Last amiga OS you ran before getting a PC?

[Khephren]

glad to see you guys ducking out of the firing line from 'those threads' to get a bit old school

[save2600]

3.0 on a 1200 in the mid 90's before switching to Windows for Workgroups. Ran various Windows machines until the mid 2000's, where I went Mac OSX and back to the Amiga. This time, it was AOS3.9 though and ran that all the way through to 2009. Now I'm back to AOS3.1 on my main Amiga - the 3000.

[cecilia]

I had OS3.9 on my Amiga 2000 (I had two working Amigas at the time that I bought my very first NON Amiga computer). And I got this Dell Laptop in fall of 2002 because I had seen the Amithlon and loved the idea of a portable Amiga.

So, I immediately made my Dell multiboot. I put Red HAt and win2000 and then put WinUAE using my OS3.9 files and programs. That setup worked great for many years. At some point a friend helped me copy my files to a larger HD so i could have  XP and changed my Linux to Ubuntu.

The Dell lasted until last summer (the screen died). So when I got a new laptop I kept the win7 and put AmigaForever on it and installed Ubuntu 10.04

I am in linux 90% of the time and never go online in win7 which is mainly used for AfterEffects.

this setup works great for me.

[CodePoet]

Painful topic

WB3.1 on my trusty old A1200 with 6MB of RAM, 500MB HDD and 68881FPU

I bought my first PC (Celeron 550) running windows 95 and had it linked to my A1200 via PC2AM - I used to play videos on my PC, genlock logos onto the video using my A1200 with DPaintIV, copy it to VHS and blow peoples minds!

I really miss those days, man. I wish I could go back and do it all again, I wouldn't even change anything.

[jkirk]

on my a500 i used 3.1(bought ks, and used os files off cd32 disks) until 1999 when i bought a crappy compaq the salesman made me think was decent.
bought unreal at the same time and it ran like molasses. in 2001 i bought a good pc(ran anything i threw at it).

i also used 1.2 1.3 2.1
recently i aquired an a1200 with 3.0 on it.

[Scottish_Chris]

3.9 on A1200 BPPC/BVision, CounterStrike was, (and still is), the deciding factor.

[Fester]

I went from 1.2 or 1.3 to a 486. I tried a Bridgeboard in my 2000 first, before moving on to the PC.

[T3000]

3.1 on the A3000

The deciding factor to build a pc was the ability to handle larger image files in Photoshop and being able to play the most awesome FPS at the time, Sierra/Dynamix release of Tribes.  ...and the fact that Amiga was clearly a sinking ship. I still used the A3000 and upgraded to os3.5 till my system had a terminal HD failure, then the pc pecame the main system.

[lsmart]

First 1.2 (A500)
Last OS3.1 (A3000)->Linux ->Mac

Now 4.1u2

My SAM440 is the machine I currently use the most (when at home).

[JimS]

It would have been WB 2.x on my A2000. Since my UAE install uses an image of the A2000's HD, it's also at WB 2.x

[cha05e90]

AmigaOS3.9 BoingBag2 - on my A2000/030 (see sig.). My first PC was a Pentium III Notebook running Windows XP Home.

[issarad]

I was (and am) still using OS 3.1 on my A1200 when I finally built a 486dx2/50 to play games and do some "real work" with.  The A1200 continues to get used to this day for various things (mostly games), but that 486 is LOOOOONG gone.

[B00tDisk]

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?)

[motrucker]

3.1 - I got a machine running Windows XP. I still use the Amiga (of course with machines running 1.3 and 3.5). Funny looking back on it - the only reason I got the Windows (Windoze if you prefer) machine was for the games, such as DOOM, Quake, Blood, etc., etc.. but I then discovered there was some good software hiding in the onslaught of Windows programs.

[Tripitaka]

Or buy a cheap ass PPC mac and run MorphOS. That's another way of playing with the mac and still running 'miggy software. I've considered it a few times myself.

[AmigaFreak]

Last Amiga OS I used was 1.3 and I used it solely until 1998.