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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: curtis on March 17, 2017, 10:50:23 PM
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This has been tickling the back of my brain for sometime.
How much do you use your Amiga and what for?
Anyone use an Amiga exclusively for ALL your computer needs?
Maybe we could do a survey.
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At the moment, my A1200 serves as a serial console for my Raspberry Pi. I also run AmiMSX frequently to read/write disks for my MSX2, and am currently trying to beat Black Tiger in WHDLOAD.
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This has been tickling the back of my brain for sometime.
How much do you use your Amiga and what for?
Anyone use an Amiga exclusively for ALL your computer needs?
Maybe we could do a survey.
Hi Curtis,
I use my 3000D everyday for:
Email
Reminders
Occasional word processing
Financial and checkbook
Listening to MP3's
Coping pictures from my phone
General tweaking to get more speed and better stability
Clean up photos
I still need to hookup the Phonepak to answer the phone.
My kids use their 4000D everyday for:
Games (both educational and entertainment)
School
Music and typing lessons
Word processing
Listening to music
Since the browser software world is a little beyond what the Amiga can deliver, I use other systems for surfing the web. I know the latest version of Netsurf is suppose to do css, it still seems like it would be a challenge, but I have try actually try it to see the results. I would like to think an overclocked 060 and PPC with a Radeon via a 3000Di would be somewhat usable but we will see. Movie watching, I haven't even attempted anything on the Amiga and probably never will.
Other than browsing and movies, the Amiga is perfectly usable with everything else.
My only items to tackle is to see if I can get more educational games on the WHDload site to help with many of the games my kids could be using.
Viva Amiga!
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I use it less and less, sadly. Maybe once a week.
But when I do it's for:
Making music using Bars&Pipes as my sequencer
Editing photos with ImageFX
Anything related to text processing with Cygnus Ed
That's basically it.
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My X1000 daily for email, web browsing, listen to music, NG gaming, messing with SketchBlock, messing around endlessly with workbench etc.
My A1200, 1-3X per week, mainly for gaming for my kids and of course myself lol
MyA4000, 2-3X per week, still getting her setup just the way I like, she's my demo machine and messing with music & Lightwave.
My A1200T, my hacking machine always adding more & struggling to keep her stable
My A1000, turned on daily to keep her happy & me too
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I use my MorphOS machines daily for most of the stuff I do: browsing the net, doing mails, programming, reading pdfs, videos, pictures, music, editing html, playing a game from time to time, spreadsheeds, etc.
I use Windows/Android for wordprocessing, a few google services, tax services, skype and some development stuff.
MorphOS is doing a pretty satisfying job here, but having an additional random Win box and a tablet makes life even easier. The good thing, due to having MorphOS as the everyday machine, the Win box keeps very clean and hence, stable and fast.
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Not enough!
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Not enough!
I use a CD32 for games and an A2000 for game software I can not run on the CD32 and for productivity software (you don't need blinding speed to run a text editor, for instance).
AND I have a couple of MorphOS system that have the speed and power the legacy hardware lack, they make web browsing less painful.
BTW - You CAN use this kind of combination as your primary hardware.
I will often take time off from Windows and do just that.
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I use my A1200 about once or twice a month - Amiga Games, Demos, Mod playing, Word processing some personal letters/docs.
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My Amiga systems, in order of how much I use them:
* MIST - pretty much every day, as terminal to read email, taking care of my "cloud" stuff, music, WormsDC :)
* A1200/060 - almost every day, music and dpaint
* CD32/SX32Pro/030 - a couple of times a week, mostly tinkering
* Minimig - tinkering, terminal for email etc, and OCS/ECS games.
* A600/030 - a couple of times a week, tinkering, terminal...
