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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on April 04, 2011, 05:50:39 AM
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The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )
What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?
What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)
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Workbench 3.0 (and bought my first PC running Windows 95). I still ended up upgrading to OS3.5 and OS3.9. I have Workbench 3.1 too thanks to eBay purchase.
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My A500 only ever had KS1.2, so that's as far as I got before building a 486 machine from salvaged parts in the summer of 1998. By October of the same year I was sick of that POS and Windows 95, so I gave it to my sister-in-law and bought an iMac, which served me well for a couple of years.
In high school, however, I had access to a couple of machine running Workbench 2.X and a Video Toaster.
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Still using and moved onto OS4.1.
I get free pc`s from friends and family that upgrade on the dark side.
I run XP on one machine and the latest Ubuntu on the other.
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The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )
What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?
wb 1.2 on a1k back in '93 or '94. (first pc 386dx/25)
What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)
wb 3.1 on a3k. (sadly said machine is no longer functional)
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Workbench 3.0 (A1200) then i sold everything :( stupid choice since i had hundreds of mags, disk, joysticks etc etc... went to MS dos 6.22 then to windows 95 (what a pain to get to work!!!!!!!!!!!).
Happily i came back in 2001, main computer is a PC... :p
BUT the computer which i and my kids have the most fun on is the Amiga (each of my kids has a PC but they still like the Amiga's!) at least i know if anything happens to me the kids are going to keep them.
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I switched to a 486dx2/66 with MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 back in 1993, to replace my aging A500 with Kickstart 1.2 and Workbench 1.3.
And yes, that was an improvement.
Currently, I am using an A1200, A2000 and A3000 with OS 3.9.
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I was still using OS3.1 when I got my first PC. It didn't mean I stopped using or upgrading the former ;)
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My last WB version was a localized Greek Workbench 2.1 on my A2000 (with A2091+250MB SCSI2 HD, A2630+4MB, Commodore 286 Bridgeboard etc)
My 2000 beast (at the time) was replaced with an 486DX2@80 with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 :(
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lucky you lol i was a student so i had to get rid of my A1200 for a $3k 486 dx2 66 with scsi/soundblaster and etc.... what a rip..... (lol i remember i had like 15 drive letter to keep the file allocation small so not to waste so much space.....) still remember that weekend with win 95 and the 100 format and reinstall until I got it to work as I wanted it to....
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I ran 3.0 from '92 till 2001. I got a PC in late '96, a 200mhz pentium. I upgraded to 3.9 in 2001, and have stuck with it since. I still run 3.0 on my Xbox and phone though. I use AROS now and again too.
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1.3, Doom was the deciding factor :-)
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My last Amiga only setup used some horrible mish mash of 3.0 and 3.1 with PowerUp (I did have a WarpOS install, never had any real need to use it)... That was used until 2001... I have my Amiga's HD cloned for use on UAE. I use AROS more than AmigaOS now.
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I started off on the PC with DOS and Windows 3.1, so was sort of late to the Amiga party in 1994 or 1995, but that Amiga 1200 with 3.0 changed my view of computers completely. The PC only ever got turned on to take files off it. Had a Windows 98 machine then for using PC software in university, but used the Amiga all the way side-by-side, and as much as possible I avoided using the PC. That 1200 got upgraded to Frankensteinian levels, and had 3.5 and then 3.9, and still works now, though it doesn't get much use given that it's a little unstable and I have 4.1 on an A1XE...
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3.5 on a Frankensteined A1200 with PPC. Built a PC in 2000 and moved on to W2k.
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AmigaOS 3.0 - when the crud happened between H&P and P5 I pretty much gave up any hope of the Amiga doing anything worthwhile and that's where she has sat for the past .. 12 years or so.
Power up the beast every now and then to make sure its all good.
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I was using WB3.0 on my A1200HD, then I bought a Commodore 486 in 1994.
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3.1 on a A1200 with a 33.6 modem, moved to a pc due to it getting harder to use the internet with it, also wanted to play some of the latest games on the pc.
Edit: Hmm may have even been 3.0.
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Used 3.1 when my uncle decided I needed a PC instead. Must have been around '98-'99.
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2.04 on my own A500 and 3.0 on the loaner A1200 I occasionally had. Got a PC to use as my main box in 1996, kept the Amigas around though. :-)
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The question doesn't make any sense to me, fortunately :)
I got my PCs (laptops) through work for years before I bothered to buy one, and the first "PC" I bought was the old xbox. After that I have bought a large handfull of PCs, but none of them were instead of any Amiga system, but in addition to.
