I allways enjoyed my classic 3.1 severly patched install of amigaOS, but decided to give a go to the last 68k compatible OS for my not so nippy Miggy.
Once my A1200 with 68040 25mhz, 32mb fastram had 3.9 installed, I started to notice several disgusting aspects of the OS that required urgent fixes.
So to start with I:
1-Installed boing bag #1
2-Installed boing bag #2
3-replaced serial.device for the older less buggy one
4-replaced all buggy printer drivers for the original AmigaOS 3.5 ones
Later i realized many semi-official patches could help me fix some of the bugs still remaining:
5-Amigaguide.datatype 45.6
6-Console.device 44.10
7-FastFileSystem 45.14
8-Icon.library 45.4
9-MultiView 45.10
10-RAM-Handler 44.24
11-Rexxsyslib.library 44.2
12-Shell 45.12
13-Workbench.library 45.130
So installed them all, it took a while, but it wasn´t nothing i couldn´t master. But Lord it took time!
Ah! and how could i have forgotten?
14-copied the new 68040.library to LIBS:
15-copied mpega.library to LIBS:
But soon afterwards i realized those last moves were not the most clever:
16-replaced the 68040 libs by the mmu.library package with its own libs
17-replaced mpega.library with a new one which has better precision
Of course i updated the web stuff:
18-replaced Aweb 3.4SE with Aweb 3.5.08 apl
And did some other bit tweaking:
19-replaced the old xadmaster.library, and its associated apps with the most recent ones v12.1a
20-changed the awfully slow performance backdrops (slow for AGA), to others which could cope well and fast with AGA
So yes the system was running, but still there was some sluggish things to correct:
21-replaced slow 3.9 datatypes, gif, jpg, png, etc for the faster Andreas Kleinert ones (AKsomething)
Warp datatypes seemed a better choice, but do you imagine paying $$ to let your amiga display a jpg or gif file?
I dont, i´m sorry.
I needed a reliable backup and cloning disk system, not BRU (OS3.1), by any means:
22-got Abackup 5.22 from Aminet, its so cool!
23-got T.H.E to edit the workbench "tools" menu, and add my own hotkeys, in an OS friendly way
Then i digged for the usual speed-up patches and system hacks:
24-Fblit
26-Iconbefast
27-envhandler
28-NewWPA8
29-rpp
30-taglife
Just when i thought that was it, i remebered retargetable sound
31-installed an updated AHI version
And only then, i felt the AmigaOS 3.9 was nearly adequate...
Adequate enough, to start to fill up my HDD with games and apps!!!
Don´t you feel there should be something like OS 3.91 or whatever for classics? (I mean a bugfixed enhanced 3.9 OS)
What would you add or modify from those 31 steps?
