Os3.9 or 4.1?

[Dr. Dude]

Its been a wile since i saw my trusty migy . Unpacked it and had a look inside

I have here a A4000 with:
- Cyberstorm PPC (sysinfo gives back @50Mhz)
- Elbox zorro A4000DI
- a pci network card, witch i thought uses the 3c589 driver ( seems not to function)
- Ide to flash card holding a 2gb thingy
- fresh dual floppy's
- fresh cd drive
- Indivision AGA 4000D ( witch seems to have a need to "warmup" before stop twitching)

The curent software state is... WB is running and thats probly it
By my guess i have Os 3.5 on it, as the Os 3.5 cd came out of the same box

At Amigakit i saw the fancy AmigaOS 4.1, is my 4000 ready for it?
Do i really need something like the Radeon 9250 PCI 128MB?

[FOL]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dude

Its been a wile since i saw my trusty migy . Unpacked it and had a look inside

I have here a A4000 with:
- Cyberstorm PPC (sysinfo gives back @50Mhz)
- Elbox zorro A4000DI
- a pci network card, witch i thought uses the 3c589 driver ( seems not to function)
- Ide to flash card holding a 2gb thingy
- fresh dual floppy's
- fresh cd drive
- Indivision AGA 4000D ( witch seems to have a need to "warmup" before stop twitching)

The curent software state is... WB is running and thats probly it
By my guess i have Os 3.5 on it, as the Os 3.5 cd came out of the same box

At Amigakit i saw the fancy AmigaOS 4.1, is my 4000 ready for it?
Do i really need something like the Radeon 9250 PCI 128MB?

The speed you quoted is for 68k, not the ppc. You should be able to use 4.1.

If you decide to use 4.1, a 9250 is advisable though for RTG graphics. You may be able to get away with using your indi 4000.

You also have to remember whdload is'nt compatable with 4.1, you would have to emulate with e-uae which will be slow.

[johnim]

hi

a quick bit of info while your miggy has been in storage check your battery and surrounding area for any damage corrosion, if its an old barrel type get it out as soon as possible as it will cause a lot of damage/problems

john

[roy bates]

download and install sysspeed from aminet,it will tell you all the info you need to know about your system.


then you can work from there.

[fitzsteve]

Hi!

Very nice system you got there

Some things you should check out already. I would suggest a dual boot system, OS3.9 and OS4.1 Classic.

For OS3.9 you should consider Classis Workbench 3.9 and install WarpDT, WarpOS and Configure the Mediator with Warp3D. If you need help with this aspect I can help!

You will then be able to run PPC Games like Quake II, Heretic II, Wipeout2097, etc. The OS will be nice and fast too! For this you need a Voodoo based Graphics Card, the Voodoo 3 3000 is the best Once you have a Video card the Sound Card should work as the sound card needs some of the VRAM.

You system is pretty much ideal for OS4.1 Classic with a Radeon 9250 you can use the hardware accelerated features of the OS like transparancy and the OS it's self is very slick. The only problem is most apps are geared up for 800mhz+ Sam/AmigaOne's so run slow on classic systems

So OS4.1 Classic is more a 'proof of concept' than a complete OS but is very nice to use, especially the OWB Web Browser and is a very pretty OS with the 3D transparant Hardware Rendering.

All the best,

Steve.

[Dr. Dude]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

For OS3.9 you should consider Classis Workbench 3.9 and install WarpDT, WarpOS and Configure the Mediator with Warp3D. If you need help with this aspect I can help!

That would be great, i have not done anything with amiga for sometime. Are not even able to get the silly network card running

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

You will then be able to run PPC Games like Quake II, Heretic II, Wipeout2097, etc. The OS will be nice and fast too! For this you need a Voodoo based Graphics Card, the Voodoo 3 3000 is the best Once you have a Video card the Sound Card should work as the sound card needs some of the VRAM.

Something like a cybervision 64... one i sold a few weeks ago?.
I probly wont get to ppc games
I did a quick look around and i find a voodoo 3 3500 and even a voodoo 4 4500. Better? or is the power of amiga to great for it?

