Why do you stick with the Amiga?

[vic20owner]

I'm sort of with guru-666... I was never much of a gamer. I was always interested in graphics (lightwave), telecommunications (BBS's), the internet (before it was the web... just usenet and telnet/ftp/smtp).. also did a lot of hacking with my Amiga.

So here it is 200x and the Amiga doesn't do any of these things well anymore...  well unless I want to render low color images in low resolution.

The problem is, I am emotionally attached to the computer itself.  It's lines, the click the floppy makes, etc.  I love it... but once I turn it on I find I am very disappointed with the reality of it.  It's not very useful.

8 color workbench, flickering screen, slow screen updates, and nothing really practical to do with it except watch demos and play some games.  Browsing the web is too slow to be practical (even with an 030/50 and 64mb ram), and the text editors lack too many modern features to make them useful.

So it sits in it's original box shielded from the sun so it won't turn yellow.

In a sense, my C64 is more fun because I don't expect as much from it.

So I do love my Amiga... but what to do with it?

I was thinking that maybe I could install a ton of games with WHDLoad... I thought maybe it would help me make some good use of it.

Then I tried to configure WHDLoad.  What a pain... I haven't gotten around to trying again.

So I dunno... I am considering going back to emulators.  I haven't made up my mind yet.

[vic20owner]

Agreed... poor filesystem, lack of memory protection, no virtual memory, AmigaOS is not worthy of any awards for stability...

But even after all that it's more stable than Windows ME for example, but not XP.  XP offer memory protection which in most cases prevents an app from taking down the entire OS.

This is something that never existed for the Amiga... it's really easy to guru an Amiga.

BUT... remember, at the time most people were using MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1.  

Compared MSDOS and Windows 3.1, the Amiga was incredible.

I'll probably end up keeping my Amiga... why.. I dunno... maybe to save it from the junk yard.

[vic20owner]

If the operating system is smart enough to detect the monitor then you don't really need "Test" or "Use" buttons in most cases... you just change the setting and keep it if you like it.