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Title: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on September 19, 2010, 08:07:43 AM
Hi, What were you doing on your Amiga in the year 1994?
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on September 19, 2010, 08:10:43 AM
I was learning 68k on Devpac. Playing Civilization and on Deluxe paint I was doing some sci-fi art and model railroad layouts.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: pVC on September 19, 2010, 08:57:32 AM
Got myself a fast modem which opened the online world properly for me (earlier had only loaned 2400bps modem) :) Trading and chatting on boards, got my first email address that year and started to use online banking etc.

Also my A1200 was pretty new, so exploring all the AGA programs and trying to render with Real3D and Vista Pro etc (I wisely bought FPU and mem with the a1200 in the first place). Installing everything on HD as I had only floppy drives on A500 before that. Enjoying the ultra fast speed of loading mods etc from it :)

Friend had got A3000 earlier, so he had more power for rendering, but I had the colors :P

And of course watching lots of demos and playing games. Oh and programming with AMOS. And buying lots of Amiga magazines. And visited my first Assembly demoparty, lots of Amigas/users there at that time :)

I would say, that it was the year the golden days of Amiga powerusing started ;)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Xanxi on September 19, 2010, 09:06:20 AM
Had only an A500 Plus at this time. Playing Championship Manager, Goal, Perihelion and Mr Nutz and typing some text with Excellence 2.0 word processor :)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: SKAN on September 19, 2010, 09:59:44 AM
Everything.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: scuzzb494 on September 19, 2010, 10:05:51 AM
1994... 1994...1994 What a year. Amiga 1200, Microvitec monitor, Vidi Amiga, DPaint, GVP accelerator, 4mb PCMCIA slot, Sensi Soccer, Ishar every night till I could stay awake no more... My goodness life was fun in those days. Hard drives small just 80MB for the first year expanded at christmas to 350MB... Terminator 2 ' Terminated ' ... Mostly I guess it was video capture and Ishar I remember the most. Oh and endless Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder ' Never been so much fun '

And er the Amiga 1200 is still up and running along with the Microvitec and is switched on every day. Has been since November 1993. The 4MB PCMCIA is in its box and the GVP has been replaced with a Blizzard so I have 32MB memory, the hardrive got one more upgrade to a 550MB which is still in the machine though I have two external SCSI drives, CDRom and ZIP drive... No internet back then. It is a credit to the machine that it now connects through broadband to the world wide web.

The day she breaks will be a sad one.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: koshman on September 19, 2010, 11:13:30 AM
Well, 1994 was full 2 years before I got my first Amiga, so...
But I was playing a lot of UFO/XCOM on my dad's PC in 1994, which is a multiplatform game :)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: gertsy on September 19, 2010, 11:22:38 AM
From '92-94 I was doing a lot of music composition with my Amiga 2000.  Tiger Cub was my favorite software at the time, as it was simple and quick to use and get results. It included Midi and Amiga sample use.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: mousehouse on September 19, 2010, 11:54:36 AM
I left the Amiga scene during 1993/1994... had lots of friends on A1200's but I could not afford one with HD, university offered a high discount on a 486 PC with 8MB and HD! Bought it to install some obscure (and free) version of Unix by a Finnish guy.

One of the last things I did on the Amiga was play MUD's online and hike up the phone bill ;-)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Buzzfuzz on September 19, 2010, 12:04:21 PM
I was already on a PC then, played a few games on my A500 like Frontier, Millenium and Deutros, but other than that I dumped them that year in the garage and it would be 2010 before they saw life again.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Karlos on September 19, 2010, 12:04:30 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;580123
Hi, What were you doing on your Amiga in the year 1994?


In 1994? Let's see.

Well, I had my OS3.0 A1200 by then and IIRC. Other than a parallel port sampler and a MIDI interface it was pretty bare. I relied on various hand-rolled bootable floppies for applications. For example, I had a single bootable disk containing OctaMED, ProTracker and the software that came with my sampler.

A lot of time was spent playing games like syndicate, that's for sure :)

By the end of that year, I got a slimline 3.5 inch HD for it and my productivity increased accordingly.