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The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )
What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?
What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)
WB 3.0
WB 1.3
Respectively.
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OS 3.1 on an A2000.
EDIT: Actually I got my first PC before. So the last Amiga OS before that in fact was OS 2.0 on an A500 for me. Today I mostly run 2.05 (A600) and 3.0 (A1200).
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3.0 On my A1200. I still own the same A1200. My Father bought a PC about the same time, a 50MHz Blue lightning based beastie with the cirrus logic gfx chip on a custom daughterboard. It was faster than any PC that anyone else I knew owned so I borrowed it for playing doom. He ended up being busy with other things and his PC would have just gathered dust if I hadn't used it so he ended up giving it to me, hurah! My first PC.
The funny bit is, I considered my Amiga to be my "proper" computer and the PC was an overpowered toy. LMAO, I still loved them both.
Now my Amiga is a hobby machine and my PC a necessity, but it's not so much fun anymore.
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WB3.0 on my A1200/030/28, jumped to Win3.11 with DOS6.22, when I can be bothered to I run WB3.1 with WinUAE.
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WB1.3 on my A500. I mainly played games on my A500.
I then got a Pentium 100Mhz system in mid 1996. I got back to Amiga in the early 2000s with an expanded A1200 060 system and I started using WB3.1. Eventually, I upgraded to 3.9.
I've never really stopped using the Amiga since I got back into it, but it was never meant to replace my PC (and later Macs), but rather just kind of act as an alternative and it was fun to play games and tinker around with different hardware expansions (it still is).
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Rom Switched 1.3 & 2.1. Workbench 2.1 on my A2000
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The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )
What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?
What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)
Last I ran before I switch was WB 3.1. Today, I still have my Edge LE (AROS) box.
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v1.3(A500) and KERNAL(C64). Geez, I used those exclusively up until the second half of the 90s.
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glad to see you guys ducking out of the firing line from 'those threads' to get a bit old school ;)
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3.0 on a 1200 in the mid 90's before switching to Windows for Workgroups. Ran various Windows machines until the mid 2000's, where I went Mac OSX and back to the Amiga. This time, it was AOS3.9 though and ran that all the way through to 2009. Now I'm back to AOS3.1 on my main Amiga - the 3000.
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I had OS3.9 on my Amiga 2000 (I had two working Amigas at the time that I bought my very first NON Amiga computer). And I got this Dell Laptop in fall of 2002 because I had seen the Amithlon and loved the idea of a portable Amiga.
So, I immediately made my Dell multiboot. I put Red HAt and win2000 and then put WinUAE using my OS3.9 files and programs. That setup worked great for many years. At some point a friend helped me copy my files to a larger HD so i could have XP and changed my Linux to Ubuntu.
The Dell lasted until last summer (the screen died). So when I got a new laptop I kept the win7 and put AmigaForever on it and installed Ubuntu 10.04
I am in linux 90% of the time and never go online in win7 which is mainly used for AfterEffects.
this setup works great for me.
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Painful topic :(
WB3.1 on my trusty old A1200 with 6MB of RAM, 500MB HDD and 68881FPU
I bought my first PC (Celeron 550) running windows 95 and had it linked to my A1200 via PC2AM - I used to play videos on my PC, genlock logos onto the video using my A1200 with DPaintIV, copy it to VHS and blow peoples minds!
I really miss those days, man. I wish I could go back and do it all again, I wouldn't even change anything.
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on my a500 i used 3.1(bought ks, and used os files off cd32 disks) until 1999 when i bought a crappy compaq the salesman made me think was decent.
bought unreal at the same time and it ran like molasses. in 2001 i bought a good pc(ran anything i threw at it).
i also used 1.2 1.3 2.1
recently i aquired an a1200 with 3.0 on it.
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3.9 on A1200 BPPC/BVision, CounterStrike was, (and still is), the deciding factor.
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I went from 1.2 or 1.3 to a 486. I tried a Bridgeboard in my 2000 first, before moving on to the PC.
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3.1 on the A3000
The deciding factor to build a pc was the ability to handle larger image files in Photoshop and being able to play the most awesome FPS at the time, Sierra/Dynamix release of Tribes. ...and the fact that Amiga was clearly a sinking ship. I still used the A3000 and upgraded to os3.5 till my system had a terminal HD failure, then the pc pecame the main system.
