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WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« on: April 17, 2011, 06:10:30 PM »
If you use WinUAE (exclusively, you have no Amiga hardware) what do you use WinUAE for?
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 06:17:19 PM »
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If you use WinUAE (exclusively, you have no Amiga hardware) what do you use WinUAE for?

Well, I do have a couple A2000s and A500s in storage (the A2000s need some restoration), but I use WinUAE almost exclusively.  A lot of it is for productivity work.

1) music composing: Bars & Pipes, OctaMED, SoundFX
2) graphics: ImageFX, DPaint, Brilliance
3) 3d rendering: Aladdin4d, Lightwave
4) game playing: anything really

For graphics work WinUAE blows away any real Amiga I've owned because I can work in super hi-res (1920x1080) and it's much, much faster at rendering effects/frames than the 68040 I had.  Also I can configure a "virtual Amiga" with 1GB of RAM, etc.

Another great thing about WinUAE is I can setup multiple "virtual Amigas" so I can have a OS3.9 "modern classic" system and another OCS WB1.3 system, a KS2.05 system, etc...etc...etc...
This is very useful for very old applications or games that choke on different versions of the chipset/OS.

The last great thing is that I can have a shared folder between Windows and AmigaOS....so for example, I can save a graphics from ImageFX, flip over to Windows with a mouseclick and load it into a Windows application or vice-versa.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2011, 06:20:07 PM »
Oops - I misread
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2011, 06:31:03 PM »
you forgot one option....

() Don't use it
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2011, 06:31:28 PM »
Use it for games. I perform data recovery with Amiga Explorer :)
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2011, 06:58:09 PM »
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you forgot one option....

() Don't use it


No, I didn't forget that option, I just don't give a damn what people who don't use WinUAE don't use it for.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2011, 08:15:09 PM »
When I didn't have an amiga, I used it for games primarily.
 
Two gamepads hooked up to the PC and a lot of two player fun was had :)
 
(it was UAE, rather than winUAE but eh, same deal)
 
 
A bit of demo watching too. Mods was easier using... well, I forget the name of the app I used.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2011, 08:16:01 PM »
I just use for some quick tests, data recovery..

I dont use too much, but annyway.. If you dont have any Real Amiga, or haved the Amiga, but dont wanted use anymore, its a cool way for stay in Amiga.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2011, 08:19:44 PM »
I have a couple of Amigas: an old fairly stock A1000 and an A2000 040. I also use AmiKit (which uses AUE) to make some of the older graphics and 3D programs fly, and have MUCH better display options. I also still use Pagestream (GREAT program!) but I will soon upgrade that to the Windows version.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2011, 08:20:36 PM »
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I just use for some quick tests, data recovery..
 
I dont use too much, but annyway.. If you dont have any Real Amiga, or haved the Amiga, but dont wanted use anymore, its a cool way for stay in Amiga.
yeah, the emulation is extremely accurate nowadays. Quite enjoyable and pretty cheap of course :) (Cost of ROM's basically)
 
I did find that occasionally a given game would be a little more finicky. F.x. the version of Turrican 2 I had required a 1.3 kickstart.
But when I wrote the same ADF to floppies, it runs fine on my 1200.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2011, 08:24:38 PM »
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If you use WinUAE (exclusively, you have no Amiga hardware) what do you use WinUAE for?


Hi,

I use it basically to save my Amiga Hardware, I have all my disk database's on their, all my manual database's and my home inventory database on the Amiga. I use WinUAE  to check and look for stuff in the databases, I also use it to input stuff into the database, the only thing I use a regular Amiga for is to transfer the stuff from my WinUAE  database's to the Amiga, usually by floppy.

I also use WinUAE for playing games and trying out other or new programs. I am one of the lucky ones where I can also use a new Lexmark or HP printer with my WinUAE, my old Amiga doesn't even see it since they are USB printers.

One of the nice things about WinUAE is that I can use USB thumb drives and USB items. I can also boot up in CD-32 mode or just about any mode, operating system I want, I can listen to my music library (modern day mp3) or mods. I also can view my picture library.

I use Ibrowse for surfing the net, mostly Amiga sites, to tell you the truth, it is like having a modern up to date Amiga for only the price of Cloanto's Amiga Forever. For the price (and I don't care what any of you Amiga Fan boy religious Hippocrates's say (my original Amiga 1000 was down in the 4 number zone) I am an Amiga user and I say Cloanto's Amiga Forever has done right by me. It is a very up to date, super fast system, and I likes it and it was very in expensive.  What more can you ask for?

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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2011, 09:06:12 PM »
Hi Smerf... :)

Hmmm... odd that your saving your Amiga Hardware... for what... ???

Is it to hand down to your grandchildren when you finally snuff it and go to meet the great guru meditation in the sky... !!!

Seems a waste of perfectly good miggie hardware to me, send it over here and I'll put it to good use instead of gathering dust never to be used again... :)

Point is... how can you claim to be an "Amiga user" when you don't use Amigas... :(

Perhaps "Amiga collector" or "Amiga Storage man" or "Amiga emulator user" might be a more apt way to describe yourself... ;)

Cheers

Franko

PS:An Amiga's just like a pet, it needs love and attention, not left in some dark cupboard pining away at the neglect of it's owner, get your miggies out or I'm calling the protection agencies... ;)
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2011, 09:21:56 PM »
And you've forgotten us UAE users on Mac (and Linux where UAE began).
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2011, 10:13:28 PM »
Hi,

@Franko,

My Amiga 4000 sits right next to my PC that runs WinUAE, I use WinUAE more today because I really would like to save the old Miggy for down the road, I use it about two to three times a week. Now I also have an A1200 in a tower that sits on the floor, I use this quite often, (A1200 are still relatively cheap and finding one is usually no problem). Probably before I expire (hopefully before the A4000) I will probably put it up for auction on ebay. Why don't I use it, well basically she is rather old, can't surf the web, and the only thing she is good for is playing games and storing my data, which she does quite well since I have lost no data since I bought her. Can't see making her work anymore because I have a cheap and replaceable PC to do that.

smerf

PS At least I ain't like the other beggars who have switched to a MAC. (UGH!)
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2011, 10:50:16 PM »
If I had the space I would definitely have my A2000 set up next to my WinUAE machine (and also set up my A500, VIC-20, C64, Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, PONG, Vectrex, etc...oh and eventually a Natami). :-)
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