By summer the following year I got my first accelerator board, the then fresh-out-of-the-stable Apollo 1240 turbo. You simply can't imagine the speed increase that gave. And, just when I thought it was fast enough, I discovered remapollo ;)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: JimS on September 19, 2010, 12:13:26 PM
In 1994 I was selling Amigas.... but soon after Commodore took the dirt nap, the store did as well.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: lsmart on September 19, 2010, 01:32:22 PM
In 1994 I was desperately trying to run NetBSD - but 6MB wasn´t nearly enough. I was downloading LaTeX-Packages over dialup, but had trouble sharing my special-filter iff-images with Windows users who worked on the same LaTeX sources. I also ran the Oberon system on my A3000 because I was impressed by it´s simplicity.

Shortly after that I bought a PC with 100MHz to run Linux.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Franko on September 19, 2010, 02:04:48 PM
Hmm... 1994, let me think, apart from doing much the same as I do today on it, I'm pretty sure this was the period when I was printing some very angry letters about Commodore going belly up, using my new Cannon BJ10 and Pagstream which cost me an arm & a leg for that program but it was worth every penny. :)

Got my money's worth out of that little printer (it only died just over two years ago) and Pagestream, cos two years later I was still using it to send hate mail to that little s**t Mehdi Ali... that name still wind's me up to this very day... :madashell:
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: save2600 on September 19, 2010, 02:29:40 PM
'94 was both a great and sad time for Amiga. I had an A1200 and put a lot of money into it hardware and software wise. It was great because between mail order and this computer shop down the road where I happened to live at the time, there were plenty of new titles to choose from and things to do with your Amiga. Push Over, Pinball Fantasies, Cannon Fodder, Frontier: Elite, D'Generation, Sim City 2000, Sim Life & Dune II were what I was playing.

I said '94 was a "sad" time for Amiga because the writing was on the wall fate wise AND PC's were really starting to become attractive. I did end up getting sucked into the mainstream realm for a bit, but never strayed too far from Amiga's. Funny... all those "hi-rez" CD-ROM based games for the PC we "had to have", don't hold a candle to the way I feel about classic gaming today at all.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Plaz on September 19, 2010, 02:47:40 PM
Pretty much the same as SKAN.

I took care of PC's as my day job and had one at home, but most every thing else was Amiga. Apps that I spent the most time with were Bars&Pipes, Studio 16, Imagine, Lightwave/Toaster, SuperBase, Dpaint, running a Cnet BBS, and I played alot of Dune II.

Plaz
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: IslDreamer on September 19, 2010, 04:46:53 PM
In 1994, I was well into my transition over to the PC and 3D Studio, but the Amiga 4000 and 2000 were my workhorses for running Imagine, ToasterPaint and DPaint. Commodore's bankruptcy coincided with my return to full-time management, which ended my flirtation with a professional graphics career.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: marcfrick2112 on September 19, 2010, 05:51:27 PM
Wow, Can't totally remember what Amiga I was using in '94.....
Pretty sure I had a 1200 desktop with a short-lived '040, and my dad would have had his 600....

I know I was trying to get to grips with Lightwave in '94. It's maybe fortunate that I lost those first renders I did.... they were terrible! Imagine a blurry pirate ship 'sailing' through a 4-lane highway, with a lot of fog.......:huh:

Beyond that, much the same as now... games, demos, graphics with Dpaint+DCTV Paint, printing decals/transparancies/labels....
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: inoel on September 19, 2010, 06:12:33 PM
94 that was my Rookie year ! I had an AMIGA 600
for xmass 93. I was very much in love and made
my 1st tune's in octamed and made vid,s in video tracker
that i recorded onto vhs and play them on a big screen at raves.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: SamuraiCrow on September 19, 2010, 06:59:39 PM
'94 was my rookie year too.  My first Amiga was an A1200 I bought in autumn of '93.  Never mind OctaMED, I was just learning MED and C programming and 68k Assembly.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Khephren on September 19, 2010, 07:11:29 PM
Running shapeshifter to pass my graphic design uni course.
Writing my art history dissertation in wordsworth.
rendering art work in lightwave and imagine.
Doing 2D art work/textures in Dpaint/imageFX and Brilliance.
listening to MOD and sid tunes while doing the above.
....playing games!
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: swoslover on September 19, 2010, 07:48:25 PM
I had an ST at the time.

I always seemed to be a couple of years behind the times :) and didn't get an Amiga until around 97

Anyway I remember being incredibly jealous at the range of software available to Amiga users and it#s visibility on the high street next to my ST.