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First 1.2 (A500)
Last OS3.1 (A3000)->Linux ->Mac
Now 4.1u2
My SAM440 is the machine I currently use the most (when at home).
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It would have been WB 2.x on my A2000. Since my UAE install uses an image of the A2000's HD, it's also at WB 2.x
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AmigaOS3.9 BoingBag2 - on my A2000/030 (see sig.). My first PC was a Pentium III Notebook running Windows XP Home.
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I was (and am) still using OS 3.1 on my A1200 when I finally built a 486dx2/50 to play games and do some "real work" with. The A1200 continues to get used to this day for various things (mostly games), but that 486 is LOOOOONG gone. :)
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You know, looking back I think if someone could have put together a s/w virtualization tool that was as tight as what we have today I might have stayed on the Amiga a bit longer. Games primarily drove me to the PC but once I got my head around "trumpet winsock" and all that jazz and got Netscape a-workin' I was there, man.
While I've no love of apple at all, when I hear about how frigging fast Mac emulators were on the Amiga I really wish I'd looked at that as a possible solution. Infamous amiga usenet group troll Marc Barret even said that his A3000 with a 25mhz 030 was faster than any Mac of the day.
I've heard (maybe you Amigans can correct me if I'm wrong) that there's a PPC Mac emulator for PPC Amigas so you could potentially run MacOS9. That being true, it'd be an interesting environment with, say, an A4000D with PPC card also running MacOS (although I'd wager for a decent experience a video card would be a must, yes?)
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3.1 - I got a machine running Windows XP. I still use the Amiga (of course with machines running 1.3 and 3.5). Funny looking back on it - the only reason I got the Windows (Windoze if you prefer) machine was for the games, such as DOOM, Quake, Blood, etc., etc.. but I then discovered there was some good software hiding in the onslaught of Windows programs.
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Or buy a cheap ass PPC mac and run MorphOS. That's another way of playing with the mac and still running 'miggy software. I've considered it a few times myself.
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Last Amiga OS I used was 1.3 and I used it solely until 1998.
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While I've no love of apple at all, when I hear about how frigging fast Mac emulators were on the Amiga I really wish I'd looked at that as a possible solution. Infamous amiga usenet group troll Marc Barret even said that his A3000 with a 25mhz 030 was faster than any Mac of the day.
You know, thats an interesting point. If you were rocking an 040 or 060, you could have kept up pretty decent for a long time.
Even with a beefy 030, i imagine things would have been decent.
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AmigaDOS 2.05 on a A2000 (A2630, 4 MB Fast, 1 MB Chip, 120 MB HD).
I got a PC-Clone (486-sx, 4 MB RAM, 170 MB HD) running Windows 3.1 in 1992.
I still have the A2000 and several other old Amigas.
My old PC's have long gone to the junk pile.
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You know, thats an interesting point. If you were rocking an 040 or 060, you could have kept up pretty decent for a long time.
Even with a beefy 030, i imagine things would have been decent.
Yup. And if you look around there's folks who say they've run lots of classic 68k mac games (what ones there were) on Amiga chipsets with no problem at all. Dark Forces, Wolf3d, A10 Cuba!, Duke Nuke'em 3d, all run without a hitch apparently.
EDIT: also if I'd had a big-box Amiga I might have gone for one of the C= Bridgeboards, too.
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Amiga OS 3.0 (in ram) on A2000 with A2630 and 1mb chip + 2mb fast + 2mb A2630
.. I moved to a Pentium 100 with Windows 2000 happily skipping all dos based windows (except at work - urg)
Years later... see sig
Tom UK
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I`m amazed the Amiga interest still alive, been many years since i booted up my Amiga`s.
Started way back for me when the A500+ came out , a friend introduced me to the amiga about 1990 was expecting a A500 remember him saying will have an image of a disk - nope had an animated drive he was more excited than me lol.
bought a philips mk2 monitor so expensive, later added the wedge cd-rom, i started my programming career with the Amiga,
then i got a A600, followed by a CD32, then finally my A1200 with an 030 accelerator.
Sadly work dragged me away, did release a few small programs on the Aminet
loved the amiga and for its day still best OS - loved coding on the amiga.
and they all in the loft of my ex-wife house, i guess i need to take a visit