Sorry to rain on your parade... with all the glee and hype about the joys of OS4... I can't help remembering that all the best games for Amiga didn't use Workbench at all. You know- the ones that boot cold?? Without the operating system chewing up resources (efficient tho it was), old school games with no dos were generally the ones with the biggest "wow" factor. (speedball2, silkworm, r-type... and all the arcade ripoffs)
I'm coming from an A500/A2000 background, wb1.3 and 2.0 respectively... so I dont know what improvements came with later releases (if any)... but could the A1 be used like that? say... boot from DVD or CD like a console?
just wondering... the OS really wasn't the best thing about the amiga.