AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
hyperion-entertainment.com
AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
1–10 of 30 posts
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#2Already bought and tried in an emulator.
I find it annoying the rom doesn't include workbench.library, and the provided one in LIBS: isn't romable.
It'd only be proper to provide a 1MB rom image with it, or a limited functionality version.
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#3[deleted]
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#4How is it delivered? How would I install it on my 500 or 600?
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#5How is it delivered? How would I install it on my 500 or 600?
At present if you get the direct download you have to write to an EPROM, install into your AMIGA and then write out and use the Kickstart floppy. Actually having the kit to do the programming, the correct EPROM chips and doing it right is a little more involved, from what I've read; I haven't touched an Amiga in some time myself.
The news post on Hyperion's website states that you'll be able to buy ROMs and floppy disks that have already had the updated code written to them "shortly".
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#6How is it delivered? How would I install it on my 500 or 600?
There's going to be a physical version at some point, but summary:
1. Buy A500/A600 download version, or A1200 if you've got a Vampire accelboard.
2. Get adf into Amiga floppies by whatever means (serial cable, pcmcia nic adapter, flashfloppy-enabled floppy drive emulator)
3. Boot workbench disk or installer disk. ROM patches will be loaded by loadmodule @ startup-sequence.
4. (Optional) Flash into (E/EE)PROM chip or (more sane) into A500Flash1M or similar such rom switcher solution with a flashrom in it.
Note you'll want at least 2MB RAM total for this, at least 1MB of which being CHIP RAM. If you don't have this much, don't even bother.
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#7"Remember "Diskdoctor"? It earned its PhD and is now ready to reliably rescue data from your floppies or hard disks."
Remember the cool old "AGA - time to upgrade - AGA" slogan in some of the demos? Now it's
ZFS - time to upgrade - ZFS
...it's the 21st century, and AmigaOS doesn't even have software RAID, let alone ZFS yet. We still have to check filesystems for metadata corruption, and checking them for data corruption is still science fiction. And nobody bats an eyelash, like it's the most normal thing in the world. Meanwhile, the capacitors are leaking like crazy, modern PC-bucket power supplies don't deliver steady 5V, the clock crystal loses or gains up to 5 seconds per day, even the newest accelerator hardware doesn't support ECC memory... what could possibly go wrong with one's data?
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#8"Remember "Diskdoctor"? It earned its PhD and is now ready to reliably rescue data from your floppies or hard disks." Remember the cool old "AGA - time to upgrade - AGA" slogan in some of the demos? Now it's ZFS - time to upgrade - ZFS ...it's the 21st century, and AmigaOS doesn't even have software RAID, let alone ZFS yet. We still have to check filesystems for metadata corruption, and checking them for data corrupt…
You could use OFS (Original File System, before FFS) which has checksums in every block!
Note blocks are <512byte because of that (ouch) and everything else about OFS sucks.
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#9"Remember "Diskdoctor"? It earned its PhD and is now ready to reliably rescue data from your floppies or hard disks." Remember the cool old "AGA - time to upgrade - AGA" slogan in some of the demos? Now it's ZFS - time to upgrade - ZFS ...it's the 21st century, and AmigaOS doesn't even have software RAID, let alone ZFS yet. We still have to check filesystems for metadata corruption, and checking them for data corrupt…
You could use OFS (Original File System, before FFS) which has checksums in every block! Note blocks are <512byte because of that (ouch) and everything else about OFS sucks.
I could, but then I have to ditch all the FFS features. I mean the whole thing that they're still mucking around with filesystem checks is nonsense. That was the thing of the past even way back in 2001 on SGI IRIX 6.5 with XFS, and we're still doing this.
Can't even do a software RAID 1+0.
Re: AmigaOS 3.1.4 released
#10How is it delivered? How would I install it on my 500 or 600?
There's going to be a physical version at some point, but summary: 1. Buy A500/A600 download version, or A1200 if you've got a Vampire accelboard. 2. Get adf into Amiga floppies by whatever means (serial cable, pcmcia nic adapter, flashfloppy-enabled floppy drive emulator) 3. Boot workbench disk or installer disk. ROM patches will be loaded by loadmodule @ startup-sequence. 4. (Optional) Flash into (E/EE)PROM chip or…
And where could one get a compatible ROM flasher and WORM chips?