Do Amiga Users Still Use There Classic Amiga's On The Net?

[Ruud]

I no longer have a classic that's really up to browsing. OWB on os4.1 is what I use most. Otherwise I use Firefox on xp/vista/linux depending where I am. My old A1200 does sometimes go online but only for Aminet via ftp.

[drHirudo]

I used my A4000 on the web for Browsing, IRC, e-mail, FTP via model till early 2005, with no graphics browsing, but then I bought A1 and browse only from there. The A4000 does not even have Ethernet and the boards are expensive. For modem connections I have 2 Dial-Up modems - one 33.6K and one 56K, but I cut my fixed phone line so it is not an option even if I wanted to surf from classic Amiga. So I don't surf from classic Amiga anymore. Only from AmigaOne. When some site is not opened on IBrowse, I simply switch to OWB and recently I found myself using OWB more than IBrowse. Once OWB gets download of files support, I will switch entirely to OWB.

[JLF65]

Back when I used my Amiga all the time, I actually used Netscape inside FUSION to surf the net and get email. It was much better than any Amiga browser, and FUSION allowed easy switching between the Amiga and Mac sides. With the special interface in FUSION, I had a Netscape icon on WB that launched Netscape in FUSION, then switched to the Mac screen. Simple.

[darksun9210]

fusion.. hmmm... i'd forgotten about that... now where's my MacOS8.1 disk gone? ... :-)

oh, i've got a MacOS9.1 CD... anyone had any luck with the PPC version of Fusion? :-?

[odin]

From what I recall FusionPPC was an unfinished, buggy, horrid mess.

[JLF65]

odin wrote:
From what I recall FusionPPC was an unfinished, buggy, horrid mess.

The things it ran did so rather well. For the time, it was pretty nice. These days, it would be better to make an Amiga version of one of the open source PowerMac emulations, like SheepShaver or Mac-on-Linux. M-O-L can run OSX (up to 10.4) these days. The main issue is again speed and memory. Amiga PPC accelerators were slow with small amounts of memory (by OSX standards). OSX 10.3 runs like a dog on a 400 MHz G3 with 128 MB of RAM, but Amiga PPCs will generally be far slower and might have that much RAM. OSX is much happier with 256 or 512 MB. Finally, only WarpOS supported the low-level features needed to run a Mac environment. PowerUP doesn't cut it. No idea on if MorphOS can handle it or not.