Have had a busy few weeks and haven't had much time to tinker with this beast but I've just managed to have a little play with her.
OS7.6.1 is amazing on this monster. Everything happens INSTANTANEOUSLY! I run an expanded Amiga 1200 too and the Amiga OS is famous for being super responsive, and OS7 on the 9600 feels very much like that, stuff loads almost before you've double clicked it!
Got OS9.2.2 installed on another partition, using OS9 Helper. Works fine, but is sluggish compared to the other system on the computer, but still a very nice OS9 experience.
The bad news though is that there are some annoying stability issues. It all just hangs from time to time. The PRAM battery is dead, so I'll replace that first to see if that helps, but i suspect there's some bad RAM in there somewhere.
I made a couple of videos last night. I was mildly boozed up, so they do ramble a little. Peppered with foul language too I'm afraid, so NSFW...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxlQSyYHzzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfH11Rx-Hw0
Not the greatest or most enlightening vids perhaps, but I'm treating them as an experiment and will do some more in depth and sober ones at some point soon.
S
OS7.6.1 is amazing on this monster. Everything happens INSTANTANEOUSLY! I run an expanded Amiga 1200 too and the Amiga OS is famous for being super responsive, and OS7 on the 9600 feels very much like that, stuff loads almost before you've double clicked it!
Got OS9.2.2 installed on another partition, using OS9 Helper. Works fine, but is sluggish compared to the other system on the computer, but still a very nice OS9 experience.
The bad news though is that there are some annoying stability issues. It all just hangs from time to time. The PRAM battery is dead, so I'll replace that first to see if that helps, but i suspect there's some bad RAM in there somewhere.
I made a couple of videos last night. I was mildly boozed up, so they do ramble a little. Peppered with foul language too I'm afraid, so NSFW...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxlQSyYHzzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfH11Rx-Hw0
Not the greatest or most enlightening vids perhaps, but I'm treating them as an experiment and will do some more in depth and sober ones at some point soon.
S