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Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« on: April 04, 2011, 05:50:39 AM »
The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )

What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?

What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 06:00:47 AM »
Workbench 3.0 (and bought my first PC running Windows 95).  I still ended up upgrading to OS3.5 and OS3.9.  I have Workbench 3.1 too thanks to eBay purchase.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 06:10:30 AM »
My A500 only ever had KS1.2, so that's as far as I got before building a 486 machine from salvaged parts in the summer of 1998.  By October of the same year I was sick of that POS and Windows 95, so I gave it to my sister-in-law and bought an iMac, which served me well for a couple of years.

In high school, however, I had access to a couple of machine running Workbench 2.X and a Video Toaster.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2011, 06:46:41 AM »
Still using and moved onto OS4.1.
I get free pc`s from friends and family that upgrade on the dark side.
I run XP on one machine and the latest Ubuntu on the other.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2011, 07:03:34 AM »
Quote from: runequester;627575
The question assumes you went from amiga to a PC or Mac (sorry, Franko :) )

What was the amiga OS you ran, at the time your amiga was no longer your primary computer?


wb 1.2 on a1k back in '93 or '94. (first pc 386dx/25)

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What do you run on your main amiga today? (whichever one you use the most)


wb 3.1 on a3k. (sadly said machine is no longer functional)
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2011, 07:08:15 AM »
Workbench 3.0 (A1200) then i sold everything :( stupid choice since i had hundreds of mags, disk, joysticks etc etc... went to MS dos 6.22 then to windows 95 (what a pain to get to work!!!!!!!!!!!).
Happily i came back in 2001, main computer is a PC... :p
BUT the computer which i and my kids have the most fun on is the Amiga (each of my kids has a PC but they still like the Amiga's!) at least i know if anything happens to me the kids are going to keep them.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2011, 07:32:38 AM »
I switched to a 486dx2/66 with MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 back in 1993, to replace my aging A500 with Kickstart 1.2 and Workbench 1.3.

And yes, that was an improvement.

Currently, I am using an A1200, A2000 and A3000 with OS 3.9.
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2011, 07:35:15 AM »
I was still using OS3.1 when I got my first PC. It didn't mean I stopped using or upgrading the former ;)
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2011, 07:53:36 AM »
My last WB version was a localized Greek Workbench 2.1 on my A2000 (with A2091+250MB SCSI2 HD, A2630+4MB, Commodore 286 Bridgeboard etc)
My 2000 beast (at the time) was replaced with an 486DX2@80 with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 :(
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2011, 07:55:18 AM »
lucky you lol i was a student so i had to get rid of my A1200 for a $3k 486 dx2 66 with scsi/soundblaster and etc.... what a rip..... (lol i remember i had like 15 drive letter to keep the file allocation small so not to waste so much space.....) still remember that weekend with win 95 and the 100 format and reinstall until I got it to work as I wanted it to....
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3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2011, 08:07:23 AM »
I ran 3.0 from '92 till 2001. I got a PC in late '96, a 200mhz pentium. I upgraded to 3.9 in 2001, and have stuck with it since. I still run 3.0 on my Xbox and phone though. I use AROS now and again too.
 

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2011, 08:47:12 AM »
1.3, Doom was the deciding factor :-)
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2011, 09:17:42 AM »
My last Amiga only setup used some horrible mish mash of 3.0 and 3.1 with PowerUp (I did have a WarpOS install, never had any real need to use it)... That was used until 2001... I have my Amiga's HD cloned for use on UAE. I use AROS more than AmigaOS now.

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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2011, 10:34:10 AM »
I started off on the PC with DOS and Windows 3.1, so was sort of late to the Amiga party in 1994 or 1995, but that Amiga 1200 with 3.0 changed my view of computers completely. The PC only ever got turned on to take files off it. Had a Windows 98 machine then for using PC software in university, but used the Amiga all the way side-by-side, and as much as possible I avoided using the PC. That 1200 got upgraded to Frankensteinian levels, and had 3.5 and then 3.9, and still works now, though it doesn't get much use given that it's a little unstable and I have 4.1 on an A1XE...
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Re: Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2011, 10:37:36 AM »
3.5 on a Frankensteined A1200 with PPC. Built a PC in 2000 and moved on to W2k.