How much and how do you use your Amiga

[outrun1978]

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 ;-)

[outrun1978]

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

[outrun1978]

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

[outrun1978]

@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

[outrun1978]

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.