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Re: The Workbench 3.1 natural successor?
« on: February 22, 2010, 04:52:59 PM »
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A very fast response, wow :)
There are still many Amiga users around, I see ;)

OK, I understand that the best solution for my A3000/040 and A1200/030 is AmigaOS3.9 but... What I can really do better with the new operating system than 3.1?

Jen


OS3.9 is really nice - but in my experience and usage, I do not like running it on anything less than an 040. It felt pretty slow on my 40mhz 030 equipped A1200 when I had it and I recently installed 3.9 on my 25mhz A3000 - to which I quickly un-installed it and went back to 3.1. Using a modestly sized hard drive, I did not need, nor enjoy 3.9's automatic resetting of the computer and it's fancy icon scheme is too slow for my tastes on an 030.

3.1 on an 030 is excellent though! IF you want 3.9 like operations, there's tons of "plug-ins" and apps you can download from Aminet, etc. if you want to tweak 3.1 'til your hearts content. That's what I've done and am extremely happy with the results.
 

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Re: The Workbench 3.1 natural successor?
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2010, 12:47:36 AM »
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If its a modern propgram you'll probably end up copying lots of libs from aminet, no matter which os version you use.


Truer words haven't been spoken in a long time! Can't tell you how many times I'll go to install something (usually in OS3.9) and be sent on a wild goose chase tracking down libs or whatever. lol  Glad it's all readily available, but the practice does get old after a while. Hell, even Amiga specific, modern and currently produced hardware does not come with all the software one needs to install some of this stuff. :mad:

By gum, these things (Amiga's) are supposed to be more user friendly than that! lol