The classic Amiga personality when I boot it up is: Lets do something fun and creative. I can't say the same for my laptop. I can easily be distracted by an email, even if I am having some fun and mostly what I do is business. It's stimulating, yes, but not pure fun in any sense. My classic Amigas are sheer joy and fun. I wouldn't never contaminate them with the distractions of web browsing and email. That's business. I turn my Amiga's on to do some art and have some fun.
That's it in a nutshell! "Let's do something fun and creative". I started looking into classic 8 bit computers last year after a report on BBC Click some time before. Later still, I realised I could hardly remember what I did on Amigas over a period of about 10.5 years, so that meant I had to buy one to undo the brainwashing. I soon bought a copy of Deluxe Paint III and started creating some computer graphics again, which I'd hardly done since buying a PC. I started with Photon Paint, which was included with my first Amiga, though. I thought that I needed to persevere to get the hang of Windoze or Linux graphics software, but I was wrong. It seems that no Windoze or even Linux graphics software works much like or as well as Deluxe Paint or Photon Paint. People talk a lot about Photoshop, but it seems hardly anyone knows how to use it. Just the name should tell you that it's for photo editing, not creating your own graphics. I think the GIMP is just as difficult and user unfriendly. I've used Paint Shop Pro, but didn't work with it for long.
I hope to move on to creating something else on the Amiga apart from just graphics in the near future.
As for the faulty components mentioned in this thread, my newly purchased GVP Impact Series II HD8+ stopped working after 5 days. I suspect the hard drive itself isn't the problem. Please check my thread about this and make any suggestions about what you think may have caused this. To sum up, the HDD still spins, the drive read light still lights up, the extra RAM is still detected, but the GVP installation software says it's a Quantum HDD of 0Mb capacity.
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64684
