CRT with Amiga OS 3.9

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hi! What exactly is your question? Of course an LCD looks better than a CRT, for most things. Although there's a lot of "personal opinion" in that statement.

If you want to take advantage of increased resolutions you should also look into a graphics card or an Indivision.

Check out these links for more info on the system requirements and new features of 3.9:

http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=8

http://www.vesalia.de/e_os39.htm

You'll also want to make sure to download Boing Bags 1 & 2 (at a minimum) and (optionally) 3/4, which are basically like Service Packs for Windows.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Similar, but with 2,976,444 less files than a Windows service pack.

:laughing:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

From my understanding its best to only try OS 3.9 if you have a 060 or better accelerator.

"Or better"?  There's not much better than an '060 (unless you count the Vampire), lol.  

3.9 works fine on an '020, and even better on an '030, as long as you have enough ram and are realistic with yourself about not trying to use absurdly high resolutions or numbers of colors, or otherwise "push the system to it's limits".

In other words, don't try to run 800x600x256 color Workbench with a 14MHz '020 or you'll be pretty disappointed.  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Am I right in thinking I would only see the full benefit of  OS 3.9 in all its high colour and fancy backgrounds on a LCD? I guess a 14 inch CRT wouldnt be able to offer that?

If you haven't gathered already from this thread, this is pretty much up to individual user's opinions.  Some people swear by original CRT monitors.  Some people want the newest & best.  Properly configured, 3.9 can look good on both.

You're kind of putting the cart ahead of the horse with this question.  You'll need a graphics card (or at least an Indivision), if you really want to take advantage of some of the higher resolution/color modes.  At that point what monitor you select will be down to your choice of "what works best with my graphics card?".  You're not going to use a 1084 monitor with a Picasso IV, for example.

Is there much differnce between 3.5 and 3.9 OS?

Don't waste your time with 3.5.  

I manily use my A1200 for games but I want to update the OS with a more refreshing look to it.

IMHO 3.9 with Ken's Icons v4 looks very refreshing over older versions.  Even standard 3.9 GlowIcons look pretty nice (IMHO).  Search Aminet for all of the various icon packs on there (you can spend hours doing this), and don't forget the Peter K. icon library.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

At the time I was thinking better would have been 060 PPC, but they look like they cost more than what my first car did.

PPC won't give you any advantage except for with software specifically written to take advantage of it (e.g., OS 4.1 Classic, PPC-compatible datatypes, certain mp3 players and graphics  programs, etc.). It's not going to have any effect on NON-PPC software (for example: most games).

By comparison, Vampire will speed up a lot more different programs (doesn't require specific binaries like PPC), but is not 100% classic compatible (lacking the MMU and FPU which most 040's and 060's have).