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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ElPolloDiabl on July 27, 2010, 08:44:11 AM
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Did you run a pirate version of MS DOS and Win 3.xx?
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No, I had original versions that came via school.
MS DOS 5 trough 6.2 where all original.
Windows 3.11 was original
Windows 95 CD was OEM
Windows 98 CD was OEM
Windows XP CD was OEM
Windows Vista was OEM
And now Windows 7 is also OEM installed.
I even still have the floppy's :hammer:
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I remember in the early 90's I could never get onto the computer because my dad was always busy downloading pirate software from bulletinboards, so it's very possible I was using a pirated copy of windows/DOS back then :)
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I got a free License of windows 2.0 and an old dos version, cant remember what version it was tho, same went on when I bought a 386 16MHz. So I had legit versions untill windows 95, I got my first version of windows 95 from a BBS, it was the floppy version. I got my hands on a W98 license allmost for free.
Then I did stick with w98 untill Windows XP came, then I did use a pirate version because then I did not use Windows much, I mainly used Linux and dident use Windows enough to justify the license cost.
I skipped Vista but now have a computer dualbooted with W7 pirated without any troubles to use Windows update and no fails at WGA checks. But I do not use Windows much, I tend to keep using Linux since its what im most famillar with on x86/x64 architecture.
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PC DOS -OEM (DOSSHELL was very cool on my DOS-only Blue Lightning. I used to switch between Vistapro & Doom just to make Mandork jealous) ;)
MS DOS - OEM & Retail
Windows 3.1 -OEM
Windows 95 - Retail
Windows 98 - Pirate & Retail
Windows NT (various) - Retail
Windows XP - Pirate, OEM & Retail
Windows 2000 - Retail
Windows Vista - Pirate & OEM
Windows 7 - Beta, RC & Pirate
I've never paid for Windows & I've never pirated Amiga OS in any form. I'll get rid of my pirated Win7 soon, it's only a matter time before one of my handy contacts gives me an OEM disc. :)
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I even still have the floppy's :hammer:
I still have 2 sets of MS DOS 6.22 floppies and Wolfenstein 3d (version 1.4). They are the only non-Amiga floppies I own. :D
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I'll get rid of my pirated Win7 soon, it's only a matter time before one of my handy contacts gives me an OEM disc. :)
All pirate Windows 7 are OEM.
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I voted NO, because I didn't use MS-DOS or Win3.x at home.
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No way. I want from Commodore to Mac. DOS was utterly boring to me.
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Yes, but I didn't use them.
I just ENDURED them. :whack:
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face it... a lot people ran pirated win 3.x because they had to for work or school reasons ... not because they wanted to ! it was an utter piece of junk !
myself I was partially lucky... first job... no choise, at work we ran pirated copies :/ ... at home I stuck to my Amiga 2000 :D ... second job provided me with a Mac :) So at least at home I stayed clean :D (these days: Mac OS)
Tom UK
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Did you run a pirate version of MS DOS and Win 3.xx?
On my 8088 bridgeboard I ran DOS.
On my A2386SX bridgeboard, I ran DOS and only Windows 3.1 in order to run Word 2.0 and only because I had to turn in my documents in Word format.
DOS was only used because I had to run Borland compilers for all my programming classes.
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at home I stuck to my Amiga 2000 :D ... second job provided me with a Mac :) So at least at home I stayed clean :D (these days: Mac OS)
Tom OK
That's like choosing one evil over another. I'm not so sure you selected the lesser evil. ;^)
In fact, Apple is looking more and more like big brother, every day.
Linux/Android for the masses. ;^D
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That's like choosing one evil over another. I'm not so sure you selected the lesser evil. ;^)
In fact, Apple is looking more and more like big brother, every day.
Linux/Android for the masses. ;^D
I have to agree up to a point, what apple is doing on the phone/pad front does NOT get my approval at all. I just hope pure Mac OS stays clear of that.
I have a Nokia from work (and detest/refuse a personal mobile) .. but if I had a choice mine would be an Android based phone.
ta
Tom UK
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Y'know...
Yes, yes I did. But here's the weird thing: after the fact, with all of the MS OS'es I have used - DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows '95, Windows '98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and now Windows 7, I have at some point gotten a legitimate copy.
Starting with XP, I got it just because I got tired of all of the WGA/keygen programs and "preactivated" versions being basically humongous rootkits masquerading as the OS :P
The copies of DOS, and all Windows prior to XP I got after the fact - some of them, I have no idea how I wound up with them. My OEM copy of Windows 98 SE? Nope, no clue where that came from. Same with Windows '95. I was looking for a blank CD-R one day and opened up a jewel case and there sat Windows 3.11 on CD (Dell OEM). No idea how I got that.
I bought Windows 2000 a few months ago at a used book store for $10. In box, with jewel case, original receipt, everything. Very neat (got a copy of Office 2000 with it for $15, but sold that with a PC I threw together to make a few extra bucks).
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Nope.
I tend not to use windows even now, despite owning a perfectly legitimate copy.
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I ran an offical version of MSDOS & Win 3.x using this on my A500.
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=346
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Defected to Windows with Win 95 (and not too impressed) -- never used MS DOS or Win 3.xx
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Before Windows3.0 came out, I obtained an evaluation copy from some friends at IBM. I was working for a company selling computers based initially on boards from a company called Peripheral Technologies. These systems used 68000 processors tied to an ISA bus and would run a variety of OS' (including Microware OS9).
We also had an NEC V20 based processor card called the ALT86 that could plug into these systems allowing them to run MS-DOS/Windows.
While crude, Windows 3.0 (cleaned up as revision 3.1) was the product that convinced me that other platforms (many with significant advantages over MS-DOS) were in trouble if Microsoft could make an interface that made their OS easy to use, like an appliance.
