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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« on: April 04, 2011, 02:02:53 PM »
WB3.0 on my A1200/030/28, jumped to Win3.11 with DOS6.22, when I can be bothered to I run WB3.1 with WinUAE.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 07:47:17 PM »
You know, looking back I think if someone could have put together a s/w virtualization tool that was as tight as what we have today I might have stayed on the Amiga a bit longer.  Games primarily drove me to the PC but once I got my head around "trumpet winsock" and all that jazz and got Netscape a-workin' I was there, man.

While I've no love of apple at all, when I hear about how frigging fast Mac emulators were on the Amiga I really wish I'd looked at that as a possible solution.  Infamous amiga usenet group troll Marc Barret even said that his A3000 with a 25mhz 030 was faster than any Mac of the day.

I've heard (maybe you Amigans can correct me if I'm wrong) that there's a PPC Mac emulator for PPC Amigas so you could potentially run MacOS9.  That being true, it'd be an interesting environment with, say, an A4000D with PPC card also running MacOS (although I'd wager for a decent experience a video card would be a must, yes?)
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 08:46:08 PM »
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You know, thats an interesting point. If you were rocking an 040 or 060, you could have kept up pretty decent for a long time.
 
Even with a beefy 030, i imagine things would have been decent.

Yup.  And if you look around there's folks who say they've run lots of classic 68k mac games (what ones there were) on Amiga chipsets with no problem at all.  Dark Forces, Wolf3d, A10 Cuba!, Duke Nuke'em 3d, all run without a hitch apparently.

EDIT: also if I'd had a big-box Amiga I might have gone for one of the C= Bridgeboards, too.
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