What do you use your Amiga for

[MASACREWILL]

..exactly pal.. and the heretic idea crossed my mind recently - sell that thingie off!! But I don`t know.. it is like selling a soul.. :roll:

[pVC]

gdanko wrote:
I see a lot of people here who apparently still use their Amiga(s) quite a bit. Some even claim to use them for MOST things. Aside from classic games, what are you doing with your Amigas? I assume that if it's an A500 or barebones A2000 it is games only. Those with RTG cards, NICs, and 040 or better may well be using them for most things.

I use my Amigas for everything. And I'm counting my Pegasos1 as an amiga too as I use exactly the same software on it than on my A1200. Except I also can watch movies with it

So.. I use them on all internet things (typing this with IBrowse atm), listening music, watching movies, playing games, doing admin jobs with ssh, printing, processing digital photos, coding, etc etc.

I have Pegasos1 and A1200/060/everything for "serious" things and A1200/030 for games. Those are in everyday use.. then of course have several other Amigas in not so regular use

Can you connect to shared printers?

Yes, there are several ways, but I use lpr.device on three of my amigas to share Lexmark laser printer with MarkNet X2011e print server. Works fine from Pagestream, Final Writer, IBrowse, CEd, etc for example.

Printing to Windows/samba shared printers would work too tried that 10 years ago, but I don't like the idea having printer connected to some certain computer, which should be on when you want to print something from some other computer

Can you do most of your office app type work on an Amiga?

Yes, I hardly ever need anything fancy, so I use text editor mainly. Or if I need graphics etc, then I use Final Writer, which has more features than I've ever needed Pagestream would be cool to use too, but it's bit too comprehensive for my needs

Contact management?

I think Vapor's ContactManager is pretty good for example, but for my contact management needs IRC and e-mail client are just enough

Wondering how feasible, say, an A4000 040 with 64m fast RAM would be in the real world.

If it has original 25MHz 040, then it isn't quite enough for most things nowadays.. but if it's higher clocked 040 or 060 and it will have fast gfx-card, then it's OK for most things, but I wouldn't say it could be the only computer for most people.

[bloodline]

Ok Moto, I'm gonna make this simple for you :-)

You currently have no OS4 capable hardware.
You would have to spend a lot of money on a PPC to make it OS4 capable.
You have no software that specifically requires OS4.
Currently no Amiga software is able to enhance your computing environment.
The Phase5 boards are not really classic Amiga hardware, though my BlizzPPC has a great deal of sentimental value... any board you buy will be of unknown history and indeterminate life span...

Can you justify thowing a lot of money into something that really won't provide any advantage over the system you currently have. The money could be better spent on something that would provide a superior computing experience!

On the other hand if you do buy OS4 then send it my way :-) hehehehe

[adz]

What do you use your Amiga for

Lately...absolutely nothing. This really isn't by choice I might add, it's just that none of my current LCD displays will sync down to 31Hz and I am well over CRT monitors. My 3000 is still sitting there, but with nothing to display it on, I feel it too will soon be relegated to the cupboard. Oh well :shrug:

[MASACREWILL]

MASACREWILL wrote:
..exactly pal.. and the heretic idea crossed my mind recently - sell that thingie off!! But I don`t know.. it is like selling a soul.. :roll:

..ehmm, it seems I am just winning the A600 (with a little damage of the casing) for 20 EUR.. why I do such things? I am addicted!! HELP !! ;-)))

[leirbag28]

@pan1k


Do you use your Amiga for DJ-ing?

seems like your into that stuff...............sounds cool. I once threw an entire party back in like 1996 with my Amiga 600, CD32 with Video Creator.and a Commodore 64 using a SrobeLigh effect connected to a large TV as a Strobe Light.  The music ran of the CD32 Audio CD's as well as Video Creator for Visuals........and I had tons of sound samples loaded into my A600 at a very good quality, that I used for DJ-ing and scratching effects as well as mixing with a Mixer between the A600 and CD32 Audio CD's


Now I just Do mostly VeeJaying with my A1200/68040 256mb RAm, DCTV, SuperGen SX and ChromaKey Plus.

[nasty]

Ok Moto, I'm gonna make this simple for you

You currently have no OS4 capable hardware.
You would have to spend a lot of money on a PPC to make it OS4 capable.
You have no software that specifically requires OS4.
Currently no Amiga software is able to enhance your computing environment.
The Phase5 boards are not really classic Amiga hardware, though my BlizzPPC has a great deal of sentimental value... any board you buy will be of unknown history and indeterminate life span...

Can you justify thowing a lot of money into something that really won't provide any advantage over the system you currently have. The money could be better spent on something that would provide a superior computing experience!

On the other hand if you do buy OS4 then send it my way  hehehehe

Yeah moto  :-P

I dont think theres really anything wrong with 3.9 and if you dont have the hardware simply stay with 3.9! As Bloodline says what are you going to gain by using os4 over 3.9??? as for emulation you pretty well have that covered with our GP2X's. I would rather pay for games to be released for the classic amiga, so if games where released I'd buy them if I liked them, OS4 i dont need so I wont be buying it.

@MASACREWILL

..exactly pal.. and the heretic idea crossed my mind recently - sell that thingie off!! But I don`t know.. it is like selling a soul..  

Ive been playing with the idea lately of selling on the PPCs but its the kind of thing that once you sell its a git to get back. There's only afew games I play that requires the PPC Q2,Heretic2,Payback,Nightlong and I have all these games for the PC bar payback which I have for the GP2X and Mac. So I really only need a basic amiga with 030. But like yourself it kinda feels wrong to get rid :crazy:

..ehmm, it seems I am just winning the A600 (with a little damage of the casing) for 20 EUR.. why I do such things? I am addicted!! HELP !! ))

Sorry there just no help for you addicts :-o

But saying that! I am playing with the idea of buying myself a desktop 1200 and fitting an internal cd drive and building a little whdload gaming machine 8-)

   

[Ral-Clan]

- Music production and recording
- transferring old cassettes & records to CD
- CD burning
- desktop publishing (CD artwork, etc.)
- graphics manipulation
- word processing
- used to use it for faxing, still capable.
- currently reading the X-CAD manual with intent to do some CAD work on the Amiga.

I like OS4.0 but could never afford to pay the kind of money being asked for an old, used PPC card.

[spihunter]

@gdanko,

And you are able to use it effectively in spite of its speed?

It works but, its a bit sluggish in higher color screenmodes.
I just got an Apollo/060 in the mail today that I'm going to install when I get home. I'm hoping that speeds things up a bit.

 :-D

[Ral-Clan]

There's only afew games I play that requires the PPC Q2,Heretic2,Payback,Nightlong and I have all these games for the PC bar payback which I have for the GP2X and Mac. So I really only need a basic amiga with 030. But like yourself it kinda feels wrong to get rid :crazy:

Ahhh! I secretly hate (:angry:) you users that have PPCs or 060s and just play games!  Then there are those of us that only use our Amigas for CPU intensive productivity apps or serious work and are left to chug away slowly with 030s and 040s, just wishing we had an 060 or PPC.

I don't really hate you, just wish I had the money to blow on such an expensive "toy".  :-)