Best things about owning an amiga?

[runequester]

What were the best things about owning an amiga, back when you got yours?

Whats the best things today?

[Franko]

Same today as it was back then... the simple fact you're using the best home computer and OS ever conceived...

[ChaosLord]

same today as it was back then... The simple fact you're using the best home computer and os ever conceived...

+500

[x56h34]

Today, for me, it would be the classic games that are still fun to play and the classic hardware that is fun to tinker around with.

Yes, it's also fun to sometimes be delusional as to how anything Amiga is better than the modern computers and operating systems.

[actung_bab]

Same today as it was back then... the simple fact you're using the best home computer and OS ever conceived...

yes agree 100 % or is that 110 % dunno am dummy no am not doomy hehe
short answer erverthing aprat from the floppys never did have alot luck erors on

l rember this clearly so for people intresed that didnt have one in the day

 l had my amiga 500 quite late so whould have diffrent take on the matter than early
users . found 1.3 wb frustraing to say least when you looking at people in club with
wb 2.0 and hard drives athough all games played except aga ones, which people used
to say oh yeah u havent got aga or hd oh to bad hehe

got my amiga 1200 and was like at first didnt like it was so diffrent l supect bit like sam
boards of today felt like not alot like 500 perseption funny thing l think live with something for awhile so thats why professinal reviews can be misleading

yeah but loved it when had use for like in programs never was big gamer
be great u chould just add super cpu and just have same machine with better grpahics
or just more power and decent browser and ram l be happy as

ditto when added a ppc card blizzard 603 240 mhz + felt werid and diffrent l kinda relate
to people saying not amiga like esp when running just ppc programs . but get used to it
and just way power up programs seemed bit over large complicated and files had diffrent extensions but boy did lha work faster and ppc qauke was awsome

l think always been this way u gain something you loose somethink sure been 1.2 wb users didnt like wb 2.1 and seems l dont know how true l didnt notice it
Like windows wb 3.0 was updated to wb 3.1 because first was buggy same with 2.0 and 2.1

[save2600]

I gotta admit... sometimes it's nice just to play around WB1.3 compared to 3.1. Sure, 3.1 may be a lot more "productive", but the simplicity of 1.3 and the fact that most everything written for it just_plain_works without the typical config hassles, sure is a nice reprieve at the end of the day.

Oh... the best thing about owning an Amiga back in the day: showing your friends what a stock machine can do... that was always a lot of fun. Sound sampling was a HUGE deal back in the mid-late 80's and the Amiga was excellent at it.  The Cinemaware games and stuff like Frontier: Elite 2 really caught the eye of friends that were into their IBM clones.

Today, showing people what an expanded Amiga can do garners even more fascination. Telling people you still use (and never stopped using really) your Amiga for modern or semi-modern things can be fun. Most of my friends "get it" anyway. While they may not have an interest in playing around with legacy hardware (or anything Amiga), they understand it's a hobby for me. ALL are extremely fascinated by the MorphOS system on the big screen though and recognize how efficient and "cool" it is to play around with. When I have company over, we've been having a lot of fun watching YouTube vids, checking out Wikipedia for the impromptu quick fun fact on something, Facebooking and all that sort of nonsense. Adds to the interactive "partying" we've got going down in the basement. I let people fart around with the system, so its fun to hear their thoughts and questions. Anyone can throw their Windoze or Mac on a big screen - but there's always going to be something "special" about running Amiga-like apps and an OS that's "new" to others. We entertain fairly often, so lots of Amiga awareness gets generated around this house.  

[Thorham]

Same today as it was back then... the simple fact you're using the best home computer and OS ever conceived...

Except for the fact that the desktop and window manager suck big time. This has to change!

[LoadWB]

Today I am able to use Windows applications on AmigaOS using a sort-of "XP Mode."

It's called "RDesktop."  

[Franko]

Except for the fact that the desktop and window manager suck big time. This has to change!

Dunno about "desktop" or "window manager"... only ever used Workbench and Intuition takes care of the windows...

[Thorham]

Dunno about "desktop" or "window manager"... only ever used Workbench and Intuition takes care of the windows...

Workbench is the desktop, and Intuition is the window manager. desktop and window manager are general names for components that exist in many operating systems, including AmigaOs

[amigakit]

Best thing was (and still is) the creativity and resourcefulness of the Amiga Community.

[Franko]

Workbench is the desktop, and Intuition is the window manager. desktop and window manager are general names for components that exist in many operating systems, including AmigaOs

Never used those terms in 25 years of Amiga use to describe anything on the miggy or heard anyone call them that up till now...

Don't you think that using such terms that make them sound like a Windoze product is a wee bit of an insult to the good old miggie...

[Thorham]

Never used those terms in 25 years of Amiga use to describe anything on the miggy or heard anyone call them that up till now...

Don't you think that using such terms that make them sound like a Windoze product is a wee bit of an insult to the good old miggie...

No, I don't think it's insulting to use general terms to describe OS components on the Amiga

[JimS]

I always thought back in the day, that the Amiga let you do stuff that didn't look like it was done on a computer. You could do music, graphics, animation, and publishing on the old 8-bit machines - I did a bit of that myself... but for the most part this was just novelty stuff. The Atari user group newsletter I did on the Atari 800 being the one exception.
When the Amiga came out, you could do stuff for it's own sake not just for the sake of doing it with that expensive computer. There was good software aimed at the non-professional users. The EA "Deluxe" stuff, Sonix, Pagestream all were easier to use than their PC counterparts. The multitasking Amiga OS made it easy to use them all at once.

Now, not so much other than bragging rights about being able to do all this way back in 1987 with the same hardware. ;-)

[Franko]

Now, not so much other than bragging rights about being able to do all this way back in 1987 with the same hardware. ;-)

Gotta disagree with you on that point, everything computing wise I do other than the internet is still done on the Amiga and always has been for 25 years solid...