How many of you are still using AmigaOS 3.x ?

[Seaquest]

I'm using my A4000/060 3.9BB2 as my main OS everyday

Used to run OS4.0 on my A1 but that crappy HW died so back to real AMIGA's :-D

[Tenacious]

I use 3.9 on RTG machines everyday, 3.1 on AGA, and 2.1 with unexpanded original graphics Amigas.

[Cass]

Since I got a problem with my SCSI HD, I stuck with 3.9 as main OS (top boot priority), and I switch to OS4 now and then.

[kvasir]

Still using my A1200 '060, 192mb fast here. Planning on mediator/tower/wireless sega controllers/wireless mouse/keyboard, 24bit gfx, etc yet. Then I'll think about os4 and sam, though I'm guessing my 1200 will still be a primary.

[aggro_mix]

I'm using 3.9 almost daily for email (YAM). I also use it for image processing/editing (Image FX), midi sequencing and sound recording (Bars&Pipes with Sunrize AD516) and text editing (Cygnus Ed)

I wish I could afford to upgrade my A3k to a 060 or PPC

[HopperJF]

I am now a happy 3.9 user again :-)

I am trying to get hold of a PPC and hope to upgrade to OS 4 Classic in the future

[nine3o]

I use 3.9 on my 1200 desktop, and I also use 3.1 on the same machine, depends on which hard drive I use.

[matthey]

Using AmigaOS 3.9 a couple of times a week. Hardware is 68060@80MHz CSMK3 with Mediator Voodoo4/Fast Ethernet which is fast enough for 90+% of uses. I would use it more if I had a good browser and it was a little more stable. Funnest machine I have and still useful. I'll probably get an AmigaOS 4.x or Natami sometime next year.

[Dandy]

I do.
My main computer at home is my fully developed Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC, Mediator PCI Busboard, Voodoo4, Terratec 512i digital, 10/100mBit NIC, Spider II USB 2.0, 160 gB HD, DVD-RW, etc. pp.

The main OS on this machine currently still is OS 3.9, although I already have OS 4.0 classic installed as well.
Unfortunately I currently don't have enough spare time to set up the 4.0 system properly.

Aside from that I want to give PPC-Linux a go on that machine once I have the spare time for that.

My A4kPPC is mainly used for webbrowsing, e-mails, photo editing (and storing), (light) video editing  (and storing)and CAE/CAD/CAM, networking.

The a4k is networked with an XPpro-PC, which is sitting under the desktop - remote controlled by the Amiga via "RDesktop" by Darren Eveland.

If the Amiga's power is not sufficiant for a particular job or if a piece of software is needed to do this job, that is not available on the Amiga platform, I send the task to the PC over the network, do the necessary steps there, transfer the result back to my Miggy and continue to work on the task there.

"RDesktop" is a wonderful tool for that - no need for a second monitor, keyboard or mouse...

If my Miggy is used once in a year for gaming that really is a lot (although I have loads of games rotting in my disk boxes - mostly from second hand buys).

[Krischan76]

I do.

For a quick look over my favourite websites, for emailing and chatting whenever I feel booting the peecee is too much effort.

[Jupp3]

Most of my "amiga-ish time" is spent with either Pegasos 2 with MorphOS 2.1 or CD32, booting games directly from disks.

I have still my old 3.9 installation on my A1200, but I have thought of doing a clean-ish 3.1 installation on my A1200 some day, maybe one day if I replace my HD :-)

[neongod]

I'm still using OS3.9 on my A1200, mainly for chatting with friends on IRC and MSN, reading mail, listening to mp3's, mods, sids, streams, and chilling with finetuning the system. However it's not my main system anymore, I turn it on few times a week. But I use a CD32 daily for playing.

[jrfjunior]

Using Workbench 3.9 and happy. I keep in my mind that Amiga is a hobby. Hobby for more than 17 years. Good games and SO. But for daily computer use the best is PC. This is necessary because I saw many Amiga hardcore users that some today look the PC in another way and stopped of using Amiga. For me OS4.0 and another OSs are for non Amiga classic uses.

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AmigaMance wrote:
Hi.
 I was wondering how many of you are still using AmigaOS 3.x (Preferably 3.9) as their main OS, or boot from their 3.x partition at least twice a week.
 Please reply only if you use it for purposes other than just gaming. :-)

[darksun9210]

yup, 3.x here, guilty as charged. usually one machine  gets fired up daily.
if its not for gaming purposes, then mainly...

A1200/030 3.1 ,fblit, ftext, multicx.
gets used for amiga.org'ing, aminet downloads, ADF extractions, pixel painting and mod playing.

A1200/PPC 3.9 BB1 (BB2 crashes?)
gets used for fusion mac emulation - for nutscrape communicrasher, 3D rendering in real3d, (and games)

i think i'm going to be amiga till i die. :-D

[Nearly-Right]

I too use my Amiga OS3.9 (BB2) PPC 240/060-50 1200 tower as much as I can for all my browsing and computer use. I just wish that IBrowse was more able to handle current webpages better, and still hope it will be updated soon. I use the Amiga for scanning, DTP, graphics, and anything else I can of use to me.

I wish there was better support for USB as I have a Mediator card, and I was extremely disappointed that Chris Hodges abandoned Poseidon for people who had bought Spider cards in preference to Subway or other E3B cards. I bought my Spider card very early on, before the Elbox debacle, and so felt it was unfair there is no longer any support for the card, which up until the Deneb was the only card with USB2 feature.

I won't go along the OS4.1 road at the moment as I bought OS4 and feel abandoned by Hyperion & ACube as they have not supported that version as they should, seeing as it cost £60+. 1 update before abandonment is a disgrace. Besides which, I do not see enough quality software available for it as yet, and the cost is extortionate for what you get.

So it's OS3.9 for me, still the best Amiga release for Classic hardware.

[Caius]

I use my Amiga with 3.9 almost every day. Mostly C++ coding (for fun), sound sampling and editing (for fun), and messing around with photos I've taken (also for fun). In addition I surf places like a.org and other sites that are usable with IBrowse. Every once in a while I also fire up a game.