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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Kvist on May 21, 2006, 09:52:27 PM

Title: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: Kvist on May 21, 2006, 09:52:27 PM: Hi! Is it possible to run The Amiga OS 3.5 on a stock A1200?
Eventually, what sort of upgrades are needed to run it? it looks really cool, so i want to try it. I have kickstart 3.0, so i know i have to change this to 3.1..
And is it possible to make floppy's of the cd, as i have no cd-rom..

Thanks,
Sigurd ;-)
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: 3246251196 on May 21, 2006, 09:56:37 PM: your vitually like me man.

i have:

10Gb HDD,
DF0, DF1 (not that thats relevant for os3.5)
PCMCIA card
1220 Accelerator (4Mb FM, 28MHz FPU/CPU)

you need 4Mb Fast mem to run it and a CD DRive (personally, with PCMCIA i am going to use my PC CD DRIVE though and run the install from there)
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: Amiduffer on May 21, 2006, 10:00:46 PM: Hi Sigurd, nope, you HAVE to have the CD-rom and a little more fast RAM.
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: 3246251196 on May 21, 2006, 10:05:24 PM: need a HDD too, right?
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: Kvist on May 21, 2006, 10:05:45 PM: Ok folks, thanks for answering! Then i just have to by me an accelerator card then. And say to my girlfriend that i need some new parts for my pc, as she would go mad if i spend money
on "that old crappy toy"..! :lol:
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: amigagr on May 21, 2006, 10:08:34 PM: and if you didn't buy os3.5 yet, better go for os3.9.
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: 3246251196 on May 21, 2006, 10:09:41 PM: out of curiosity can you use IMAGES for your sig?
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: InTheSand on May 22, 2006, 12:08:11 AM: Quote

Kvist wrote:
...it looks really cool...

If you're referring to OS3.5/3.9's appearance, you may be disappointed! The pretty screenshots on A.Org are usually the result of a fast (at least '060) Amiga running on a graphics card with a couple of bits of third party software (available from Aminet) to change the standard graphical interface.

And as 324... hinted at, the OS3.5/3.9 install works fine from an attached CompactFlash card or a folder on the Amiga's hard drive. So as long as you've got some way to read the CD in the first place (e.g. on a PC), and some way to get it over to the Amiga, you can set it up without the Amiga needing its own CD-ROM drive.

As others have mentioned, your Amiga will need a hard drive (see if you can find a cheap one from an old laptop) and some FastRAM - and preferably a faster CPU.

- Ali
Title: Re: Newbie question, Os 3.5
Post by: 3246251196 on May 22, 2006, 12:16:05 AM: yeah, i was going to request a screenshot (i actually already have) of OS3.5 @ ~~ 4Mb FMem on nothing more than a 1230 .... anyone got any?