So what do people do with their Amigas on Amiga.org?

[Kesa]

I have been wondering about this for a while. What do people actually use their Amigas for when then they are not hanging around the org. I am curious to see if there is a common activity that people do. Like a certain type of productivity. Or games. Or maybe people just like modding cases or workbench.
 
As for me all i do is play the older games and surf the web. I also like tinkering with mos. The only productivity i do is Deluxe paint because i remember using it when i was 5.
 
What does everyone else do?

[Iggy]

Kesa,
Do people actually use real Amiga's to surf the web?
Sounds painful.
Considering how slow that would be, when do you folks find time to eat or defecate?

[Cammy]

An Amiga user understands how to multitask, we can surf the web, eat and defecate at the same.

[Iggy]

An Amiga user understands how to multitask, we can surf the web, eat and defecate at the same.

Whoa! Don't wanna get to close to that.
OK, but when do you folks have time for sex?
Please don't tell me its concurrent (man, THAT would get ugly).

[Kesa]

Well i don't watch youtube so it's not that bad.

Cammy, it's good to see you! You've have been a bit quite lately

[TCMSLP]

I've not powered on my A1200 for a few months.  I have too many interests so rotate hobbies every few months.

However, when my A1200 was last powered up I remember a) browsing the internet, b) connecting to other machines via telnet (running BitchX on a Linux box for IRC) and c) figuring out how to play mp3s with AmigaAMP.   I also remember struggling to get an FPU working;  the machine won't boot with FPU - I thought the first was faulty so bought another only to discover the exact same behaviour

I think if/when I buy an Indivision AGA the A1200 will see much more use.   I spend much of my time connected to remote machines via ssh, using IRC, editing web pages and documents - there's really no reason the Amiga couldn't be used as a daily machine.

[MadLensman]

I play.
 
That's it, all that I use my Miggy for at the moment - Just simple playing. It's a breath of fresh air after having to wait for "Windoze" to load, update, crash, reload, update again, then hang......

[SpeedGeek]

1) Hack the hardware and software as much as possible.
2) Jam in as many broken upgrades as possible.
3) Sell it on Greedbay.
4) Buy someone else's crap at mega-markup prices on Greedbay.
5) Complain about it here on Amiga.org!
6) Done. :lol:

[rednova]

Dear Amigans:

I use my amiga 2000 (recently acquired a few months ago) mainly for:

-deluxe paint 3
-moviesetter
-amos pro

So basically: I make pictures, I make animation, and I work on new amiga games using
amos professional.

Love !!!

[XDelusion]

I browse and what not via MorphOS, but I do use the hell out of my 1200 still for musick.

[commodorejohn]

Do people actually use real Amiga's to surf the web?
Sounds painful.
Considering how slow that would be, when do you folks find time to eat or defecate?

People these days seem to be under the impression that anything under a gigahertz is incapable of running a basic web browser. It's seriously not that impossible - a moderately upgraded Amiga is on par with the kind of machines that were used for web browsing back in the old days. It ain't zippy, but it's certainly not that unusable. (The truth is just that your modern multi-gigahertz machine isn't as much faster as you think it is, outside of certain specific cases...)

Personally, I don't use my A1200 as much as I should - I'm currently trying to get it set up to do a little more, such as MIDI editing and animation. Ultimately my intention is for it to be a development platform for my game projects, I just haven't gotten around to those yet...

[runequester]

I will admit, mine is mostly for games, though I do try to learn Deluxe Paint again. And I'll agree with CommodoreJohn, you can do a lot more with the miggy online than people tend to assume.

[corpsicle]

Music in protracker, musicline and ahx.
Coding using asm-pro, phxass and ced.
Playing Doom.
Web and irc ( yes really ).
Playing games and watching demos.
They get used every week at least.

[duga]

1) Hack the hardware and software as much as possible.
2) Jam in as many broken upgrades as possible.
3) Sell it on Greedbay.
4) Buy someone else's crap at mega-markup prices on Greedbay.
5) Complain about it here on Amiga.org!
6) Done. :lol:

LOL, yeah, that's about it I guess. :rtfm:

[Iggy]

People these days seem to be under the impression that anything under a gigahertz is incapable of running a basic web browser. It's seriously not that impossible - a moderately upgraded Amiga is on par with the kind of machines that were used for web browsing back in the old days. It ain't zippy, but it's certainly not that unusable. (The truth is just that your modern multi-gigahertz machine isn't as much faster as you think it is, outside of certain specific cases...)

Personally, I don't use my A1200 as much as I should - I'm currently trying to get it set up to do a little more, such as MIDI editing and animation. Ultimately my intention is for it to be a development platform for my game projects, I just haven't gotten around to those yet...

No, not incapable, just painful (especially when we're  talking under 100MHz).
That's why I follow Xdelusion's lead and use a MorphOS machine (or better) for browsing.
Games on an Amiga, even text editing or music - no problem.