What are type of amiga do u have, and what do u use it for?

[Samuar]

I'm writing a paper of the use of different system architectures: I'm interested to know what systems (& specs) you guys/gals have, and what role it plays in your household/business/network.

Thank you for your time and effort - to all those who post.

Samuar


PS// Preferrably Amigas only

[downix]

I have:

Amiga 1000 -- I don't use this one much, as it is one of the first few built and I don't want to damage it.  When I do use it, I normally use it for some demos to impress friends.

Pegasos -- My primary machine.  Use it for everything but a handful of games and my HDL work.  It comes with:
Voodoo3 3000
TV card, used to record my shows
G3-600, all I need for a CPU

[redrumloa]

PS// Preferrably Amigas only

Do clones/alternatives count or are you sticking with Commodore produced hard/stoft-ware? I have a Pegasos G3-600, 256Meg, 40Gig HD, CD, Catweasel yadda yadda yadda that I use for general computing, web surfing, IRC, games ETC.

[dslcc]

I have an A3000D 040/25 that I use from time to time around the shop.
My main machine though has become the Pegasos G3-600 which is becoming
a fantastic machine for everyday use.

:-)

[takemehomegrandma]

Once I had an A500, but now I have an A1200 with some add-ons. I don't use it anymore though, it's in a closet.

I also have a Pegasos, which is my primary "Amiga" these days. I use it for pretty much everything I used my old Amigas for, and more! :-)

[amigamad]

I have to many amigas to list them all so ill just list some .
1, a1200 tower with ppc and graphics card and cd writer was used for games and even net browsing when i first had dial up internet and printing of pictures from my digital camera needs bufered ide interface repairing or replacing.

2,commodore cdtv used for older a500 games and i use it as my audio cd player it can be used with my mas player hardware mp3 decoder.


3.a1000 not used bought it as collectors item .

4,a4000 tower genuine bought needing repair will get fixed soon

5.a4000 desktop motherboard plus cyberstorm 060 plus keyboard and case bought fom difrent people on ebay and amibench still waiting for some of these items will be used for games art and graphics.about 5 machines worth of bits from 5 difrent people all to be built back as one machine .

6.amigaone g4 xe running debian linux untill os 4 comes out  at the moment it will just be something to mess around with till i get os 4.

ill stop here or i will be here hours.
 :-)

[thorrin]

I can tell you what I USED to use it for before my motherboard died a year and a half ago:

My setup was:

Amiga 4K, 128 Megs of RAM
PPC processor with extra 060/50
Prelude Sound Card (I think I found the LAST one in the free world)
Cybergraphix video card
Some ethernet card...

I used it to record CDs (I DJ a bit).  The prelude had EXCELLENT sound quality with a lot of inputs.  I was planning to get into song production, but for some reason Prostation Audio would NOT work properly with my soundcard and AHI.  

It sat on my network with 2 PCs and a Sega Dreamcast.  I used the amiga as my main machine.  I used the windows machines for stuff like... pages that Ibrowse wouldn't load correctly.  I also used the PC for a few apps like Money.

I used the dreamcast for games.  At that time, it was ALL Phantasy Star Online  :-)

All machines were networked and could access each other's hard drives and they shared one printer.
T'was a nice setup, but alas...



-Thorrin

[Erwin-K]

At home I have an A3000D with Spectrum & X-Serf. Currently needs work so I use a Suse Linux box ATM.

At work I have a 1987 A2000 w/ 060, ethernet, Catewasel & Video Toaster; an A4000D with Toaster & ethernet; a spare A2000 040 with Toaster & Ami-Link video editor; & an A4000T PPC/060 with Toaster & Flyer for non-linier editing, plus Catweasel & ethernet.

