Review: OS3.5


This is my first review of a software title ... I hope this will be a good one!
I take a closer look on the "new" OS-Upgrade - also called OS3.5. When I got my update with the german post-service I have waited for it very long ... and then I was very surprised: It was shipped in a little box (white design), ages ago I got a software title in such a box. So I opend the box and the next surprise: a little small Instalation Manual, not a small paper no a really small manual. But it was very difficult for me to find the german instalation instruction - for all of you: You must only turn around your Manual, if you have the english-version.
But when I opened the book ... oh my dear ... PETRO couldn`t you include a nicer photo of you into the manual ( it is even more terrible than thatone in the Annex-CD-Cover. (nothing against Petro ...).
Now lets go to the more serious points: the instalation

If you open the installer you will get this fantastic new installer ... much colours ... sounds ... pictures ... much like WINDOWS and not very much has changed ... old buttons(where is the new gui). Wouldn`t it be possible to make some new creative things not only ports (uups, a little sitekick to Hyperion). But STOP there is a new feature: you can go back! Wow I have never missed these thing, it is usefull but could`t they give more serious things priority!!!The rest of the instalation worked very well (on my machine) and you can contact the "PETRO-Manual" .
One not so positiv point in the instalation progress was the onlinesoftware-instalation ... did you see this man:
Oh my dear he doesn`t look bad BUT could`t have they given him not this terrible surfer clothing - a small short would have been better. :-)))
Now I come to the now new installed OS:
Yes, finally there is a new layout! The new/old glow icons are very nice - I like them very much. The new gui looks very nice and the new prefereces are very nice. More hasn`t changed (I can`t see anymore) or I can`t use more, e.g. the new printer drives ...the AREXX-Port(maybe very usefull, if you would understand the language). I am sure much more have changed but do I see this, do you see this ... NO.(I can`t review things which I don`t see ... I can`t review the new AMIjoe-Cards - are they already canceled?) Oh, I forgot one very important thing, the WarpOS integration. I think this is the right way to bring standats to the community.

Overal Verdict:
I think that the OS-Update was a neccesarry(I hope the spelling was right) step forward. But couldn`t you wait some months and integrate more things or other things. But overall I am very satisfied with this new update it removes some of the hacks, which have made the system very instabil (oh, there are still the Vapor-roducts).


-two out of six-