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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: iamaboringperson on August 19, 2003, 01:28:51 AM
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I just want to know who on this site owns and uses an x86 based machine(or IBM-PC, call it what you like), especially running an operating system other than AROS, AmigaOS, or - if you found a way to do it - MorphOS.
Do you use an OS such as Linux, *BSD, MS-Windows, and BeOS on it?
If so, what for, and how often?
Me:
I use MS-Windows for games, and Linux for most of my work, including webpage design.
I also occasionally use net/386/freeBSD and play around with AROS
Main machine: AMD K6-II 400
I probably use this more than my A 4000 T
:-)
The idea for this thread has come from here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3661 (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3661) ;-)
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Yes, I use an 800 MHz P3 running WinME for games, word processing, and web browsing. I also use Linux for games and web browsing.
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Main Machine : AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (Throughbred) 1.43ghz
Just has Windows 2000. Windows XP would just quit loading programs after 10mins of the machine being on.
I use it for games, interenet browsing, host my website on this. GFX work with lightwave 7, Adobe after effects. MED Soundstudio. :-D
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I probably use this more than my A 4000 T
Same here..I only drive my A4KT on the weekends.. :-D (don't want to wear it out now..
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I own an older PC system, also a K6-II. It runs both mandrake and Win2K, the latter under duress :-)
I use it for music recording/mastering, internet, programming, even testing some amiga code under UAE. It's basically a tool for doing donkey work.
It's also a jukebox whilst I'm working on the amiga (both share the same monitor via a KVM).
Both machines tend to be on at the same time but the amiga is usually my principal focus. I use it for music composition and programming as well as the occasional retro gaming session :-)
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Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT, Pentium 120MHz. 48 megs of memory, 10gig hd.
Running Debian sarge with kernel 2.4.19 with pre-empt patch.
The router machine, connected to 2mbit cable modem, Planet SW-800 switch and Mustek 600VA plus UPS.
This box acts as a debug terminal (serial) and NAT/firewall box. It also runs irc bouncer and some irc clients.
It also filter my email for spam (spamassassin), runs proxy to remove those annoying adverts/popups (privoxy), and acts as a nameserver proxy so I don't need to set up my LAN /etc/hosts on each machine.
Typically I use it remotely from Pegasos via AmTelnet, but occasionally I also use Xami for X access (for websites not working on amiga browsers, for example).
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I have 5 computer systems that are x86. I purchased 2 of them and still only spent less than $400 total without dropping a dime in Microsoft's pocket.
Main machine, used for development: 2.8GHz AMD w/2GB mem. Connected to the network but not the wide area network. Windows 2000 Advanced Server 4 user license. Running SQL Server, Oracle 9i, MySQL, Postgre, DB2, and Informix databases. (purchased)
Alternate machine, also for development: 800MHz AMD T-Bird w/784MB mem. My original development system but back burnered for the 2.8GHz system. On the network but ghosted off the hub. Currently setup for Teir-2 with SQL Server and DB2 for SOAP development in Java. Also running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. (given to for development)
Laptop, also for development: 800MHz P-III w/784MB mem. Portable web site for landing new contracts. Makes a better business card. Three hard drives are used to swap out the OS to show off different software solutions. Running Windows 2000 Professional. (given to under contract, later told to keep)
All-in-one system (Gateway Astro): 400MHz Celeron w/512MB mem (used for the kids and other members of the family). Running Windows98 Second Chance. (given by Gateway around the same time I was let go)
Hub system: 333MHz P-II w/784MB and 120GB Raid type 2 running NetBSD, hosting email, mail exchange, ftp, web pages, telnet, dhcp, and alt-os java test bed. (purchased)
The only reason why I use Windows 2000 is because Microsoft contracted VAX instead of writing it themselves. I get my ram dirt cheap cause I'm willing to test if the ram chips are good for a local computer shop... generally 80% of the used memory is bad... shhhhhh.
When I get some money together, I will replace my long time dead Amiga... with what I don't know.
:pint:
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@kd7ota
Main Machine : AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (Throughbred) 1.43ghz
Nice machine for Amithlon? :-D
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I run a AMD AthlonXP 2500+ (2.2ghz), 512megs RAM, GeForce 4, WinXP and various types of Linux (I am still trying to find one that works for what I want and how I want.) Also, AROS screams on it!!!! :-D
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I have 5 computer systems that are x86. I purchased 2 of them and still only spent less than $400 total without dropping a dime in Microsoft's pocket.
@Kent
I see PCDirect and TigerDirect have scores of systems Without an OS! 300-400 bucks for barbones boxes. Times are changin'? :-)
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Well.. lately I have been avoiding those.. I do host one Linux-PC
here (a friend of mine maintains it so all I have to do is pay
electricity). At my desk is my work PC 1800+ Athlon with win2k, but
it's been turned off a lot lately cause I use pega for web/net
accessing these days.
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two simple "marklar" compatible boxes in operation here
1> genuine intel celeron 667 o/c to 750 on Asus CUBX-L (440bx) runs win98se u/g to winme (primarily games etc.. for kid)
2> genuine intel celeron 766 o/c to 958 on EpoX BX7+100 runs Win2KPro (for winUAE/games/scala) but usually am booted into *JAMD Linux* =rh9 that works (moonlite3d/Openoffice/scribus/websurfing....yada yada)
practice safe surfing, dont surf using windows
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my main rig
P4 2.4/533 with Win2K
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Hmm... my main system is in need of some updating...
1.2ghz Athlon (Thunderbird core) 512MB RAM
dual boots WinXP and RedHatLinux 9
XP is used for ... games/Photoshop (used to be more, but I just got sick of patching against "remote exploit of the week"....)
RHL9 - most everything else, now... :-) Might even try again to install Photoshop... Supposedly the Crossover office can handle it now...
The above machine is probably going to get a new proc/motherboard (P4 + i845? -- the current motherboard is starting to go wacky... USB devices appear and then disappear at random...) Then I'll give it over to my girlfriend, to replace her ancient P2/350... And give me an excuse to build that 3.0ghz P4/HT 800FSB (i875) machine I've been pondering. ;-)
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My main PC was an Athlon700 which I experimented with and had QNX + AmigaXL and Win98. It died shortly after receiving my Peg and has been mostly replaced.
Other X86 machines:
I've got an IBM Thinkpad (bottom of the line when I bought it, added some ram.) I use it mostly as an MP3 player, and for WinUAE. ;)
I've got a P133 system that I use as my scanning, and CD Burning station.
That way I can continue pounding on my other systems happily while burning CD's. :P
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Hyrican laptop with Celeron 1.7. With WinXP for work and pretty much everything.
