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The versions and branches and spin-offs almost sound sane until you realise they didn't mention Haage & Partner 'Amiga Forever' lineage, which is what I imagine most users are using today - via the included WinUAE, Amiberry, or various FPGA Minimig (e.g. MiSTer) based devices.

This one claims to be AmigaOS 3.9 which is a best of breed cobbled together AmigaOS and roms.

I have no idea if/when this might venefit from the fixes to 3.2.3, but I'm imaging never.

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There's an ongoing legal squabble about which is the “real” AmigaOS, for the dozens of people deeply affected by such important decisions.

FWIW, from what I've read, the 3.2 series seems like the “real” branch to me, not 3.9.

I don’t think the 3.9 branch is less real than the 3.2 branch.

Both branched off from the original Commodore source code, didn’t they?

Can’t remember if either use the sources at all.

I was living Amiga daily during the OS 3.9 days, and have no reason to think it didn't come from the Commodore source. Back then I got the feeling it was called "3.9" because the various powers assumed it would be the last release of 3.x. I've never used Hyperion's 3.x, but that is official, too, if largely a backport of 4.x, which of course also came from official source. I would say Hyperion jumped into 3.x (against their contract?) in search of cash, as nostalgia for these old systems increased and ARM emulator boards (etc.) made it possible.

OS4 is still the future, but the cost of PPC motherboards greatly limits the market size.

>OS4 is still the future

AROS is.

OS4 being a hard break while also being privative, closed source means it will never see significant adoption.

>the cost of PPC motherboards greatly limits the market size.

PPC has no future. RISC-V is where it's at.

Of course, back in the 90s, there was no way of knowing this.

Just my own take here:

3.5 and 3.9 felt like “3.1 plus some bundled, licensed shareware”. Which is fine! It’s nice to have a baseline where you know everyone running that version has a particular TCP stack or dock app or whatever. But 3.1.x and 3.2 to me “feel” like newer versions of 3.1 with actual OS updates (and also plenty of bundled shareware).

I wouldn't argue against someone who sees it the the opposite way.

> Haage & Partner 'Amiga Forever' lineage

You are confusing one with the other.

Haage & Partner did "3.5" and "3.9". Those are no longer distributed, as the contracts with both Amiga and the developers/suppliers expired.

Cloanto (Amiga Forever) did "3.X", which is currently at v. 45.066, or 45.66. It is based on 40.068 by the Amiga companies, not work by Haage & Partner: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-125

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