OS requirement for Vlab Motion 1.3

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Once my A2000 is fully working again (probably next week), I'd like to get this Vlab Motion 1.3 board properly installed.  I currently have OS2.1 on my hard drive.  Does anyone know the minimum OS requirement for the the Vlab Motion 1.3?  I cannot seem to find that info anywhere on the internet.  Other Vlab boards state OS2.0 is required, but there seems to be a general dearth of info on this particular Vlab board.  Thanks, -Dave

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Yes, that's all I had found -- and that's my point.  For the Vlab motion 1.3, there is no information about the required OS.  Thanks, -Dave

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Thanks, yes.  I have MovieShop, and I figured OS2.1 would be sufficient.  It installed correctly, supposedly.  But with the board plugged into the Zorro II (only, not SCSI connection!) the software froze up before fully opening.  I noticed the free memory on the top bar dropping pretty quickly just before that, but not even close to zero -- and I have 2MB chip ram and 8MB fast ram, so that cannot be my problem, right?  Of course, I cannot test anything right now due to the (temporary) defunct nature of my A2000.

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T3000 wrote:
You didn't mention if the A2000 was a stock 68000.

Here is a review of VLab Motion.

I have the A2630 board.  So will the 68030 change anything?

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Castellen wrote:
The docs don't list any OS requirements as you've probably noticed, but in various sections they detail:
"Starting with AmigaDOS 3.0 ......" suggesting some slightly different behaviour from previous OS versions, i.e. OS2.x.  So perhaps operation could be possible under 2.x??

Never tried it on anything less than OS3.1 myself, though I can confirm MovieShop 4.3 runs fine under OS3.9 + BB2.

A bit off topic, but here's some good info on additional operators, if you have them: Video Works.

Thanks.  Here I'm talking about MovieShop from, I think, 1994-96 --- version 1.2 or 1.3?  I contacted Macrosystem US in Colorado and they know absolutely nothing about their legacy hardware/software.  Maybe we can convince them that they should be a part of the new Amiga desktop video revival?

I don't have any access to English Movieshop or Vlab Motion instructions or manuals.  Do you know of such a source online or off?

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Thank you Matt H and Castellen.  You're very helpful.  One way or another, I should be able to get this thing working, unless there is something wrong with the Vlab board itself.  Hopefully that's not why the software was freezing in the first place!  -Dave