AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic arrived

[Lurch]

Last post for now. Can't really see any vast improvement over 4.1 so far, and not seeing any new artwork other than the boot screen.
Nice little service pack.

[yssing]

I have ordered FE both for classic and for my SAM440.
I can hardly wait to get them

[Wilse]

My A1XE version arrived on Hogmanay so, other than the faff of installing it, I haven't played with it much yet.

[Lurch]

Amistore... well thought I'd give it ago, downloaded it and ran it. Every second time you run it, it works great.

Went to purchase/download an item and it asked for a logon, nowhere in the app does it have a create account option. After some googling found out you have to make a Amisphere account. This isn't mentioned anywhere on the amistore site.

Created the account and downloaded MACE, doesn't run under WinUAE and freezes the session.

So tried buying CANDI and got the error that the files were not found on the server.

Afew other screen shots attached...

[Lurch]

A few more shots...

[Lurch]

Finally candi is up and running, but even with the slow CPU it's a resource hog under WinUAE.

Need more speed, have an i7 running in the background sitting there idle with many a core to use. There must be away of tapping into that and you need more than the 128MB of RAM that appears to be the limit.

[Vlabguy1]

Well I received my AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic from Vesalia today, still waiting on my Pegasos version from Amigakit.

Pictures attached :-)

Sweetness

[danbeaver]

Can anybody speak (type) as to any new features of the Classic or X1000 versions?  Such as the extended RAM access above the 2 GB limit in the X1000, or ability to R/W access to the MB's CF card?

[Lurch]

So after spending the day trying to setup all the games again I forgot how painful it is.
Instead of releasing the game with all the required files they make you visit several forums and dead end links trying to download libs.
Will fire up the Peg and see if I can copy it from there instead, should't be this hard.
If a game or application needs a lib or a software req then include it in the download!

The amount of broken or old read mes on os4 depot is terrible, even aminet is a shocker.

Anyway features are listed on Hyperions site.

[HammerD]

Can anybody speak (type) as to any new features of the Classic or X1000 versions?  Such as the extended RAM access above the 2 GB limit in the X1000, or ability to R/W access to the MB's CF card?

There are some specific new features on Classic:

-Experimental GREX PCI busboard support (Voodoo3 and RTL8029) only.
-Radeon 9250 now works on Firestorm/Prometheus
-changes to mediator config to allow some additional PCI/Zorro card setups (reduces memory footprint/address space allocation)

Read the Classic FAQ in the root of the CD, it explains everything.

[bbond007]

-Experimental GREX PCI busboard support (Voodoo3 and RTL8029) only.

I had that exact setup at one point a very long time ago

How would it AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic run under WinUAE on a 4.4ghz 4670K or a machine with more cores like an 8320FX 4.0ghz?

Anyway, just wondering how fast it is under emulation.... like how would it compare to BlizzPPC?

thanks!

[Lurch]

Boots quickly using SCSI accelerator instead of IDE. Pretty responsive workbench/desktop and internet browsing.

When it comes to running some games like MACE, WinUAE will lock up.

If you use CANDI it becomes very sluggish.

WHDLoad works really well, and so do most 060 demos, yet to test Quake PPC etc but will give that a go too :-)

[spirantho]

Don't forget that MACE requires compositing enabled, and if you're using WinUAE it doesn't do that (no Radeon emulation).

[Lurch]

@spirantho - Completely forgot about that :-)

Acutally most of the games appear to lock that I've tried.

A couple of Youtube clips so far for web browsing...

http://youtu.be/Em9Iw_VRwe0

http://youtu.be/lw1pNP6qMvM