AmigaOS4 for Classic - 30th November

[Harrison]

At least buyers are now better protected on ebay than before. If you do get scammed, and never see the item, then they will normally get you the money back.

[TiredOfLife]

I think I have been, to be honest.
I sent an email Wednesday but he hasn't responded.
Have sent several more at the weekend.

The worst thing is, I sent him my 060 as part payment in trade.
I know that was signed for at his end on Friday.
Would be more annoyed to lose that than the money as it would be difficult replacing that.

Having said that, I would still like to get my hands on a PPC, which would render the 060 obsolete.

[Harrison]

Well, if he only received the 060 on Friday then it's only Monday now. He might have been waiting for the 060 to arrive before he then posted the card to you, which he probably would do this week.

[TiredOfLife]

Well he has finally emailed me back.
He says he was a bit concerned because I said he should have the board now and it hadn't arrived or a card left by the postie.

I did give him the tracking number though so all he had to do was phone up Royal Mail.
He says a neigbour had it and only delivered it last night.

He also said he would post the PPC tomorrow morning and email me a tracking number.
Hoepfully he is on the level.

Have seen a better specced one on Ebay today.
Was tempted to bid for that, but I can see the prices being even higher now OS4.0 is on the horizon for classics.

[TiredOfLife]

Got a tracking number today, so looking better.

[Stephen Coates]

Good hope you get it soon

[Harrison]

Bet you are really looking forward to that arriving, and then for the 30th November to be here.

[TiredOfLife]

You have no idea.

My system is massively tinkered with to get the best performance.
Trouble is, that was for the 1260 and am now running a 1230.
It's killing me.

Will be chuffed to get the PPC board , just to get back to the 060.
Will then spend the time up until the 30/11/07, seeing what improvements can be made for the PPC element

And then it's all start again for OS4.0.

[Buleste]

Don't expect the PPC to give you any performance boost when you're running things normally as the speed of your system will depend on the type of 68000 cpu you have on the board. The only thing thats improved significantly in the every day running of workbench is viewing jpegs as most PPC dtypes are for MOS or OS4. Also I've just thought, OS4.0 was designed for Amga one boards which have far better PPC chips on board so OS4 for classic may be like trying to run Vista on a PII with 256mb of ram.

[TiredOfLife]

The 68k element of the PPC is the same as what I had, 060 50mhz.
Believe me, there is a significant improvement of the 030 50mhz.

I sent the 060 off as part payment for the PPC board, which is why I am currently using the 030.

I have read somewhere that 4.0 runs faster than 3.9 when using a classic.
Will try and have that confirmed.