what kind of specs would I need to use my amiga everyday

[stefcep2]

For it to be somewhat enjoyable i think you would need a 68030 accelerator with 8-16 meg ram.  A high speed serial port or pcmcia network card is all but necessary for reasonable net speed.  

Software-wise AmigaOS 3.1 is good enough, you can get virtually all of the functionality that you get in AmigaOS 3.9.  Amiga browsers don't support all web page features but Ibrowse 2.4 is the best, but you can't buy this (see separate thread), so get AWeb which is for free.  You'll need a TCP stack as well such as Miami or genesis.  You get genesis with AmigaOS3.9, not sure about Miami.  Amigawriter has limited Word support but there are utilities on Aminet that can read word documents, and convert them to text, which you can the import into other word processors such as Wordworth or Final Writer.

[stefcep2]

meega wrote:

Marcb wrote:
Jeez you guys are harsh, funny though.

I actually tried web browsing when I first resurrected the A1200 with a dkb cobra accelerator late last year, it was miserably slow and just stopped dead ( using Mosaic I think).
Funny thing is that I remember web browsing with it years ago, web sites must have been simpler back then..

Take a look-see. Don't forget your rose-tinted specs. ;-)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.amiga.org/

I'd thought I'd try browsing some web pages on my A1200 68040 @40 mhz , but by reading web pages off a Cu Amiga cover CD because I can't be bothered getting it online but also to see how quickly old pages were decoded.  As a bonus it would show how it might perform on a high-speed connection.  I configured the browser to show image maps only and to use external viewers if I wanted to see the images, opening up on a separate screen. I used PAl overscan hires in 64 colors with ftext and fblit to help screen redraw speeds.  Pages reading off the 8x Cdrom were rendered very quickly, not as fast as a PC would, but quite acceptable.  If I configured to display images in within web pages, things slowed down a bit, but still OK.  I then did the same on my 68060 A4000 on a CGX screen, web browsing off the cd was every bit as fast the PC.  

I used my A4000 as my only machine up until 18 months ago, and i thought I'd get it online again.

Firstly, email using YAM was faster then outlook:  outlook seems to take longer establishing the connection to the server, and working out whats on it, before it decides to download the messages.  Web browsing speeds were ok if simple pages were being viewed: anything with complicated javascipt and layout took MUCH longer with lots of errors.  text was however nearly always rendered.  Other problems are that some sites insist you have a PC browser, flash animations really bog things down with errors, (having said that I don't use flash on my pc either) and some banking sites wouldn't let me in.

Not sure if this helps..