Another Newbie to the Amiga experience

[Franko]

Welcome aboard Masteroku! I've got a handful of SCSI goodies and other misc. A2000 peripherals if you're interested in 'em. PM sent.

Gawd the poor guys just in the front door and the pushers are after him already...

[Karlos]

Dunno what setup you have but OS4.0 on a 240Mhz PPC is slower than dying from AIDS...

Correction. On your 240MHz it is. It works just fine on my 240MHz 603e/256MB, as did MorphOS 1.4.5 when I last tried it. I suggest, therefore, that mileage varies.

Then again, you find that WarpOS apps run slower than PowerUp ones. There was plenty wrong with WarpOS, particularly with the benefit of hindsight (using the poweropen ABI rather than the system v one, for instance), but context switch performance was most assuredly not one of them. Since that tended to dominate the performance of well-written applications on both kernels, I found the reverse to be true there too.

I think there's just something weird going on with your system :lol:

[Franko]

@ Karlos

Look... just cos you had the BVision board doesn't mean there something wrong with my BPPC (although I'm begining to wonder...) It simply runs plain old PPC code a lot faster than WarpOS stuff, why I don't know but testing the same PPC or WarpOS software the benchmarks show WarpOS stuff to be a lot slower...

Now if you want to sell me your BVison board I'd be able to run some new tests on OS4.0 and report back the difference...

[save2600]

Gawd the poor guys just in the front door and the pushers are after him already...

Hey, if it wasn't for us "pushers" - newbies would just end up screwin' the pooch on 'un-tested', overpriced dingy junk off ePay - that ironically, is going to end up coming right straight back here for help anyway   :lol:

[MaximvsPayne]

hello new amiga-user!if youre searching for a nice new amiga-system you should take a look at amigakit or relec. they have really nice amiga-ppc systems for sale.

have fun with your new love, the amiga is such a wonderful computer!

[masteroku]

This place rocks man, I'm getting all kinds amiga stuff offers man, crazy.  I wish i could try the OS4.1, but got no machines that can run that. I was only able to try AROS which I believe is like the OS4. I tried it live on my PC, works well, still had a lot of bugs, even had it installed as my third os(have linux, windows and AROS).

Is the AmigaShell(or command line) a lot like MS-DOS? does it have the same commands as DOS? My 1st pc only had MS-DOS(later got Win 3.1), so I had to learn the command line to access files and of course me favorite, games. I have my A2000 but I have yet to use it cause i am still waiting for the workbench 1.3 disks to arrive by mail(seller forgot to add them).

[commodorejohn]

The AmigaDOS shell is kind of a weird hybrid of MS-DOS and Unix, commands-wise, but it's mostly similar to DOS. There's a reference here.

[mechy]

Awsome, glad you all accepted me as part of the club. I will definitely buy a SCSI controller soon hopefully, and enjoy my amiga even more. I also hope to one day to buy the new AmigaOS 4.1, just need to get a machine that will run it(for instance the sam motheboards).

Where Amiga systems sold all over the US, or where they sold mostly in the nothern regions(nothern states)?I live in Texas so,  I want to go to the flee markets or salvation armies or goodwill, to find Amiga parts or computers. Where will be the best bet to find Amiga stuff?

Amiga stuff was all over the USA. I am in central texas(where are you located btw?).
these days your best bet is probabaly ebay and or amigakit.com and softhut.com
some people have good luck on craigslist.

Mike

[masteroku]

I live in Houston,
What do you guys think of the revival of the Amiga computer?
Is there a chance for the Amiga to be like it was back in the good ol' days?

[MaximvsPayne]

I live in Houston,
What do you guys think of the revival of the Amiga computer?
Is there a chance for the Amiga to be like it was back in the good ol' days?

this would be nice to see! but always keep in mind, there IS new amiga-hardware (sam440/460, soon the x1000) and also good used hardware (pegasus, amigaone etc.). amigaos4.1.2 works well and gets updates from time to time. morphos is a great system which is amigaos4 compatible with os4emu and works on powermacs too. and even the classic-amigas will get amigaos4.1 soon (ppc-only). amigaos4 already exists for classic-amigas. aros is also on a good way, soon it will also be able to run classic-amigaos1-3.9 stuff with a new soon to be built in 68k emu (ppc/os4 built-in emulation would also be nice but needs time). have fun with the amiga, i have!!

[r06ue1]

Welcome Daniel!  I'm pretty new here too.