* A3000/CSPPC/060 - rarely used, need to replace noisy SCSI drive
In addition I have some more systems (A600, CD32, CDTV, A1200) that I currently do not spend so much time with right now. And a few Macs with MorphOS and PC systems with AROS. I always build a small RPi systems inside my Amiga systems now, to take care of all kinds of networking issues :)
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I used my A1200 as my main machine until 2010. For now, i still using just for hobby, for browsing (i am writing this from the A1200), email, music, word processor, metronome, sometimes for gaming and tests things.
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I use my MorphOS machine every day for a little bit of journaling, web browsing, calendar/reminders, ripping CDs and listening to MP3s.
Trying to get a nicer email experience going too so I can use it for that.
As an alternative OS, it's wonderful how usable it is in 2017 for daily needs. When I get up to speed to Arexx, I think it will become even more powerful as I start to integrate different applications to perform common tasks etc.
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I use my AmigaOne/OS4.1 FE everyday as my main machine (emai,surfing,GFX,sound,DTP,Financial,webdesign..) ..no PC here,still only Amiga..
A1200 is in box and waiting for retro party :) ,and yeah have plan for buying new Amiga NG hw this year.
Happy Amiga user.
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Using My A600+Vampire 2 well every day, browse the internet,use google drive/dropbox, play music and movies.
Tinker a lot with it getting my WB even more complete, Use 68K mac emulation on it (shapshifter) and play an occasional game.
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Almost everyday since there are many projects going on like VA2000 graphics board, Sonnet Crescendo G3 accelerator, Vampire accelerators. I dont have time to play games only when kids asks me to join (kids have A1200 with B1230 for games). But what I do is checking demoscene prods and collect them.
I also make together Amiga configs for my friends as they buy hardware and I put it all together, make OS fitting to the system (no Amigasys or ClassicWB, just fresh installation os OS3.9 with good set of tools and utils) and fill disk drive it with games, data and apps. I just wish day would have more then 24 hours.
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There is always an Amiga running here. I have so many I guess I'm spoilt for choice.
I use mine for file management, disk searching, managing my website content and fun. I love my Amiga gaming. I also do a lot of video editing and the like.
In terms of exclusive... that would be difficult. I currently have set up an running, in addition to the Amigas... Acorn A5000, A7000, RiscStation, Atari Falcon, 2800 and 130XE, Spectrum ZX81, 48K and +3, Tatung Einstein, Amstrad 464, 6128, 6128PLUS, MegaPC and PCW9512, Sony PS1 and PS3 plus Commodore C64 x 2 and the 128ds x 2 desktop.
And they generally are all fired up every day.... My world is retro so not too much time on the internet other than for posting on the group.
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This has been tickling the back of my brain for sometime.
How much do you use your Amiga and what for?
Anyone use an Amiga exclusively for ALL your computer needs?
Maybe we could do a survey.
Well, first you need to know that I'm an commuter.
My primary residence is in a small town roughly 70 km east of Cologne, where I have a 64Bit core i5 quadcore machine with Win10. AmigaForever 2016 installed with OS 3.9 (currently adding a OS 4.1 FE U1 setup).
My secondary residence is in Cologne, where also my workplace is.
In Cologne I currently use my A4kPPC with OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1 exclusively.
A while back, I also had an WinXP machine here, which was networked with my Miggy using RDesktop. Great setup!
But then M$ droppped support for XP and subsequently I only bought a new PC for my primary residence.
Still undecided if I should get a new PC for my secondary residence as well...
Due to health probs I have to spend a lot of money for medicines, dressing material, therapies and the like. And I also would like to get my hands on an NG Amiga, i.e. A1 X5k.
In the face of my small budget I think I should focus on my health spendings in the first place and on saving money for an NG Amiga in the second place - so most likely there will be no room for a new WINTEL box in Cologne.
So I have to rely on my trusty old towered Amiga4000PPC entirely here in Cologne (furthermore I have an towered A1200/030@40, as well as 2 and a half A500s).
