What do you use your amiga for?

[steve30]

I mostly use my A500+ for games. I sometimes use it for drawings on DPaintIII.

I hope to make a switch to amiga one day. Windows get too annoying.

[leirbag28]

@Trezzer

 Thanks to your post, I just discovered a whole host of Apllications I never knew about or wanted!!!  Thanks:

These are them:

1. TuiTED
2. UADE
3. Sid4Amiga
4. HD-Rec
5. Horny
6. NewsCoaster
7. BitlBee  (This sounds like a cool thing)
8. TView
9. BeatsOfRage

already downloaded a few :-)


By the way..can someone do a Precise Tutorial on how exactly to get SCUMMVM running on an AMiga 68030?   In English?

[drHirudo]

by mr_a500 on 2005/12/9 4:18:40

Mac/Atari emulation

Are you using Medusa or Chameleon for the Atari emulation?

Or probably AmTari or ST4Amiga?

[mpiva]

   I use my Amiga4000T-060 mainly for writing my science-fiction novel (with FinalWriter 97).  However, I usually have "Radio Rivendale" or "Streaming Soundtracks" or my MP3 collection of every Loreena McKennitt song playing in the background with AmiNetRadio.  Similarly I use my Amiga for most things related to my book and as it's a sci-fi, that includes:
* drawing up tech schematics in PPaint
* playing with ship and station designs in Imagine or LightWave
* doing complex calculations in TurboCalc or MapleV (or both via ARexx)
* Maintaining a database of my characters in SuperBase4 Pro
* generating planetary maps with "Planet"
* generating solar systems with "StarGen"
* and doing research on the Internet with IBrowse

   For some reason, I find myself to be more inspired when I'm working on the Amiga.  Don't know why.  I'm sure it's purely psychological but it works so I'm not going to change it.  I've written 125,000 words in this book so far and only have a chapter and a half left (mind you, it's a trilogy so I still have a ways to go).  If it ever gets published I'll be sure to let everyone here know.

  I must confess, though, I do use a PC for some things pertaining to my book.  Every time I finish a chapter, I email it to my work in RTF so that I can do quick edits in Word during my coffee and lunch breaks.  I also use Celestia on my PC at home to simulate my universe in full 3D... nice... but I wish someone could port it to the Amiga so I could use it there. ;-)

[mr_a500]

Are you using Medusa or Chameleon for the Atari emulation?

Or probably AmTari or ST4Amiga?

No, I'm not emulating ST - I'm talking about Atari 800 emulation with ACE (for Montezuma's Revenge, Robotron, Defender, etc.).

I tried Chameleon once, but couldn't find any disk images and quickly gave up. I never actually saw an Atari ST (not big in Canada), so it has no "nostalgia factor" for me anyway.

[JLF65]

mr_a500 wrote:
No, I'm not emulating ST - I'm talking about Atari 800 emulation with ACE (for Montezuma's Revenge, Robotron, Defender, etc.).

Someone is still using ACE for Atari 400/800 emulation?? Holy Cow!  :-o

I'll have to update that one of these days. :-)  There are quite a few changes I could make now that would make it much better.

[mr_a500]

Is that you Joe? Holy {bleep}! You're my hero! (not being sarcastic here :-D )

I tried for years to get a good working Atari 800 emulator on my Amiga and your awesome ACE was the only way to do it. I was obsessed with Montezuma's Revenge (Monty 16K) since 1984 and it runs beautifully on ACE.

I wish you would update it!!! I'd love to see Blue Max and Rescue on Fractalus working! (no Amiga versions of these games)

I'd be thrilled with even a minor fix like the palette (background should be 1,4,8 foreground 7,10,13).

Thanks for ACE!!! 8-)

[DaBest]

Not using it right now until I can get it working for the internet. Does not seem to want to work. I have an X-SurfII and running Genisis but it will not connect going through a router.

But I show it off alot at friends that say what the heck is this and I tell them "This was YOUR future and they screwed it up big time"

[Dr_Righteous]

You know, I just made a rather strange observation... I really don't use my Amigas for much at all. I tinker with the innards now and then, try to upgrade them a little... But I don't actually use them for anything. Hell the only reason I own them at all is because I liked using them back in the 90's when I worked at a public access TV station... And I don't even own a toaster card.

All I can say is I love em, and I want to see more and more hardware for them. Maybe I'm just nuts!

[gdanko]

x56h34 wrote:
I work at the Toronto international airport control tower and we use Amigas basically for everything that involves getting the planes safely up or down. Frankly speaking, I don't think that PCs would ever be up for such a responsible and demanding job. They have been running reliably for the past 20 years since we originally implemented the "Amiga in the workplace" solution.

We are still using mostly Amiga 2000 units with 2.0 roms and are hoping to upgrade to 3.1 roms/OS3.9 some day, however our development department is still reluctant to recommend and push a safe migration, as software compatibility might pose a problem. After all, it is an airport and all systems must be 100% funtional, all the time.

We are constantly upgrading the workplace with new units, and for parts and systems we mostly go to eBay.

It's a wonderful place to work at! I wouldn't trade my job for anything in the world.

That is awesome!

[mr_a500]

No, it's not. Read the whole thread.

His arse somehow learned to type and presumably when he turned his back to have tea and crumpets or something, his arse quickly typed in this load of bollocks.

[nasty]

@Dr_Righteous

Looks like i've joined your club :-) But once I get my amiga running fine I'll start to learn as much as I can about what this machine can fully do (well try to learn)

[luis_pt]

i have a commodore amiga 500, and use it only for the games! i realy like those old games!!

[jahc]

I use my AmigaOne for:

 chatting on IRC (WookieChat),
MSN (Jabberwocky),
email (SimpleMail),
browsing the web (IBrowse/AWeb),
viewing certain video clips (MPlayer/DVPlayer),
scaling digital camera pictures (fxpaint),
maintaining my crap website (CubicIDE),
working out budgets (Turbocalc),
playing emulated games (arcade and c64 mostly),
a bit of programming (CubicIDE again)
listening to music all day (SimplePlay),
burning cd's and dvd's (Frying Pan),
encoding music cd's, (LAME + TheMPegEncGUI),
and I'm starting to get into making music (HD-REC and RockBEAT)..

other utilies worth a mention.. Thumb + Picshow for picture viewing, Twin + TwinGUI for VNC, ftpd for transferring files over the local network, SMBFS for file sharing, SGrab for screenshots, etc. (I've probably missed a few)

I'm waiting for my new sound card to arrive so I can record my guitar better.

[Techx]

For now I'm using it only for nostalgia I just got a scandoubler last week so I want to delve into all my old music/photos/text and especially games!!! The sad sad thing is that I've kept hundreds of my old amiga floppies in an UN-temperature controlled storage for years. All that hot/cold/hot/cold must have killed those poor disks, I fear they are lost forever RIP you guys

[nisios]

What system do you advise me to buy ...to make music?