@redcougar
absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with you.
I do my surfing (when not at work ;-) ) on a towered A1200 with a turbo1230 lite board. yeah, its a bit cramped (only 8MB fast ram) for surfing, but if its not too graphically intensive its fine. YAM2.0 serves me for my emailing needs, IBrowse 2.3 is a vast improvement on 2.2 (and is a lot more fun to use than Internet Exploding and Nutscrape).
for my Wordpro needs, Wordworth (6 ? 7 ? cant remember - its on a CD :-) ) suits me fine. I have never got to grips with any of the Amiga Spreadsheets like I have M$ Excel, but thats one of the few M$ products that doesnt irritate the cr@p out of me.
in fact the only time I really have problems, is if my mother sends me some jpegs of my daughters that 2MB chip RAM can't handle (ie: 1600x1200).
My eldest is juuusst getting to grips with the mouse and PPaint (keeps her amused for ages!)
and since I got patience (the one with about 15 games) I have trouble turfing me missus off the damn thing !
I still enjoy games too. even occasionally buying one !
I bought Genetic Species (dont play it much - 8MB Fast Ram sometimes means AHI doesnt want to make noises) and managed to track down a copy of OnEscapee (definitely top drawer - in the mould of Flashback).
I second the 4th category - people who need detox after spending their working day on Windoze etc.
and no - linux/unix doesnt cut it either - far too slow (or rather unresponsive) even on stonking hardware.
I think MacOS (in its X incarnation) is going the same way - so for people like me, there is only one alternative that will properly satisfy - AmigaOS.
if it never materialises (although it doesnt look like going the way of the Spectrum) I will probably get a cheapo Power Mac, but its not a patch on even an old 1200 really.
