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OS 3.9 and ECS Amigas concerns
« on: October 14, 2009, 08:46:59 PM »
Cammy brings up a very interesting point which I copied below. This concerns me since I don't have an RTG graphics for my A2000 and it will be awhile before I can buy one. Workbench 3.1 floppies I have seen online are almost the same price as OS 3.9 and I rathe have 3.9. Can anyone using 0S 3.9 on ECS machines only (no graphics cards) give me feed back on the performance and speed of Workbench?Thanks

"Unfortunately picture.datatype in OS3.9 is just much slower than the 3.1 version, no matter what bitdepth the images being used are. I have pre-remapped every image I use in all of my programs to a special, locked 16 colour palette. In a program like YAM, which needs to load many of these images on startup, the difference in load times between 3.1 and 3.9 is very noticable. It takes less than a minute to load in 3.1, but over a minute to load in 3.9, and all the images it's loading are 4bit 16 colour iffs."
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Re: OS 3.9 and ECS Amigas concerns
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 09:27:25 PM »
Quote from: Lockon_15;525992
If your A2000 is short of 68040 or 68060 accelerator with 16Mb or more FastRAM, you won't miss OS3.9.
I tried it on my setup and that was a really soooo sloooooow...I mean slow boot, no background eye candy, GUI is killing machine at all times....
Considering that fact, I set my sail for OS3.1. It's enhanced with MUI3.8, Scalos 1.2 and NewIcons 4.6. With inbound Indivision ECS I'll be shooting at stock 640x512 in 16 color.


Well I have a 68030 at 50mhz 18 megs ram. So I guess like cammy said unless you have an RTG video card it isn't worth it.
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Re: OS 3.9 and ECS Amigas concerns
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 06:28:41 PM »
@kolla
Thanks I will try those tips."As I have tried to point out numerous times" Sometimes I have to be beat over the head before finally get it! Not as quick as I used to be. Darn Thyroid
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Re: OS 3.9 and ECS Amigas concerns
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 10:14:04 PM »
Quote from: pyrre;526100
@ Amigapixel
(sorry if i am duplicating this post)

If i am not completely mistaken a WB 3.1 install is included on the 3.9 CD-rom.
Just copy the contents to your HDD and you are ready to go.
And you have the 3.9 cd til you are able to purchase a GFX card...

Go for the 3.9 cd

EDIT: After browsing the 3.9 cd-rom there is a WB 3.5 folder.
And it looks complete....

I would anyway go for the 3.9 cd-rom...

Thanks for the tip pyrre, good to know those are included. I was thinking about that too  at least having the OS 3.9 cd on hand.
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