What are the differences between OS 1.3 and OS 2.04?

[DoomMaster]

I have just bought another Amiga 2000HD from eBay.  It has the ECS Chip Set and the Kickstart 2.04 ROM.  The Amiga 2000HD that I have now has Kickstart / Workbench 1.3.  What are the differences between these two Amiga OSs ?  What else do I need to record CD-Rs on my new Amiga 2000HD using OS 2.04?  Thanks     :-D

[Thomas]

For differences between OS versions you should look here: http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/index.html

I doubt that any CD-R software will run on 2.0, you should rather get 3.1.

These two are the most popular CD-R software products:

http://makecd.core.de/
http://www.titancomputer.de/ami/burnit/index.html

As always: first choose the driver software then buy a compatible hardware.

Bye,
Thomas

[DoomMaster]

To Thomas:

Most of the CD recording (burning) software runs on OS 2.04.  I already have a Yamaha 4416S CD-RW drive.  It is ranked in the top 4 CD-RW drives on the MakeCD web site.  BurnIt also highly recommends the Yamaha 4416S CD-RW drive.  Do I need anything else besides a Processor Accelerator card?  Will 9 megs of memory be enough?  I do not want to go beyond the Amiga 2000HDs 9 megs of ram barrier (1 meg Chip and 8 megs Fast).  To do so will make the system highly unstable.  If I can run powerful animation software on 9 megs then surely a CD burner program requires much less memory.

[Rassilon]

@DoomMaster

The more memory you can give a CD burner prog the better. With limited processor speed you will need a large memory buffer to enable you to burn at speeds much over x2.

What makes you think that having over 9 Meg of memory makes an A2000 unstable? If you add the extra memory on an accelerator card it should not be a problem.

Regards

Rassilon

[amiga1260]

If you use Makecd, MasterISO or Burnit to burn a cd, you need a 030 processor. Without it you get very much buffer underruns.

[iamaboringperson]

You can theoretically add around 2G or more to an A2000.

[Piru]

I do not want to go beyond the Amiga 2000HDs 9 megs of ram barrier (1 meg Chip and 8 megs Fast). To do so will make the system highly unstable.

On what exactly do you base this conclusion? "Professionals" say so?

If I can run powerful animation software on 9 megs then surely a CD burner program requires much less memory.

Burning CD-ROM is much more resource hungry than displaying or creating animations. You will be struggling with small buffers and slow CPU and bus.