How much and how do you use your Amiga

[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.

[scuzzb494]

There is always an Amiga running here. I have so many I guess I'm spoilt for choice.

I use mine for file management, disk searching, managing my website content and fun. I love my Amiga gaming. I also do a lot of video editing and the like.

In terms of exclusive... that would be difficult. I currently have set up an running, in addition to the Amigas... Acorn A5000, A7000, RiscStation, Atari Falcon, 2800 and 130XE, Spectrum ZX81, 48K and +3, Tatung Einstein, Amstrad 464, 6128, 6128PLUS, MegaPC and PCW9512, Sony PS1 and PS3 plus Commodore C64 x 2 and the 128ds x 2 desktop.

And they generally are all fired up every day.... My world is retro so not too much time on the internet other than for posting on the group.

[Dandy]

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.

Well, first you need to know that I'm an commuter.
My primary residence is in a small town roughly 70 km east of Cologne, where I have a 64Bit core i5 quadcore machine with Win10. AmigaForever 2016 installed with OS 3.9 (currently adding a OS 4.1 FE U1 setup).

My secondary residence is in Cologne, where also my workplace is.

In Cologne I currently use my A4kPPC with OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1 exclusively.
A while back, I also had an WinXP machine here, which was networked with my Miggy using RDesktop. Great setup!
But then M$ droppped support for XP and subsequently I only bought a new PC for my primary residence.

Still undecided if I should get a new PC for my secondary residence as well...

Due to health probs I have to spend a lot of money for medicines, dressing material, therapies and the like. And I also would like to get my hands on an NG Amiga, i.e. A1 X5k.
In the face of my small budget I think I should focus on my health spendings in the first place and on saving money for an NG Amiga in the second place - so most likely there will be no room for a new WINTEL box in Cologne.

So I have to rely on my trusty old towered Amiga4000PPC entirely here in Cologne (furthermore I have an towered A1200/030@40, as well as 2 and a half A500s).

I mainly use it for surfing Amiga websites, the website of our railway preserving society, timetable enquiries for public transport, e-mailing, scanning, managing my photos, doing some graphic artwork here and there, office tasks, documentations and occasionally some construction work (mechanical engineering) with CAD software. I also have already done some routing from schematics for producing some simple PCBs (like an A500 audio digitiser and a few PCBs for some circuitry of my old model railway).
While working on my Miggy I like to listen to mp3-music from AmigaAmp.
I also burn some CDs from time to time, as well as some DVDs.

Furthermore, as time permits, I'm working on setting up an "OS 4.1 FE U1"-environment in addition to my OS 3.9 setup. For this I recently bought two BigRAM+ with 256 mB each and plugged them into Z-III slots, summing up to 640 mB with the 128 mB on the CSPPC.

[dschallock]

I use my A3000 - Warpengine 040 - Picasso IV - SunrizeAD516 - PAR - Xsurf100 - Amiga several times a week.
I use it for pixel art graphics, Deluxe music, AD516 sound recording, traditional animation pencil testing, and games.
I would use it everyday (no joke) if we could get a 68k browser that doesn't require a PPC or emulated machine to run. (sigh).

[BozzerBigD]

It's more of a guilty pleasure blast than a regular thing! Deluxe Paint V animation once a month and the odd game a Rainbow Islands, Deluxe PacMan or Aladdin with my daughter. Had a 6 hour marathon of Dune on the weekend. That's as close to an RPG game as I get. Forget Zelda, Dune rocks for atmosphere with  great blend of adventure, resource management and RPG. Can't beat the Amiga centric colour palette effects and pixelating spice communication scenes! Awesome. And don't get me started on the music! One word.... hypnotic ;-)

[Dandy]

...
And don't get me started on the music! One word.... hypnotic ;-)

Yeah - I can very well remember the nights when I was experimenting with the Synthesiser tunes of Aegis Sonix and Roland TB-3 emulation and rolling my eyes to the 'hypnotic' sounds...
:laughing:

Like here:

Chong rolling his eyes and playing extremely loud rock music with an electric guitar that disturbs the entire neighborhood.
(From the movie 'Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)')

[darksun9210]

aw man, not enough!
vamp powered A600 sitting there waiting for me to have a few free hours.
030 powered A1200 as my "works no matter what machine" but now just runs as a check list of stuff as i build the A600's workbench and software to something usable.
030 powered A500 unmothballed to get it to a working state without flyleads and bent paperclips as jumpers all over the place - soldering station still in it's box.
060 powered A3000 sitting under the sofa taunting me everytime i go hunting under there for a cable out of a the boxes i keep under there, but her PSU is too bloomin noisey once you're used to running A500/600/1200 for a bit.
A4k, board is out of the case, i just need to get it sent off for repair as she won't fire up. have A3640, netsurf100+rapidroad, mediator, bigram256, CV64/3D on standby for when she's running.
non-amiga related, got an r10k SGI O2 loaded with 768meg ram, digital a/v card, and an SSD via scsi2sata board, and a full set of irix install CD's. have tried an install three times but always got stuck, and then ran out of time of an evening. again, another noisy PSU fan.
my guitars see more dusting than playing.

