Amiga os 3.9 XL ?

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Amiga OS XL is a package that contains 2 emulators, AmigaXL, which runs on top of QNX 6.x and sort of merges the 2 oses to a degree, and amithlon, which sits ontop of a linux based kernel, but gives the user Amiga OS only, but with direct hardware access to the system its running on and a few other advantages. Both have an updated os3.9 with boing bag1 installed, but apart from speed there's no real difference in terms of the OS compared to the "normal" os3.9 version (a user can install boing bag1 on normal os3.9 as well if they chose and so on). Amiga OSXL though now is no longer sold due to legal reasons, so as suggested if youve obtained it, its an illegal download.

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Slightly off topic, but I was (and still am) a big fan of Amithlon. Some of my favorites amiga years were spent using it, and its only really semi recently that Ive started using AROS as my x86 "amiga" rather than amithlon. Having said that though I do still play around with amithlon sometimes, as they (amithlon/os3.9 and AROS) have a little bit of a different amiga flavor (much in the way Id use os4.x and mos sometimes if I had the hardware they run on). I remember the 1st time I played good quality dvd rips on an amiga syste, through froggerng on amithlon/os3.9,... big moment for me Same with playing streetfighter2/mortal kombat 3 and so on full speed with sound with amiga mame, and a few other things that can only happen with raw speed. I'd seen it all on pc, etc before, but using all that sort of software on amiga os for the 1st time was a lot of fun
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Oh yeah, and just wondering, is it AmigaXL (the one that needs QNX), or amithlon (live booting one) that you've used ? Both are good, but if your hardware is supported I still believe amithlon is the best way to experience Amiga OS3.9 on an x86 machine (unless you mostly want to play old games and/or scene demos).