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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: kamiga on March 30, 2008, 04:59:29 AM

Title: kickstart and workbench versions
Post by: kamiga on March 30, 2008, 04:59:29 AM

Machine's is an A500.

If Workbench.....about (and version at the cmd prompt) says

Kickstart 39.106
Workbench 40.23

Which versions of those are they?  I think this is Kickstart 3.0. And I think Workbench might be 3.x something.

I haven't look at this stuff in 10 years.

Thanks

Keith

Title: Re: kickstart and workbench versions
Post by: Matt_H on March 30, 2008, 05:17:25 AM

This (http://gregdonner.org/workbench/os_versions.html) should help.

You've got WB 3.1 running on Kickstart 3.0.

EDIT: You've got an unusual configuration, though, since the 500 doesn't usually have plain Kickstart 3.0.

Title: Re: kickstart and workbench versions
Post by: kamiga on March 30, 2008, 04:46:12 PM

Thanks for the info, Matt.

While I know this could be a personal question and up to debate, what's the generally acceptable stable choice of Kickstart and Workbench for a VXL-30 accelerated (68030 w/ fpu), 2mb fast/1mb chip, HD-based Amiga 500?

I don't want any OS that's going to eat up a lot of memory, or one that is too old to support any new(er) generation apps.

What's a good compromise here?  What do most people run on similar A500's ?

Thanks

Keith

Title: Re: kickstart and workbench versions
Post by: da9000 on April 01, 2008, 05:28:41 AM

kamiga, I'd say OS/WB 3.1 is going to be great for your setup. If you add more memory, then you could also go up to OS/WB 3.5 and 3.9.