@Gwion
I am amazed that in this day, you being as young as you are, desire to use an Amiga.......it shows you have a cool factor built into you..............because Amiga's are Very very Cool.
I can help you alot to find uses for your A600..it was my main machine for a long time and I used it recently to perform at shows.
PMail me and I will give you many more ideas.
For one......get yourself a DSS8+ package..........there is one on eBay right now (thats Digital Sound Studio 8+)
and get yourself a 512mb or 1GB Compact Flash card with PCMCIA adaptor so you can copy files to a PC or Mac very easily.
What you will be able to do is............record yourself into the Amiga extremely easy and in a fun way..........and produce your very own Pod Castings! you can upload them to the internet through the PC. Its very very easy! You can record a long time with 2MB if you lower the sample rate...........even if your memeory gets full...........save that recording onto the Compact Flash card............and then erase it from A600's Memory.....and continue recording..............Get both versions of the DSS software.the older version is more fun to use, but the 3.0 version lets you convert the files to WAV super duper easily so they can work on a PC...........from the PC you save them as MP3.
thats one use.
Another use is that you can record multiple drum beats and sound samples...and basically DJ with your A600 if you hook it up to a mixer and Stereo. You can also add effects such as Echo in realtime as you talk through your DSS sampler.
Another use is you can make Crank calls to your friends on the phone..and have the Amiga's voice talk to them using the SAY program in the Utilities drawer................its fun. Get a program on Aminet called Say2Sample, which saves the SAY sentences into 8svx/IFF samples.....you can then load 31 of those speaches from your Amigas voice and execute them at will! so preplan what your friend will ask on the phone and have responses ready! he will ask questions such as: Who is this? and you can say.......fill in the blank..................
I once used my Amiga 600 at a Play, where I executed the required sound effects that was needed in the story in front of a Studio audience. effects such as Wind blowing........the sound of a cell phone ringing, Lighting and thunder, a door closing...........background music or theme music..............it was great fun! this was on a plain A600 with 2mb only and a harddrive.
I painted it black and added a little Sony Playstation LCD screen...............
If you want to see it, click on my name here on Amiga.org and look at my photo album!
the A600 has hundreds of simple cool uses.
I have alot of programs I can recommend...............PMAIL me.
