Update Amiga 600

[mfilos]

Kickstart 3.1 is one of least expensive investments one can make. If you want serious Hard Disk usage, even 37.300 isn't good and I really find hard to believe that you can find easily an 37.350 Kickstart without having to ask politely someone to burn it for you.

Keeping an old 2.x is just El'Cheapo cause Workbench 3.1 is by far superior to Workbench 2.0x. If you got an 2.1 then it's not that dramatic change but still... having Kickstart 3.1 is nice to have (especially if you intend to use an ACA accelerator despite it's awesome MapROM feature).

[mfilos]

True it's not necessary. It all depends on what you wanna do.
If you want a little something without investing much (alas the El'Cheapo statement) Kickstart 3.1 is the way to go.

[mfilos]

+1
Finally someone with common sence.

The fact that we have different views on certain aspects doesn't mean that some of us lack common sense!

I got 4x A600's over the years... and all of them had Kickstart 37.299 or 37.300 that sux!
Sure if you have 37.350 then you're set for Workbench 2.x and WHDLoad (if you have some extra memory (PCMCIA, A608, MTec, Apollo, ACA etc).

If you have some accelerator though... I find it really akward not to mention silly not to invest 15 euro for the 3.1 Kickstart.

Opinions are like a$$holes though... Everybody's has one


@save2600
+1

[mfilos]

@Amidude
No need to make accusations or take it personal.

As you can see in both of my posts I said that 37.350 is perfectly cool along with Workbench 2.1 that is indeed awesome as well.
Unless you convince me that 37.299 or 37.300 kickstarts are good to have instead of the easy solution of the 15euro Kickstart 3.1.... then I think there is nothing to talk about.

I haven't said that KS3.1 is allmighty as you said, but indeed is a lot better than 37.299/37.300 and easier to find than 37.350.

Also I'm one of the A600 enthusiasts and supporters and never suggested/tried to persuade extreme and expensive stuff to new Amiga users.

Terrorizing people with weird opinions? wtf! LOL

[mfilos]

I said something about opinions in the same post as well
...terrorizing is another thing though.

Anywayz, I guess we all said our points of view and we kinda agree that 37.350+ is the way to go on an A600 (if you wanna use Hard Drives that is, cause you might as well use a plain 1.3 Kickstart for floppy usage and be done with).

It's all of what you wanna do, and how much are you willing to spend

/sign off

[mfilos]

@danwood
Well you're kright. 37.300 works just fine but in that Amiga and only (or at least Amigas with that kickstart).
At least in a test of 2x 37.300 kickstarts (before I upgrade them to 3.1)... mounting the CF/HD to WinUAE with 3.1 kickstart environment... and HD wasn't booting.
Also preping an HD on WinUAE and mounting it on the 37.300 Amiga... and hard disk wasn't working as well!
Only if you prep/install HD on that specific Amiga worked for me.
It's like a misaligned floppy who's disks... only work on your machine and noone's else

Never had this issue with Kickstart 3.1 (I guess it's the same with 37.350 but never owned one to test).