Ye Goode Olde Workbench... 3.1 - >3.9

[bladecgn]

Back in the amiga days, I made a backup of my HDD on a bunch of disks using lharc. I transferred it to my PC for use with WinUAE.

Lately, I wanted to update to WB 3.9 but the looks should stay the same (all MagicWB icons).

So I copied a mint 3.9 installation (including BoingBags) over my 3.9 Setup (copy xh0:#? all clone dh0: ) and then merged my 3.1 Startup-sequence and user-startup with the new ones. http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=921620#post921620

The old icons were transferred with an icon tool (so that the new 3.9 tooltypes could be preserved).

Last I adjusted the looks (disabled volume gauge, removed xen-look) to be matching the original one.

Now the result is a full-blown 3.9 setup with the looks of my old system. And it's as fast, maybe even a little faster than my 3.1 setup. Nice!

AmigaOS ist a great experience, I like it better than Windows or Linux. Unbelieveable how little ram it uses and how fast it is.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by bladecgn

Unbelieveable how little ram it uses and how fast it is.

You're getting it the other way around It's unbelievable how much RAM Winblows and other 'modern' OSs use