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Pretty much all of the 3.9 features are there, plus things like built-in networking stack, USB support, graphics and sound card support all built in at a low level. It's built for much higher spec machines, and apart from the change of CPU, OS 4.0 is essentially OS 3.9 on steroids. This is a different beast altogether, and is the continuation of the OS onto PowerPC CPUs. Using WHDLoad to play the older games, this is the probably the ultimate environment to go for, equating to a massively pimped out A4000 with graphics, sound, network and USB cards, for example. So, in terms of a 68k Amiga, a combination of 3.9 and 3.1.4 is the pinnacle of the OS, using 3.1.4's most up-to-date core and the user experience improvements of things like AmiDock, DefIcons, AsyncWB, RAWBInfo and so on from 3.9. But there's no sign of a release date for that yet. It also provided a new Kickstart ROM, which streamlines the boot process (3.5 and 3.9 both use Kickstart 3.1 ROMs and load the updated OS from the hard drive).ģ.2 is in the pipeline and should re-introduce more of the elements of 3.9 that were dropped for 3.1.4. Due to licencing issues, 3.1.4 is officially based on 3.1, but actually contains many of the under-the-hood changes of 3.9 without the more visible extras like dockbars and ReAction. Many years passed before 3.1.4 was released, but that's the latest version of the classic OS. Features-wise, 3.9 offers the most in terms of user experience out of the box.
Soon afterwards however, 3.9 was released and offered even more improvements over the top of 3.5, so there's little reason to go for 3.5 instead of 3.9. It introduced large hard drive support, the ReAction toolkit for OS functions, support for colourful icons built in, a Workbench ARexx support and more.
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However, 3.1 itself is quite dated, and 3.5 was released as an update offering many improvements both under the hood and in terms of visuals. There might not be as many as there were in the A500's time, but there are some gems there all the same.
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When using this, you have the added advantages of being able to use things like WHDLoad patches to allow games to run from hard drive, graphics card drivers so your Workbench screen can take advantage of the PC's graphics card (most games will still use a native screenmode of course), and give you access to the later games in the Amiga's life that use AGA and graphics cards. In that arena, the basic setup is OS 3.1. OS 2 will break compatibility with some older games and doesn't offer any significant advantage over OS 3, so for the next level up you have A1200-level stuff. Using a newer OS than 1.3 can cause some older games to not work without being patched. Most of the older floppy games will run on this, so if you just intend to run the games from floppy images, this might be enough for you. Your basic level of compatibility is an A500 with Kickstart 1.3. The OS you want really depends on your exact needs, and having multiple virtual hard drives and configs is a good idea, having just two will still limit what you can do.
Okay, I can imagine this is a bit daunting alright, but with WinUAE you're easily able to set up multiple profiles for different configurations, so that's not a problem. Thank you to all in advance (i've just not been able to find a definitive web page/video on answering all this so I've turned to you all)
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feel free to offer links on guides/videos how to do this. What does anyone recommend and how to go about it. My requirements are an environment which is most compatible with all games and applications so i can get lost in nostalgia and the other is to be able to have the ultimate modern setup that employs as much of the UI/system modifications/improvements as possible (ie magic menu, dopus, modern usablity like large hard disks, lots of colours/32bit/64bit, etc, etc) I am contemplating two environments if this is possible (I guess from just creating two separate HDF files and two wine configs to point to one or the other?) To me it's confusing and I want to know your opinions on what version i should focus on creating an environment from. I have seen that there has been versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1FE and now 3.1.4 released! I want to emulate via WinUAE (not got enough time to faff about with actual Amigas anymore). I'm just getting back into Amiga after decades away from it.
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