on the plus side, got most of the downstairs and some of upstairs cabled up with cat6 & wall sockets, and satellite TV shotgun co-ax to wall sockets. however that may have been a mis-step as am now migrating everything back to the garage as a central server/switchstack data+a/v distribution point with hdmi+IR over cat6, so testing that atm.
Am ridiculously addicted to the hue lights to the point where i think divorce proceedings may start! also two small toddlers and a significant other who doesn't get much sleep because of said sprogs kinda eats massively into my time budget.

[eliyahu]

@thread

i tend to use my X5000 as my personal system, and my company-provided PCs for, well, work. so the X5000 is used every day for e-mail, web browsing, video-watching, family finance tracking, family schedule-planning, gaming (my son's favorite game on earth is MACE), listening to streaming audio, IRC, sketching using a digital tablet, etc., etc. i do this sort of thing every day.

-- eliyahu

[mbob]

I use my 3000 and 1200 for retro gaming mainly but soon I will have a 2000 with an 060 and Ethernet so I am hoping to install OS 3.9 and do some email and web-browsing with it. It also has a toaster and I've always wanted to see how they work so plan on goofing around with it to at least test it out.  I also run an Amiga based BBS but do that with emulation on my Windows Media Center PC that is always on and low powered.

[Arnuph1s]

I use my A4000 for games. I haven't had a desire to try and expand it to try and do 'modern stuff' as that seems too expensive for the returns. It probably gets fired up every couple of weeks for a session. I work M-F so it has to share my leisure time with other other systems. But it was on last night and I was playing 'Rock Star Ate My Hamster' whilst waiting for HD images to copy over to my Apple IIgs from a Floppy Emu!

[dovegrace]

I use my A4000 for games. I haven't had a desire to try and expand it to try and do 'modern stuff' as that seems too expensive for the returns.

Amen.  I'm (still) in the process of bringing my A4000D back to life, and the ROI for new hardware isn't much for the limited gains.  Thankfully my needs are simple, and the Picasso II, Ariadne 2, and GVP I/O Extender salvaged from my dead A2000 should turn my A4000D into a respectable system again.

[motrucker]

I still use my A2000 ('040, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, DVD, LCD monitor) every day. I do admit to using a windows machine for games, and sometimes graphics along with the A2000.
Sadly my A1000 is in storage right now.......

[Acill]

My main system I consider my personal machine is an A4000T loaded out with just about everything you can do with it now. I use it nearly every day I am home for as much as I can. I love to tinker and tune it for relaxing.

My other machines, A500, A600, A1200, A4000D are all reference machines and used for doing testing on others boards I repair. They are in good shape, but dont get used for play at all. They have proudly been used to save many others machines though over the last year.

[outrun1978]

My Amigaone500 machine gets used as my main and at times only computer.

Tasks I do on it are:

Surf the Internet using Odyssey and Netsurf
Play OS4 games
Play Classic Amiga games via WHDLoad
Use the numerious emulators at my disposal  Vice, Snes 9x, Dgen, Hatari
Listen to music on Tunenet or AmigaAMP
Watch videos using Emotion player
Download videos off You tube using SMtube
Use Mapparium (open Street Map)
Read emails using Yam

Tasks I peform less often-  Use Cinnamon Writer, Wordworth or Amiga Writer and also use Ignition/Gnumeric for office based activites

Other Amigas in my collection such as my A1200 and CD32 are safely stored away in boxes for preservation as the Amigaone 500 pretty much fulfill my day to day needs

I have a PC too but that appears to be gathering dust seemingly never to be touched again....

For portable pleasure i use a Microsoft Surface with the option to run Amiga OS4.1 FE under emulation in WinUAE,  even on my travels i miss using an Amiga ;-)

[trixster]

My A1200, A4000 and Falcon get fired up almost everyday, my other machines on occasions when I have time. It depends on what projects I'm using them for, but they all get used quite a lot. I enjoy comparing games on the different formats. For the machines I'm interested in but don't yet own I use the PC or a raspberry Pi to emulate them.

[vince_6]

Well here at work I brought my A1200 030 and my ppc tower for repair (cia).
I use it everyday for irc and gaming. Sometimes battleduel tcp with friends.
Also I join to bbs with dctelnet and controlling my headless Pi via telnet.