Which of these accelerator's would I be better off getting?

[kiniki]

Blizzard 1230 with 16 meg

or Viper Turbo 68030 with 8 meg?

I have no idea... but I would guess at the blizzard?

[Piru]

Blizzard.

[adonay]

BLIZZARD

[kiniki]

Blizzard it is!

Next question... is it worth upgrading to 3.1 kickroms from 3.0?

[xeron]

If you want to use OS 3.5 or 3.9, yeah. Otherwise, probably not. Although, with a Blizzard you can softkick 3.1. This is illegal, though.

[kiniki]

Doesn't 3.5 and 3.9 only come on CD?

I have been looking for 3.5 but so far I have not seen it on a floppy... That was on ebay tho...

[xeron]

Yeah, 3.1 was the last floppy based release.

[Narayan]

In my best assumption I'd have to take the Blizzard, however Viper feels like getting there.

[kiniki]

xeron wrote:
Yeah, 3.1 was the last floppy based release.

What benefits would I be looking at by upgrading to 3.5?

[krize]

Get OS 3.9 and a cd-rom drive... What you get? The latest released Os for the Amiga classic! I would never go back

http://www.gregdonner.org/os39review/os39review.htm - An old but good review.

[itix]

is it worth upgrading to 3.1 kickroms from 3.0?

Not really. Kickstart 3.1 is bug fixed 3.0 but differences are not very great. KS 3.1 enables running AOS 3.5/3.9 though, also known as Aminet Patch Collection.

[patrik]

@kiniki, krize:

You dont need a CD-ROM to install 3.5/3.9. You can for example archive the 3.5/3.9 CD on another machine, transfer it to your Amiga via network/nullmodem, then extract it onto a partition of your harddrive and rename that partition to the same name as the 3.5/3.9 CD.

There are many other ways to transfer the data to your Amiga though, to mention some:
- Put the contents of the 3.5/3.9 CD onto a Compact Flash card and use a PCMCIA->CF adapter to read it on the Amiga.
- Put the Amiga harddrive in a pc with WinUAE and install 3.9 there.



/Patrik

[rare_j]

If you want to use OS 3.5 or 3.9, yeah. Otherwise, probably not. Although, with a Blizzard you can softkick 3.1. This is illegal, though.

Is it really illegal though?

I own an A1200, I have a licence to use the 3.0 Roms. Would the copyright owners really begrudge me softkicking the 3.1 Roms, the difference being just a few buigfixes?

In PC land flashing your motherboard bios is offered as 'support'.
In Amiga land, updating your kickstart by a minor revision is 'illegal'.

[adolescent]

rare_j wrote:

If you want to use OS 3.5 or 3.9, yeah. Otherwise, probably not. Although, with a Blizzard you can softkick 3.1. This is illegal, though.

Is it really illegal though?

Yes.

[amigakit]

Another advantage of using real Kickstart 3.1 ROMs is to use NSDPatch et al to allow the use of larger than 4GB hard disks on your A1200

BTW: If your A1200 doesn't have a CDROM, any original AmigaOS 3.5 CD or AmigaOS 3.9 CD bought from www.amigakit.com can be installed onto another medium when bought at the same time such as a PCMCIA to CF adapter or 2.5" hard disk.