Does anyone here solely use a Classic Amiga?

[Buzzfuzz]

I stopped in 1996 when I already got my first PC, I had to for college, it was requierd for my IT course.
I did bleed pretty well for that machine, by the time I was done paying for a P75 with 256MB and a 1GB harddrive I could have bought a PIII500 with 768MB and a 20GB harddrive.
 
But today I still play some games on my A1200 and I just experiment a bit with my A4000's.
On the A500's I'm playing with the Zorro adapters and I will also be getting 2 ram/ide boards.
Play on :hammer:

[rockape]

Although some people might disagree, it's just not practical is it?

I think most 1200 owners only use their Miggys to play games and demos (like me!) and most so called 'power' owners (eg expand A2000, A3000, A4000)  currently have their machines sitting in a cupboard somewhere

When I first started coding last year I tried to just use the 1200 but it was just so damn painful that I had to switch to WINUAE.   I only very rarely use it to go on the internet if I have no other choice (and I'm not in any hurry!).

Your having a Laaarrrff !!! aint you, or just trolling.

I E-Mail and Chat on an A1200/WJawsMKII and 8 Meg Fast RAM/WiFi using my telly as a monitor.

I use a Towered A1200/Blizzard1240/40/SCSI system with printer and scanner for my DTP and Photo work.

I have an A4K desktop Apollo/4040/Picasso IV as my back-up system for when the Broadband goes down and I can use Dial-Up at a penny a minute.

Also my main classic is a Towered (Elbox) A4K/Cyberstorm MKII/SCSI/Mediator etc.

Regards, Michael

aka rockape

PS I have an old Mac Tower system which I watch the     occasional youtube vid on. 60's Pop and Regiment stuff.

(still giggling at the thought of "must" own a Pee Cee)
 
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Oh an I sometimes use my uA1, but thats not a classic so beyond the scope of this post.

[the_leander]

Was using Amigas exclusively up until around 2004, when I bought a Duron based x86 system for use with BeOS. After about 6 months or so I mothballed the A1200 and A3000.

Eventually both were passed onto other Amiga users.

I still use UAE but mostly I use Linux these days.

As to the why - simple really: The Amiga simply could not cut it online any more (arguably it never could but that is a whole different question). Trying to keep it going online stably whilst at the same time getting every last ounce of performance out of them was taking more and more time with fewer gains each and every time.

Using the Duron (and the systems I've had since) was a breath of fresh air by comparison - I had so much power at my fingertips I felt spoiled! I could watch films and they didn't look like postage stamp sized gifs blown up to fullscreen. I could listen to MP3's without my system groaning under the strain. I could play games that were modern at respectable frame rates. I could have an application crash and it not require me to reboot.

All in all, going over to x86 for me was about ease of use: The Amiga, whilst a great system in it's day and certainly easier to use day to day than other machines of the same era, required a great deal of time and effort on the part of the user to allow it to perform tasks that other more modern systems offered as out of the box functionality.

I don't regret for one minute retiring the Amigas. It was a great machine for me to learn on. But tbh even by 2000 really, for day to day use it was hopelessly behind the times and had been for a while.

[Amiga_Nut]

I think the problem is the lack of cheap available high end PPC cards. I couldn't do all the things I do with a modest Centrino* on a 680x0 Amiga. Even with OS4 on a classic Amiga with PPC and 128mb I don't know if all tasks I do on it have similar applications for OS4. Streaming flash content is definitely out though at PPC accelerator speeds probably so no TV at my desk I guess.

I wouldn't say becoming a PC owner was a 'joyful experience' at all, but then Commodore went bust and a few clueless muppets bought their IP so it's not like I had a choice. If the new owners of Commodore had kept up and at least just ported OS4 to x86 last decade and forgot about custom chips it would still have been enough. I wouldn't have been happy but still better than nothing and at least I could have avoided Winblows

*which I could still do on a P3 machine with XP I suppose.

[recidivist]

If the question is CLASSIC Amigas,that is,those made by Commodore Amiga then 68040 is  the limit;and the  CPU cards contemporary to Commodore's existence  MIGHT allow PPC use.

Then again,didn't Commodore people actually start  or contract the Amithlon  ?
So maybe Amiga OS on PC should stop being considered heresy!

Haven't been online with Amiga since 1992 BBS days,but have used Amiga Forever as recently as a couple months ago online DSL.

[the_leander]

If the question is CLASSIC Amigas,that is,those made by Commodore Amiga then 68040 is  the limit;and the  CPU cards contemporary to Commodore's existence  MIGHT allow PPC use.

I think you're over-analysing this. By "Classic" most people tend to mean the machines any anything you bolted onto them. Yes, this would include PPC accelerators.

Then again,didn't Commodore people actually start  or contract the Amithlon  ?

