How much and how do you use your Amiga

[curtis]

This has been tickling the back of my brain for sometime.

How much do you use your Amiga and what for?

Anyone use an Amiga exclusively for ALL your computer needs?

Maybe we could do a survey.

[dovegrace]

At the moment, my A1200 serves as a serial console for my Raspberry Pi.  I also run AmiMSX frequently to read/write disks for my MSX2, and am currently trying to beat Black Tiger in WHDLOAD.

[matt3k]

This has been tickling the back of my brain for sometime.

How much do you use your Amiga and what for?

Anyone use an Amiga exclusively for ALL your computer needs?

Maybe we could do a survey.

Hi Curtis,

I use my 3000D everyday for:
Email
Reminders
Occasional word processing
Financial and checkbook
Listening to MP3's
Coping pictures from my phone
General tweaking to get more speed and better stability
Clean up photos
I still need to hookup the Phonepak to answer the phone.

My kids use their 4000D everyday for:
Games (both educational and entertainment)
School
Music and typing lessons
Word processing
Listening to music

Since the browser software world is a little beyond what the Amiga can deliver, I use other systems for surfing the web.  I know the latest version of Netsurf is suppose to do css, it still seems like it would be a challenge, but I have try actually try it to see the results.  I would like to think an overclocked 060 and PPC with a Radeon via a 3000Di would be somewhat usable but we will see.  Movie watching, I haven't even attempted anything on the Amiga and probably never will.

Other than browsing and movies, the Amiga is perfectly usable with everything else.

My only items to tackle is to see if I can get more educational games on the WHDload site to help with many of the games my kids could be using.

Viva Amiga!

[aggro_mix]

I use it less and less, sadly. Maybe once a week.

But when I do it's for:
Making music using Bars&Pipes as my sequencer
Editing photos with ImageFX
Anything related to text processing with Cygnus Ed

That's basically it.

[klx300r]

My X1000 daily for email, web browsing, listen to music, NG gaming, messing with SketchBlock, messing around endlessly with workbench etc.

My A1200, 1-3X per week, mainly for gaming for my kids and of course myself lol

MyA4000, 2-3X per week, still getting her setup just the way I like, she's my demo machine and messing with music & Lightwave.

My A1200T, my hacking machine always adding more & struggling to keep her stable

My A1000, turned on daily to keep her happy & me too

[zylesea]

I use my MorphOS machines daily for most of the stuff I do: browsing the net, doing mails, programming, reading pdfs, videos, pictures, music, editing html, playing a game from time to time, spreadsheeds, etc.
I use Windows/Android for wordprocessing, a few google services, tax services, skype and some development stuff.
MorphOS is doing a pretty satisfying job here, but having an additional random Win box and a tablet makes life even easier. The good thing, due to having MorphOS as the everyday machine, the Win box keeps very clean and hence, stable and fast.

[Motormouth]

Not enough!

[Iggy]

Not enough!

I use a CD32 for games and an A2000 for game software I can not run on the CD32 and for productivity software (you don't need blinding speed to run a text editor, for instance).
AND I have a couple of MorphOS system that have the speed and power the legacy hardware lack, they make web browsing less painful.

BTW - You CAN use this kind of combination as your primary hardware.
I will often take time off from Windows and do just that.

[a1200]

I use my A1200 about once or twice a month - Amiga Games, Demos, Mod playing, Word processing some personal letters/docs.

[kolla]

My Amiga systems, in order of how much I use them:

* MIST - pretty much every day, as terminal to read email, taking care of my "cloud" stuff, music, WormsDC

* A1200/060 - almost every day, music and dpaint

* CD32/SX32Pro/030 - a couple of times a week, mostly tinkering

* Minimig - tinkering, terminal for email etc, and OCS/ECS games.

* A600/030 - a couple of times a week, tinkering, terminal...

* A3000/CSPPC/060 - rarely used, need to replace noisy SCSI drive

In addition I have some more systems (A600, CD32, CDTV, A1200) that I currently do not spend so much time with right now. And a few Macs with MorphOS and PC systems with AROS. I always build a small RPi systems inside my Amiga systems now, to take care of all kinds of networking issues

[Drummerboy]

I used my A1200 as my main machine until 2010. For now, i still using just for hobby,  for browsing (i am writing this from the A1200),  email, music, word processor, metronome, sometimes for  gaming and tests things.

[dandelion]

I use my MorphOS machine every day for a little bit of journaling, web browsing, calendar/reminders, ripping CDs and listening to MP3s.

Trying to get a nicer email experience going too so I can use it for that.

As an alternative OS, it's wonderful how usable it is in 2017 for daily needs. When I get up to speed to Arexx, I think it will become even more powerful as I start to integrate different applications to perform common tasks etc.

[VooDoo]

I use my AmigaOne/OS4.1 FE everyday as my main machine (emai,surfing,GFX,sound,DTP,Financial,webdesign..) ..no PC here,still only Amiga..
A1200 is in box and waiting for retro party ,and yeah have plan for buying new Amiga NG hw this year.

Happy Amiga user.

[PPC]

Using My A600+Vampire 2 well every day,  browse the internet,use google drive/dropbox, play music and movies.
Tinker a lot with it getting my WB even more complete, Use 68K mac emulation on it (shapshifter) and play an occasional game.

[jack-3d]

Almost everyday since there are many projects going on like VA2000 graphics board, Sonnet Crescendo G3 accelerator, Vampire accelerators. I dont have time to play games only when kids asks me to join (kids have A1200 with B1230 for games). But what I do is checking demoscene prods and collect them.

I also make together Amiga configs for my friends as they buy hardware and I put it all together, make OS fitting to the system (no Amigasys or ClassicWB, just fresh installation os OS3.9 with good set of tools and utils) and fill disk drive it with games, data and apps. I just wish day would have more then 24 hours.