@JoannaK
I agree - the ROMS alone are make it worth picking up Amiga Forever.
@Paul_Gadd
I've not run into that mentality *yet*, I'm nearly half hoping that I do. Anything that enables old and new members to join the Amiga Community is a Good Thing in my opinion.
I've not played with Amithlon (yet) but I've been reading up on it and I'm more than a little interested in buying a copy. If you could pass on any experiences, good and bad, you've had with it I'd be grateful.
@arkanoid
Play around and enjoy yourself - you'll be pretty suprised by the quality and usability of the emulation.
I've had UAE sitting on my Linux machine for quite a while -- usually for playing around with old games when the mood took me.
But it was only recently that I REALLY started playing around with it for more serious projects.
When I went over the costs of building a professional edit suite with my wife, her ultimatum was that I upgrade her computer before I started on such a costly project. To cut a long story short I gave her MY PC and set it up for her needs and took her old 'clunker'..
Unfortunately for me, running KDE on her machine was a disaster... anyone remember running GEOS on the 64? it brought back memories. So I swapped and changed Xwindow managers - searched for 'lean' software -- but nothing gave me a great solution.
Long story short - AmiWM gives Linux a general look of my old Amiga 2000 (but lacks a lot of the usability), for kicks I thought it would be funny to run UAE on it. The suprising thing was that it ran pretty pretty fast - on par with with my unladen Xwindows, and had more features.
So now instead of booting into XWindows - I boot into UAE and run my Amiga emulation as my desktop.
A bit of digging and DMSing of old software and a trip to Aminet gave me all the desktop software I need to get by AND play all the old games I still love.
I've since completed my edit system - but even though it has 'grunt' to spare - I only use it for editing (and one or two desktop apps). I still use 'the clunker' as my main 'desktop' computer. If not for UAE I probably wouldn't have returned to any semblance of an Amiga. Now I look forward to seeing what is developed in the future.
Play around with and enjoy yourself - if anyone gives you any greif over it, just ignore them.
After all - it's only 1's and 0's.
Siggy.
