Reasons to run AOS4.0 on Classic PPC instead of AOS3.1-3.9

[rzookol]

or you can use morphos for amiga classic which has wrapper (a lot better than os4) for powerup and warpos (warp3d games is working too)

[AmigaMance]

 As a remark, i haven't heard a real reason yet, on this thread, except of the CDMRW tool which sounds useful. The rest of the mentioned stuff can be done with MorphOS.

[quenthal]

I'm afraid to get OS4, since nearly all my components in my A4k/CSPPC depend on Mediator (I've sold my Zorro -cards long ago). OS4 would seem like downgrade currently compared to OS3.9BB2+WarpOS+AFA_OS+other patches, where I can use all my current software with all the PCI cards I have.

However, I might buy one for support.

[TiredOLife]

Hopefully the Elbox news was hinting at OS4.0 drivers for the Mediator and accociated cards.

Some other OS4 pluses.
Pointrider (Powerpoint viewer)
Latest versions of WookieChat work better under OS4.
The delay when clicking between different chanels under 3.9 doesn't exist under 4.0.

Why not just install both and have the best of both worlds?

[amigadave]

I don't see much yet to convince me that I need to buy OS4.0 for Classic Amiga.

If I had money to burn I probably would buy it just to support the developers, but since retirement and lack of finding another job that pays any money for people with bad backs like me, I can't justify spending the money on OS4.0 now.

[jahc]

Latest versions of WookieChat work better under OS4.
The delay when clicking between different chanels under 3.9 doesn't exist under 4.0.

If you're referring to the latest beta, I've tried to improve the tab switching speed by making it only update the display once instead of a few times rapidly. My code was a bit buggy unfortunately, but I've only just started to realise why it acted that way. It used to look like a brief flicker on fast machines, but it was quite painful on slower machines. But yes, I believe I've solved that issue now.

[downix]

redrumloa wrote:

pjhutch wrote:
How about all those PPC based Amiga games?

Umm.. From what I've read, most of those games will not work on OS4 as warpup has been removed :-?

It's not just WarpUP that's the issue.  OS4 appears to only be ~85% API compatible.

[jj]

I always thought the orginal idea, and can anyone confrim this, that with AOS4 once the initial boot is done the 68K proc is switched off. Does this happen, or was the idea dropped ?

[AmiBoy]

@ JJ

The 68K is switched off

[AMC258]

Pretty permanently too.  It's not easy to switch back to 3.x once 4.0 has been booted.  Unless you get a Grip Reamer in which case you can Reboot the "Machine" instead of the "OS".
Or, if you have an A500 I suppose it would work better, but, how the heck are you gonna run hSO on an 00SV?