You & Amiga in a year

[justthatgood]

I forsee nothing...

I had to sell most of my Amiga stuff. I only have two Amiga's left. I can't afford to get any new hardware or updates for them. My main x86 computer is basically on it last legs. It barely runs properly, the power supply is about shot. I think the motherboard is failing, I basically can't afford to replace any of it, so that kinda shoots the possibility of using Amiga emulators.

Unfortunately most of my time is spent trying to get to get ahold of a second job so I would be able get back into the hobby (as all I do in life is wake up, work, pay bills, and sometimes get to our library on the way back from work.) Kinda rough when even McDonalds won't hire you because they have 500 other applications they can pick through.

Maybe if I was able to get ahold of an accelerator and another video card I might play with my stuff. But until then I'm going to spend my time trying to get a measly job scrubbing toilets after overly obese people at a taco or burger shack for $7.25/hour (min wage).

[justthatgood]

Amigas are computers to play on.  It's the only type of computer in the old computer realm that's really worth messing with for anyone who likes old computers, or is obsessed with them.  Are you supposed to have fun with a PC from 1989?  I don't think it's possible.

That is obviously your opinion. True you really can't do many of the really fun things on a 286/386 that you can do with the newer systems, but there are some people that do weird things with them. Fun is such a subjective word.

 I kinda enjoy playing with my Apple IIGS. That was made in 1986, three years before that x86 system you are mentioning. Hell, I even know people that delight in coming up with interesting ways to make the S100 Bus part of their daily lives.

You may have fun playing games on your Amiga 500, some people might enjoy engineering controller cards for their Altairs to shoot lasers.