Big Tower, Athlon 1 GB. WinXP mostly for Video since that's where my DVD burner is. Games, and programming in Dark Basic. Red Hat Linux for games.
Small Tower, The WhatChaMa Callit K62 550, has Triple boot WinXp, BeOS 5, and Amithlon. mostly for games.
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I just want to know who on this site owns and uses an x86 based machine
Yep, I have a high end machine for my work (video editing) running XP, and thats all it's used for.
I have another running Linux that I do everything else on.. My wife has one that dual boots Linux/Win98 for her work (screenwriting), although it spends much more time in the former OS than the later.
and finally 'Old Clunker', an old decrepid and battered box of spare parts that dual boots linux and amithlon. Mainly used for tinkering with OS' and other things that have a high chance of screwing up.
Siggy.
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AMD 1700 w/ W2k for web surfing, making me movies, and some programming (I'm learning again.) Do most of my gaming on consoles unless it is Civ III or something along those lines.
I get my Amiga fix with 2 A2000's (retro gaming, programming, etc) plus I tend to dink around with my C=64 alot lately. Probably getting ready for the c1 when it is released.
:-)
Haven't decided if I'm going to get an A1 or a Pegasos yet. Waiting for AOS4 to be released to compare.
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2100XP, KT400 chipset, 512MiB, Radeon 9000, etc.
Has never, ever booted MS Windows - Debian GNU/Linux 100%. I use EAGLE for electronics CAD, Matlab 5, OpenOffice, Mozilla, a bit of OpenMosix experimentation, HC12 development, a bit C programming with Anjuta. I also have a copy of the AROS cvs but haven't done anything useful with it - have a couple of other projects with slightly higher priority (and what seems to be the toughest semester of my MEE degree). This machine is on 24/7 serving a number of useless, seldom used services, including acting as a partial debian mirror, proxying for 32 PCs running a folding@home client, ftp, SMB master browser, ssh shells, a web portal, X, etc.
I find people don't mind using Linux but hate being their own sysadmin. For a while I had a few friends using remote X sessions to do their unix & C assignments in even though they had Redhat on their own PCs..
- Paul
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I have Linux Debian and Win98 on an Athlon 600. Use it for internet, music recording, jukebox, and learn some programing at times but that is maily made on my A1200 040/40mhz.
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Pentium4 1.4GHZ 128MBytes RAM Sony Vaio for everyday use. I have a Pentium 167MHz 32 MBytes RAM with DOS on it. I also have a couple old Pentium motherboards and a 486 Motherboard that are not being used at all. I have an out of service (not for too long I hope.... :| ) Amiga 2000, and a Palm Zire.
Someday I hope to learn how to program but everytime I try to download something to screw around with I get horribly confused, I tried downloading stuff to code for my Palm, but I decided to make a list of what I needed first GCC with special err parts the SDK stuff... something about Cygwin??? and some other bits too apparently. Isn't there some single file/zip program with which I could all the coding?, Somewhere?
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Hmm, what I have at home:
* Dell Latitude C640 (P4-m 1800MHz), main machine used for about everything. WinXP
* Pegasos April2, used almost as much as the C640. MorphOS 1.4 and Debian
* beside the TV is a P3/500 that's used for playing media and DVDs. This one used to be my Amithlon box, but since that emulator went and died, I lost interest. Win2k
* Dell Latitude XPi P90, used for flashing and mucking around with DCT-3 nokias. Win98SE and Debian
* under the bed is a Screenless Dell Latitude CP M233, a wlan bridge to be .. haven't decided on XP or Linux yet.
At the moment my Real Amigas are hooked up at a basement me and a few friends rent out:
* A4000/2MB/16MB, CV64/4MB, Scandoubler, CSMK2/060/50MHz/64MB/SCSI, AriadneII, Delfina
* A2000/1MB, CV64/3D/2MB, FlickerFixer, B2060/50MHz/64MB, GG2+ with an NE2000 net card
Nice machines, but their age is showing.. Not very stable any more, no matter what I do. :-(
Added to that there's a ####load of CBM 8-bitters, you can see a snapshot of the collection at it's peak at http://jope.ath.cx:2300/cbm.html (http://jope.ath.cx:2300/cbm.html) (let's see how that poor HP 715/100 handles all the traffic ;-)
Now when you start gaping and aweing at the amount of Windows boxen I run, I'll just say: Windows works for me on the desktop. For servers I almost always go for Linux and at work I administer a huge load of Solaris and HP-UX machines.
Unix experience since '96 (makes me a bit of a n00b to Unix, eh?-) has shown me that it's not nice for my desktop, but great for just about any internet server application you can think of.
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Most of you have been assimilated by Billy & the M$ Borg. Repent and save your computer soul ! :lol:
The curse of the scurge Winblows has infected our universe - fight for freedom . . . . . :roflmao:
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I have THREE Amigas AC-wired, including THIS A2000/060 64Mb with 4 SCSI HDDs. 1 CBM 8-Bit AC-wired, and 1 CBM 8-Bit un-wired. That's my Commodore-based-background.
1 cat-blocking Unisys 486 under a desk-drawer from which I scavenged one of those SCSI drives, and cut a 5¼"-to-3½" addaptor section of case.
1 HP NetServer (486) that I may use to make a power-Coldfire-A3000-SCSI-wonderbox, use as a Linux-Server, or just use as furniture!
1 empty 24" high ATX Tower presently unused.
° I have to confess that, in my computer-room, there is a AMD K6 with two CD Drives, 1 HDD containing WindowsME, and 1 (presently) unconnected HDD containing a Linux distro that I installed. My brother-in-law has set this up as a Win-box to down-load files from the USB-Port of my wife's Kodak Digital. My brother-in-law demonstrated to his sister how troublesome a K6-WinME-with-KodakSoftware can be. I held my tongue as, I don't yet have a Thylasine, and I'm STILL WAITING (Doug? Oh Doug?) for my Feb5 2002 Earlybird A1G4!
Dang! I need USB and Turboprint!!
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iamaboringperson wrote:
I just want to know who on this site owns and uses an x86 based machine(or IBM-PC, call it what you like), especially running an operating system other than AROS, AmigaOS, or - if you found a way to do it - MorphOS.
Do you use an OS such as Linux, *BSD, MS-Windows, and BeOS on it?
If so, what for, and how often?
Me:
I use MS-Windows for games, and Linux for most of my work, including webpage design.
I also occasionally use net/386/freeBSD and play around with AROS
Main machine: AMD K6-II 400
I probably use this more than my A 4000 T
:-)
The idea for this thread has come from here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3661 (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3661) ;-)
System details(main machine):
+ ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (nForce II class chipset)
+ CPU: Athlon XP 2600+ (@~2.08Ghz**) with 333Mhz FSB variant (**not o/c at this time).
