About a month ago I got my 1st working a1200 in a few years, and Im really enjoying working with the machines own characterstics, rather than blurring the experience with raw speed. Now dont misunderstand me, Im also a big fan of Amithlon and have a dedicated machine for it, so I can appreciate running OS3.x on faster hardware. It's pretty impressive how capable it is still these days with enough raw grunt. Ultimately my answer would have to be something like "both", although amithlon rather than Winuae for me (Ive used Winuae a fair bit over the last 15 or so years, and am fairly well versed with it, but for me the host os gets in the way of me being able to focus on using the amiga side "seriously". Also not having to use things like amiga tcp/ip stack, not having to deal with file systems/partitioning on amiga side, not being able to define custom rtg graphics modes and so on. It's all personal tastes as to whether these things are a concern I guess, but it's more that these things are a distraction to me, and I find it hard to ever feel like things arent temporary setups).
