Question to all Amiga owners

[klx300r]

@ erol

Send a ticket request to amigakits website and I they don't respond in a timely fashion then send an email to a-eon on their website

[klx300r]

@ ultri007

Your comments are true; however, the usual suspects here have quieted down quite a bit lately:)

[klx300r]

@smerf

no personal attacks or trolling, please. this is the only warning i'm giving to any posters in this thread. after this it will be moderated posts and/or posting restrictions.

keep it friendly.

-- eliyahu

ah now I see why the usual suspects haven't been trashing OS4.x threads lately:cool:

@ NovaCoder

I love whats happening in both the classic and NG scenes over the past few years as I have my Amiga 1000, 1200 and AmigaOne X1000 getting constant updates and new stuff to try out on a monthly (sometimes weekly) basis:biglaugh:

@ erol

I've had a Samflex@800 before getting my X1000 and can tell you that my old Samflex struggled while running more intense AGA games or rendering scenes in either Blender or Lightwave so if you want to go for a Sam I'd get the Sam460 /AmigaOne 500 as many users have noted a significant speed increase over the Samflex models.

[klx300r]

@ utri007

No worries about e-uae on even the 440ep soon as Ranji is moving along quite nicely with JIT for UAE which should be a definite boost for all machines but especially the low end ones.

@ eliyahu

i wish you were a mod here alot sooner as I've noticed alot less 'noise' in threads like this :-)

[klx300r]

Hi,

When you get your USB card for the Amiga 1200, please do this, read the instructions, then wait 15 minutes, read the instructions again, then look closely at your Amiga 1200, then read the instructions again, and then when you think you know what you are doing read the instructions line by line as you do them...

smerf

great advice as I've heard from more than one amigan about frying their clock ports when installing their Subway USB's incorrectly.

[klx300r]

@ smerf

I'm really enjoying my X1000 because Update 6 is much more stable now then when I originally bought OS4.1 with my old Samflex a few years back.  My main browser at home is Timberwolf on my X1000 and I run all the Firefox add-ons I use on my notebook with no problems since the last update.  Youtube videos via HTML5 play but slowly right now as we are waiting for 3d drivers.  The upside of the X1000 for me is seeing the development first hand and looking forward to dual core support in AmigaOS:)

for wordprocessing I use AbiWord and for spreadhseets I use GNumeric udner AmiCygnix which is working amazing in a window screen under OS4.1 update 6.  These are very modern style office productivity software and are constantly updated (thanks Edgar).
For games I play all all my favourite classic 68k games seamlessly under glUAE and/or RuninUAE (double click icon and play) though I must admit I use my A1000 & A1200 to play my 68 k favourites and save my X1000 for  new modern games suhc as those offered by AmiBoing, BOH, KOG, Huno's great games or various ports from the linux world. For graphics/drawing I use either SketchBlock or Gimp.

For 3d modeling Blender works just great (thanks Andy) & even with 1 core working now it's very snappy in layout mode and rendering times are alot faster than my old Samflex (currently I'm running it with Wazp3d while waiting for a full warp3d driver to arrive).  Many X1000 owners have got Lightwave v5 working fine natively on OS4 as well, there's a great youtube video by mbrantley showing it in action.

I also dual boot with Linux Debian and it runs quite nicely with all the available Linux apps working great. It's funny that I got my first taste of Linux ever on my old Samflex & now X1000 and although it has everything a new pc has under linux I still can't get myself to stay using Linux for too long as it just feels alien to me.

messing with music I use Audio Evolution, HD-Rec& TuneNet is always on in the background.


on the classic side I'm most excited about building my new GBA1000 and place it next to my original A1000 as I love soldering/hacking hardware :-)