My review of Pegasos+MorphOS

[HAK]

@ Spidey,

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.

I only have 256 MByte but boot time is (more or less) the same.
I assume you also have the 5 seconds delay in the boot options enabled so you can stop booting and go into the OF part.

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 :-?:-))

Hm, how about "Bootlogo = NO" in the Monitor driver in devs?
(Haven't tried it myself, because it doesn't bother me).


Bye HAK

[HAK]

@Spidey,

>If I remember correctly HAK has 256 MB.

Yes, that's correct.


>HAK, can you give the exact total boot time?

Just did some tests.
First, I cutted the delay-time during boot to 3 seconds (instead of the 5 I had there before).
Times given are *included* those 3 seconds.

Equipment:

Pegasos with 256 MByte RAM.
Voodoo3 (PCI)
Hauppage TV Videocard
Realtek 8029 based Ethernetcard
Harddisk and CD-Rom on 1st IDE-connector
Harddisk and CD-Writer on 2nd IDE-connector

Time for booting: 30 seconds.


I did a second test where I exchanged the Voodoo3 with a Radeon7000 (AGP).

Time for booting: 27 seconds.

Obviously the booting time depends on your equipment.

BTW, there was no difference between switching on the Pegasos or doing a reset.


HTH


Bye HAK

[HAK]

@magnetic,

>Do you have the Hauppage TV Videocard working with Peg?
>If so how?

I have both of my Videocards working with Visionary ATM.
However to use it I'll have to switch to the Voodoo3 (as this one
supports Overlay).


>Does AMITHLON TV work? What about IO Spirit's VHI Studio 6.

Sorry, no luck here.
The latest versions of Amithlon TV don't freeze or crash anymore, but
unfortunately, I also don't get a picture/sound either (only tested it
with the TV-in of the Hauppage).

Even less luck with VHI Studio (this one doesn't even recognize the
card at all).


Bye HAK