Best things about owning an amiga?

[JimS]

I always thought back in the day, that the Amiga let you do stuff that didn't look like it was done on a computer. You could do music, graphics, animation, and publishing on the old 8-bit machines - I did a bit of that myself... but for the most part this was just novelty stuff. The Atari user group newsletter I did on the Atari 800 being the one exception.
When the Amiga came out, you could do stuff for it's own sake not just for the sake of doing it with that expensive computer. There was good software aimed at the non-professional users. The EA "Deluxe" stuff, Sonix, Pagestream all were easier to use than their PC counterparts. The multitasking Amiga OS made it easy to use them all at once.

Now, not so much other than bragging rights about being able to do all this way back in 1987 with the same hardware. ;-)

[JimS]

Gotta disagree with you on that point, everything computing wise I do other than the internet is still done on the Amiga and always has been for 25 years solid...

Well you can, sure. But my 5 dollar Compaq Athlon can pretend to be my old Amiga and run all that software as well as do the internet. ;-)

[JimS]

Ahh but... as you say it's just "pretending" to be a miggie, that can't even come close to the years of frustration & fun and poking about inside the real thing trying to get bits n bobs to work...

I dunno.... one of the really cool things about the original Amiga was that you *didn't* have to do a lot of fiddly bits under the hood (bonnet), compared to the peecee. At least until UAE came along. ;-)

And as for the internet I wouldn't tarnish me miggies with that nonsense, what would they think if they saw the rubbish I post on here, they'd have a hairy fit and probably self destruct in cloud of purple smoke (mind you that would give me something to tinker with)...

Can't argue with that. ;-) I had my A2000 on the web way back in the early days of surfing... it may have forgiven me by now. ;-D

[JimS]

Hi,

Agree with you on this point, but it still has some glitches like while it is playing music, the music will shut off while loading a picture off an Aminet disk. The original Amiga never misses a heart beat.
smerf

Ahh... Can't say I ever tried that. It amazes me that UAE works at all. ;-) It was a hoot to run Deluxe Music and use the MIDI synth in my cheapo PC as an instrument. Pity DMCS was never upgraded to handle the newer midi files..