Hi
I read a strange thread about Amiga sys in the brother site AW which had not yet made any sense so I went over to the Amiga sys site. I have tried Amiga sys in Winuae before but the 68x version looked different. I recently upgraded my 1200 030 40mhz with a sandisk cf card and a silent HD, and relocated the Concorde engine powered HD to the A600. (Stole that last phrase from alexh I think)
Now, I only eyed over the instructions reading unpack and rename partition to SYSTEM. I had no big hopes for this to be successful anyway due to the lack of graphics cards on my 1200. Some memories from the nineties with experiments with system enhancers that got the horrific flickering screen down to 10 hertz, it seem, came rolling back.
I have 3 boot partitions. Renamed Nr2 to SYSTEM. Unpacked Amiga sys to nr 2 and run Nr 2 from the boot menu after reset. It restarted... Gave it the WB3.0 disk and then the extra disk. Reboot again into Nr2. Some choices was given for graphic cards I took “Other” and chose newicons and PAL hires without interlace. Restart… Now music and a nice hires boot picture and Bang, there it was.
I just blinked. It looked amazing with background picture and all. Extremely nice touch with the design. The only thing I ever used was the tiled marble. Thought well it will probably be slow with the 64 color I usually use 8, but no. It was responsive and perfect.
So what can one say? People in the Amiga world have once again made amazing things and one can only thank humbly the responsible for the fantastic contributions.
Amiga sys is working great on a a1200 030 40 MHz with 2mb chipmem and 8mb fastmem and the built in whdload runs games with ease.
So if there is anyone that sits on an A1200 with a 030 processor thinking you have to buy all sorts of cards, just try Amiga SYS. It works. It’s great. It’s a brand new machine.
Just felt compelled to relay this.