Usually when I read things like this I start making comments regarding possible drug use and requesting samples thereof.

Suffice to say, no, that is not the case. Amithlon was the creation of Bernd Meyer and was released not long after the Blizzard/CyberstormPPC cards came out. There never was a link to C= on any level beyond the OS that was being run.

So maybe Amiga OS on PC should stop being considered heresy!

Not going to happen, sadly.

[JC]

I still have and use Amiga only computers at home with no plans of changing ever.

[lauri.lotvonen]

You people are awesome

I couldnt agree more.

[amigaksi]

I guess the word SOLELY kinds of limits things as I have a whole bunch of machines that I use for different purposes:

Atari 5200
Atari 800
Atari 130XE w/custom OS ROM
Atari Mega STE (rarely use this one)
Amiga 500
Amiga 1000
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
Toshiba 4080XCDT (it has a fast parallel port for interfacing to all of the above)

A few others also that are rarely used.

[runequester]

after reading this thread, Im very tempted to try, though I doubt I'll ever put my 1200 online

[pVC]

after reading this thread, Im very tempted to try, though I doubt I'll ever put my 1200 online

Online for filetransfers it's very easy even with stock system, but for browsing and other more complex tasks it would require some heavy upgrading.

[runequester]

Online for filetransfers it's very easy even with stock system, but for browsing and other more complex tasks it would require some heavy upgrading.

well, I got a PCMCIA compact flash kit for transferring files, so thats pretty covered.

[drHirudo]

I used Amigas till April 2004, when I subscribed for LAN network. Unfortunately at the time there were no X-Surf cards for my Amiga 4000 in the shops. I tried with the A1200 and PCMCIA network cards, but they also did not work, freezing Miami. So I had the choise to stay with modem for Internet (very expensive and slow) or to buy machine with network card. I bought Hewlett Packard Vectra VL with PII 550 MHz and 256 MB RAM. I used it for almost 9 months, when I ordered my microAmigaOne. The next day after the arrival of the AmigaOne, the PC was sold and then I was again Amiga only. Unlike most other cases listed here, the new Amiga for me was upgrade from the PC, because it is faster and the movies are smoother.
Last year I bought this PowerBookG4, but I rarely use it. It's slower than my MicroAmigaOne, despite having G4 processor, and I turn it on probably less than once per week. The fact that it requires new battery, and I need to set its clock everytime I turn it on, does not help the Mac usage either. MacOS X is clumsy for me.
Currently on the Amiga I can do everything I need - movies, Internet, coding, printing and scanning with the HP Photosmart C6280, gaming with Speed Link First Strike and Stirke² controllers, graphics, upload of movies, downloading pictures and movies from digital camera, thanks to the Chronos 80 in 1 Card Reader and USB, image processing, spreadsheet, word processing and other causal computer tasks.
During the years, I had various machines, including Apple II clones, Oric Clones, IBM PC clones, NES clone, Sega Mega Drive clone, PSX and even Atari Mega ST with PC emulation card, but the Amiga always will be the platform that I prefer over the others. With the new Sam model and AmigaOne X1000, finally there will be above 1GHz Amiga machine, meaning the next decade will be Amiga oriented for me as well, just like the 1990-ies and the 20xx-ies.


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[jsixis]

I did till about 2002, once the browsers died I had to switch to a PC.
Today I just use my Amiga for HTML web pages, email, cleaning up digital pictures and some vista pro renderings and even those things are getting to slow for me.

[Moto]

Just wondered if anyone here *only* uses their Classic Amiga for all computing and nothing else.

I think it would be kinda hard to keep up with most things... I think you'd have to have a PC/Mac/Linux to do some basic stuff like online banking etc...

If you do what problems do you have? How do you solve them?

I'm just genuinely interested. :-)

Cheers, Alex.

Even back in 1989 when I first got my A500, I didn't use it exclusively.  Back then I did all the boring stuff on a DOS machine (word processing, business programming and class work programming) and all the fun stuff on the Amiga (games, demos, programming).  It's sort of the same thing today but with PCs and consoles.

[Ral-Clan]

I was using an Amiga for MOST things up to 2008 (except modern web-browsing).  Then my Amiga broke down and it would have cost just way too much to get it going again.  Since then I've been using a mixture of PC/Windows and WinUAE.  It's been great, but there are a few things that would have to happen to AmigaOS for me to be able to switch back totally:

- a modern multitrack audio recording software DAW (like REAPER)
- a modern non-linear video editing application (like Sony Vegas)
- a modern browser (like a port of FireFox)

I know there's Audio Evolution, etc. for the Amiga, but the CPU to run it was always out of my price range.  Video editing software would take the same brute force, and as far as I'm aware, nothing like it exists for the Amiga in a software only solution (I know about the Flyer but that's hardware).  The port of FireFox is almost there I think.