It's been a long time

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If you don't want to spend much then AROS might be your best option. Its free/open source and will run nicely on even an old dumped PC. Or alternatively an 'el cheapo new PC. For just a few hundred dollars you can pick up a system 10 times as powerful as the 10x more expensive x5000. Cinnamon Writer is available as are PDF viewers. Additionally it has the best browser for Amiga-oid systems which will give you access to the world of online apps (based on WebKit).

Second to that a Raspberry Pi, as you mentioned, has a few Amiga based distros. I have an rpi3 running Amibian and it does a good job of pretending to be an Amiga.

MorphOS, as mentioned is also somewhat affordable and will run on old ppc Macs.

While my personal preference is AROS, by the sounds of things an RPI and Amibian might be the option for you. AROS and MorphOS are very AmigaOS like, but Amibian can run any version of AmigaOS from 1.x through 3.x and is compatible with all Amiga software, and emulates all types of classic Amiga hardware.

There's versions of UAE for AROS and MorphOS, but Amibian does a nice job of hiding the fact its using an emulator.

In regards to word processing I'd recommend something like Final Writer or Wordsworth over WP4.1.

As for PDF viewers for classic Amigas, yes there's APDF, but it uses mui, ergo OS3.x is required. PDF files have higher requirements than a basic Amiga can handle as well.

[fishy_fiz]

Spend the money and get a NEW X5000. (with usb, ethernet, sata)

No bad caps, no shot power supplies, 20 to 30 year old problems!!!

Also about 15 times as much money as he said he wants to spend.

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One other piece of advice, and this may be clear already..... take most advice with a grain of salt.
Take the neutral information and use it for research, but be aware a lot of people will go into "recruitment mode" whenever a new (or returning) person arrives on the scene, disregarding what someone says their interests/needs are and instead trying to sell them on their preference (like the fact you've said a few times that you don't want to spend a lot yet people are still trying to sell you on systems costing thousands of dollars.

[fishy_fiz]

There's affordable options though. Some very expensive ones, but its more than possible to join the frey on a budget.

[fishy_fiz]

That's absolute complete and utter nonsense.
I've had AROS running on systems from amd k62's, to pentium3s, athlonxp's, athlon64, athlon64x2, Intel atoms, Intel core2duo, and phenom2, Intel i5s, and now Intel i7.
The i5 system cost me $100aud.

Additionally the hilarious justification that "the original amigas cost just as much new" is nothing more than delusional self justification. Back then ram was very expensive, so were hard drives, so were monitors, etc, etc.
The pricing benchmark has changed. These days you can pick up a machine 10x as powerful as an x5000 for 1/10th of the price.

Nice bit of creative writing there, but seriously why bother? Both you and others know its mostly crap. Never understood why people make up things when they must know others know the truth.
Is it self justification?

[fishy_fiz]

I'm not sure you understand the word "Ironic".  

Anyway, let it go. We've both said our bit. No need to derail the thread.

[fishy_fiz]

OK, clearly you don't understand the definition of "ironic". No harm in that, but perhaps stop using words if you're going to misuse them?

Also, I'm not particularly defending anything but the truth. Your post is so full on nonsense that I decided to comment.

And yes, its entirely possible to spend under $200. There's multiple options.

Seriously though, let it go. No-one is interested in reading arguments.

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@iggy
$50 for i5-760 CPU. $50 for a decent h55 MSI motherboard. Hardly a pos. Performs nicely. USB3, PCI express 3.0. Decent little micro atx machine.

Y'all might want to reel in the paranoia too. I was trying to offer the OP advice based on *his* wants. If you'd bothered to read what I wrote rather than jumping to raise your (irrelevant in the context of this thread) flag you'd have seen I even said that an RPI+amibian might be his best option for what he wants "despite AROS being my preference".
And yes SACC-Guy, my facts are correct. You claimed AROS needs an expensive Intel system to run properly, which is complete crap.

I couldn't care less if people want an X5000 or not. There were no "potshots", I simply tried to respond IN THE CONTEXT OF THE THREAD rather than trying to sell him on something he said multiple times he wasn't interested in.

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Haha,.... come on bloke, talk about transparent.  
Not sure me laughing my ass off was the reaction you was trying to stir in me though

And here's my equally silly response designed to trigger a reaction (well, if I was serious anyway)....

Hey, if you're happy with archaic performance and a 20year old graphics subsystem that's so obsolete it doesn't even have features introduced in the 90's (pixel shaders), a limit of 2gig ram (my last win98 machine had the same amount) and a CPU arch that hasn't really advanced in 15 years then I'm happy for you.

Personally I'd rather use the more advanced in every way Win9x.