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Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« on: May 23, 2008, 05:29:22 AM »
So it appears that I have 2.04 roms and version 1.3 of the os.  Which version should I upgrade to on my 2000?  I have a 68030-33, 2 megs of chip ram, and 16 megs of ram.  If I'm reading things right, it would be a kickstart 3.1 rom and version 3.1 of the os?

I'm eventually planning on a buddha and a new hard drive.  iirc, I can put the new 3.1 rom on the buddha board, right?

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Re: Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 03:20:34 PM »
So 2.1 or 3.1?  What's different between them?  Is there a compelling reason to use one over the other?

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Re: Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 04:42:00 PM »
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Course, you could just softkick to 3.1

Depends if his 030 accelerator board has an MMU. You cannot softkick (for OS usage) without an MMU


It's this one:

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=177

The PLCC version.  Looks like there's a jumper for mmu enable/disable, but I can't find it on the board.  Is it with one of the other chips?  Should be a 68852, right?

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Re: Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 05:11:52 PM »
It's 68030FE33B.

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Re: Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2008, 07:47:50 PM »
i'll try the softkick.  I intend to get a buddha board at some point with flashrom.  That might be an easy way to downgrade.  Also, depending on the situation, I may end up with a 1000 or 500 at some point anyway.  I'm trying to buy the 1000 on craigslist at the moment, but the guy won't respond to me.

I have a black hole of amiga knowledge in my head.  I stopped using my 500 right around when the aga machines came out.  I never upgraded.  So there's a lot of hardware history I don't know.  Thanks for bearing with me.

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Re: Which OS and ROMs should I be running?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2008, 08:54:40 PM »
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What software are you going to use?? I dont think your accelerator has the tools to use the MMU for softkicking.


Games at first, then expand from there I guess.  The computer has a video toaster and a dps dr-2150 in it.  I may try to play with those for a while.  Or I may ebay those two boards and use the money to buy other hardware upgrades.

I'll figure out some way to switch roms.  I just wanted to get an idea of what version I need to do what.

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