Purchasing the CD or Legal Digital Download of AmigaOS for WinUAE

[BebertBocal-1]

As far as I have understood, Amiga Forever, AmiKit and AmigaSYS do not come with any version of AmigaOS but the only way of purchasing AmigaOS is to buy the CD. Is this correct?

I would like to purchase some version of AmigaOS that can be run on WinUAE, and I could buy the CD for this purpose. The OS will most likely be 3.9 provided that it is the newest version supported by the emulator. However, apologies for this complete newbie question but are PC CD-/DVD-/BD-ROMs even able to read the files on an AmigaOS CD?

I have nothing against purchasing the CD per se but I have chosen digital download options whenever I have been able to do so. That's why I wonder whether AmigaOS (e.g. version 3.9) could be purchased as a digital download anywhere. I mean legally, of course! I went through the Amiga webstores listed at http://www.amigaos.net/content/4/where-buy and the more country-specific listing of resellers at http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=36 but in case I did not miss anything, I could not spot any options for purchasing a legal download of the OS on any of the websites.

[BebertBocal-1]

Thanks for the replies!

I made the decision to buy the actual CD. Since 4.0 and above are not supported by any emulator (at least so it seems) the version of the OS will be 3.9. I guess I'll follow the installation instructions at http://elite79.tripod.com/os39uae/ or at http://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-online.de/os39xl.html

The OS seems to look pretty neat (but not before adjusting the screenmode preferences)!

[BebertBocal-1]

Personally, I'd recommend Amikit once you get the 3.9 physical media.

Seems like a sound plan (and luckily, AmiKit is freeware). However, I'm not sure if I can use it right away after getting the CD as I intend to do a lot of file extraction before doing anything else. Please see a recent thread that I started on the topic at http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=741115#post741115

As I explained in the thread, I would like to retain all the Amiga file attributes when I extract my Amiga archives. Will the Amiga file attributes be retained/preserved when I extract my .lzx and .lha archives on AmiKit? I'm not entirely sure how AmiKit really works in this respect.