How times have changed!!
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: B00tDisk on September 19, 2010, 08:30:23 PM
Counting on it to sell for a few hundred bucks so I could pick up the stuff to build a PC

(A1200, DKB Cobra 28mhz, 4mb RAM, 60mb HD, 1084S monitor; I think I ended up selling for $450.)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: persia on September 19, 2010, 08:36:05 PM
Probably looking at low res pr0n...
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Drummerboy on September 19, 2010, 09:40:43 PM
In 1994.. selling and buying some used Amigas.. Octamed, Protracker, BBS`s, FidoNet, hmm ..yeah, i was hearing more strong about Internet.. then, looking for are "in" .. but, i needed stay some away about Amigas becouse, thats was eating time for the Music Studies, then ..i tried to put away Computers, but i can`t the computers always catch to me!--  
Anyway, thats years i think was changes times, becouse.. the PCs came more strong using CDROMS (you know many CDROM Games and others), and that was called "Multimedia".. then you can saw in more Computers stores.. "PC with Kit Multimedia".. then many Amiga and C=Comodore people leave Amiga and C= and went to PC World..
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: golem on September 19, 2010, 09:42:33 PM
I had just my trusty 500 then. I had three floppy disks which I used the most. One loaded Wordperfect which I wrote my final year dissertation on. Another loaded OctaMED v4. And the last loaded csh (this was a brilliant shell replacement at the time - most :c/ commands were built in). I loathed workbench and icons back then - just a waste of disk space !

;nice idea for a thread. You've got everybody posting
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: kolla on September 19, 2010, 10:10:31 PM
1994 was the year I bought my first Amiga, an A1200 (which btw is still up and running). I used it for universty work (writing, maths, graphics) and ofcourse games and whatever else, with the software that came with it (Desktop Dynamite) and heaploads of fish disks. During fall of 1994 I brought it to the computer club at univ and hooked it onto a DEC LAT-server to double as a terminal console using Term or VLTjr. Funny thing is that this is just about the same as I answered in that other thread... I'm reliving 1994 on my Minimig these days ;)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Karlos on September 19, 2010, 10:21:13 PM
If I recall correctly, I got my A1200 for the xmas 1993. I'd only just got my first Amiga, an A600 earlier that same year, a birthday present from my mum who'd noticed I'd suddenly gotten interested in computing again when I'd started trying to resurrect my old spectrum as an abortive electronics project (though I succeeded eventually!). I had sort of lost interest after my speccy died and all the cool new computers friends at school had (Amigas, ST's and Archimedes) were entirely out of our price range during those years.

When I got the machine, I was really surprised, especially after getting my first few magazine cover disks. The rest is history. So, many thanks to my mum, sadly departed, but fondly remembered and entirely to blame for my amiga addiction :)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: huronking on September 19, 2010, 10:32:45 PM
Tinkering with that danged KA9Q IP stack for packet radio and that cutting edge supra14.4 modem I had just gotten.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Tenacious on September 19, 2010, 11:02:03 PM
I was still expanding an A500.  I had done the 2 Meg chip ram motherboard modification, added an A570 CDrom drive and Supra 500 RX the previous years.  In 1994, I added an Amitrix SCSI-TV (a SCSI hard drive interface for the back of the A570).

I had all of Fred Fish on CD.  It seems coverdisks were coming out on CD about then, too.  Life was very good.  I think I was still paying for a GEnie account to talk to other amigans and get the latest software.  Most BBSes local to me were not Amiga oriented (loved playing TradeWars).  

About that time I got some extra 500s at Swallens.  Used them to do sound effects on demand at a haunted house.  This was very hard to do with tape recorders.

Once a month or so, I would attend OVAUG (Ohio Valley Amiga User's Group) at the University of Cincinnati.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: tone007 on September 19, 2010, 11:06:34 PM
Quote from: Karlos;580281
So, many thanks to my mum, sadly departed, but fondly remembered and entirely to blame for my amiga addiction :)


Yeah, my mom bought me my first computer back in the 80s, good old C64.  Most likely set me on my career course.

