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- From: Christoph <c_feck@informatik.uni-kl.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: 3.0 is NOT 2.1+AGA! (was Re: Installing WB 3.0 on an Amiga 500?)
- Date: 20 Apr 1993 08:08:08 +0200
- Organization: Smurf-O-Box Karlsruhe, FRG
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- Differences between AmigaOS Release 2.1 and AmigaOS Release 3.0:
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- (listed in the order they sprang to my mind :)
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- - Support for AGA chipset (obviously...) esp. for Sprites
- - Enhanced performance and reliability (thousands of fixes!!!)
- - New data types system with AmigaGuide, text, picture and sound data types
- - MultiView replacing Display as a general file/clipboard viewer
- - New BOOPSI pointer, colorwheel and gradientslider objects
- - New directory caching file systems (DOS4, DOS5)
- - Screen, Workbench, and window backdrop picture and pattern
- - System supplied and customizable 'busy pointer'
- - Palette sharing, support for 96 bit colors
- - Complete new Palette Preferences allows customization of GUI colors
- - Interleaved bitmaps for improved speed on deep displays
- - Much improved and fixed GadTools for better 'look and feel'
- - Faster memory allocation routines
- - New memory handlers for "poor man's" virtual memory
- - Support for future OwnerID/GroupID and related protection bits
- - DOS allows early abort of ExAll call
- - Asynchronous WB Info requester, callable by applications
- - New commands for ASL and Easy requesters (from Shell)
- - PAL/NTSC bootup switch along with enhanced bootup menu
- - HDToolBox uses GadTools and other fixes
- - Screen attachement (AKA screen families)
- - MUCH faster layers (i.e. windows :)
- - Timed alert for GURU (reboots automatically)
- - New SAD (Standard Amiga Debugger?) replaces ROMWack
- - Exec supports memory pools (FAAST!)
- - New message based semaphore system (can be used with old semaphores)
- - Some forward thinking functions in gfx to support RTG
- - Faster console (bitplane masking!) and fixes
- - Support for graphic tablets
- - 'NewLook' menus with scaled Amiga and checkmark images
- - Much improved QBlit() system
- - ...
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- Anything forgotten? (Mail me, I'm compiling a *complete* list :)
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- Christoph 'Pepo' Feck, TowerSystems.