Amiga question

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Jul 4 16:00:00 2001

Thanks Iggy, I knew you'd reply to my query!

>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.


>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.

        Jeff
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