I didn't have an Amiga until 2007 though.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: ferrellsl on September 19, 2010, 11:07:14 PM
Mine was collecting dust in the barn because I had moved on to more capable x86 systems.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: motrucker on September 19, 2010, 11:22:08 PM
Gads, In 1994 I still had my "new" 1200. Had added 16Mb of RAM, (Maybe more - I don't remember when I add the 030 and 64Mb of RAM) SCSI CD-ROM and a fair sized (for the time) hard drive. I did a lot of graphics work with ImageFX, DPaint, etc., and still produced our user group's printed Newsletter using Pagestream. Also used a flatbed scanner and a hand scanner along with DigiView.
Had as fast a modem as could be bought back then - to access the local Amiga BBS. Got in touch with other Amiga writers, users, etc through the BBS and FidoNet (anyone else remember that?)
Good times - except for Irving Gould's constant secret share holders meetings, being called at the last minute, some where in the Caribbean.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: odin on September 19, 2010, 11:26:40 PM
Playing games and scaring my parents with high phonebills due to the 14k4 modem I bought with which I started BBSing and discovered Fidonet not long after.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Hattig on September 19, 2010, 11:43:27 PM
Hmm, I would have had my A1200 by then. Maybe even the 200MB hard drive and 2MB memory expansion, just enough to run Sim City 2000 on (did I have the 1438 monitor then as well?).

Certainly I would have been doing graphics in DPaint 4.5, programming in Blitz Basic 2 (I had moved on from Amos on my previous A500), and playing MODs. I think I even had a Spectrum emulator then, one of my projects was a Quazatron rewrite - got the map stuff going, but no game engine, shame on me.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: redfox on September 20, 2010, 03:51:34 AM
We had already upgraded our A2000HD to AmigaOS 3.1 sometime near the end of 1993.

If I recall correctly, we were using Final Writer Release 2 in 1994.  There were some other applications as well, mostly older stuff.  We did not have an accelerator card, so we were using only applications for the 68000 CPU.

I did most of my upgrades after 1994.  During 1995, I started using dial-up internet with a SLIP account, AmiTCP/IP and AMosaic.  Sometime in this time period, I added a SCSI CD-ROM drive, a second SCSI hard drive, and a MicroWay Flickerfixer.

---
redfox
A2000HD + AmigaOS 3.1
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: XDelusion on September 20, 2010, 04:17:40 AM
Playing a lot of Shadow of the Beast III, Myth, and Worms Deluxe.

Dreaming of playing DOOM and Genetic Species full speed, and making tracks with OctaMED SS.

Not much has changed except now I have an 060 and an eMac and can play what ever I want, or what ever MorphOS will allow.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: runequester on September 20, 2010, 07:20:49 AM
Writing high school papers, messing around with Deluxe Paint (IV I believe) and doing a tiny bit of animation. Playing a load of games.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Jiffy on September 20, 2010, 08:38:36 AM
1994: Didn't have an Amiga back then, as I replaced my A500 with a 486DX2/66 in 1993.

In contrast to many Amiga nuts, I really enjoyed my pc (and still do). Fast cpu, good graphics card (a Viper VLB with 2 MB vram), large hardddrive (1 GB SCSI) and a good portion of ram (8 MB).

Up until about 1997 I owned just one computer, replacing obsolete ones with newer models and selling the old one.

Bought an Amiga again in about 2000, I guess (an A1200) and am now the proud owner of an A1200, an A2000 and and A3000 (plus one A2000 as a spare).
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: clusteruk on September 20, 2010, 09:42:16 AM
Started Siamese System development around this time, with our own video custom switch board to allow Amiga to access PC drives, share a monitor keyboard mouse and using clip board sharing. Following year we started on Siamese RTG with the Genius Paul Nolan at the coding helm. Was still trying to get people in the UK to use Amiga for serious stuff as this was dying off.

This was the point I started my belief of Amiga direction, but enough of that.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: loth77 on October 01, 2010, 01:55:30 PM
in 1994 :)
well.... i had an A1200 with a small hard disk... something like 60mb i think and 8 mb ram board :)
mostly i was messing with my installed workbench to get some better performances :))
and playing sensible soccer, cannon fodder, speedball 2, turrican, alien breed... and so on :))

i still have that Amiga working and will be 18 on 21st december of this year :)