I mainly use it for surfing Amiga websites, the website of our railway preserving society, timetable enquiries for public transport, e-mailing, scanning, managing my photos, doing some graphic artwork here and there, office tasks, documentations and occasionally some construction work (mechanical engineering) with CAD software. I also have already done some routing from schematics for producing some simple PCBs (like an A500 audio digitiser and a few PCBs for some circuitry of my old model railway).
While working on my Miggy I like to listen to mp3-music from AmigaAmp.
I also burn some CDs from time to time, as well as some DVDs.
Furthermore, as time permits, I'm working on setting up an "OS 4.1 FE U1"-environment in addition to my OS 3.9 setup. For this I recently bought two BigRAM+ with 256 mB each and plugged them into Z-III slots, summing up to 640 mB with the 128 mB on the CSPPC.
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I use my A3000 - Warpengine 040 - Picasso IV - SunrizeAD516 - PAR - Xsurf100 - Amiga several times a week.
I use it for pixel art graphics, Deluxe music, AD516 sound recording, traditional animation pencil testing, and games.
I would use it everyday (no joke) if we could get a 68k browser that doesn't require a PPC or emulated machine to run. (sigh).
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It's more of a guilty pleasure blast than a regular thing! Deluxe Paint V animation once a month and the odd game a Rainbow Islands, Deluxe PacMan or Aladdin with my daughter. Had a 6 hour marathon of Dune on the weekend. That's as close to an RPG game as I get. Forget Zelda, Dune rocks for atmosphere with great blend of adventure, resource management and RPG. Can't beat the Amiga centric colour palette effects and pixelating spice communication scenes! Awesome. And don't get me started on the music! One word.... hypnotic ;-)
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And don't get me started on the music! One word.... hypnotic ;-)
Yeah - I can very well remember the nights when I was experimenting with the Synthesiser tunes of Aegis Sonix and Roland TB-3 emulation (http://aminet.net/search?query=tb303) and rolling my eyes to the 'hypnotic' sounds...
:laughing:
Like here:
(http://www.wiehltalbahn.de/images/sampledata/fruitshop/704.jpeg)
Chong rolling his eyes and playing extremely loud rock music with an electric guitar that disturbs the entire neighborhood.
(From the movie 'Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9_y91ihTo))
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aw man, not enough!
vamp powered A600 sitting there waiting for me to have a few free hours.
030 powered A1200 as my "works no matter what machine" but now just runs as a check list of stuff as i build the A600's workbench and software to something usable.
030 powered A500 unmothballed to get it to a working state without flyleads and bent paperclips as jumpers all over the place - soldering station still in it's box.
060 powered A3000 sitting under the sofa taunting me everytime i go hunting under there for a cable out of a the boxes i keep under there, but her PSU is too bloomin noisey once you're used to running A500/600/1200 for a bit.
A4k, board is out of the case, i just need to get it sent off for repair as she won't fire up. have A3640, netsurf100+rapidroad, mediator, bigram256, CV64/3D on standby for when she's running.
non-amiga related, got an r10k SGI O2 loaded with 768meg ram, digital a/v card, and an SSD via scsi2sata board, and a full set of irix install CD's. have tried an install three times but always got stuck, and then ran out of time of an evening. again, another noisy PSU fan.
my guitars see more dusting than playing.
on the plus side, got most of the downstairs and some of upstairs cabled up with cat6 & wall sockets, and satellite TV shotgun co-ax to wall sockets. however that may have been a mis-step as am now migrating everything back to the garage as a central server/switchstack data+a/v distribution point with hdmi+IR over cat6, so testing that atm.
Am ridiculously addicted to the hue lights to the point where i think divorce proceedings may start! also two small toddlers and a significant other who doesn't get much sleep because of said sprogs kinda eats massively into my time budget.
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@thread
i tend to use my X5000 as my personal system, and my company-provided PCs for, well, work. so the X5000 is used every day for e-mail, web browsing, video-watching, family finance tracking, family schedule-planning, gaming (my son's favorite game on earth is MACE), listening to streaming audio, IRC, sketching using a digital tablet, etc., etc. i do this sort of thing every day.
