CRT with Amiga OS 3.9

[darkage]

Flickerfixers have been, are, and will be awesome on Amiga.

Super awesome.  Before Indivision AGA, I was rocking my old 1084s.  Was a pain to use workbench, probably okay for gaming.  

Once I installed Indivision suddenly my Ami felt like a almost modern day system.   Made me use it much more as well.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

At the time I was thinking better would have been 060 PPC, but they look like they cost more than what my first car did.

PPC won't give you any advantage except for with software specifically written to take advantage of it (e.g., OS 4.1 Classic, PPC-compatible datatypes, certain mp3 players and graphics  programs, etc.). It's not going to have any effect on NON-PPC software (for example: most games).

By comparison, Vampire will speed up a lot more different programs (doesn't require specific binaries like PPC), but is not 100% classic compatible (lacking the MMU and FPU which most 040's and 060's have).

[Pat the Cat]

(lacking the MMU and FPU which most 040's and 060's have).

Must admit, never liked the way they did either. Gimme old school full fat 030 any day. You're getting real hardware with that stuff.

I know, I know, it's a very silly point of view and does not give a faster system. Just the way I feel about them things. I thought Motorola were just being awkward. Build two chips into one. Then lobotomize it for the end user.

[paul1981]

Thank you all for your input.

Am I right in thinking I would only see the full benefit of  OS 3.9 in all its high colour and fancy backgrounds on a LCD? I guess a 14 inch CRT wouldnt be able to offer that?

Is there much differnce between 3.5 and 3.9 OS?

I manily use my A1200 for games but I want to update the OS with a more refreshing look to it.

Some recent software requires OS3.9, but I'm still on 3.1 and not missing much AFAIK (I'm a purist lol). 3.0/3.1 can look every bit as good as 3.9 too if you're into Workbench tinkering.