AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic arrived

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Well I received my AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic from Vesalia today, still waiting on my Pegasos version from Amigakit.

Pictures attached :-)

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Going to order the Pegasos version from Vesalia as they have it in stock and pass on the copy from Amigakit to someone else when it finally turns up.

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I've attached my Winuae Config if anyone is interested. Just change the extension from txt to uae.

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At first things were kind of slow and laggy, then I stumbled across on another forum by Toni who was suggesting to use the SCSI accelerator option and wow what a difference, boots almost like a real machine.

Becomes are very useable machine, might sell the Peg2 after all :-)

Fast = Yes
Network = Yes

So ignore all the how tos/guides that suggest using IDE as this is really really slow and painful, follow them but choose SCSI accelerator instead of IDE.

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yeah... very fast...wish AmigaKit orders were that fast when heading this way...

Didn't order classic through Amigakit but through Vesalia.

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Uses the Picasso IV card

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Amigakit were very quick in their dispatch. I had my copy within 36 hours of them getting stock. You need to look at Hyperion to see where Amigakit hit delays.

Yep. Was dispatched within 8 hours of me placing the order through Vesalia. They did have stock a few days before Amigakit though.

Would depend on where Hyperion are based or shipping from as to when it arrives at the dealer. So I would assume Acube and Vesalia to be right next door to them as they had stock almost straight away.

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Some more screenies :-)

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Last post for now. Can't really see any vast improvement over 4.1 so far, and not seeing any new artwork other than the boot screen.
Nice little service pack.

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Amistore... well thought I'd give it ago, downloaded it and ran it. Every second time you run it, it works great.

Went to purchase/download an item and it asked for a logon, nowhere in the app does it have a create account option. After some googling found out you have to make a Amisphere account. This isn't mentioned anywhere on the amistore site.

Created the account and downloaded MACE, doesn't run under WinUAE and freezes the session.

So tried buying CANDI and got the error that the files were not found on the server.

Afew other screen shots attached...

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A few more shots...

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Finally candi is up and running, but even with the slow CPU it's a resource hog under WinUAE.

Need more speed, have an i7 running in the background sitting there idle with many a core to use. There must be away of tapping into that and you need more than the 128MB of RAM that appears to be the limit.

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So after spending the day trying to setup all the games again I forgot how painful it is.
Instead of releasing the game with all the required files they make you visit several forums and dead end links trying to download libs.
Will fire up the Peg and see if I can copy it from there instead, should't be this hard.
If a game or application needs a lib or a software req then include it in the download!

The amount of broken or old read mes on os4 depot is terrible, even aminet is a shocker.

Anyway features are listed on Hyperions site.

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Boots quickly using SCSI accelerator instead of IDE. Pretty responsive workbench/desktop and internet browsing.

When it comes to running some games like MACE, WinUAE will lock up.

If you use CANDI it becomes very sluggish.

WHDLoad works really well, and so do most 060 demos, yet to test Quake PPC etc but will give that a go too :-)

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@spirantho - Completely forgot about that :-)

Acutally most of the games appear to lock that I've tried.

A couple of Youtube clips so far for web browsing...

http://youtu.be/Em9Iw_VRwe0

http://youtu.be/lw1pNP6qMvM