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My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« on: May 24, 2011, 06:28:42 PM »
I'd gonna use this thread to post some pics and videos of my OS4.1 install.
And also to give my opinions once I've had a chance to make some :)

To start with, here's some video I took while installing:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/yEhaUcOoH0s
Part 2: http://youtu.be/kO6gaqUwoDQ
Part 3: http://youtu.be/oQrf2vKK80M
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 06:45:42 PM »
Interesting videos... :)

You've obviously got a gfx card, jammy bugger... ;)

Any chance you'll be making some more showing it running some apps and stuff, that would be real neat and useful... :)

I always thought for some reason that you were German or Polish or something, Imagine my surprise to hear you speaking with an American accent... :eek:

(Mind you now that I look at it perhaps the Seattle, Wa. just to the left there in the Location bit should have gave me a clue)... :o

PS: Gawd... people say I have fingers like baseball bats, wait till I show em yours, there like telegraph poles... :eek:
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 06:54:20 PM »
Quote from: CSixx;640002
I'd gonna use this thread to post some pics and videos of my OS4.1 install.
And also to give my opinions once I've had a chance to make some :)

To start with, here's some video I took while installing:
Part 1: http://youtu.be/yEhaUcOoH0s
Part 2: http://youtu.be/kO6gaqUwoDQ
Part 3: http://youtu.be/oQrf2vKK80M


Thanks for the videos...very nice to see! :)
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 06:54:49 PM »
No sound?  or am I deef? :lol:

EDIT:  nevermind- I'm definitely something that starts with a d...
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 07:01:49 PM »
@CSixx
Thank you for the videos.

In part 3, I see it takes more than one minute to boot. Is that common? It seems quite slow.
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 07:07:15 PM »
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No sound?  or am I deef? :lol:

EDIT:  nevermind- I'm definitely something that starts with a d...


Well you're either corned beef or you only watched the first one that was filmed through a narrow doorway, cos CSixx definitely speaks in the other ones... :)

[youtube]kO6gaqUwoDQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 07:12:12 PM »
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@CSixx
Thank you for the videos.

In part 3, I see it takes more than one minute to boot. Is that common? It seems quite slow.


I agree, it was really slow :-(
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2011, 07:19:23 PM »
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I agree, it was really slow :-(

Of course the booting depends on the hardware - disk, what filesystem is used, CPU speed, memory speed, what's in the kicklayout, etc.

By default everything is loaded in the kicklayout (to be safe), but you can remove many of the drivers if you will never use them to speed up booting and make more memory available.

I doubt he's had time to optimize it yet :)

PS - it does take some time to execute the x86 bios emulator for the Radeon initialization, that can add 5-30 seconds to the boot time, depending on your processor speed.

There is a difference from the slowest speed blizzard PPC to the fastest speed Cyberstorm PPC, of course.
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2011, 07:58:54 PM »
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@CSixx
Thank you for the videos.

In part 3, I see it takes more than one minute to boot. Is that common? It seems quite slow.


The HD is connected to what appears to connected to a bog standard IDE splitter.
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2011, 01:58:03 AM »
I know I've already mentioned I'm impressed with the speed of the system, but it really is worlds better on the Workbench in 4.1 than it was in 3.9 on this machine. Everything seems nice and snappy.

Boot time is a bit on the long side, but I've heard it mentioned that this can be tuned a bit.
The first boot this evening took 1min 41secs. This is a pretty old 40gig HD, so its probably not one of the fastest ones. Connected to the A1200 IDE port via Jen's 3way buffered interface (not IDEFix).

I've gotta work on getting Poseidon working now so that I can get online and download some apps to play with, there's not alot included in the install. (File managers, and Internet apps mostly).

Here's a pic of what comes in the package.
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2011, 02:11:18 AM »
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I know I've already mentioned I'm impressed with the speed of the system, but it really is worlds better on the Workbench in 4.1 than it was in 3.9 on this machine. Everything seems nice and snappy.

Boot time is a bit on the long side, but I've heard it mentioned that this can be tuned a bit.
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great to hear and thanks for posting :)
btw, if you think the boot time is long then you would fall asleep if you saw my dual core 2.6GHz notebook loading up XP Pro:roflmao:
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2011, 04:07:16 AM »
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I know I've already mentioned I'm impressed with the speed of the system, but it really is worlds better on the Workbench in 4.1 than it was in 3.9 on this machine. Everything seems nice and snappy.

Boot time is a bit on the long side, but I've heard it mentioned that this can be tuned a bit.
The first boot this evening took 1min 41secs. This is a pretty old 40gig HD, so its probably not one of the fastest ones. Connected to the A1200 IDE port via Jen's 3way buffered interface (not IDEFix).

I've gotta work on getting Poseidon working now so that I can get online and download some apps to play with, there's not alot included in the install. (File managers, and Internet apps mostly).

Here's a pic of what comes in the package.


Ok that would explain some things then, the internal IDE-port is not fast at all. What other options are there? FastATA if you want to use a PATA controller and SATA offcourse. I think I would invest in something to speed up the harddrive. On my a4k I got a FastATA that made a big difference but it doesn't support DMA. In practise it doesn't make that much of a difference though and it's still way better than the internal port.
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Re: My OS4.1 Classic Experience
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2011, 08:07:19 AM »
Great!  Now I have to save up for a PPC for my 4000T!:madashell:
 
 
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