Amiga OS 3.9 and chip ram?

[AmigaPixel]

Does Amiga OS 3.9 handle the chip ram a little better than previous OS versions? Does it maybe move some basic display functions in fast ram?  

Right now I am still using 2.1 on my A2000 which has 1 meg chip ram, and I have run into a problem of too many files in one of my folders. I run out of chip ram before I can view all the files and Workbench locks up. It has old animation frames I need to get out. Perhaps using the shell interface would help, I haven't used it in years. :-)

[don27dog]

3.9 uses a lot of ram

[alexh]

OS3.9 requires an accelerator and does not run on a vanilla A2000

But with the right patches all AmigaOS can reduce the amount of chip RAM used by icons.

For the time being Use Workbench menu option to switch from Icons to name? Reduce the amount of buffers on your hard drive?

[kolla]

don27dog wrote:
3.9 uses a lot of ram

Only when you tell it to. I really dont notice any difference between 3.1 and 3.9 in terms of RAM usage.

Ofcourse if you use the ROM updates, these do eat some RAM, ideally there should be _real_ OS3.9 kickstarts. If you have access to certain equipment you can flash your ROMs with updates in...

My A600 runs OS3.9, but with MagicWB etc it looks very much like my 3.0 A1200 from 15 years ago. I like all the fixes and updates that were put into both amigados, workbench and other stuff in 3.9+BB1/2 and "boing beans" (shell, scsi.device, ffs, ram-handler etc) :-)

[AmigaPixel]

alexh wrote:
OS3.9 requires an accelerator and does not run on a vanilla A2000

But with the right patches all AmigaOS can reduce the amount of chip RAM used by icons.

For the time being Use Workbench menu option to switch from Icons to name? Reduce the amount of buffers on your hard drive?

 Hi, yes I have an 030 accelerator clocked at 50mhz and 16 megs of ram. I think I already switched to name but i will double check. Which patches would you recomend?

[Nearly-Right]

There is an option to let FastRAM be used instead of ChipRAM for Gfx under OS3.9 which helps, but nothing cuts it like using 24bit screenmodes with a Gfx card.

With your too many icons in a directory/running out of ChipRAM problem, how about using the FREE version via Aminet of Directory Opus 4 or another file manager to open the directory, which uses a great deal less Gfx/CHIP memory and then you can create directories in a main folder and drop suitable files into other directories, so there is less in the main directory so you still have enough ChipRAM for the smaller directories to be opened to see the icons.

[rkauer]

Try this. ;-)