what to do with my old a600

[Elspuddy]

'm in some minds on this one, do i just recorde some demos and put them on youtube or do i get some new workbench disk's for it and install this 30 gig laptop hard drive and install a cd rom and get os 3.9 on there.
or do i get an a1200 from e-bay and do the same thing to it
could i get this a600 on the net and let my sisters kids use it for a little web surfing ?

[amigadave]

Web surfing on an unaccellerated Amiga is going to be very frustrating if you can get it set up at all.  I would trade up to an A1200 and get the fastest accellerator you can afford, if that is what you want to do with an Amiga.  Probably better to just let the kids play games on that A600.

[Damion]

For old games and demos, the A600 is great. You *can* surf the web on it, but that would require lots of time and effort to set up, not to mention $$$ for a CPU/RAM expansion. Same goes for 3.9. (I'd stick with a maximum of 3.1 on a stock A600.)

The A1200 does everything the A600 will do, plus it has AGA... and CPU expansions are easier to find and less expensive.

[amigakid]

Id let the kids play games on the A600 and pick up an A1200 on EBAY, expand the crud outta it and use it for web browsing and such.  Have fun

[koaftder]

I'd get the kids a PC to surf the web and play some stupid games. Kids these days would hate the amiga for games. These be different times old man. My girlfriends little 9 year old brother got his hands on a super nintendo last month. He was complaining about how bad the games are on that platform. He described it as a system from wayyy back in the day. Made me feel like a geezer, and i'm a few years from 30, and my child hood consisted of me feeling cooler than my friends piddling around with SMB1 while i played games like defender of the crown, sinbad and the throne of the falcon and faery tale adventures on the a1000 while my friends were subjected to the  NES.

[Matt_H]

The only advantage the 600 has over the 1200 is that it's tiny. That's a novelty factor for many users (including me), but if you really want a productive machine that can actually do more than play old games without a monumental effort, get a 1200.

[guru-666]

web surfing on the amiga is gerneral VERY bad. (even with a ppc)
That would be one way to turn the kids off to the amiga.  I say just get some old games and play them.  DOn;t mess with the HD or anything.  If you want to trick out on for youself get a 1200.

[Damion]

What guru-666 is saying is very true... browsing on an Amiga is nothing short of horrific, a $5 Pentium 3 would be a better choice.

Koafter wrote:

I'd get the kids a PC to surf the web and play some stupid games. Kids these days would hate the amiga for games. These be different times old man. My girlfriends little 9 year old brother got his hands on a super nintendo last month. He was complaining about how bad the games are on that platform. He described it as a system from wayyy back in the day. Made me feel like a geezer, and i'm a few years from 30, and my child hood consisted of me feeling cooler than my friends piddling around with SMB1 while i played games like defender of the crown, sinbad and the throne of the falcon and faery tale adventures on the a1000 while my friends were subjected to the NES.

Yeah, 5-year olds LOVE those old systems, though. One of my little guys will let the PS2 sit to play Super Mario 3 on the NES. Makes me wish I hadn't dumped my TG-16 and TurboDuo years ago... the kiddies would have loved Bonk's.