.1.4 and I suppose this so called “Workbench 3.2” too) that if you select more than one NDOS partition and pick “format” from the menu, the “quick format” is only available in one of the format windows that pops up, in the others it is grayed out. Maybe that happened to you?
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A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
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Offline kolla

Re: Does Install erase a disk?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2021, 12:59:11 AM »
I also can't find the screensaver icon that's supposed to be in Prefs.
Maybe because it’s not supposed to be there.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: Does Install erase a disk?
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2021, 06:57:09 AM »
 No, that is OS4.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: Does Install erase a disk?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2021, 01:20:46 PM »
No, that is OS4.
So can I upgrade from 3.9 to 4.0?  I seem to recall reading somewhere that 3.9 was the end of the line for the A2000.
No, you cannot upgrade - OS4.0 (and upwards, latest is 4.1FE update 2 - "final edition") is for PowerPC systems.

I won't comment on what is end of line for the A2000, it depends on who you ask - 3.9 is one option, 3.2 is another option, many would argue that it really is 3.1.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: Does Install erase a disk?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2021, 07:58:17 AM »
Then, for classic Amigas/68k, some other developers made 3.1.4 and 3.2 based on 3.1 plus some 68k reimplementations of some of the 4.x parts as well as some other improvements
For 3.1.4, they weren’t “other developers”, they were pretty much the same ones that also worked on 3.5 and 3.9, most of the key components also came from 3.9 just as much as from 3.1 directly, only a few came via 4.x. The only missing 3.9 components were all the ReAction classes and resource.library, and software relying on these, essentially all OS3.9 Reaction based prefs programs. Oh, and HDToolBox (and hdwrench.library) by Joan Dow. With 3.2 ReAction classes and various other components/features were ported/reimplemented back from OS 4.x, and some developers replaced in the process. Noteworthy is that key developer and one if the two original initiative takers of 3.1.4 and arguably the most influential OS 3.2 developer (you know who), left the OS team long before its release, and is now seen arguing with some of the current developers (the usual very opinionated suspects) over certain choices done for the OS 3.2 release. So I would argue that the REAL end-of-line OS release for A2000 (and the other 68k systems) is currently on the hard drive of ThoR :)

And this brings us back to what Amiga is REALLY about - drama! - arguing, whining, bickering, blaming, entitlement, huge egos, besserwissers, splitting, forking, hacking, patching… :)
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS