AmigaOS 68k development - components, critics, bugs, work-arounds, tips&tricks

[giZmo350]

  * many of its features are pointless or have "issues" since they rely on a third party product to work as intended
   (a product with unclear legal status, an update with all ties to to Amiga Inc. removed would clear this up)

I agree with this 110%.... Nothing against the devs creating this HW but, supporting their HW in ROM makes NO sense to me. They [the 3rd party HW devs] could easily supply an install kit that handles ALL of their HW requirements. SoftKick it! Constant changes could be downloaded & they could make it as dang bloody big as they wanted to! Supporting their HW in ROM seems to be a marketing ploy more than anything.

When I build a machine, whether it be Amiga, DOS 6.X, Win3.X, Win9.X, Apple 68K, (where the BIOS doesn't support optical drives), the first thing I do is get the optical drive working - especially auto-boot! It's a must for me.

If CDDA (auto boot - auto start) support were built into Amiga ROM, that would be a HUGE game changer for me & maybe for a lot of other users! Just load my 68K optical drive supporting software and go! It may be the number one reason users moved to newer HW back in the 90's. It was for me - all HW platforms!

Using 3.2.X ROM space to support optical drives would be a pure joy. I would buy it! Kiss that ERD goodbye! 

[giZmo350]

Yea, fit more stuff. It could be decompressed on the fly at boot up and copied to RAM:  and off you go.... with a SCSI CDRW whirring away!  Great observation DX! The forum needs new blood like you! 

[giZmo350]

<crickets>

I suppose this means that if OS 3.2 actually will incorporate some of my ideas (it already has), you will be utterly against it?

Or are you just OK with _ANYTHING_, as long as it comes from Thomas?

@kolla   I've always wondered why you don't join / are not on the OS3.X devs team in the first place? 

[giZmo350]

On the topic of BOOPSI - whatever happened to the tabs.gadgets and the others from v42?

I've never even seen this dialog box before...  and this used to be part of the OS? Looks very useful!