What was the first software when you went PC or Mac?

[hardlink]

I never went to PC or Mac. But MorphOS gave me software my original Amiga wasn't capable for (playing movies namely).

I'm glad to see there is someone else that never went PeeCee or Mac! Here at work I just ordered a new 27" iMacTel, but there is still an A4000D behind me right now.

[Ral-Clan]

Well, it was the need for a totally compatible and up do date web-browser that made me partially switch (used the PC for web browsing, the Amiga for everything else).

But the real killer app that the PC had was DAW software for digital music multitracking.  The PC had so much and it was relatively hassle free to get running.  The Amiga only had one or two serious DAW applications and you needed either specific, hard to get hardware to run it (Sunrize 516) or an 060 or PPC processor (which there was never a hope of me getting).

I held out for a really long time though...using and external hardware multitracker synced to my Amiga via MIDI.

Lately, I've started using video editing software (Vegas) on the PC.  I do use my Amiga's for a LOT still, but until something like that comes along for AmigaOS (along with cheaper powerful Amiga hardware to run it), I won't be able to abandon Windows/PCs.

[Ral-Clan]

I'm glad to see there is someone else that never went PeeCee or Mac! Here at work I just ordered a new 27" iMacTel, but there is still an A4000D behind me right now.

That's great that you can have an Amiga at work and that it actually is useful.  I would love to be able to use an Amiga at work.

[persia]

@Karlos

Take a look at SunVox

[johnklos]

For me it was Mac OS X. The reason I went with the Amiga in the first place (in 1992 or so) was that my Sinclair QL was getting a bit dated, I was tired of writing all of the software I needed completely by myself, and I couldn't move from something with clean 32 bit programming and preemptive multitasking to PC-DOS / Windows or Mac OS. Plus, I had work buy an Amiga since it could also be used to run Mac software.

When Mac OS X came out, I had a real GUI, a good programming environment, preemptive multitasking, protected memory and lots of applications. No, GNU/Linux or BSD with KDE or Gnome wouldn't do - they suck as GUIs.

[Pyromania]

I never went fully PC or Mac since I still have A4000T's but the first app I used was Netscape Navigator.

[Arkhan]

I never went fully PC or Mac since I still have A4000T's but the first app I used was Netscape Navigator.

well jeeze, no wonder you never went fully PC or Mac,

first impressions and all.

[zylesea]

WinUAE. I needed a portable. WinUAE delivered me my known environemnt on a portable (some Sony Vaio QR10 - still kind of like the design).

[haywirepc]

I switched to pc around windows 95 release, but only so I could use fast tracker II and a 16 bit soundcard that could mix 32 channels in an audio tracker..

I almost never used windows, except for fast tracker in dos mode and aol for email I suppose. I held on to hope for newer amigas but eventually then switched to linux, red hat 5.0 and dos 6 multi-booting.

Dos wasn't bad but I hated windows and still do. Now I'm using linux for most everything, and rebuilt an amiga 1200 and an aros machine.

Steven

[Popstar]

I stopped using my Amiga around '95 when I started working on Silicon Graphics computers with Alias Wavefront Power Animator. At about 1999-2000 I bought my first PC. Mainly because of the internet, but also because the 3D cards had caught up with the SGIs and Maya 3D finally arrived for the PC.
I still have my Amiga 1200 though, and I use it from time to time to play the old games.

[XDelusion]

Enhanced DOOM ports and Editors...

...it's about the only thing I really need Windows for.

[smerf]

Hi I'm wondering what software was giving you platform envy. So much so your Amiga got knocked off the winners podium and replaced with a PC or Mac. What titles/applications did you rush out and purchase?

Hi,

The program that made me switch was Wolfenstein 3D, this early version was really great, really didn't lose the Amiga, I still use it today for keeping my important stuff. Now on the Mac I wouldn't really switch over to it for the Mac really doesn't have any good software and the Mac really doesn't impress me in any manner shape or form. I have tried running Mac emulation software on both the Amiga and the PC, but everything Mac was crap, so I removed the emulation programs.

smerf

[marcfrick2112]

Ahh, well, I'd blame my dad, or more precisely, his job for getting a PC in the house. My dad was a museum curator, and they had a catalog system using M$ Office. No one there understood that computers that didn't run windows even existed... If you mentioned 'Amiga' they laughed, or said, "What's an Omeega??" Mention Mac, and they just rolled thier eyes......  
  So, we had to get a computer that ran M$ Word and Excel.... We have 2 PC's running Window$ now... but at least one of them I got for free.... I found it in the garbage. Rather apropos. :roflmao:

OK, there are things that I have to use the PC for: 'Fancy' CD / DVD burning (making video compilations in VCD format for my Sega Saturns, burning DVD movies, etc.) scanning slides/negatives (I have a scanner on my A1200, but alas no slide adapter) and a few obstinate websites that insist on Internet Explorer.

Games, well not too much until recently. Years ago, I suppose I had a bit of 'Doom-envy', but now I can play Ultimate Doom on my 1200T, I'm cool with that.  But, I must confess that play a fair amount of RTS games on my PC. Various new/old C&C games, Empire Earth, etc.

[zipper]

2004, to get support when I changed to a digital camera. And I like driving games, which were almost missing on Amiga.

[AJCopland]

I think it was "Comanche" the voxel rendered helicopter game. That and the Amiga was screwed at the time. I've never had a dislike for other platforms so there was nothing to put me off and for a long time I tried to get an A4000 instead.

Eventually though a friend was upgrading his PC and offered to sell me the older base unit so I got that cheap.

Andy

[JC]

I never went pc or mac and never will!