I'm in. Trouble-free initial installation of OS2 Warp 3 Connect Blue 8.200. I'm not going to use the network and internet features here, but I went for the nicest and fullest-featured version on offer just because they have usually already eliminated the worst early bugs.
The sound driver (AWE32) works. Nice zippy sound effect when I shut down the system. 1stRun HDD now 7zipped and backed up.
Let's see what this bad boy can do.
OS/2 3 Connect 8.200 Desktop on first boot. Looks a lot like the OS/2 2.11 Desktop, but with different icons scattered about. The System pane is open, plus some sort of toolbox at the bottom of the screen where a dock would go.
OS/2 3 loading screen:
(Black background)
(Small blue IBM logo)
(Big curly OS/2 WARP logo)
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