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Offline Cammy

Re: AmigaSys4 or ClassicWB
« on: November 14, 2010, 11:51:22 PM »
It's pretty easy to make two bootable partitions on your drive and install them both, then just use them for a little while until you find the one you like most. Or make three partitions, have plain Workbench 3.1 on one, ClassicWB and AmigaSYS on the other two, and make your own hybrid system, taking the best parts from either one and learning more about the Amiga Operating System along the way.

While they're both well put together and are great for people just getting back into the Amiga or using them for the first time, I still found them a little too limited or flawed in some small way for my own purposes, so I started working on my own Workbench distributions to see if I could do any better myself. I'm working on two packs, one for moderately expanded Amigas and another for low-end systems. These won't be ready for a while because we still need an Amiga project forum separate from the discussion forums where we can get work done on things like this, but they're coming so keep in mind ClassicWB and AmigaSYS (and AmiKit) won't be the only choices for long.

I'm not trying to say anyone should stop using AmigaSYS or ClassicWB! They're great, and they're ready now. But I just don't think either one is perfect, and couldn't tell you which one to choose over the other.
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Offline Cammy

Re: AmigaSys4 or ClassicWB
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2010, 10:23:09 PM »
I will be writing a guide on installing each of the components of our upcoming packs so people can simply add parts of it to their own installations if they don't want to install the whole distribution. In fact I want to write a whole book full of guides on how to do things with the Amiga and make it free to download.
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CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
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Offline Cammy

Re: AmigaSys4 or ClassicWB
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2010, 10:11:13 PM »
While I will make the iconset and separate components available for someone to make their own 2.x disk, I don't want to focus on it at all. I have a few A500s and A600s and they all have Kickstart 3.1 in them (some still have 1.3 as well on ROM Switchers).

The whole Amiga experience is better with Kickstart 3 instead of 2, and barely uses any extra RAM if any. Kickstart 3.1 EPROMs can be picked up so cheap these days, or you can flash them yourself if you have the hardware. I don't mind if someone wants to make a 2.x version, but I'd rather focus on one for A500s and A600s with 3.x ROMs and provide instructions on how to acquire the ROMs. If anyone needs a hand getting some they're welcome to send me a private message.

The idea of the smaller Workbench is to be able to run from floppy with the option to install it, so it should be pretty close to what you want.
« Last Edit: November 17, 2010, 10:58:01 PM by Cammy »
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CD32 020@14Mhz/2MB+8MB/RTC/KS3.1/IDE-CF+4GB
A600 030@30Mhz/2MB+64MB/RTC/IDE-CF+4GB/Subway USB/S-Video/PCMCIA NIC/USB Numeric Keypad+Hub+Mouse+Control Pad
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