The ESCOM influence on the AmigaOS

Stig · 29 May 2005, 22:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by http://amiga.emugaming.com/amigaos31.html

"After Escom bought the Amiga, Amiga Technologies rereleased the AmigaOS 3.1 upgrade. The packaging is considerably different from the Commodore release, showing Escom's influence"

Can someone tell me more about these differences?, thanks.

woody57 · 29 May 2005, 23:06

Since I used to have both manual sets it seems to be NO more than putting their Black square logo on both the machine and the manuals .
And changing the floppy drive to a cheaper different type , postively I believe they distrbuted the last board revision too [ but that is a RUMOUR

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Martin_L · 29 May 2005, 23:47

and the 3.1 roms of course

Stig · 30 May 2005, 06:08

The Workbench 3.1 disk set I ordered online arrived a few days ago and the stickers have "Commodore" written on them. As I expected, my experience has been flawless ever since and I highly doubt I'll ever need whatever was added by Escom which *prolly* reduces to the famous workbench.library, already part of my Kickstart 40.68 rom....but heh, I'm still curious about this

DJBase · 30 May 2005, 10:22

Escom havent changed anything on the AmigaOS they just used different label on the disks and books.

Npl · 30 May 2005, 22:53

I believe their only *addition* was that they messed up the File-Flags - all Amiga Specific Flags werent set on Escoms WB3.1. (there are scripts on Aminet to remedy this)

The Escom`s A1200 were also infamous for their incompatible diskdrive

fiath · 31 May 2005, 23:18

Which was also pointless and not needed:
http://www.caps-project.org/articles.php?id=a_v9drivemod
http://www.caps-project.org/articles.php?id=a_v9mbmod

Martin_L · 31 May 2005, 23:37

i guess without escom there wouldve have been OS 3.5/9 and it wouldve been left for dead?

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29 May 2005, 23:06	#2
woody57 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 801	Since I used to have both manual sets it seems to be NO more than putting their Black square logo on both the machine and the manuals . And changing the floppy drive to a cheaper different type , postively I believe they distrbuted the last board revision too [ but that is a RUMOUR ]

29 May 2005, 23:47	#3
Martin_L Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Age: 41 Posts: 97	and the 3.1 roms of course

30 May 2005, 06:08	#4
Stig Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Age: 47 Posts: 103	The Workbench 3.1 disk set I ordered online arrived a few days ago and the stickers have "Commodore" written on them. As I expected, my experience has been flawless ever since and I highly doubt I'll ever need whatever was added by Escom which prolly reduces to the famous workbench.library, already part of my Kickstart 40.68 rom....but heh, I'm still curious about this

30 May 2005, 10:22	#5
DJBase Amiga is my Religion Join Date: May 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 578	Escom havent changed anything on the AmigaOS they just used different label on the disks and books.

30 May 2005, 22:53	#6
Npl Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vienna / Austria Age: 44 Posts: 257	I believe their only addition was that they messed up the File-Flags - all Amiga Specific Flags werent set on Escoms WB3.1. (there are scripts on Aminet to remedy this) The Escom`s A1200 were also infamous for their incompatible diskdrive

31 May 2005, 23:18	#7
fiath Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South East / UK Age: 46 Posts: 1,930	Which was also pointless and not needed: http://www.caps-project.org/articles.php?id=a_v9drivemod http://www.caps-project.org/articles.php?id=a_v9mbmod

31 May 2005, 23:37	#8
Martin_L Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Age: 41 Posts: 97	i guess without escom there wouldve have been OS 3.5/9 and it wouldve been left for dead?

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