What is your flavor?

[mechy]

There are enough parts in the pipeline to fix these "OLD" amiga's for 20 more years at least. Not to mention any decent amiga user has spare parts on hand.
This is a silly myth perpetuated by people who are scared of hardware,can't read or are just plain scared of tools i suspect  

I've rebuilt about 20 machines and put them back into the world in the last 2 years myself.
Many of the problems are trivial.Some are truly dead and become parts boards.

i would say the only really hard to find part is DMAC4,and most machines run fine on Dmac2

Hi,



I use Cloanto's Amiga Forever 2011. Even though I have all my classics set up, I turn them on about once a week in order to keep the batteries charged. Other than that I use a replaceable PC to use as my Amiga.

Just remember (FRANKO) when that old silicon goes, your pal (not video) is gone. I have one dead A500 and one dead A4000 up in the attic. My original A4000 keeps on singing though.  The two dead ones I bought from ebay.

smerf

[a1200]

Classic baby! Is there anything else? ;-)

[dentunes]

Wow... poor old dentunes is the only soul left in Amigaland using Amithlon, he must be lonelier than me...

It was more of a try and click more than one and picked that one first. The old amithlon beast on the 50" Plasma TV is interesting to say the least.

It's between that and UAE. I had a pile of Amigas (A1200, A500 x 3, A600) and they simply took up too much room. I wish I didn't sell the 1200 though. Would have souped it up if I still had it.

[Amiga_Nut]

You got it right the first time...

I'd never in 25 years heard the term "Classic" being applied to the Amiga until Hyperion released OS4.0 for "Classic" Amigas...

Now that's all these forums and sites refer to the Amiga as is "Classic" they should really be just called Amigas not "real" or "classic"...

Just saying like...

Exactly, everything else are just OS4/MorphOS/AROS compatible machines not 'Amiga' which is a machine architecture and standard sold by Commodore in the mid 80s to mid 90s and then for a while by ESCOM. No Paula soundchip = not Amiga

*stirs vigorously*

[Amiga_Nut]

Hi,

I use Cloanto's Amiga Forever 2011. Even though I have all my classics set up, I turn them on about once a week in order to keep the batteries charged. Other than that I use a replaceable PC to use as my Amiga.

Just remember (FRANKO) when that old silicon goes, your pal (not video) is gone. I have one dead A500 and one dead A4000 up in the attic. My original A4000 keeps on singing though.  The two dead ones I bought from ebay.

smerf

Same here, one dead A500+ and 2x dead A2000 machines all beyond repair. If I had the money it would always be real Amiga, but without a HD for my lonely A1000 then it is not used more than WinUAE.

Anyway AROS/OS4/MOS all use UAE to play Rocket Ranger so I am just cutting out the bespoke motherboard purchase by using WinUAE

[Franko]

Anyway AROS/OS4/MOS all use UAE to play Rocket Ranger so I am just cutting out the bespoke motherboard purchase by using WinUAE

BOO... HISS... TRAITOR... :madashell:

(Sorry couldn't think of anything else to say but that... )

[Amiga_Nut]

BOO... HISS... TRAITOR... :madashell:

(Sorry couldn't think of anything else to say but that... )

I should have added .....

"...when I am actually using an emulated system because there is no Paula chip on the motherboard"



I would love to get my A2000 up and running but it's dead and don't have £100 to fix it in the time of council tax and car insurance renewal right now even if the parts do appear on e-scum-bay

[rdolores]

In order of use:

1. AROS
2. WinUAE
3. Classic
4. Amithlon

AROS is really coming along nicely, especially the Icaros distribution.  Just needs printing capability to make it really useful.