I bought the Apollo 1260 @ 32 MB RAM @ 80 Mhz!!

[fishy_fiz]

re: movies

Ive always been interested to see what an '060 can do in the way of video. Dont expect videos you've downloaded to be anything more than a slideshow, but when converted to use non compressed (or very lightly) video formats its possible to get some decent results on any (amiga) system. Im personally running a 40mhz '040, and experimented a bit. Got some decent results, but for dvd-ish quality video transfer rates (plus possibly AGA limits) seem to be the bottleneck.

Funny enough Ive never seen anyone try what is possible movie wise with an '060. Would be interesting to see if there ends up being the same sort of bottlenecks Im experiencing.

Good luck with it (and congrats by the way)

[fishy_fiz]

My experiments were with iff anims + wav file audio.
Could well be better options, but Ive gone in mostly blind and am still learning the ropes.
Ive tried both 320x240, and 640x512 (both 8bit color, which looks nicer than I expected). Audio iirc was 16bit/22050 and 8bit/11025 stereo respectively for no reason other than I was experimenting.

[fishy_fiz]

My 1st guess would be libs. Also booting from a 3.1 disk will not show up partitions correctly as you'll effectively have no scsi.device capable of reading beyond 8gig, nor is pfs available. These things are only available when the boot media contains then. It's quite likely youve not lost your data, but rather the partitions cant be read because of no updated scsi.device or file systems when booting from a wb3.1 disk.

[fishy_fiz]

Perhaps try creating an emergency boot disc with OS3.9, then install the OS. Once that's done you can create/edit partition table and file system used. Use a 2nd partition, then copy the OS files across to that, use boot menu to select the secondary OS install, then partition/format original OS install partition with pfs, then copy back. This last step is only necessary if you want the boot partition to also use PFS (recommended anyway).

There's a bunch of ways to go about it, but this should work.

edit: if you find yourself having problems booting the OS3.9 disc (sounds like your current install may not be stable enough) then Winuae might come in handy as you can boot from an ISO without the need for cd drivers. Once its installed you'll have access to os3.9 hdtoolbox and you'll also be able to update your file systems with whatever you like, so you can complete the process on your amiga (or do it under winuae, the choice is yours

Good luck and feel free to ask if you find yourself stuck again.