Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
From: Belgrade
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outlawal2 wrote:
That is not true at all. It offers the ability to install the OS to 68000 thru 68060 with large disks, large filenames and every fix rolled up without having to manually run a dozen fixes and boing bags and the rest of the crap it used to take to install the OS. You can continue to hate on whomever you like but don't talk crap about the product as it DOES provide considerable value especially to folks just getting into Amigas for the first time. FAR better experience installing 3.1.4 and having it work rather than dicking around with all of the "tweaks" required before.
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Its all tweaks, its just implemented as early as boot menu, because OS 3.1.4 has its own ROM.
OS 3.9 Remus Roms of 512k offer way more.
While large disk support is nice, it exists in OS 3.5 - OS 3.9 in more rudimentary form.
I can count 15 small things that OS 3.9 has and OS 3.1.4 dont - like MUI, WarpOS, AmiDock, newer datatypes included.
Yes, OS 3.1.4 is bugfix release, it offers less then OS 3.5 or OS 3.9 did, and its only hope is it might be develop further. OS 3.1.4 even eats about the same RAM as OS 3.5 while offering less.
Its current strongpoint is availiability since there are very few OS 3.9 left.
And there is some more hope for 3.1.4/3.9 purchases on Vampire standalone.
But with 3.1.4 Hype did not bother to optimize 020 version, or to put 080 ID.
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