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Re: How many are Amiga only?
« on: February 12, 2003, 09:26:43 PM »
For a long time I was Amiga only. Then a few years ago a friend of mine got sick of his PC and gave it to me, and I toyed with it a bit, but didn't actually use it much. Now I have 2 PCs, an Athlon XP 1800 and 2100+. One replaced my somewhat newer-ish K6-2+ 450, and the other is doing Tivo-like work next to my TV. The replacement was mostly used to get to websites that IBrowse 2.2 choked on, such as my bank account info and such, as well as the occasional round of HalfLife or something like that which isn't yet ported to Amiga. Eventually one of my older and currently unused PCs will become a linux firewall to my cablemodem, as I'm not going to spend the kind of money on an AmigaOne to do that work, when I have an old K6-2 laying around already paid for.

But now that IBrowse 2.3 came out, it gets me to all of the previously broken sites, the ones I've tried so far anyway, and have been using the PC less and less again, to the point that both PCs are now primarily cracking RC5 keys, and somewhat used for OpenOffice. (Still need to figure out how to give my credits to the Amiga RC5 team...) If OpenOffice gets ported to Amiga, then I won't have much real use for the PCs anymore, other than the Tivo-ish stuff, as I haven't been into games much lately and will need to catch up on all the PPC Amiga games I've already bought but never had a PPC card to run - Wipeout 2097, Heretic 2, Quake2, Nightlong PPC, Freespace, with my 060/66 not being enough to play the 68K versions of a couple of these well. I started buying PPC software back when the Metabox Amijoe 4000 was "coming soon". Man, I'm going to enjoy my new hardware!
Bill T
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