so what do you DO with your amigas?

[runequester]

so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?

Whether its a classic machine, a pimped out hybrid beast, a PPC amiga, AROS or just some UAE for a rainy day

[ElPolloDiabl]

I use it as shade cloth for various molds and dustmites.

[stefcep2]

My son is doing 2d animation with DPaint and Brilliance.  I do a bit of rendering in Winuae with Cinema 4D and lightwave 5.  Just for fun

[Piru]

so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?

I code MorphOS on my Pegasos 2 G4. I also test it with two Mac Mini G4 and PowerBook G4.

[kolla]

I use two A1200s, one with Blizzard 1230IV and one with Blizzard 1260, to test and run packages for Gentoo/m68k, along with a Mac Quadra 610 and Aranym. I use my A3000/CSPPC/CVPPC to peek at OS4.0 and MorphOS 1.4.5. For messing around and playing games I have  A1200/Blizzard 1260+Indivision AGA,  CD32/SX32Pro, A600/Apollo630, A4000/CS060/Mediator, A500 and various spare A1200 motherboards. I also have a disassembled A4000T that lacks tower. And Pegasos1 and MacMini for toying around with MorphOS 2.x. And MiniMig ofcourse, games, Term and DPaint 4.1!

[VingtTrois]

I'm using my A3000D with STARTREKKER + 8 MIDI channels + KORG MR3 + KORG 01W. I make test of OKTAGON 2008 + Zip memory.
I try to make a project: a card with more than 2 PAULA sound chip on AMIGA (project started with Exolon/FAIRLIGHT).
I've time and I would like to make development on OS4.x but I can't: I need a cheap CSPPC.
I play with my A600 and I'm waiting my ZORRO Adapter to put an OKTAGON 2008 or an A2058 on my old A500!
I'm also trying to put an external keyboard on my A1200 with an adapter but don't works for the moment. I'm trying to install an internal CDROM on my A1200. I must found some minutes to change caps on my second A2000. I must found some minutes to repair a MEGICHIP (NTSC model) and make test on my A2000 PAL. I must find others minutes to install new battery on my 2x A3000 and 1x A2000. I must find time to change crytal oscillator (70Mhz) of my PPS040 MERCURY@35Mhz by a 80MHz and make some test.

[XDelusion]

Porn.

[drHirudo]

With my Amigas I watch movies with subtitles, surf the web, check e-mails, program games and utilities, play games, upload my website and do the design, publish solutions for puzzle games, do image processing, calculate spreadsheets, draw pixel graphics, listen to music and many more computer tasks...too many to list them all here.

[runequester]

With my Amigas I watch movies with subtitles, surf the web, check e-mails, program games and utilities, play games, upload my website and do the design, publish solutions for puzzle games, do image processing, calculate spreadsheets, draw pixel graphics, listen to music and many more computer tasks...too many to list them all here.

what are your amigas specs, if you dont mind me asking ?

[sledge]

Play games, whatch demos, paint in DPIV, render stuff with Real3D, mocking around with the OS itself. Try out new hardware, listening to music (mod and sid).

I haven't got a network card installed at the moment, but I intend to connect it to the Internet aswell to be able to download stuff from Aminet, to surf the web and use it for e-mail.

Funny thing is that the Amiga feels so fun to use even to this day. I have an iMac 24" too, and while it's a great computer, the Amiga is pure fun!

[Dandy]

so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?

Whether its a classic machine, a pimped out hybrid beast, a PPC amiga, AROS or just some UAE for a rainy day

At home I use my Amiga4000 with CyberstormPPC (128 mB), Mediator PCI busboard with Voodoo4, Terratec 512i digital and 10/100 mBit NIC as my main machine with OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1.

I also have an experimental OS4.0 classic installation on it, but as OS4classic doesn't support all of my hardware components, OS 3.9 is my main system.

Aside from mailing and surfing the web I use it for digitising my vinyl record collection and converting it to mp3; for scanning, image processing and archiving all my old photos; for working on the preservation of the Wiehl Valley Railway.

Furthermore I'm in the process of starting a project to make a live steam model locomotive in H0 scale and will do the mechanic design in 3d on the Amiga with DynaCADD. Furthermore I'm planning to use the Miggy for the CNC production of the designed parts. Should I decide to make the controlling hardware myself, I internd to use NewIO and LogicWorks to do the schematics and PCB layout (if its not too complex).

And if I happen to be in the rare situation where I cannot get a task done on the Amiga, I switch on the XP-PC below my desk, connect my Miggy via RDesktop to it and remote-controll the XP-PC from the Miggy to get the task done.

[drHirudo]

what are your amigas specs, if you dont mind me asking ?

I mainly use the microA1, 256MB RAM and PCI network card, with AmigaOS 4.1. Recently, I installed Update 2, but did not have the time to test what's new.
I also have Amiga 1000, A1200, A500, but they are used rarely. For the A1200 and A500 I am not sure if they still work.

[xeron]

I do all kinds of stuff with my A1, but the most common are E-Mail (simplemail), programming (with codebench), and music making (hivelytracker).

[XDelusion]

I have primarily been using mine for Musick (if you want to call it that).

I'm working on upgrading my A600, and am awaiting parts of my 1200 upgrades.

I have been using OctaMED Sound Studio with a MIDI interface.

Before too long I will be controlling my Atari 2600 via the MIDI, at least that is the plan. We'll see how it all works out in the end when my 2600 MIDI adapter arrives.

Aside of that I use it for games, writing, and IRC.

I do have some animation software here that I'll eventually tear into as well.

It's amazing what you can do, even with a stock Amiga 1200!

[Karlos]

@XDelusion

Speaking of which, how are you getting on with OctaMED?