+ RAM: Dual channel mode PC2700 512Mb DDR SDRAM, running at 333Mhz.
+ OS 1 : Windows XP Professional with SP1
+ DirectX: 9.0a
+ GPU: Geforce 4 TI VIVO
+ Audio: NVIDIA APU
+ NIC: nVidia NIC & 3Com NIC
+ Speakers: 5.1 Surround Speaker System
+ HD1: 80Gb UDMA133 Seagate 7200 rpm IDE
+ HD2: 40Gb UDMA133 Seagate 7200 rpm IDE
+ HD3: 20Gb UDMA33 Seagate 5200 rpm IDE
+ CD1: UDMA LG DVD/CD-RW
+ CD2: UDMA Liteon DVD-ROM
+ Other: 350 Watt power supply
It’s probable that DDR SDRAM (up to 1Gb) and GPU will be upgraded in the near future (within this month)…
400Mhz FSB overclocking works like a charm (with appropriate 400Mhz DDR SDRAM, This motherboard enables CPU multipliers to be set via BIOS without mucking with Athlon’s L bridges).
I do have access and own other Athlon-Tbird/AthlonXP/PentiumII/III/IV class machines for development/testing work. Win2K3 relegated for development work at this time. I mainly develop application in the area of MIS (Managed Information System).
Currently evaluating the migration to IA-32/X86-32/AMD32 Linux (several distros) and FreeBSD. Also evaluating MS dotNET (all business related). Win32/Direct8.x based games and AmigaOS/AROS is for leisure related activities…
PS Waiting for Eyetech’s A500/1200 target PowerPC based solution… USD $299 Pegy (whatever number) is tempting. IF USD $299 Pegy is bundled with AmigaOS 4.0(licensed, not MOL like situation); this factor will push it to beyond tempting…
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My main PC started it's life as a Zenith Data Systems 8088/8MHz... Over a span of years it's been upgraded piece by piece to a K6-2/400MHz. Obviously no parts remain from the original system, which was eventually reassembled and sold.
Other parts from the system have been recombined into systems themselves and upgraded here and there with spare parts. Some of my parts have been given to my mom for her li'l box.
I have a Micron Transport XPe laptop (Inhell 150MHz MMX, Win2k Pro, trying to find a linux distro I like for it) I use quite a bit.
I also have a Mac 7300/180 (with a 604e/233MHz upgrade) collecting dust.
And of course my Miggys... A4000D, A2000HD, two A1200 boards in the process of being repaired to build something with, and a friends A500 which he will probably never get back :-D
My operating system usage varies depending on what I'm doing at the time... I've used everything from DOS 1.1 up to Win2k... MANY distributions of Linux... BeOS 4 & 5... Various QNX versions... Even Slowaris, er, Solaris. I'd love to use AROS, but I'll wait till the native version becomes usable before attempting it again.
Needless to say, I'm fond of experimenting with my systems! :-D
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My PC machine is an IBM netvista PIII ,XP Pro at 668MHz 198 Mb ram ,64Mb ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card and a WinTvGo card that I run my VideoToaster into to create vids.The IBM is also networked to the Toaster with Amiga Explorer and to another PC over ethernet 160MHz P1 win98. I put the IBM together from parts , started with just the black tower and bare motherboard and then scrounged the rest of the parts for cheap.Total cost under 500 Canadian including 1 40Gb Hd +80Gb, black 17" IBM monitor KB and scroll point mouse and I didn't have to pay for it all at once.It runs perfect now but it's taken a while to get everything just right.Wishing for two X-surf ethernet cards to get my other Amiga's networked. :-)
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I only use x86 systems these days.
Most of my work is done in Windows (XP), but I try and migrate as much as possible to Linux (Mandrake), which I find much more interesting as an OS.
I also have BeOS and QNX installed, but to be honest they're only there for experimentation, since neither has the software base to satisfy my needs on a daily basis.
Amithlon also has a place on my system, but nowadays I hardly ever use it for anything except Tales of Tamar.
My main system is showing its age a bit, being a 1.4 GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce2 GTS graphics card.
I still have my expanded A1200 and A4000 systems, but they never get powered up any more. It must be over 3 months since the last time either got switched on at all, and then it was most likely for a few minutes only.
I have no plans to buy a PPC based system in the foreseable future.
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I have a monster PC (if I may say it myself ;-)), it's a home built system based on Abit NF7-S 2.0 dual channel DDR motherboard (the first mobo to be Dolby certified?) with an Athlon 2800+ (Barton core), 2x Corsair Low Latency 256Mb DDR PC2700 CAS2 333MHz with Heatsink, an ASUS V9950TD GeForce FX5900 graphics card with 128Mb DDR, an Adaptec UW SCSI 160 controller card, 5x 18GB IBM Ultrastar SCSI 10Krpm U160 harddrives, one UltraPlex SCSI CD-ROM, one PlexWriter SCSI CD/RW (only 12x unfortunately). It's all built in a noise-reduced silver coloured Chieftech Full Tower, with some cool nobs with blue backlights to controll the fans, and an Abit Media-XP 5.25" Front Panel.
It's all very fast, so fast that not even the seriously bloated WindowsXP pro feels sluggish. On that computer I also run the latest version of Amiga Forever, but I must say *that* feels very sluggish compared to my 600MHz Pegasos (I have not run any CPU benchmarks however, but the *sluggish feeling* makes me rule out UAE Amiga Emulation as a serious alternative).
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My main machine is a PIII@866 which runs XP. This one's up and running 24/7.
2 Compaq Armada (PIII@450) laptops, one running Redhat (Shrike) and one running SuSE 8.2 (testserver for webdevelopment). In the not so distant future I intend to move the XP machine to SuSE as well, not right now because I'd miss a few applications for which there are no Linux alternatives.
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Main PC :- AMD K6-2 450mhz, dual booted with windohs XP and Mandrake. Use XP for certain apps, and mandrake for most other apps, ie email, web, certain progs. Amiga 1200 sits there alongsite the a500 just for games at the moment :-(
Sad, isnt it?
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I use my winxp pc for surfing(opera), email and winuae. And ofcourse for linking with my newton and my ti-calculators. If it´s graphics then i do it under winuae there simply isn´t one good graphics program for the pc.
I want to test BeOS,QNXand Debian but i´m on dialup, already got removable harddrivebays for easy OS switching and backup.
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I've got one Compaq Armada Laptop as my internet gateway with win2k on it.
And a P4 1.7 for work mainly.