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

You system is pretty much ideal for OS4.1 Classic with a Radeon 9250 you can use the hardware accelerated features of the OS like transparancy and the OS it's self is very slick. The only problem is most apps are geared up for 800mhz+ Sam/AmigaOne's so run slow on classic systems

So OS4.1 Classic is more a 'proof of concept' than a complete OS but is very nice to use, especially the OWB Web Browser and is a very pretty OS with the 3D transparant Hardware Rendering.

Ah i guess il stick to 3.9. Would 3.9 be able to handle a Radeon 9250?


@johnim:
Yeah i removed that long ago, stil need to replace it thougj

[Dr. Dude]

i found the cyberstorm book

Cyberstorm MK III 68060

I have a vage memory that i need to do something with it before i can install 3.9 on it.

I also found a Fast ATA 4000 MKV, should i install it?

[Bamiga2002]

I'd say just install 3.9 on it and leave 4.x for NG Amigas. And boost the hell off of it!

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dude

i found the cyberstorm book

Cyberstorm MK III 68060

I have a vage memory that i need to do something with it before i can install 3.9 on it.

I also found a Fast ATA 4000 MKV, should i install it?

Ahh if you have a MkIII you have no PPC therefore you can't install OS4.1 anyway. The good news is the MkIII is still the best 060 for the A4000.

The FastATA will be useful for DVDROM & maybe a large IDE HDD for storage but I suggest booting from the UWSCSI as you will get up to 30mb/sec transfers on SCSI compared to 10mb/sec (if you are lucky) on the FastATA.

If you don't want noisy UW SCSI drives you can get ACard UWSCSI-IDE converters. You must also terminate before and after the CSPPC with Active Terminators. If SCSI is a bit confusing to you just start with the onboard IDE or FastATA and learn the ropes.

OS3.9 will need the 060 Libs from your CS Install Disk or you can download them here:

http://phase5.a1k.org/index.php?driverslibraries

If you get stuck and want me to setup an IDE HDD (or CF) for you give me a shout.

Good luck with your project

Steve.

Edit:

In response to your reply above, you can use either Radeon or Voodoo (plus other not so good cards with OS3.9) but I suggest stick with Voodoo 3 (2000 or 3000) as it supports Warp3D whereas the Radeon does not.

[Dr. Dude]

Setting up the sd as hd is no prob.

I have a idea, is it posible to "preinstall" boingbag in to the OS3.9 cd?
I have pulled a ISO from it

I have no idea how deep the change's are that boingbag make, but would a copy/paste be in order? Just dump it in the 3.9 folder (and in the corect sub folders)

I already predumped the cyberstorm library on it

[Dr. Dude]

got a clean 3.9 on it tru winuae. Works good in the 4000

no boingbag yet. I did get in the meen time a replacement for my diskdrives:
The mighty SD Floppy Emulator REV F

Reading bootable disks is fine.
But loading a disk in 3.9 it gives on all disks "uninitialized" Like it sees them as blanks

Am i missing something?

[NovaCoder]

I probably wouldn't bother with a floppy emulator, just get a memory card reader instead

This will give you some ideas -> Mfilos Bloggy

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Dr. Dude

But loading a disk in 3.9 it gives on all disks "uninitialized" Like it sees them as blanks Am i missing something?

Most bootable game disks have their own custom format. They are not Amiga DOS formatted and so come up as NDOS and are not readable to see files etc.

The SD Floppy Emulator is overkill for an A4000 like yours. You're mainly going to load from Hard drive. You could have done almost the same thing with a €5 IDE->CF adapter.

[Dr. Dude]

erm... Nova... it is a sd reader

The disks come up as uninitialized not as ndos
Overkill on a Amiga? Can't be done. Its there because it can, and my 1 year old floppy drives are having it harder and harder reading the disks (DF0 especialy). I have been thinking for a simple addapter, or even the usb disk drive. But that would make it more depentend.

[Dr. Dude]

Hmmm i have been reading up at the forum of the floppy creator.
Seems i am not the only one : http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=993

And he is right. If i kickout the setpath it works. But it kills the fancy bar.
What harm comes in more with out the setpath?