What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?

[smerf]

Hi, What were you doing on your Amiga in the year 1994?

Hi,

UHHHH!!! nothing, I usually didn't get on my Amiga, I was afraid I would cave in the case and that wasn't only in 94 but today as well.

but

I did use my Amiga 4000 for Video Toaster work, titling home movies, doing budget work, and transferring pictures back and forth between PC's and the Amiga. I played a lot of megaball, soliton, and space taxi. Did a lot of downloading too!! BBS boards where hot, and did a lot of software analyzing to see if I liked their programs or not. Wrote a cracking program so I could back up all that copy protected software. This program had a 99% success rate, but sometimes took 24 to 48 hours analyzing a disk then came up with a crack for it, taking another 24 hours, needless to say this was the last program I tried. Come to think of it, I think I still have it up in the attic somewhere, wonder if it still works with todays programs (LOL).

Also, in 1994 I was still challenging loudmouthed PC users to beat my Amiga in a do it contest, where I would challenge them to beat my Amiga,
1. Downloading a program from a BBS board,
2. Printing out a 5 page document.
3. Playing music
4. Playing their solitare game.
5.  Doing a backup of their hard drive.

Guess what no PC user ever won, made lots of money on this one, their faster computers, just didn't work as well as my slow outdated Amiga.

smerf

[Tripitaka]

I was playing a lot of scrolling shooters and also playing with productivity software, DPaint, Imagine, Scala and Wordsworth in particular. I say playing because all my Amiga usage was for fun.

[Argo]

Breaking in my new A1200. Also, wondering why my new 1942 monitor won't do 800x600 as advertised.

[saimon69]

Working at the music of powder and at my animation NOLW - the night of the living wrecks on my a500 using dpaint IV, three megs of ram and two floppy drives - at the end was assembled in the a4000 of a friend of mine using scala for the pixel art expo that winter (placed 2nd) and the bit.movie competition (placed 1st)...

[kedawa]

I was messing around with Deluxe Paint III and DigiPaint, making games with SEUCK, learning how to use a hex editor, and just generally tinkering around.
By that time, I was gaming mostly on consoles, and Amiga software was hard to come by in my area, so I barely used my A500 for games any more.

[martin.demsky]

In 1994 i purchased A1200 (switched from ZX Spectrum 128k/C64 scene), learned all audio stuff and soon started to work with some demo groups and game development teams.

[zipper]

Expanding my A500 with Supraturbo28 and RocHard 800 2 MB + 170 MB HD, OS 2.1. Waiting eagerly CU Amiga and Amiga Format new issues.

[Pyromania]

I was also breaking in the A1200 in 1994 that I got in October 1993. I had sold my A500 off in 1993 but missed the camouflage paint treatment I gave that machine. I should have done the same thing to the A1200.

[CritAnime]

Was playing games on my A500+.

[persia]

Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....

[LoadWB]

IIRC, that was the year I got my A500HD+ and my Rev 8 mobo.  At the time I was still heavily programming on my C64/128, so the 500 got used mostly as a games, music, and Internet (well, GEnie and BBS) machine.  I was playing with OctaMED to learn tracking, and some sound editor to piece together wav files.  That and I would take wav rips of CDs from my friend's PC and convert them to compressed IFFs.  I'm pretty certain at the time I was still using Workbench 1.3 as I recall my 2.04 and 3.1 days came after I moved into my first apartment.

[A1260]

in 1994 the commodore died and my a500 from 1988 was showing it's age and no new games... so i put it in the attic(where it died). didn't bother with buying an a1200 without hd, b1230+ram and a special monitor from microvitec. or buy an a4000 with graphic card etc etc... it was just insane expensive and commodore had just died, so there was no reason to waste all that money for nothing. amiga the most advanced computer in the world, had failed it was over. that was my thoughts in the year of 1994.

[jorkany]

I was about 2/3 of the way through writing an Amiga version of the "Stellar Conquest" board game. Then Commodore went bankrupt, and I was making money writing software for PCs and embedded systems, so the Amiga went into the closet.

[Pyromania]

Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....

VT & Deluxe Paint! Good man!

[smerf]

Still messing with VT, Deluxe Paint.  My Emplant dongle to runMac software....

@persia,

Yes a true Mac fanboy straight from the start. Even an Amiga couldn't convince him that the Mac was a lesser computer.

Well it is what it is and that all that it is.

smerf

[persia]

Actually just needed to use Canvas and eggplant was a way to do it.  Pretty much put aside MacOS after that until Tiger...

Emplant had that distinct Amiga software quality, never sure whether it would work, a useless hardware dongle that took up a slot and a developer who lived in an alternate reality world....