Which is pretty much what happens. Microsoft OS' powered computers went from being specialized devices that required a lot of learning, to being consumer devices.
Since then, a lot of the fun's gone out of computing.
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Well as owner of a computer retail store (ACS Computers) I had enough original copies.
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I should add that some people would have booted to a directory manager or menu system.
Windows was really the inferior of GUIs available, but at that time I was never critical of something that did what it was suppose to do. The problem nowadays is that you have to deal with Windows at some point no getting around it.
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I ran an offical version of MSDOS & Win 3.x using this on my A500.
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=346
Yep, I ran the same setup in college. My computer programming classes required a PC running MS-DOS. The ATonce worked pretty well although it was a bit slow.
The first version of Windows I owned was 95. I sold my A1200 for a 95 box. It was a sad day.
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I own retail versions of
WinXP Pro
WinXp Media Centre, which of because of the time it was bought was given free upgarde so..
Vista Home (is that the one with medica Centre ?)
Also Own Win7 Pro, pre-ordered for massive discount
Vista Home OEM
I have run inthe past
Pirated versions of 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, Windows Milenium and Win 2000
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No pirated version but I use this :banana: "FORMAT A:" :banana: on my originals disks.
A long time ago that my original disks no longer contain MS DOS!!! They are in AMIGA format since many years.
My last victim:
(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4046/dsc085811.th.jpg) (http://img205.imageshack.us/i/dsc085811.jpg/)
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I don't recall having any reason to pirate the software in those days. Oh, as computers were a major hobby, I picked up an original IBM PC with a RODIME 10MB hard drive - but that was years after that wasn't much of a system. It had disks with it.
Later I got an AST 386sx-16mhz, that one had windows 3.11 on it - but again came with the original system disks - also was not expensive and completely outdated by the time I picked it up.
Because I was buying from surplus houses - they used to have all kinds of extra disks. I bought OS/2 for a song, and got Interleaf publisher even - some nice desktop publishing software.
When I got my powermac 6100 - I even bought Photoshop! LOL, for like $10 bucks. It was sitting in a warehouse - it was the upgrade version, but I just inputted the serial numbers that came with it (but had been markered over) - and wa-la, it installed. I even kept upgrading that up to version 5, before I stopped. Of course the upgrades were costing real money.
All that has changed, the warehouse shop is still in business, but they never have a real deal anymore.
Thanks ebay.
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I too, voted no because back then I didn't use MS-DOS/ PC-DOS or early Windows. That was my Amiga only period (and earlier the C-64).
I started with Windows 98 but only for games...
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Did you run a pirate version of MS DOS and Win 3.xx?
Curious Question. I'll answer this with another question, did Microsoft pirate CP/M or did Digital Research pirate MS-DOS and did several pc vendors pirate MSDOS and call it anything but MSDOS, did M$ steal QDOS from some of the unpaid shareholders ?
Lets face it was quite a few years before the legality and the EULA became recognised worldwide and as such it is not possible to pirate any MSDOS before version 7.
Windows 3.x is another matter entirely.
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Yes, I had pirated copies of Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, XP and now run Windows 7 Home Premium upgraded from the Windows 7 Starter that came with the laptop with a key given to me over MSN, so I suppose that should count as pirated too.
I think I did purchase Windows 95 at one point in time when I was at university, as I thought there was something wrong with my copied CD (turns out there wasn't - I just had the junkie virus in my bootblock so it was still there after reformatting).
I bought Mac OS X 10.3, 10.5 and most recently 10.6 Snow Leopard, as well as Amiga OS 3.5, 3.9 and Morphos 2.x.
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This poll is totally unfair and biased... :angry:
Where is the option for sensible people to answer...
ie:- Or were you just too INTElLIGENT to never have went near MS DOS or WinDoze. :roflmao:
PS: Hurry Up And Put Up A DECENT Amiga Related Poll (the clues in the name of this Forum...)
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never bought a M$ OS, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, xp, 7....are they gonna hunt me down now?
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I should add that some people would have booted to a directory manager or menu system.
Windows was really the inferior of GUIs available, but at that time I was never critical of something that did what it was suppose to do. The problem nowadays is that you have to deal with Windows at some point no getting around it.
there's plenty of corporate environments where you might not need to use windows. Google for one.
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never bought a M$ OS, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, xp, 7....are they gonna hunt me down now?
Depends if you ever used those ;) I'm actually a bit shocked how many amigans in this thread have owned PC on those MS DOS and Win 3.x times :-) I was in practise totally virgin for M$ stuff until some friends started to switch to PC after Win95... until then we all had only Amigas.
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Depends if you ever used those ;) I'm actually a bit shocked how many amigans in this thread have owned PC on those MS DOS and Win 3.x times :-) I was in practise totally virgin for M$ stuff until some friends started to switch to PC after Win95... until then we all had only Amigas.
If its any consolation, when I finally moved to a peecee, it was win 98. Hated it like rats. Got ME later, which was even worse.
Now, Im on linux and back on my amiga :)
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No, but I should have!
I didn't own a PC, but had to get a Bridgeboard for my A2000 because of work. I did not mind MSDOS too much, but Windows3.x!!! Don't make me think of that again, it will cause nightmares.
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Mr T Voice: "Gonna report you suckers to Bill Gates, he will introduce you to his friend, PAIN!"
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Mr T Voice: "Gonna report you suckers to Bill Gates, he will introduce you to his friend, PAIN!"
Ooooh I'm Scared... :nervous: Mr T eh !, Id just give him a Glasgow kiss and stuff Bill Graits right up his A...... :roflmao:
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No, I had an Amiga. I got my first PC in 1998 with Windows 95 Rev. 2 on it (I had to program Java at university). My A1200 lasted my up to then, with an added '040 for the last year.