CompuServe Messages

AmigaDOS 3.1 is safe, and was officially sanctioned and finished by Commodore, though they liquidated before they sold it. But while C= was still in business (but after they announced their demise) they authorized Village Tronic to carry it. The problem was that some people made illegal copies of it. Only the ones from Village Tronic, with color manuals etc. are REAL. There were a lot of cheap fakes with photocopied manuals made. Most of these bogus copies disappeared once it became clear to mail order companies etc. that the real one was from VT. Any OS release by Escom will include and supersede 3.1 – it will include all 3.1 functions, and Escom will recognize the improvements and additions in 3.1. Commodore was already working on 3.2, or 4.0, and were at work on RTG and networking was nearly complete. It is safe to get 3.1, and the VT version is NOT a beta version, it is a final release. If you have the opportunity to upgrade, do so I recommend it. But if you have 3.0 ROMS, just get the 3.1 software, the ROMS for 3.1 don't do much more than 3.0 roms, the difference is mostly software. (sort of like the 1.2/1.3 difference, or 2.1/3.0.)