Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

[Hooligan_DCS]

There is a list at http://www.telusplanet.net/public/samel/pegasos/compatibility.txt

Eventhough there are currently 28 items in my compined bug- & feature-request list, I'd say MOS is ready for normal daily already. I have had no unexpected lock-ups for example.

Two utilities I tend to use all the time are causing a little problems. Magellan, giving wrong partitionsizes, has minor graphical bugs and sometimes freezes the computer when transferring a big file over the network.
The other one being AmigaAmp.

The lack of audio.device is a big minus. I would like to use HippoPlayer for example, but at the moment this is no possibility. Was told today that such thing will come eventually.

Now, my Pegasos's uptime is 9 hours.. been doing some normal daily routines all day, like: Irc, surfing the net, listening to mods with UADE, listening to MP3's with AmiNetRadio, typing text with CED PPC and using a mail client.. have even tested some WarpOS software which I'd suppose should less compatible.

[Hooligan_DCS]

I'd like to add one thing to Kronos' comment. 68k emulation is not only fast, but it is also very finished... pretty much anything systemfriendly you throw at it, it works.

/me napping fingers onto table and waits for JIT

[Hooligan_DCS]

@Warface
Which is just the exact same reason why I have been waiting, and will wait till MorphOS gets next update.

No reason to go out spreading false or inaccurate for public because one hasn't gotten even used to the new OS.
I discover new bugs and lack of features almost every day. And the bugs which are not fixed, or simple features not added in next update, I will of course mention in my review.

Doing a review of something one don't know very well reminds me of a boy who is just about to lose his virginity.. just when it gets exciting we find out that the thing has decided to go off ;-)

Excuse for lame metaphoras .. its because of the damn heat!!

[Hooligan_DCS]

In theory, why not. Depends of AmigaOne vs Pegasos2 price I guess.. if MOS will someday run on AmigaOne, and if AmigaOne will be considerebly cheaper than Peg2.

But there are so many if's I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[Hooligan_DCS]

I get better transfer speeds from XP -> Pegasos (with NcFTP) than from XP -> XP (FlashFXP). I have 10mb homenetwork and run samba to share drives. Works like a dream with MiamiDX.

I did have problems with internal networkcard and its drivers though, broken in MOS1.3 as has worked on MOS1.2 I heard.

[Hooligan_DCS]

Yep. Totally unbiased and fair description.

[Hooligan_DCS]

artman wrote:
@red

Thank you also for responding, I really appreciate all of you helping me to better understand the new focus that the Amiga and it's OS is taking.  Who would have thought  back in "86"?
 :-o

Who would have thought back in -96?   :-)

[Hooligan_DCS]

I've heard that some folks have gotten ImageFX to work, but I haven't tried that yet either. Other things I intend to test include: ArtEffect, Rexecute, BlitzBasic, AmigaWriter, FinalWriter, and Opus5.

ImageFX4 works beautifully. Which is odd,  even more stable than when I run it on real Amiga. It tend to be a bit unstable  with PowerPC plugins and in overall.
Maybe because I now have less patches, or maybe it didn't work on P96/PicassoIV correctly... who knows. Can't be memory issue though, I have more memory on my Amiga than on my Peggy.

[Hooligan_DCS]

Btw, big Thanks must go to Heikki Orsila who sold it to me for 20 finnish marks (a bit over 3€) after he won it at Finnish Amiga Users Club's lottery.
It sure has paid it's price  :-D

[Hooligan_DCS]

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