Workbench Release 3.1, v40.42 (Kickstart v40.58, .60, .63, .68, .70) |
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Release date: 1994 | New ROM (512KB) and software | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Shipped with: All current "Classic" Amigas, available as upgrade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Major enhancements:
Click here for a text file review of 3.1, and here for an .lha-compressed text file list of changes in 3.1 |
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Screenshots/pics: Font-sensitive "Information..." & "Execute Command..." windows visible. ![]()
Hidden messages:
| With less than 16 tasks running, the following message appears in an AutoRequest on the Workbench screen, if "About..." is selected from the "Workbench" menu several times (without closing the existing requesters) while Ctrl, both Alt and both Shift keys are pressed: ![]() Original clues:
Media information:
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Notes/comments:
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"It's not the version number that counts. It's the type of machine the ROM was created for. The A4000T 3.1 ROM, version 40.70, does not contain any driver firmware to control the A3000 SCSI hardware. That's what you'll find only in the A3000 ROM. The last few OS revisions following 40.65 would contain only changes made to the SCSI (and the IDE) drivers. Somehow, some changes made it into the A3000 SCSI driver for 40.70 which for some people caused trouble with their SCSI devices. The driver in 40.68 did not trigger the same problems, which is why, eventually, 40.68 shipped instead of 40.70. Some of the 40.70 ROMs shipped to customers who didn't have any problems at all with the SCSI driver." Klaus Burkert provides further information in this regard: "There was 40.70 for A3000 and A4000 when VillageTronic initially released OS 3.1. But those versions had problems with some accelerator boards and with some hard drives, thus the step back to 40.68 was taken, the same reason is responsible for "only" 40.63 on the 16 bit systems. All this happened more than 3 years ago..." "They [the Kickstart versions] are not interchangeable--at least not with a fully working featureset. If you are ever told otherwise, the person/company either doesn't know or is lying." |