And an AMD XP 1700+ @2400Mhz, gf4 ti4600 1Gb RAM I use that for playing quake3, been cl for a q3 clan for 3 years now :) and watch some movies and playing other various games like morrowind etc etc.. mostly RPG's after q3 :)
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AMD Thunderbird 1ghz, 256mb RAM, GF4 Ti 4200 (currently broken, no 3D works anymore)
OS's
Linux Mandrake 9.1: everyday use, gaming
Windoze 2000 Pro: previously my primary OS, now just used for gaming once in a while and producing music + the occasional stuff that can't be done in Linux
BeOS dano: for playing around with :)
Amithlon: hmm, nothing at the moment, haven't gotten around to adding it to Lilo, so it has to boot the kernel from CD. Also, it's no longer net'ed because the NE2k compatible NIC i had was crap for gaming (on the other OS's) so i put it into my mothers old P200.
Also, zeta (http://yellowtab.com) (BeOS R6) will definitely have a place on this box when it is released, and AROS, once it is usable and maybe another Linux distro or FreeBSD or whatever
.... and ReactOS (http://www.reactos.com/) :-D
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Hrm. an x86.
I had a 486 for a month and then gave it away. Does that count?
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My Main rig is an AthlonXP 2000 (1.6Ghz)
512Mb Ram,
40Gb HD,
DVD and CDRW,
Geforce2MX graphics card
all in a nicely modded tower and cooled by an Thermaltake Aquarius2 water cooler.
This box Dual Boots Win2k... and BeOS R5 with Bone. Used for Gaming and online.
I also have a custom BSD setup running as an mp3 jukebox thats networked to the main rig and anything else I eventually put on the network running
Pentium1 -160Mhz
64Mb ram
40Gb IDE hd and a 2Gb scsi drive
IDE cdrom
crapo gfx card that is fine as I don't run X
The next system I'm getting is as follows
P2-300Mhz
128Mb
Voodoo Banshee agp gfx card
4Gb Hd
And it will be running BeOS -r5.1d0 - Dano exclusively and serve as both my router and my personal rig.
IBM Thinkpad 380XD
P1 233Mhz
32Mb Ram
3Gb HD
Neomagic gfx/sound set
Its used mainly for word processing and playing the odd Mp3. Also occationally used as a test bed for any ideas I want to try out.
It dual boots BeOS R5/Bone and Morphix lite distro.
On the Amiga front Up untill about a year ago I had 11 fully functional systems.. now I'm down to two and even they are dubiously labeled functional... All are currently in mothballs where they will likely remain for the rest of their days.
A1200 Z4T
Apollo A1240 - 040'28 with 32Mb Ram
Various small sized HD's
CDrom
with an C=1940 dualsync monitor.
Requires massive amounts of time to sort out the HD's and a clean install of everything just to make certain
A3000D
030'25 16Mb
4.3Gb scsi hd
original cybervision gfx card (s3 trio based)
Requires new psu and desperately needs more ram/cpu to make useful for anything other than looking old.
other Amigas include an unexpanded A1200 without a psu... an A500 in the same boat and various odds and ends that I cant be bothered to type about.
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I use an AthlonXP 2100 with Windows XP HE. Sold my expanded A1200 back end of 2000 when the market was non-existant and Gateway back tracked from is NG Amiga. The software market was stagnant (has changed much that) and I wanted a more powerful machine.... so I switched over.
I still load Workbench/Dopus via Winuae and look after the Winuae help file etc and read latest Amiga news.
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Got 3 PC's here
2000XP system running XP Pro, used for Win UAE, Web, work and anything that needs some oomph. Celeron 500 running Mandrake 9.1 for firewall and farting around. PII350 for the kids and their ever increasing homework and for the missus to do her shopping.
Um that's about it really, all of it cost well under £1000 all in including the monitors.
http://www.psychobudgie.com
when all around you are losing their heads, duck!
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I have two PCs...
Main PC - for games, OpenOffice, CD burning, Amiga.org ;-), etc
Athlon 1800+ on some unknown Tiny PC m/board
512MB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce FX5600/256MB, running Windows 2000 Professional
Generally pretty stable, but slow because of the HDD and the amount of crap I have running :-)
Webserver
Compaq PIII-600
128MB SDRAM
Also running Windows 2000 Professional, nice and responsive since I'm only running Apache on there most of the time.
My main PC also has a 10GB partition set aside for Linux but sadly GRUB and LILO always fail on my machine for some obscure reason :-(
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I mainly use my HP Pavilion 8690 with an Athlon 650 and 256mb ram which has XP installed on it.
I also have Toshiba Portege 3110CT notebook with a PII 300 and 128mb ram which is running Windows 98se but i am installing XP on it as i type this.
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I own a 2400 athlon xp based machine with crappy windows 2000. :-)
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What is the purpose of this post? No, seriously, what -IS- the purpose of this post?
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the 2nd computer i EVER bought (after my amiga2000 in 1989) is my Dell laptop just last fall. i think it's a P4, half gig of mem.
with help from a friend i made it multiboot. linux red hat and windows2000. i use linux to make web pages and do text editing and just have fun: GIMP, etc.
in windows i use aftereffects and do most of my internet stuff. using only opera.
in the spring i installed WInUAE and it's works very nicely! ImageFX 4.5 on OS3.9
in need an external modem to use linux on the net - which i have back in LA. i have used it and it works great.
like my laptop. but i sure would hate being stuck ONLY having one OS!!!
looking forward to a pegasis and/or an amigaone. proabably both?
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Main machine: A4000T, used for most of what I use computers for.
Development machines: A3000 desktop, another A3000 desktop
I also have an A1200 intended for use with AmigaOne when it was the symbiotic Escena design. Kept around for the occasional demo or game that doesn't like my expanded A4000T.
x86 #1: Windows98SE, used for games now and then and web pages that IBrowse chokes on. Acrobat files, as apdf isn't currently really great and runs really slow on my 060 and for the now rare need for wordprocessor or spreadsheet via OpenOffice.
X86 #2: Gentoo Linux, is close to becoming a firewall for my LAN at home.
X86 #3: Windows 2000 currently, soon to change to Gentoo Linux. Lives next to my TV intended to become a home theater PC for Tivo-like stuff, DVD player, etc. and web browsing. 2000 has proven in my case unsuitable, will change to Gentoo as soon as I get some different hardware that has Linux drivers- TV tuner, graphics output, sound card, etc.
At my "day job" I use a Sun Ultra 5 workstation with Solaris 8. I dont' even have access to a PC at work.
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One AMD 750 MHz, 256 (used to be 384) megs of RAM, Running Windows XP. It's a good WinUAE machine.
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Four x86 machines, all but one runs Linux only, the odd ball dual boots linux and M$32 for my online passion, Dark Ages of Camelot. When I'm not playing DAoC, it's booted in Linux. Three of the four run SETI 24/7. As soon as the AROS file corruption bug is worked out, I'll get a el cheapo x86 and let AROS run on that natively.