-- eliyahu
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I use my 3000 and 1200 for retro gaming mainly but soon I will have a 2000 with an 060 and Ethernet so I am hoping to install OS 3.9 and do some email and web-browsing with it. It also has a toaster and I've always wanted to see how they work so plan on goofing around with it to at least test it out. I also run an Amiga based BBS but do that with emulation on my Windows Media Center PC that is always on and low powered.
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I use my A4000 for games. I haven't had a desire to try and expand it to try and do 'modern stuff' as that seems too expensive for the returns. It probably gets fired up every couple of weeks for a session. I work M-F so it has to share my leisure time with other other systems. But it was on last night and I was playing 'Rock Star Ate My Hamster' whilst waiting for HD images to copy over to my Apple IIgs from a Floppy Emu!
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I use my A4000 for games. I haven't had a desire to try and expand it to try and do 'modern stuff' as that seems too expensive for the returns.
Amen. I'm (still) in the process of bringing my A4000D back to life, and the ROI for new hardware isn't much for the limited gains. Thankfully my needs are simple, and the Picasso II, Ariadne 2, and GVP I/O Extender salvaged from my dead A2000 should turn my A4000D into a respectable system again.
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I still use my A2000 ('040, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, DVD, LCD monitor) every day. I do admit to using a windows machine for games, and sometimes graphics along with the A2000.
Sadly my A1000 is in storage right now.......
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My main system I consider my personal machine is an A4000T loaded out with just about everything you can do with it now. I use it nearly every day I am home for as much as I can. I love to tinker and tune it for relaxing.
My other machines, A500, A600, A1200, A4000D are all reference machines and used for doing testing on others boards I repair. They are in good shape, but dont get used for play at all. They have proudly been used to save many others machines though over the last year.
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My Amigaone500 machine gets used as my main and at times only computer.
Tasks I do on it are:
Surf the Internet using Odyssey and Netsurf
Play OS4 games
Play Classic Amiga games via WHDLoad
Use the numerious emulators at my disposal Vice, Snes 9x, Dgen, Hatari
Listen to music on Tunenet or AmigaAMP
Watch videos using Emotion player
Download videos off You tube using SMtube
Use Mapparium (open Street Map)
Read emails using Yam
Tasks I peform less often- Use Cinnamon Writer, Wordworth or Amiga Writer and also use Ignition/Gnumeric for office based activites
Other Amigas in my collection such as my A1200 and CD32 are safely stored away in boxes for preservation as the Amigaone 500 pretty much fulfill my day to day needs
I have a PC too but that appears to be gathering dust seemingly never to be touched again....
For portable pleasure i use a Microsoft Surface with the option to run Amiga OS4.1 FE under emulation in WinUAE, even on my travels i miss using an Amiga ;-)
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My A1200, A4000 and Falcon get fired up almost everyday, my other machines on occasions when I have time. It depends on what projects I'm using them for, but they all get used quite a lot. I enjoy comparing games on the different formats. For the machines I'm interested in but don't yet own I use the PC or a raspberry Pi to emulate them.
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Well here at work I brought my A1200 030 and my ppc tower for repair (cia).
I use it everyday for irc and gaming. Sometimes battleduel tcp with friends.
Also I join to bbs with dctelnet and controlling my headless Pi via telnet.
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I use my AROS systems everyday, and aside from having to use Windows at work it's the only system I use. Uses are for work (PageStream and FinalCalc via Janus along with Ghostscript and NoWinEd native), email (YAM), web browsing (OWB), playing music/videos (mplayer), graphics maipulation (ZuneView/ZumePaint & various 68k applications too), coding (Hollywood, quite often for work applications via a recompile for Windows) and occasionally playing games.
