AmigaOS 2.x consensus

[save2600]

Wondering who all here uses 2.x in their machines. Kickstart and Workbench that is. Can you use Workbench, etc. with Kickstart 3.1 well enough? Any glaring issues or incompatibilities doing so?

Reason I ask is because I am thinking about turning my A2000 (which currently has KS and WB 3.1 on it) into a 2.1 machine. I've got the full original disk set, begging to be used and I believe I have a 2.04 ROM somewhere too. And before some asks WTF? I'm only thinking about doing this because:

a) I'm thinking I want to play around with 2.1, since I never really spent much time with it ever.

b) the A2000 sits there, idle. Since I have a 1000 that's happy with 1.3 and a 3000 with 3.1 on it, thought it might be nice to have a different OS on that system for shits and giggles.

...what do you think? Waste of time and effort? Or go for it? Might be neat showing the evolution of AmigaOS's across various machines...

[save2600]

I always figured 1.3 for compatibility with games, 3.1 for modern stuff.  2.x just doesn't really fit anywhere for me.

Yeah, that's how I've always looked at it. You know... here I am looking at the binder for 2.1 and its 5 disks. There's an extra slot, blank of course. Could have been the Kickstart disk for A1000 owners dammit! How tough would it have been to include dialogue explaining you needed more RAM, instead of ditching us all together  :mad:  

C= could have certainly embedded a little ditty that created and then set aside WOM-like memory for the extra 256KB of 2.x Kickstart. The_rat_bastards!  :lol:

[save2600]

I have found that the PPS 040 board for the Amiga 2000 works great with Kickstart 2.04 and Workbench 2.1.  I can not get this board to work properly with Amiga OS 3.x.  Most likely there are other Amiga hardware that acts the same way, works great on Amiga OS 2.x but not 3.x.

Hmm... even with updated Libs? Specifically, the 68040.library.