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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #44 from previous page: April 04, 2011, 08:16:11 PM »
Last Amiga OS I used was 1.3 and I used it solely until 1998.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #45 on: April 04, 2011, 08:31:00 PM »
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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.
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.
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #46 on: April 04, 2011, 08:31:09 PM »
AmigaDOS 2.05 on a A2000 (A2630, 4 MB Fast, 1 MB Chip, 120 MB HD).

I got a PC-Clone (486-sx, 4 MB RAM, 170 MB HD) running Windows 3.1 in 1992.

I still have the A2000 and several other old Amigas.

My old PC's have long gone to the junk pile.
A1000 - 2 Floppies, 2 MB RAM, OS 1.0-1.3
A500 - 170 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, OS 1.3/2.04
A2000 - 350 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 2.04
A2500 - 540 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 3.9
A1200 - 20 GB HD, 64 MB RAM, Blizzard IV
Amithlon - 49 GB HD, 768 MB RAM, PIII-1G
AROS - 80 GB HD, 2 GB RAM, P4-3.2GHz
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #47 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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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #48 on: April 04, 2011, 10:12:12 PM »
Amiga OS 3.0 (in ram) on A2000 with A2630 and 1mb chip + 2mb fast + 2mb A2630
.. I moved to a Pentium 100 with Windows 2000 happily skipping all dos based windows (except at work - urg)

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #49 on: April 05, 2011, 01:22:14 PM »
I`m amazed the Amiga interest still alive, been many years since i booted up my Amiga`s.

Started way back for me when the A500+ came out , a friend introduced me to the amiga about 1990 was expecting a A500 remember him saying will have an image of a disk - nope had an animated drive he was more excited than me lol.

bought a philips mk2 monitor so expensive, later added the wedge cd-rom, i started my programming career with the Amiga,
then i got a A600, followed by a CD32, then finally my A1200 with an 030 accelerator.

Sadly work dragged me away, did release a few small programs on the Aminet
loved the amiga and for its day still best OS - loved coding on the amiga.

and they all in the loft of my ex-wife house, i guess i need to take a visit