Dammy
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DanDude wrote:
What is the purpose of this post? No, seriously, what -IS- the purpose of this post?
Possibly to find out what people are using their computers for nowadays.
Any new platform *should* have an idea of what it's potential users needs are. I think this post provides a good cross sampling of what people want or need.
Siggy.
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Used this since October:
P4 2.53GHz
512Mb RAM
2x 120 Gb HD
CD-RW
DVD
19" Samsung P96
GF4 Ti 4200 128Mb
Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 surround sound
Old AST keyboard without win keys :-)
used for gaming and internet.
Hardly used my Amigas at all the last 6 months :-(
3 A1200 one with Blizzard IV 030/50, 2A600, 1 A3000 with SCSI card but still only one HD and an old PC emulator card, 1 A500 ROM 2.04 + 30Mb HD 3MB RAM, 2 C=64 various HD's and stuff.
also have my old PC (bought secondhand):
P2 266MHz
98Mb RAM
Matrox Millenium II 8Mb
Voodoo2 12MB
3Gb and 15Gb HD's
2 network cards :-)
32X CD
for playing old PC games that doesn't like winWP
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no. :)
The only machine i use is my old Amiga1200PPC.
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I have an athlon XP 1800+ with a radeon 9700pro, and it is on 24 7 runing the destributed .net client for the amiga team!
and then there are games! under win 98 and Amithlon is my email virus blocker.
I also have it setup tob play movies through the TV in the other room.
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What is the purpose of this post? No, seriously, what -IS- the purpose of this post?
There wasn't one ! :lol:
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Wolfe wrote:
What is the purpose of this post? No, seriously, what -IS- the purpose of this post?
There wasn't one ! :lol:
Actually there is a point. :-)
What I really want to know is how relevant some IBM-PC content on this site is. And by the looks of things It's quite relevant.
Years ago, owning one of these beasts was a real 'no go' for Amiga users, I guess it was seen as 'sleeping with the devil'
Now however, it has become not only much more acceptable, but quite common place too.
Using some OS other than AmigaOS(+AROS, MorphOS), has basically become nessecary, just to do many modern operations.
Amiga users are greatly helped by having some other more mainstream computer. Heck, I can't even access amiga.org properly using aweb!
You would find very few Amiga users who don't have at least one x86 system I believe.
:-)
IMHO folks.
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Years ago, owning one of these beasts was a real 'no go' for Amiga users, I guess it was seen as 'sleeping with the devil'
You're also refering to the peak of the Amiga / Atari / PC / Mac wars... Before the creation of NCSA Mosaic, when the BBS was king!
Ahh memories...
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I have an old 486 I don't use, if that's ok?
And I have non-Amiga powerpc hardware running Linux. Why no question about that?
My main computer is the AmigaOne.
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Heh, all I need now is an Atari ST and I can be a SERIOUS HERETIC! :roflmao:
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Just a Pegasos/MorphOS (main machine) and an Amiga4000/060/CGX/AOS3.1 (secondary machine). For games a PS2.
Further an Amiga600/AOS2.04, Amiga1200/030/AOS3.1, an 80C88 laptop/DR-DOS 5.0 and a PSX in the cabinet.
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Yup, I have two of the b*ggers. One PIII 600Mhz running win98 for internet purposes, and a laptop-thingy that I can't remember the name of running freebsd and/or anything else I think is fascinating right then and there.
Ol' faithful (A1200/030-50) is used for designing graphics and stuff for my website, and serving as a drum machine when friends come over to jam :-)
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P2350 Win 2k Server + WinME
A1200 030/33 AOS3.0
A500 1.3 AOS 1.3
A500 1.2 AOS 1.2
Nice 'ol set eh?
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by Siggy on 2003/8/19 5:51:36
Yep, I have a high end machine for my work (video editing) running XP, and thats all it's used for.
Please can you define "hi end machine" used for NLE?
Thanx
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Sorry to say but my main machine is an Intel was a A4000 030 18MB 1GB HD about 3 years ago.
P4 2Ghz (willamette)
896MB Memory
ASUS Geforce TI 4400 128MB
VoodooTV FM card
SB PCI 128
80GB IBM HD
40GB Segate HD
Traxdata CDRW
52x CDrom
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My main system:
Amiga4000 Power Tower, 2MB Chip - 16MB Fast
CyberStormPPC 68060/60MHz 604e/233MHz 128MB
Picasso IV Graphics, Toccata 16bit Sound
PFS3, Algor USB, GVP I/O Extender
Canon BJC 250, Plextor CDRW
AmigaOS 3.9 BB2
My gaming system:
intel P4, 2Ghz 512MB
ATI All In Wonder 8500DV
Toshiba CDRW/DVD
Windows XP
Windows is only good for three things:
1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility
3) The spreading of viruses
The first two don't mean much. The last one I'm forced to deal with.
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My main machine? See my signature...
No PC ever at home. Never owned one. I only use them at work to telnet to UNIX ;)
Cheers
Dragster
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Don't use X86 or anything from M$ (except at work):
To paraphrase a certain android...
"X86? Loath them...it's all rubish anyway."
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Main machine: Dual AMD Athlon MP 1.8GHz, 1GB ram, GeForceTi4200 128MB...
Slave: AMD Athlon 1.6GHz, 512MB ram, GeForce2 64MB...
Both machines are running Win2000, I use them for 3D-rendering/animation, videoediting and music/sound creation. Sometimes I play games, but that is quite seldom... :)
I use the main machine more than my Amiga, but when pressing "Render", the Amiga is a nice, relaxing experience! :)
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Windows is only good for three things:
1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility
Note that MS Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC edition is worst than MacOS X in terms of MS Office compatibility. So, careful on which MS Windows edition. (IF I recall, MS Front Page 97 PowerPC edition should be available for download on the MS’s website). MS has yet to release the source code for the MS Windows NT 4.0 PPC edition.
An updated MS Windows dotNET PowerPC edition is theoretically possible IF one ports MS dotNET framework to this platform (it enables the platform to run any dotNET applications e.g. Quake II dotNET, MS Office dotNET and 'etc').
MS Office X.x is available for MacOS X and it has near perfect/excellent MS Office compatibility (both in skill training/knowledgebase and data files).
IF I have MacOS X PC with MS Internet Explorer and MS Office X.x I can be certain that I can do most of my MS Office work with this setup. The issue is price and performance of obtaining the hardware(not factoring legacy software and SoftWindows 9x issues).
Note that Warcraft III (& Frozen Throne expansion pack) includes both Macintosh and Windows edition in the same CD (my RTS gaming needs somewhat satisfied with this at this time).