[SilvrDrgn]

Samuar wrote:
I'm writing a paper of the use of different system architectures: I'm interested to know what systems (& specs) you guys/gals have, and what role it plays in your household/business/network.
Thank you for your time and effort - to all those who post.
Samuar
PS// Preferrably Amigas only

I use my A4000T as my web server and I read Email on it.  Do some web surfing from time to time on there as well.  My A500 is for games and older software that won't run on the A4000.  Info about the hardware set of my systems can be found here - http://mikerye.homeip.net/about_my_computers.html

[4pLaY]

Ive been selling a good deal of my Classics lately but i still have quite a lot of them around wich sees litle or no usage after i got the Pegasos in house but i do use the A4000T/060/+++ as a dynamite server (everyone should check out this litle addictive game if they havent) and my gf uses another A4000D/060 to play dynamite on! sometimes i flick on the A1200/030 to view some old demos but thats it! as for the Amigas in my closet black A4000D prototype/CD32 prototype/A1000/etc theyre just collecting dust for the time beeing as well as the other miggys im to tierd to list up! even though its not interesting i do have a zillion PCs as well one of them running AROS.

[Cyberus]

Well, I have an A1200T with 040 accelerator, three desktop A1200HDs, an A600HD, a Checkmate Digital A1500 and my very first Amiga, my A500...

And what do I use them for?
Well, that's a good question. I essentially only use the A1200T and A500. They are used for general tinkering, Blitz basic programming (although I might switch to a miggy to do all my C++ programming as well, as the laptop I use with Borland is nearing retirement), the occasional game and OctaMED. Oh, and if I'm feeling nostalgic, I occasionally drag out a demo.

The other computers I'm in the process of fixing up and ebaying....I need the space (plus the fact I'm moving abroad to work in September! Doh!)

[LP]

I've got 5 A1200

My primary 1200 I use for Graphic designing and pixelating both for work/buisness and for fun and spare time, I still think that the Amiga is one of the most brilliant graphic machines to work on. Machintosh is always said to be better but I stick to my 1200... :-)
(I actually got one for free today!)

The specs: (I love this blattering :-))

1. Towered Escom A1200
Blizzard 68060 @50 MHz
1.5 + 30 GB HD, CD-RW. IDE-fix.
Mediator w/ Voodoo3 3000, Ehternet, Spider II USB, Sound Blaster of some sort.
A 19" Monitor so I can see where my pixels is flying. Wireless Keyboard and mouse. A modem.
OS 3.9...

The rest of my Ami's is for playing around with.
Got one sat up for LAN Networking soon. Proberbly one is going to be a server when I get faster Internet... :-)

But it's the only computers I have and I'm intending to stick with them as long as possible.

No PC's what so ever...

-LP

[Lando]

I don't have a classic Amiga any more, but my last machine was an A4000 with CSPPC/060, 162MB RAM, 40GB HD, CDRW, Mediator, Voodoo 3 3000, Hauppauge WinTV, Vlab, and a bunch of other stuff.

I used it for Internet, playing games, coding,  and pretty much everything else.  It was my main computer.  

I sold it 9 months ago to get money for the "soon to be released" AmigaOne/OS4.

Now I have a 17" 1Ghz G4 iMac (which occasionally runs MaxUAE for developing on), a 900Mhz G3 iBook, and a 600Mhz G3 Pegasos (used for internet, software development and so on).  I will get a Pegasos II soon.  

[Madgun68]

Systems I have floating around:

CDTV: Just used for a cd player at the moment.
CD32: Closet
1200: 68060@50/PPC@240,Mediator with Voodoo 3, NIC, powerflyer gold (ide interface), elbox tower
4000: 68060@50/PPC@200,Mediator with Voodoo 4, NIC, USB, SB128 and TV. FastATA ide controller. elbox tower.
Pegasos: Only thing in it is Voodoo 3.

[Warface]

I have a A1200 with a DCE 060 BVisionPPC, which I borrowed to a friend whose A4000 died some time ago.

I also have a Pegasos which is the only computer in the house: so I use it for practically everything you can imagine :-)