now i have also 2 other Amiga 1200 one with blizzard 1260 and one with taifun 1230 :)
ah... and a plain A2000
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: klx300r on October 01, 2010, 01:59:02 PM
browsing my university mainframe and other BBS's with my wopping fast 1200 baud modem..blah who needs pictures anyway:afro:
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Boudicca on October 01, 2010, 02:09:52 PM
I had ditched it ! Sold it....had a500+ CDTV thingy + HD8+ 50meg scsi. Bought a PC and was merrily discovering the dawn of the internet age. Compuserve was my friend.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: dammy on October 01, 2010, 02:33:09 PM
I was running CNet BBS called TheNostromo on my frankenstein A500.  Think it was around 94 when I was also offering free usenet groups and internet emails, which was the first to do so freely in my area.  Phone bills for those nightly UUCP feeds to Seattle were over $100 USD @ month back then.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Templario on October 01, 2010, 02:40:22 PM
Learning to paint with Deluxe Paint, and playing and playing with the great Amiga 500's games.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: spihunter on October 01, 2010, 03:21:59 PM
I bought my first Amiga in 1994. It was an A2000 with an 030 board in it. I used it for Octamed SS and getting on to various BBS's for software. Later on I got an A4000/060/PIV. In 1999 I sold the A4000 for a PC.......
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: X-ray on October 02, 2010, 12:52:47 PM
1994...
Final year as a radiography student. I had an A1200 with several external SCSI devices and a Canon BJC230 A3 printer. Still have that printer today.
I was using the Miggy for games and for printing assignments and also dabbling with Real3D. I didn't have much money but got a VXL 030 board with FPU.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: dougal on October 02, 2010, 01:51:41 PM
1994.. Well, I had my beloved A500 Plus back then. Was using it simply for games.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: tasmanian guy on October 02, 2010, 02:06:05 PM
Well I still had my Amiga 1200, with a 68030 and an additional 2 meg ram simm (yep cos that is all I could afford due to the Kobe Earth Quake), I also had a squirrel interface for an external CD Rom drive for those CD32 games and an external floppy drive along with the trusty 1084S monitor, though sometimes used a big tv (well 26" tv) for multiplayer gaming! 2 x 40 megabyte hard drives installed into the Amiga 1200 as well!  That was heaps of room as most Amiga games were not hard drive installable due to copyright restrictions.
 
I was using Vista PRO off a magazine to generate amazing 3d landscape rendering animations, Deluxe Paint IV AGA for some silly little movies I was doing (trying to replicate some of the SFX in Star Wars), Imagine 3d renderings and using Octamed to compose some tunes!
 
Games at the time I was playing were Super Skidmarks, Super Frog, Alien Breed Tower Assault, Frontier Elite, Arcade Pool, Super Star Dust and Deluxe Galaga.
 
I thought the Commodore were on a winner with the CD32 and was very hopeful that it would turn things around but I started to see some of the games my mates were playing on their IBM PC's such as Doom, Wing Commander and X-wing (which did finally convert me over to PC).
 
I sold my Amiga 1200 in 1995, yet here I am using an Amiga 1200 with a 68030 with 64 meg of ram, in a rackmount kit, 2 gigabyte compact flash card, ps2 keyboard, usb optical mouse, pcmcia network adaptor, a registered user of whdload and I've been buying Amiga software on ebay like a kid in a candy store!  It was the interest in the Commodore computer (starting from C64) that I really owe my current job and wealth.  Yep nostalgic value of the Amiga is great and just makes me wonder how Commodore got it so wrong, yet I still love the Amiga, it holds a special place for me as it did things that I could only dream of!
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: cecilia on October 02, 2010, 03:15:03 PM
around that time I was working on a film caled Hologram Man. we were creating the effects for it using ImageFX on three Amigas. a 2000, a 3000 and really beautiful 4000.

it was basically pulling mattes (the actors had been filmed against blue screen). Saving the "beauty pass" - that's the RGB full color plate. And also saving the Matte which is the information with the 'hole' around the actor. we sent those to the editor and they composited our frames to a background.

if this sounds complicated just remember that the Amiga could integrate with professional situations like this easily. In the hands of artists the Amiga worked well.

The biggest problem was that because the hardware wasn't supported it couldn't get fast enough to compete after a while. But the software and concept was way ahead of it's time.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Crom00 on October 02, 2010, 03:23:47 PM
Selling my A3000 and replacing it with the A4000 030 I got off a college student for $750 fully loaded. Moving the toaster and software over. I was happy. I would wait for a week to render what an xbox or XBOX 360 could render today in real time with all FX turned on.

I quickly realized I would need to keep the a3000 and create scenes on the A4000 and transfer them over, but soon I realized a pc could render all this faster and cheaper. Wasn't until 1996 that I got Pentium 100 that I started rendering on the pc and transfering the files over using a null modem cable, then later on zip drives.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on October 02, 2010, 03:30:36 PM
Quote from: cecilia;582570
around that time I was working on a film caled Hologram Man. we were creating the effects for it using ImageFX on three Amigas. a 2000, a 3000 and really beautiful 4000.


