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...
I run OS2.1 on my A500s, A600s, and one A2000. It's a much bigger leap from 1.3 to 2.1 than it is from 2.1 to 3.1. On some of these machines, I installed a rom switcher to get back to OS1.3.
2.1 is very compatible with most software. There is even a cool animated busy pointer that only works in 2.xx (I've never found one for 3.xx). The OS released just before 2.1 (2.05?) was the last that included all the files for Speech Toy. IIRC, this version was enhanced over the one that came with 1.3.
If you have 3.1 roms, there is little reason (other than preserving and collecting another OS) in running 2.xx. On the other hand, if you can't find 3.1 roms, OS2.1 is completely usable. There are utilities (like WhatIs.library) that add some 3.1 functionality.
