Nearly-Right wrote:
So you would have an up-to-date OS4 with access to maybe 4 IDE devices, and 24 bit graphics on an A1200 with a Mediator, THAT'S IT.
I only have 4 devices on my SCSI-UW chain, works fine for me. 2 HD, a CD-RW and a ZIP drive. What else do you need?
If it was not for the VooDoo card support I might as well just throw the Mediator card away for the support it gets from OS4.
At least it's supported. The Prometheus seems to have even less support, and the G-Rex has none at all.
So switch the machine on, look at the pretty pictures , and see how fast the machine boots . . . then re-boot it and have another look at that OS4, WOW . . that really was worth all the wait.
If OS4 is really that useless to you, why the hell have you been waiting for it?
So I can sit at home look at a great OS, but not be able to use my USB digital camera, or SCSI scanner, or SCSI hard drives, or listen to any music, or even go online, unless I buy a network card that plugs into the PCMCIA card slot, and of course buy a 90 degree PCMCIA adapter so I can put it in my tower. Is this an improvement over using my PCI Ethernet card . . . I don't think so.
You can't expect a new OS to support every pice of hardware ever made. The bottom line is you bought the wrong equipment. My A4000/CSPPC/CVision/AriadneII are fully supported, but if they weren't I still wouldn't dismiss OS4 as a waste of time.
This really is a great INCOMPATIBILITY list
It's disappointing, but would you rather find out after you paid for OS4? At least you know what to expect.
How is anyone using OS4 going to use it with only 4 IDE devices connected to the machine? That's IF you are lucky to have an IDE add-on card supported, without work-arounds.
You only need 2 devices: a HD and a CD-ROM.
How long has this OS4 been worked on ? Absolute ages, and now 2 weeks before it is due to be available we are told that hardware that has been around for all this time is not supported, well not at the time of availability.
Frankly it's pathetic.
No, it's because "hardware that has been around for all this time" is now ancient. Are you actually surprised that a new version of the OS needs better hardware than the last version? OS3.9 doesn't work on a stock A500. Get a clue.
I expected to see a fully formed OS4 capable of running the hardware my machine has had installed for a few years, which with OS3.9 runs very well I might add, but to get to this mediocre point of support for the Classic machine is pitiful.
Pitiful? No. OS4 is a complete break from the legacy hardware, which is why the A1 version was completed first. Only top of the range systems really get close to the A1s' capabilities. Your system is more of a mid range machine, compared to the A3000s and A4000s.
I really don't think much, if any, time has been spent over the last 4 years, developing to support the Classic Amiga A1200, maybe not even the A4000.
Of course it hasn't. The plan was to have new hardware in plentiful supply. Support for PowerUP machines was really to provide developer and testing facilities.
All the while ACube, as now is, has developed a brand new board, with no problems it would seem, other than a licence to use it, for running OS4. Their board has USB 2, modern graphics, and high quality sound built-in, and yet, has only recently become available.
So a brand new board for OS4, with many modern devices built-in, cannot be used as it has no licence. Wheras the Classic Amiga that has been around for ages, with some modern hardware designed to work with the Classic architecture, will not properly be supported by the release of OS4.
What's your point? Do you want OS4 on Classic, or OS4 on new hardware?
For me, so far it is almost as much use as OS5.
It's actually of more use. It's known to exist, will soon be available and has software written for it. OS5 is just vapour.
Go post at EAB, they'll appreciate your rant much more.
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