What is your set up in 2010?
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Crom00 on October 02, 2010, 03:41:17 PM
For Image fx enthusiasts I can tell you that running this on even old pc hardware is like being reborn.

I put together a Athlon64 bit quad core 3 ghz pc using parts around the house, I connected my A4000 drive to it and all my old Amiga apps scream. I get a $400 amiga gfx card due to the emulation and 8 megs chip ram too....lol..

dpaint 5 has no limits. Image fx is nice and fast.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: cecilia on October 02, 2010, 03:52:06 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;582573
What is your set up in 2010?

while I still have my original 1989 Amiga 2000 it's living in it's box because it needs a new HD.

I have Amiga Forever installed on my windows7 laptop but I still have to tweek it. I have IFX working but I still have to figure out how to get depaint on a screen that I can use. I had WinUAE for years but I am new to AF.

I'm going to be getting a new laptop with a LARGE screen (like 17 ") so maybe that's where I should set up my AF. my eyes are getting old (LOL) and I need help seeing those little pixels.

I also just installed ubuntu on a flash drive and booted from that last night. so cool!

eventually need to make my systems multi boot again.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: cecilia on October 02, 2010, 03:54:35 PM
Quote from: Crom00;582577
For Image fx enthusiasts I can tell you that running this on even old pc hardware is like being reborn.

I put together a Athlon64 bit quad core 3 ghz pc using parts around the house, I connected my A4000 drive to it and all my old Amiga apps scream. I get a $400 amiga gfx card due to the emulation and 8 megs chip ram too....lol..

dpaint 5 has no limits. Image fx is nice and fast.
you have to tell me how you set up depaint  :)
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Crom00 on October 02, 2010, 05:03:28 PM
I had a version I got as part of an Amiga Purchase and set that up. It runs better than any Amiga released by Commdore or Escom, and I had a CSPPC Scala A400t with all the fixin's.

Heck a $350 Walmart Sams Club PC runs circles around the cracker-jack PPC boards folks purchase on EBAY.It  Blows my mind!!! People!!! on a good day a PPC classic amiga could not compete with a $400 CHEAP PC.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Karlos on October 02, 2010, 05:38:12 PM
Quote from: Crom00;582595
... and I had a CSPPC Scala A400t with all the fixin's..

Eh? In 1994? I'm pretty sure I was an early PowerUP adopter, and I didn't get my BlizzardPPC until late 1998...

-edit-

Never mind, you're talking about iFx...
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: tone007 on October 02, 2010, 05:58:50 PM
The closest I'd gotten to an Amiga by 1994 was looking at the boxes of my C64 games and wondering why my graphics didn't look like the graphics on the box, and then noticing the "Amiga version pictured" caption.

Of course, all of my C64s had died by 1994 and I was probably on the 8088 or 486 at that point and exploring the new world a modem allowed access to.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Snowwie on February 19, 2012, 08:22:37 PM
I did buy an A1200 in 1994 as well, but I don't know the specs the machine had.

I loved 1994. It was a year everything was great. Amiga's, High School, Eurodance music....:roflmao:
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: smerf on February 19, 2012, 11:15:43 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;580123
Hi, What were you doing on your Amiga in the year 1994?


Hi,

UHHHH!!! nothing, I usually didn't get on my Amiga, I was afraid I would cave in the case and that wasn't only in 94 but today as well.

but

I did use my Amiga 4000 for Video Toaster work, titling home movies, doing budget work, and transferring pictures back and forth between PC's and the Amiga. I played a lot of megaball, soliton, and space taxi. Did a lot of downloading too!! BBS boards where hot, and did a lot of software analyzing to see if I liked their programs or not. Wrote a cracking program so I could back up all that copy protected software. This program had a 99% success rate, but sometimes took 24 to 48 hours analyzing a disk then came up with a crack for it, taking another 24 hours, needless to say this was the last program I tried. Come to think of it, I think I still have it up in the attic somewhere, wonder if it still works with todays programs (LOL).

Also, in 1994 I was still challenging loudmouthed PC users to beat my Amiga in a do it contest, where I would challenge them to beat my Amiga,
1. Downloading a program from a BBS board,
2. Printing out a 5 page document.
3. Playing music
4. Playing their solitare game.
5.  Doing a backup of their hard drive.

