4 Jul
2001
4 Jul
'01
10:53 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>It really doesn't add much overhead compared to
3.1. It occupies more space,
>though not necessarily more than the heavily patched systems most 3.0/3.1
>people run. Is it a big enough jump? Well, certainly a big jump from the
>stock 3.1 installation, but it really is a 3.x system with a lot of bells
>and whistles. I certainly like the new HDToolBox, in case you run drives
>over 4 GB, and over-all, you're spared from the headache of considering
>whayt patches to run, since all such functionality is in the box from the
>beginning. And if you run 3.9, you get media players and a nice TCP/IP stack
>which otherwise cost money.
Thanks, as I was concerned about all the stuff they
added to
it slowing it down. It's likely a stock A3000 would have trouble
with some of the media players, such as MP3, but that's ok. It'll be
interesting to see how the included TCP/IP stack compares to Miami.
Until I moved off of Amiga's for my main system, I had Miami, YAM,
Amirc, the works running on it and was a registered user of all of
them.
I hope you've managed to scrounge enough ZIPs to accomodate the OS and
applications.
>OTOH, it's a lot more fun to run once
you've got a graphics card. But so is
>everything.
It looks like I'm finally getting another A3000
with a GVP
Spectrum, which is the setup I had back in '94/95 until I damaged it
while messing with getting an A3640 working in it. I always liked
the Spectrum, even when using the EGS RTG software it shipped with,
which is what I used with it even after I moved it to an A4000. In
'99 I sold my A4000 and switched to Mac's for my main system but have
continued to miss the A3000. In many ways, it was a much better
machine than the A4000.
Well, the A3000 is prettier both externally and internally, and most
importantly, it's OT, which the A4000 (thankfully) isn't.
The A4000 is more spacious inside, and requires less screwing around (with a
screwdriver).
The Spectrum is no speed demon, but everything's better than the onboard
graphics. You'll probably not run EGS, though, but either CyberGFX or
Picasso96.
The TCP/IP stack of 3.5 is just a demo of Miami, whereas Genesis, a new
version of AmiTCP, is included in full in 3.9. I own a registered Genesis but
since it's just a GUI shell for AmiTCP 4.5, I'm still running my old pirate
copy of 4.5. =)
I might add that I still run 3.0, though I've upgraded the Kickstart to 3.1 in
anticipation of a possible upgrade. I just haven't bothered to upgrade since
my system is just as I like it. Perhaps when I've got some money to spare...
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
But a graphical client/server model that slices the interface down some
arbitrary middle is like Solomon following through with his child-sharing
strategy. The legs, heart, and left eye end up on the server, the arms and
lungs go to the client, the head is left rolling around on the floor, and
blood spurts everywhere.
Don Hopkins - The Unix hater's handbook; The X-Windows disaster