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@Hammer:
And you're telling him this because? I see no reference to PowerPC Windows in his comment...
I have a PPC able to run NT (IBM 7248). It ran that for a couple of days, then I tried out AIX and then I went for Debian (it started out with LinuxPPC2000 before NT)
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Please can you define "hi end machine" used for NLE?
As you probably noticed by my lack of a 'long spec list' signiture, I'm not really one for writing up machine specs all over the place.
Dual AMD 2600 MP Athlons
1 gig 2700 ram
4 x 250 gig 7200rpm drives on a raid 5 array.
USB 2.0 external 500gig drive for backups
Matrox parhelia 256mb for twin 21 inch monitors + video display
Matrox rt.x 100 video editing system
Dual format DVD burner
Audigy 2 platinum ex soundcard
Keep in mind that my freelance work involves editing everything from comercial spots to independant films -- as well as handling special projects for my 'day gig' at a news station -- I need a bit more grunt than the average 'Home video Joe'
And before anyone feels like going there:
I also keep an Ami 2000 with video toaster around for live switching (although I'm replacing it with a GV switching board in a few months).
Siggy.
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olegil wrote:
@Hammer:
And you're telling him this because?
Not all of Windows platform editions will excel with the said areas.
The application of;
“Windows is only good for three things:
1) Gaming
2) Microsoft compatibility”
without qualifier on the type of platform edition may lead to a false representation especially in the area of games. The MacOS 9/X can run more “games” than Windows NT 4.0 (SP3) PowerPC edition. At the moment MS Windows XP 64 IA-64 edition is considered poor for current games releases relative to MacOS 9.
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ok,
P4 1.8Ghz, 512Mb main work machine (win XP)
P3 933Mhz, 512Mb test work machine (winXP)
P3 733Mhz, 256Mb test work machine (win98)
work in tech support, so have to run what the customers run.
P4 3Ghz, 1Gb DDR400, Nvidia 256Mb Geforce FX 5900 Ultra, 2x 250Gb drives, home game / video rig.
one thing to bear in mind. get a 3 year warrenty on ANY drives over 80Gb in size. some only have a 1 year warrenty for a REASON. :-x
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Good Choice on the Geforce FX5900 Ultra. I got one of these at a DX9 show. It is truly the most state of the art consumer gaming card out there.
What it can do in realtime with 3d and pixel/vertex shader technologies such as CGShaders and HLSL shaders is amazing. It makes for a truly amazing cinematic experience in games that support shader technology. The GPU is arguably the best and supports more instructions than any of the others out there including ATI's recent cards.
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OMG what a very weird viewpoint... No one runs NT anymore it doesn't even support DirectX (the windows gaming API wasn't introduced into NT technologies (beyond direct draw) till Windows 2000). So no NT 4 isn't even a choice for gaming. NT at that time was soley for file servers and enterprise useage.
And frankly if you are talking PPC edition of NT 4, I don't even think anything outside a very old PPC from IBM would even boot it up. There were never really any talk of PPC based computers anyway after the Mac went to the PPC chipset, like the Dec Alpha version of NT it was more of a prototype for a platform that never took off. However I owned a Dec Alpha NT box for a short time.. It was a full NT 4 implementation.
Hmm 64-bit windows, who can afford an I-A64 based machine right now anyway.. And who would buy it as a gaming platform. Doesn't intel make this hardware specifically for server class machines right now. Mac OS9, don't you mean OS X?
64 bit windows has yet to be really made a mainstream platform and I doubt it really will be until the "next" version of windows which is at least 2 years away.
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No good graphics programs for the PC? What kind of graphics programs are you looking for?
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Offcourse do I use a PC. What a rediculous question. :-)
I have a Thunderbird at 1.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD and GeForce Ti 4200...........times 2. Yes, I have 2 iddentical machines.
Unfortunatly they have SD-RAM which gives about a 20 % performance penalty in games.
I still can play all new games so as long as I can do that, I won't be upgrading any of my machines. I probably won't sell them either because these are pretty fast machines to be given a new purpose.
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I don't own/use an x86 P>insert number<, so does that mean I can't tell you what I use my computer for? :-? ;-) :-? :-D
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I Dont going to use Microsoft crap no more in my life!
I use Linux on my AmigaOne XE Gç 800 Mhz and waiting for AmigaOS 4.0................
For Game its only one Machine for me! (Game Cube from Nintendo with PPC cpu.)
I promiss my self that i will never ever tuch a Micro Crap computer again!
/ Plexus
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At school, I use a PeeCee that was purchased second hand eight years ago, runs (badly) Windows 98, HATES uogrades, and crashes while powering down.
At home, I use an A4000T and an AOne, the latter running Linux, and I have to confess, I'm just a little tickled by seeing Scala running on UAE.
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64 bit windows has yet to be really made a mainstream platform and I doubt it really will be until the "next" version of windows which is at least 2 years away.
The MS Windows 2003 Server AMD64 Edition is planned be released as the next Service Pack 1(SP1) release (for MS Windows 2003 Server X86-32). The same can be true for Windows XP X86-32 Edition. MS Windows AMD64's project name refers as “Anvil” (same name as MS’s games label).
More AMD64 Windows XP/2003 refer to
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/1/cf1806ad-5a4f-4f7d-a5b2-07fdb59a7adb/WH03_TPA56.exe
The next 2 year major release refers to the Windows “Longhorn”.
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DonnyEMU wrote:
OMG what a very weird viewpoint... No one runs NT anymore it doesn't even support DirectX (the windows gaming API wasn't introduced into NT technologies (beyond direct draw) till Windows 2000). So no NT 4 isn't even a choice for gaming. NT at that time was soley for file servers and enterprise useage.
Note that, MS Windows NT 4.0(SP6) (X86-32) can run OpenGL games (e.g. Quake series)…
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I use several x86 machines at home, some of them with Win2k, some of them with different Linux distibutions. All in all, I have about 15 computers in current use (including the ones from the kids), which can be divided in Win2k workstations (6), Linux servers/router (4) and pure hobbymachines (SX64, C128, A1200, A2000 and a 486 pc with dos & WfW3.11).
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Re: Do you use an x86 based machine?
by DonnyEMU on 2003/8/27 17:18:04
Good Choice on the Geforce FX5900 Ultra. I got one of these at a DX9 show. It is truly the most state of the art consumer gaming card out there.
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There really a good choice if ya like a limited gameing experiance with massive driver troubles and the current gforcefx line are no good if you want to play dx9 games with any speed. The Rad9800 is the current best game card outthere and the only ati's latest cards have enough instructions so play HalfLife2 properly which is what everyonwe wants right ?:)
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Main system :
PC Pentium 4 / 3 Ghz C, 1Gb RAM
Windows 2000 Pro.