Guess what no PC user ever won, made lots of money on this one, their faster computers, just didn't work as well as my slow outdated Amiga.

smerf
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Tripitaka on February 20, 2012, 01:51:50 AM
I was playing a lot of scrolling shooters and also playing with productivity software, DPaint, Imagine, Scala and Wordsworth in particular. I say playing because all my Amiga usage was for fun.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Argo on February 20, 2012, 03:47:07 AM
Breaking in my new A1200. Also, wondering why my new 1942 monitor won't do 800x600 as advertised.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: saimon69 on February 20, 2012, 05:27:24 AM
Working at the music of powder and at my animation NOLW - the night of the living wrecks on my a500 using dpaint IV, three megs of ram and two floppy drives - at the end was assembled in the a4000 of a friend of mine using scala for the pixel art expo that winter (placed 2nd) and the bit.movie competition (placed 1st)...
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: kedawa on February 20, 2012, 05:32:37 AM
I was messing around with Deluxe Paint III and DigiPaint, making games with SEUCK, learning how to use a hex editor, and just generally tinkering around.
By that time, I was gaming mostly on consoles, and Amiga software was hard to come by in my area, so I barely used my A500 for games any more.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: martin.demsky on February 20, 2012, 09:06:33 AM
In 1994 i purchased A1200 (switched from ZX Spectrum 128k/C64 scene), learned all audio stuff and soon started to work with some demo groups and game development teams.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: zipper on February 20, 2012, 09:38:46 AM
Expanding my A500 with Supraturbo28 and RocHard 800 2 MB + 170 MB HD, OS 2.1. Waiting eagerly CU Amiga and Amiga Format new issues.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Pyromania on February 20, 2012, 02:02:22 PM
I was also breaking in the A1200 in 1994 that I got in October 1993. I had sold my A500 off in 1993 but missed the camouflage paint treatment I gave that machine. I should have done the same thing to the A1200.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: CritAnime on February 20, 2012, 02:08:10 PM
Was playing games on my A500+.
Title: Re: What are you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: persia on February 20, 2012, 02:13:13 PM
Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....
Title: Re: What are you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: LoadWB on February 20, 2012, 03:13:08 PM
IIRC, that was the year I got my A500HD+ and my Rev 8 mobo.  At the time I was still heavily programming on my C64/128, so the 500 got used mostly as a games, music, and Internet (well, GEnie and BBS) machine.  I was playing with OctaMED to learn tracking, and some sound editor to piece together wav files.  That and I would take wav rips of CDs from my friend's PC and convert them to compressed IFFs.  I'm pretty certain at the time I was still using Workbench 1.3 as I recall my 2.04 and 3.1 days came after I moved into my first apartment.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: A1260 on February 20, 2012, 03:20:53 PM
in 1994 the commodore died and my a500 from 1988 was showing it's age and no new games... so i put it in the attic(where it died). didn't bother with buying an a1200 without hd, b1230+ram and a special monitor from microvitec. or buy an a4000 with graphic card etc etc... it was just insane expensive and commodore had just died, so there was no reason to waste all that money for nothing. amiga the most advanced computer in the world, had failed it was over. that was my thoughts in the year of 1994.
Title: Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: jorkany on February 20, 2012, 03:29:27 PM
I was about 2/3 of the way through writing an Amiga version of the "Stellar Conquest" board game. Then Commodore went bankrupt, and I was making money writing software for PCs and embedded systems, so the Amiga went into the closet.
Title: Re: What are you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: Pyromania on February 20, 2012, 03:34:07 PM
Quote from: persia;681094
Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....


VT & Deluxe Paint! Good man!


:)
Title: Re: What are you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: smerf on February 20, 2012, 03:58:21 PM
Quote from: persia;681094
Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....


@persia,

Yes a true Mac fanboy straight from the start. Even an Amiga couldn't convince him that the Mac was a lesser computer.

Well it is what it is and that all that it is.

smerf
Title: Re: What are you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
Post by: persia on February 20, 2012, 04:02:21 PM
Actually just needed to use Canvas and eggplant was a way to do it.  Pretty much put aside MacOS after that until Tiger...

Emplant had that distinct Amiga software quality, never sure whether it would work, a useless hardware dongle that took up a slot and a developer who lived in an alternate reality world....