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Title: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 04, 2012, 04:08:01 PM
Looks like RAM went bad in my PC. I don't have the funds to replace that until I get paid again, so it looks like I will be amiga only for a little bit.

Ever been in a similar situation?
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: OlafS3 on July 04, 2012, 04:10:50 PM
no. PC here can be bought used (but with guarantee) for low prices. So cheap to replace (if you do not need a new one). Or buy it on ebay.

Besides:
I have one Notebook and a desktop in office and two Notebooks at home.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: golem on July 04, 2012, 04:53:53 PM
Yes. I have taken a few enforced Amiga only holidays from my laptop. It was quite refreshing but I wouldn't want to do it for longer than two weeks.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 04, 2012, 05:16:47 PM
Quote from: golem;699025
Yes. I have taken a few enforced Amiga only holidays from my laptop. It was quite refreshing but I wouldn't want to do it for longer than two weeks.


well, it's a week and a half until I get paid again,so I think it'll be pretty fun for a survival trip. I had done a similar experiment a ways back, but only got around to the preparation stage, so I guess we'll see how it goes :)
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: Thorham on July 04, 2012, 06:29:19 PM
My only computer was an A1200 until 2004/2005, without intarwebz, does that count?
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: TheBilgeRat on July 04, 2012, 06:34:36 PM
Shouldn't be too bad, runey.  I've enforced some cli-only builds of Arch on my computers.  Surfing with links and using mutt for a week - and that's definitely worse than Amiga even if there's a 3ghz monster pushing it.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 04, 2012, 07:11:24 PM
okay that's pretty hardcore for both of you :)

Ibrowse does okay for forum stuff, and a bit of a detox from wasting time on the internet might be good (though I might end up wasting that time playing Chaos Engine instead..)
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: krashan on July 04, 2012, 08:34:19 PM
Quote from: runequester;699021
Ever been in a similar situation?

PowerBook with MorphOS is not an Amiga precisely, but can be considered a similar situation IMHO. Then in my case this situation is permanent. I have a PC only at work and turn it on only if I have no other choice (happens a few times a month).
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: XDelusion on July 04, 2012, 08:37:52 PM
Heh, if you lived near by I'd give you one of my spare PC's. I never have that problem, though I have had to go without my Amiga for a while. That sucked!
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 04, 2012, 09:49:31 PM
XDelusion, appreciate the offer anyways :)

Quote from: Krashan;699051
PowerBook with MorphOS is not an Amiga precisely, but can be considered a similar situation IMHO. Then in my case this situation is permanent. I have a PC only at work and turn it on only if I have no other choice (happens a few times a month).


Oh wow. So MOS is your main OS then?

Care to tell us more about your experiences?
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: Rob on July 04, 2012, 10:11:20 PM
Quote from: runequester;699021
Looks like RAM went bad in my PC. I don't have the funds to replace that until I get paid again, so it looks like I will be amiga only for a little bit.

Ever been in a similar situation?


I used an A1200 with 060, Mediator etc until around 2004 when my AmigaONE XE took over.  I did set up a Windows PC sometime around 2007/8 out of necessity.  I tend to use both OS4 and XP in about equal measures.  When there's a browser that will play youtube visds at an acceptable speed I'll turn the PC on less often.

edit.

I don't think I'd want to use an original Amiga for browsing the web these days no matter what the specification these days.  I'm glad OS4 came along when it did.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: Dementhor on July 04, 2012, 11:21:56 PM
Back in the 90's I was stuck in a similar situation for a couple of months - used my plain vanilla A1200 with 20 MB HD for word processing in the only software package that was capable of typing in Czech and output in formats and encodings compatible with PC software. It was OK but no match for the MS Word (for MS-DOS) on a PC.

Quote from: OlafS3;699022
no. PC here can be bought used (but with guarantee) for low prices. So cheap to replace (if you do not need a new one). Or buy it on ebay.

Well, if it's cheaper than the RAM there probably isn't much reason to even consider it IMHO. (^__~ )
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: XDelusion on July 04, 2012, 11:52:05 PM
Quote from: runequester;699065
XDelusion, appreciate the offer anyways :)



Oh wow. So MOS is your main OS then?

Care to tell us more about your experiences?


Before my eMac died, I was VERY VERY happy with my MorphOS experience. Even though I had about the crappiest hardware to run it on, I was able to do a great number of things out of the box, especially where classic apps were concerned.

It is totally worth the while and worth taking the time to explore. Though I've grown to love AROS, I can still say that MorphOS goes so much deeper and has a plethora of practical every day uses.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: itix on July 05, 2012, 12:29:52 AM
Quote from: runequester;699021
Looks like RAM went bad in my PC. I don't have the funds to replace that until I get paid again, so it looks like I will be amiga only for a little bit.

Ever been in a similar situation?


Yup. Since my XP laptop is gone missing I have got my MorphOS machines only. I am using Mac Mini and my gf is using PowerBook. Have been 4 months without XP now.

Sometimes I have to take work laptop to home when I am on-call.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: hooligan on July 05, 2012, 05:45:28 AM
There is only one reason for me to use windows-machine at home and that is Worms Reloaded. Gotta have my daily fix ;-)
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: Lurch on July 05, 2012, 06:38:03 AM
Hmm, I live in NZ. But what RAM do you need, might be able to source some for free depending on what you need.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 05, 2012, 05:03:50 PM
Turns out a friend of mine will let me cannibalize his old PC so i should be okay. Thanks though! Everyone is so cool.

Ill just enjoy the amiga this week as a "vacation" :)

I must say the urge to get an old mac and MOS showed itself last night though :)
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: mechy on July 06, 2012, 12:35:11 AM
Quote from: runequester;699021
Looks like RAM went bad in my PC. I don't have the funds to replace that until I get paid again, so it looks like I will be amiga only for a little bit.

Ever been in a similar situation?


Yes,every day to be exact.The store email is handled through yam on my A4000 csppc mediator setup and i use it for picture editing etc. the deneb USB works well.workbench at 1920x1280x32 is nice.
Ibrowse actually works with my banking,credit card sites and such.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: runequester on July 06, 2012, 01:09:35 AM
Quote from: mechy;699191
Yes,every day to be exact.The store email is handled through yam on my A4000 csppc mediator setup and i use it for picture editing etc. the deneb USB works well.workbench at 1920x1280x32 is nice.
Ibrowse actually works with my banking,credit card sites and such.


Nice, so your 4000 is your main computer then?

I imagine that is a lot easier with graphics card and a PPC accelerator though :)
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: yester64 on July 06, 2012, 01:28:18 AM
I think an Amiga for webbrowsing is even safer than anything else. No worries about virus/malware etc..

Not sure if a Amiga 'only' computing is bad, its different. The time i had an Amiga there was not much of web as it is today. More Fido and some web.
Title: Re: Going amiga-amish for a bit
Post by: haywirepc on July 06, 2012, 04:18:00 AM
I wouldn't want to do amiga only for 2 long but its a nice break.

If you really want to have some fine, try making your only connection to the internet through telnet for a time.

There is a surprising # of telnet systems still out there.