Usage : audio (analogic and virtual synths)
Other systems :
PC Pentium II / 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM
Linux DEBIAN dvd version
Usage : databases, dev
Amiga 1200 (Blizzard card), 32 Mb RAM
OS 3.1
Usage : audio (symphonie pro+dsp)
2x A500 (with expansion cards)
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I just have an Acer Alpha550 Laptop with a 1GHz PIII processor, 370mb RAM, Win XP and a very nice 15" 1400x1050 display.
I honestly get on with WinXP better than any previous version (except perhaps Win2k) once all of the eye candy and other rubbish is dissabled.
I also run Connectix VirtualPC and use that to host Vector Linux 4rc2 (under which I'm currently playing a lot with AROS), QNX Neutrino (I'm currently playing with it as I might need to do some printer driver development) and Windows NT4 and 98 (tor compatibility testing mostly).
I also tend to use WinUAE quite a bit.
I also own 1 dead A1200, 2 good ones and 2 A1000's. Unfortunately I seem to have the touch of death when it comes to Amiga accellerator cards so they are all now barely expanded and, as a result, barely used.
I seriously hope my next machine with be an AmigaOne with AOS4 but MOS certainly looks tempting too.....
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Isch habe gar kein PC privat.
Amiga 1200 BPPC und Pegasos only here!
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i have loads of computers, my main system is currently a newly bought laptop. specs:
intel celeron mobile 2ghz
256mb ram
20gb hd
cdrw/dvd
and it's for the moment running xp home edition since that's what it came installed with but I am gonna install debian linux or maybe gentoo linux on it some day soon.
my old pc is:
p2 333mhz
128mb ram
120gb hd
it's running xp and i'm using it as storage for the moment. will become my new server.
my current server:
pentium 75
24mb ram
3.5gb hd
which is running debian and giving my other computers internet access. will be thrown out once I have made the 333mhz server.
other computers i have is an old 486 dx2 75mhz laptop with 24mb ram which runs debian.
a pentium 233mmx with 64mb ram and win98, soon to be given away i think since i don't have any use for it.
an pentium 90 in a really huge server chassi which i currently does not use, might give it to someone.
a 486 dx4 100mhz unused.
and then the amigas (although not x86):
my main amiga:
a4000 desktop
apollo 4040
2mb chip + 28mb fast
currently a 520mb hd but i have a 18gb just waiting to be installed in it.
i also have:
a2000
1mb chip + 4mb fast
20mb xt hd
a500
512kb chip, 512kb fast
action replay mk2 :D
a600
2mb chip
120mb hd
cnet ethernet card (pcmcia)
cd32
and i also have two working c64's :D
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Main Home PC:
Intel Pentium 4@2.2Ghz
Windows 2000
768MB RAM
GeForce 3 video (soon to be ATI AIW 9800 Pro)
Travel PC:
Sony VAIO P4@2.0Ghz
Windows XP Pro (I have had ZERO problems with XP)
As for my "vintage" AMIGA (rarely used these days):
C= (NOT ESCOM) A4000T (serial number 16)
P5 Cyberstorm Mk3 with Cybervision
OS3.1 and OS3.9
256MB RAM
60GB HD (total)
Regards,
Lee Stanford
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I was very aware of that back in 1994 during Microsoft Multimedia Developer Training in Redmond itself. But 99% of the games people run are direct X based games. I would imagine though that even though Quake will run, how OGL interfaces with Onscreen/off screen buffers that it's is just not optimal. Direct X 1.0 (which they are up to v 9 now) wasn't really available beyond a service pack hack to open a direct draw surface. The on and off screen buffer writes on direct draw and Open GL under NT would kill any decent frame rates.
The point is just that most people who are gamers wouldn't even try to game on such a system. At the time Microsoft considered NT to just be enterprise server and workstation class products with NO need to run games on it.
OpenGL was hillarious under NT 4 the PIPES screensaver just crawls. Even Microsoft admited it was just there to say that NT could compete as a graphics workstation (and went on to inspire an industry that competed well against SGI)...
-Don
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For anyone who uses XP hates their boot times thinks XP sucks, I suggest that you do the following..
1) Download and buy Tweak XP Pro, besides booting your machine faster it will tweak every aspect of your computer for better performance. I really can't recommend this piece of software enough. It stops pop ups optimizes your net connection overclocks your graphics processor etc..
It can be had at:
Total Idea Software's Tweak XP Pro (http://www.totalidea.com)
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OpenGL was hillarious under NT 4 the PIPES screensaver just crawls. Even Microsoft admited it was just there to say that NT could compete as a graphics workstation (and went on to inspire an industry that competed well against SGI)...
How long ago did you try this? I used to play Quake 3 / Counterstrike under NT4, no difference in frame rates between that any other Windows OS...
Also, the pipes screensaver draws in OpenGL without hardware acceleration. YMMV. Seriously. :-) Having said that, it doesn't use hardware acceleration on any Windows OS.
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OpenGL was hillarious under NT 4 the PIPES screensaver just crawls. Even Microsoft admited it was just there to say that NT could compete as a graphics workstation (and went on to inspire an industry that competed well against SGI)...
Dependant on the installed GPU hardware… I still remember the University LAN parties running on Windows NT 4.0.
**QuakeII/QuakeIII and mods....
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Hi iamaboringperson,
As main-system I've got:
Pegasos with MorphOS1.4 (great upgrade compared with version 1.3 :-))
512 RAM
40 GB HD
ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB
CD-Rewriter
DVD-ROM (DVD-Writer when there's software available for it)
Secondary system (until recently this was my main system):
A1200
Blizzard 040/40 64 MB
CD-Writer
CD-ROM
Various HD's and hardware upgrades :-)
Unfortunately since recently (2 weeks now):
Cyrix 300 MHz
64 MB
Win98
Simple 8 MB GFX-card
No sound
My first PC at home :-(
I use this one for internetbanking because I can't use the normal Amiga browsers to log into the secure site.
Immediately when I can do it with the Peg I'll throw this thing out of the window (and I live on the fourteenth flour :-D)
Spidey
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A cyrix 300 Mhz WOW what an antique.. I'd just keep the puppy and install linux in it and use it soley as a firewall..
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I am being serious, this was during 1994 during the hey day when this came out as being new.. Yes it does draw without acceleration but it's pretty darn slow.
I know for a fact that OpenGL opens a screen buffer using a direct draw style surface. I learned this in Redmond back in 1994 itself.. If you want me to grab the documentation to this stuff provided at multimedia bootcamp 1994 I will gladly go ahead and scan in the documentation and the block diagrams so you can read through it.. I remember someone from the OpenGL team commenting they needed to find a better interface to the graphics cards.
