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From:Alan Watson
Date:24 Oct 2000 at 01:04:30
Subject:Re: AmigaOS 3.9 screenshot

On 23-Oct-00, Nick Darley-Jones wrote:

>> Was that OS3.9 or OS3.5? I upgraded to OS3.5 ages ago (couldn't live
>> without it now) and I can't see any difference.

Neither can I.But if Genesis has been bugfixed and MooVid will play
Indeo4/5 avi`s and Sorenson compressed mov`s,then the upgrade will
be worth it here.

>> I don't expect this new OS to be radically different but I would have hoped
>> to see some of the well know patches (Birdie and Visual Prefs spring to
>> mind) incorperated into the new OS. Maybe I am being blind here and this
>> is a screen shot of a pure PPC based system running 100 times faster, but
>> even a screen shot of my system looks better (and I don't have a PPC or
>> graphics card yet).

I never said it looks good.Have you seen the logo for the AmigaONE?Ugghh..

>> Never-the-less, I said the same about OS3.5 and I was proved wrong! When my
>> G3/G4 and Mediator bits arrive then I too will be upgrading again.

I think anybody with an Amiga that wants to see improvements to the OS
in the future should upgrade.

Regards,

Alan Watson

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