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[runequester]

I have finally ordered my ACA030 28mhz card.  I have saved up extra cash for about 6 months now and am finally able to do it!  YES.  I can't wait to get my new Amigoodies!   Now does this mean I should consider upgrading from 3.1 to 3.9?  or is it not worth it till you have an 060?

Awesome. 64 megs of RAM is basically unlimited RAM for an amiga anyways

I'd check out 3.5 too as it'll run pretty good.
3.9 runs decent on my card (030/56) though it starts up a bit slower.

3.9 gave me a lot more headaches with the updates though.

[runequester]

What kind of updates the boing bags?

yeah, those.
The second one broke my system, trying to use the updated kickstart rom file. Without that, things were fine, and the installer will let you skip it.
The unofficial BB3 also broke my system.

It was fixable but took some fussing about.

[runequester]

Just to make things easier on me since I'm am going to attempt this what was wrong with boing bag 3 and what did you have to do to fix it?  Also did you have any problems with Boing bag 4?  

I haven't used either of those updates yet as they were unofficial and I didn't want to find out the hard way they needed an 060 processor or something like that.

with BB3, once I edited my startup-sequence with what the install script suggests, the system refused to boot properly.
WHen I removed those sections, everything seems to work fine. I dont know if there's something I am losing out on.

You could probably do fine with BB1 and 2.

I havent tried 4 yet, as I am pretty happy with my system, and dont experience any crashes.

The Dock that you get looks a bit iffy in AGA, but its not so bad. I can see why they suggest RTG I guess. Its fully usable though and very easy to configure.
UnArc is awesome. Very easy for unpacking all sorts of archives that took different apps to do before.

[runequester]

well, if it works, you have an 040 already, so thatd be awesome

[runequester]

is the 040 that much faster than an 030 at 28 mhz?

I havent compared side by side, and you won't see the speed difference in all app's but from what I can gather, an 040 is going to be effectively at least twice the speed of a 030 clocked at the same mhz.
Theoretically it'd be faster, but other things slow things down (RAM access and other blather).

So yeah, it'd be a lot snappier for things that take advantage of it.
That being said, the 040 is also less compatible with software, where the 030 generally plays very nice.

Ive seen the ACA cards perform a bit faster than a comparable older 030 card, probably due to using faster RAM, so there's that too.



Im sure one of the tech wizards will jump in