Oh, and currently we have an A1200 motherboard running 24/7 controlling our central heating and hot water systems, soon to be retired from that role (and possibly gaining a Vampire at some point) to be replaced by an AROS box with which to do additional home automation tasks (controlling lights etc.) and to act as a media server.
Cheers,
Nigel.
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How much do I use my 4 Amiga machines......let me see
Amiga 1200...... sat in a box for preservation purposes
Amiga CD32....... also sat in a box for preservation purposes
Amigaone500....... sat in my cupboard now I have managed to get all my software moved across to my new X5000 machine.. Am still wondering if I should sell this machine and give it to a good home..
Amigaone X5000....... I use this every day, its replaced my PC, I surf the net on it, I listen to music on it, I stream internet radio, I do emails on it, I write my blog on it too at http://www.amigax5000.wordpress.com
I play all my classic Amiga games, I run loads of great emulators such as Hatari, NeoGeoNG, Snes9x, Dgen(Megadrive) Osmose (Sega Master System) Vice (commodore 64) Fuse (spectrum) Arnold (Amstrad cpc)
I also run lots of great OS4 specific games like Open Transport Tycoon, Simultrans, Quake I, II and III, Aliens Vs Predator, Speed Dreams, Gorky 17, Swamp Defense II, Descent Freespace
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How much do I use my 4 Amiga machines......let me see
Amiga 1200...... sat in a box for preservation purposes
Amiga CD32....... also sat in a box for preservation purposes
Amigaone500....... sat in my cupboard now I have managed to get all my software moved across to my new X5000 machine.. Am still wondering if I should sell this machine and give it to a good home..
Amigaone X5000....... I use this every day,its replaced my PC, I surf the net on it, I listen to music on it, I stream internet radio, I do emails on it, I write my blog on it too at http://www.amigax5000.wordpress.com
I play all my classic Amiga games, I run loads of great emulators such as Hatari, NeoGeoNG, Snes9x, Dgen(Megadrive) Osmose (Sega Master System) Vice (commodore 64) Fuse (spectrum) Arnold (Amstrad cpc)
I also run lots of great OS4 specific games like Open Transport Tycoon, Simultrans, Quake I, II and III, Aliens Vs Predator, Speed Dreams, Gorky 17, Swamp Defense II, Descent Freespace
I also watch DVD's and clips using SMtube and Emotion Video player
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@outrun1978
also sat in a box for preservation purposes
Perserved for when, who or what reason? Either donate it to a museum, use it/show your children or nephew/niece or sell it. These machines are to be used or the capacitors/batteries go to hell anyway! What a waste. It just makes Amigas artificially rare on eBay/Amibay!
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@outrun1978
HunoPPC ported Alien vs Predator (2000) to AmigaOS! That's awesome! I loved the 2nd game but I've heard this is just as good! Great job ;-)
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@bozzerbigD
Perhaps I will hand down my A1200 to my nephew if and when the time is right in the meantime it stays boxed so the keys don't turn yellow.
I have a host of other machines too safely boxed away and now only taken out on special occasions. Ever since I got a MIST FPGA box these machines get used less as the MIST does a Stirling job in re-creation many classic systems
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@outrun1978
It's a good idea to get that nephew of yours enthused about the 'miggy.
A) We need fresh blood in this community.
B) We are the only generation standing in the way of a purely touch screen computer game generation.
I aim to get my daughter playing Aladdin and Deleuxe Pacman and maybe even Ruff N' Tumble before her 4th birthday ;-)
She's nearly there!
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Ruff N Tumble is a great game, one of my favourites.
And yes your point on it being the touchscreen generation is very much valid we do need some new blood and one of the things they could do with learning is how things work behind the scenes. One of the nice aspects of AmigaOS is that unlike other OS'es we still have to configure things in the old fashioned way compared to say Windows or Mac OS where apps now work straight away.
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Lately, bugger all.
But mostly for a nostalgia fix.
And the Amiga that sits to my right in my home office serves as a reminder of my mission.