NT 4 Workstation was never designed as a games workstation. Microsoft added Direct X to Windows 2000 (NT 5) to change all that and attempt to reposition that away (to move people away from dos based windows (the last incantation of that being Windows ME).
Microsoft advised against playing games on NT 4 and kept developers away for the longest time. They stuck to open gl cause it was there (but that version was intended to stick NT in the visualization workstation market, not with games.
Quake 3 that you mention is a windows 2000 product that just happens to run, cause 3rd parties went in and wrote drivers that did this, but never because microsoft wanted it, they just wanted a visualization workstation to compete with SGI/Sun..
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@ DonnyEMU
Ok, you've asked for a history lesson.
DirectX was introduced into NT4 with SP3. It gives NT4 basic DirectDraw capabilities, so that it could do what average home users take for granted, for example video acceleration when playing movies, taking advantage of technology on graphics cards such as MPEG-2 decoding capabilities. DirectX on NT4 is equivalent to DX3 on other Windows operating systems. DirectX cannot be updated on NT4, save vulnerability patches.
1994 was a damn long time ago... and hold on... NT4 was released in 1996!!!
Microsoft may advise a lot of things, but as experience shows regarding technical points on their products, particularly nowadays, they're the last people to ask.
I used NT4 for about four years IIRC. I played StarCraft, Half-Life, Quake 1/2/3 (in the case of Quake 1, Winquake, downloadable freeware), and a good few other games that only require basic DirectDraw capabilities. I got as good as, or better framerates than I did in Win98, dualbooted.
If NT4 didn't have DirectX at all, playing DVDs would have been an exercise in CPU saturation!
Quake 3 that you mention is a windows 2000 product that just happens to run, cause 3rd parties went in and wrote drivers that did this, but never because microsoft wanted it, they just wanted a visualization workstation to compete with SGI/Sun..
Wrong. There are no OpenGL drivers included in the Q3 install, except for the installation of DirectX, but then 99% of Windows systems have enough DirectX functionality to play Q3.
If you believe drivers are installed, take an installation of Q3 from any Windows [OS] box, and copy it to any other installation of Windows, including NT4. No installation of anything occurs whatsoever, yet game works flawlessly, provided DX works and half-decent graphics drivers are installed. I haven't installed Q3 in years, yet I've reinstalled Windows many times over the years.
Quake 2 and 3 make very basic DirectDraw calls. After that, they're making basic DirectSound calls and OpenGL calls.
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My Main Machine:
AMD Duron 750
192Mb RAM
40Gb Hard Disk
48x24x48x CD Rewriter
24x DVD Drive
GeForce 256 Annihaltor Graphics
Running Windows XP Professional
Although soon I am going to get a nice all black PC with much better specs ;)
My Amiga:
Standard OS 3.1 based desktop A1200 for the odd game hooked up to a Commodore 1084S.
I have an A500 too but it never gets used.
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Big dirty piles of different computers here. My main machine dual boots WinXP SP1 and Mandrake 9.1.
I also use WinUAE with OS3.9 and Baillisk2 with MacOS 8.1.
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well, there is much to tell...
first: i'm new here, so hello to all! :)
so here's the list:
*AMD 1700+, 512MB, 40Gig HDD, ABit Siluro GF3 - 128MB
=> current main productive machine (i-net, graphics, games, etc), running W2K and Linux
*AMD 1600+, 1Gig, 40Gig HDD, 2x ASUS GF2 - 32MB
=> dual display/monitor. used for development and graphics
*AMD 900, 128MB, 20Gig HDD, NVidia TNT2 - 32MB
=> my wife's machine - some games, nothing more
*P133, 64MB, 2Gig HDD, CirrusLogic
=> HTTP/SOCKS Proxy, running Linux
*P200, 64MB, 20Gig HDD, CirrusLogic
=> Samba Fileserver, running Linux
*A1200, 030er Blizzard - 16MB, 170MB HDD, 16x CDRom
=> my sweet A1200 - was my first amiga i owned myself, but only a few weeks later i bought an old A500, too.
the servers are housed in a 19" rackmount cage and are connected via KVM-switch to my 1700+ desk. my WAN-router (homeoffice) is located there, too.
...so these are the machines currently placed on the desks in my office and ready to run. the following machines are carefully stored:
*A2000, 3MB
*4x A500 (one A500+)
*3x C64 (the old ones - i don't like the new cases)
*1x C128
*1x C128D metal
*1x Atari 1040STf
*too many spareparts to list here
*some old x86 mainboards incl. cases, etc
well - my wife sometimes hates me for my hobby...but i love these old machines and i would
-never-
sell one (even a piece) of them.
it's always the same: i buy it - i keep it. :)
i need my x86 based machines - so there's sadly not enough space in my office to set up more amigas, fe.
cu,
-Case
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At home I have a 6 system network comprised of...
My Main PC ... 1ghz PC, Win 2k, Linux, use it for programming, browsing, some games.
Webserver for my site: 400mhz system
The best PC to evAr be created: Pegasos 600mhz system (programming, browsing, ftp'ing, email, movies, games etc)
My little sons pc: 350mhz pc, games (he's just 5)
Brothers PC: 1.6ghz, games, browsing
Dad's PC:400mhz, browsing, email etc etc.
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Dell Latitude P-II 400, 128MB, 20G HD Win 2000 Pro
This is used EVERY day
Amiga 4000 still in Northants, A500 in bits. A1200 used for most Amiga stuff at the mo', and that's pretty much tinkering with the WB
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Whoa!
I use quite a lot of machines:
1) K6-III/550, 384 MB, 40 GB, Win2K (mainmachine);
2) K6-III/400, 384 MB, 2x 18 GB, Win2k/Linux (testbed);
3) Dual P-Pro 200 512 MB, 9 & 18 GB, Win2K (DC/mailserver/printserver);
4) Dual P-Pro 233, 512 MB, 2x 8 GB, 2x 250 GB, Debian (fileserver);
5) P-Pro 180, 256 MB, 8 GB, Debian (webserver);
6) P-Pro 180, 256 MB, 2 GB, Smoothwall (router);
7) P24T/83, 32 MB, 2x 540 MB, DOS 6.2/WfW3.11 (dosapps);
and 4 others (kids & girlfriend).
:-P
Lately, I'm more into both my Miggies (1200 & 2000) and my C128D...
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This should have been a "who doesn't use x86" thread...
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@ that_punk_guy
I think there was a thread that was *kinda* similar before, "who uses their Amiga to post on A.org" or summat.
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Ive got a P4 2.53Mhz which i use mainly for its broadband access. Also use an A1200, 6mb RAM