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It's hard to get kids today interested. For a while they will play but still gravitate towards nintendo switch, X box and all the others.
As far as regular computing, they don't even do that on pcs.
I have a 1000 set up with aca 500 plus now on a crt. Still love playing F18 game.
Vampire, a few times a week with graphics and a game or two.
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Mainly used for programming in assembly language. Sometimes my Amiga is on everyday for hours, and sometimes less than once a week.
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The MiST is the system I have at my "home office" (since it is tiny), and I use it every day if I am home, as terminal client, DPaint/PPaint/Brilliance, light web browsing, scripting and lately building simple GUIs to manage my "cloud" systems (via Raspberry pi that acts as a proxy). In my TV I have plugged in Minimig and CD32/SX32, not used every day, but typically several times a week - both online via bluetooth null-modem :) For "daily" use with RTG, there is FS-UAE on my Macbook. The rest I pull out when I want to tinker or do specific tasks that they are fit for - A3000/CSPPC/CVPPC, A1200 with Blizzard 1260, another with Blizzard 1230, yet another with ACA1220, A600 w/Apollo 630, A600 w/V600, CDTV w/V500, Peg1 w/MorphOS... and whatever else I have forgotten now :)
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Hmm, it appears I'll be using my Amigas a lot more often now... I've finally resurrected my A4000D!
(Maniacal laughter)
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Not much, since my fpga system is dedicated to other uses, and my A2000 is awaiting some upgrades (but we don't need to go there again).
I wish I'd bought an A1200 when they were available and relatively cheap, but I do have a CD32 with an SX1 that acts as a substitute.
That would be my primary Amiga system, as I don't consider my MorphOS systems Amigas.
And I think I get more use out of the MorphOS hardware (even without legacy hardware compatibility), because it just plain runs SO much better.
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@Iggy
I hope the SX-1 is treating you well. Mine was a bit unstable with the addition of a 2.5" hard drive AND 8mb SIMM module. Either one or the other was fine but not both! Yes, I had a beefed up power supply, but the SX32 was a far better machine IMHO.
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@Iggy
I hope the SX-1 is treating you well. Mine was a bit unstable with the addition of a 2.5" hard drive AND 8mb SIMM module. Either one or the other was fine but not both! Yes, I had a beefed up power supply, but the SX32 was a far better machine IMHO.
Absolutely no doubt there, and the only way to upgrade the CD32's surface mounted cpu.
My SX1 has been pretty stable, but I don't have that much memory. I do have a 2.5" hard drive though.
And its fun to try to create CDs that will boot titles not native to the CD32.
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Hi:
I use my amiga 2000 everyday to listen to music mods,
I love the music very much.
Once a week I use Brilliance for painting pictures.
I love my amiga !!!
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I have been doing a landscape in Dpaint on my 1000. A very nice retro feeling, especially on a 1084 monitor.
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I barely use them at all, but just cant sell them. So far I've spend considerable time and money upgrading and fixing them to no clear purpose.
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I barely use them at all, but just cant sell them. So far I've spend considerable time and money upgrading and fixing them to no clear purpose.
ah the dilemna:hammer: but ultimately if you don't use them you'll end up selling them and make some decent money only to bloody regret it, you'll push back the regret and think about other things..for a while until you see a demo, hear a mod, check in on Amiga forums and then....you'll try to find a mint miggy the way you once had it and spend 2x the amount you sold it for to get her back:rtfm:....
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At home I have an Amiga 2000 '020 and an Amiga 1000. At the office in DC I have my SAM440ep-Flex running OS4.1FE.
I've used the Amiga 1000 to access telnet BBSs for a while,
https://youtu.be/gNZjpbByDzM
And more recently have started doing so via the WiFi232 device.
http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/05/30/the-wonderful-wifi232-bbsing-has-literally-never-been-easier/
I use the SAM a few times a week at work just browsing, playing with the OS and various apps, etc. I am considering a 1222 down the road.
bp