How much and how do you use your Amiga

[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.

[ntromans]

I use my AROS systems everyday, and aside from having to use Windows at work it's the only system I use. Uses are for work (PageStream and FinalCalc via Janus along with Ghostscript and NoWinEd native), email (YAM), web browsing (OWB), playing music/videos (mplayer), graphics maipulation (ZuneView/ZumePaint & various 68k applications too), coding (Hollywood, quite often for work applications via a recompile for Windows) and occasionally playing games.

Oh, and currently we have an A1200 motherboard running 24/7 controlling our central heating and hot water systems, soon to be retired from that role (and possibly gaining a Vampire at some point) to be replaced by an AROS box with which to do additional home automation tasks (controlling lights etc.) and to act as a media server.

Cheers,
Nigel.

[outrun1978]

How much do I use my 4 Amiga machines......let me see

Amiga 1200...... sat in a box for preservation purposes

Amiga CD32....... also sat in a box for preservation purposes

Amigaone500.......  sat in my cupboard now I have managed to get all my software moved across to my new X5000 machine..   Am still wondering if I should sell this machine and give it to a good home..

Amigaone X5000....... I use this every day, its replaced my PC, I surf the net on it, I listen to music on it, I stream internet radio, I do emails on it, I write my blog on it too at http://www.amigax5000.wordpress.com
I play all my classic  Amiga games, I run loads of great emulators such as Hatari, NeoGeoNG, Snes9x, Dgen(Megadrive) Osmose (Sega Master System)  Vice (commodore 64)  Fuse (spectrum)  Arnold (Amstrad cpc)

I also run lots of great OS4 specific games like Open Transport Tycoon, Simultrans, Quake I, II and III, Aliens Vs Predator, Speed Dreams, Gorky 17, Swamp Defense II, Descent Freespace

[outrun1978]

How much do I use my 4 Amiga machines......let me see

Amiga 1200...... sat in a box for preservation purposes

Amiga CD32....... also sat in a box for preservation purposes

Amigaone500.......  sat in my cupboard now I have managed to get all my software moved across to my new X5000 machine..   Am still wondering if I should sell this machine and give it to a good home..

Amigaone X5000....... I use this every day,its replaced my PC, I surf the net on it, I listen to music on it, I stream internet radio, I do emails on it, I write my blog on it too at http://www.amigax5000.wordpress.com
I play all my classic  Amiga games, I run loads of great emulators such as Hatari, NeoGeoNG, Snes9x, Dgen(Megadrive) Osmose (Sega Master System)  Vice (commodore 64)  Fuse (spectrum)  Arnold (Amstrad cpc)

I also run lots of great OS4 specific games like Open Transport Tycoon, Simultrans, Quake I, II and III, Aliens Vs Predator, Speed Dreams, Gorky 17, Swamp Defense II, Descent Freespace


I also watch DVD's and clips using SMtube and Emotion Video player

[BozzerBigD]

@outrun1978

also sat in a box for preservation purposes

Perserved for when, who or what reason? Either donate it to a museum, use it/show your children or nephew/niece or sell it. These machines are to be used or the capacitors/batteries go to hell anyway! What a waste. It just makes Amigas artificially rare on eBay/Amibay!

[BozzerBigD]

@outrun1978

HunoPPC ported Alien vs Predator (2000) to AmigaOS! That's awesome! I loved the 2nd game but I've heard this is just as good! Great job ;-)

[outrun1978]

@bozzerbigD

Perhaps I will hand down my A1200 to my nephew if and when the time is right in the meantime it stays boxed so the keys don't turn yellow.

I have a host of other machines too safely boxed away and now only taken out on special occasions. Ever since I got a MIST FPGA box these machines get used less as the MIST does a Stirling job in re-creation many classic systems

[BozzerBigD]

@outrun1978

It's a good idea to get that nephew of yours enthused about the 'miggy.

A) We need fresh blood in this community.
B) We are the only generation standing in the way of a purely touch screen computer game generation.

I aim to get my daughter playing Aladdin and Deleuxe Pacman and maybe even Ruff N' Tumble before her 4th birthday ;-)

She's nearly there!

[outrun1978]

Ruff N Tumble is a great game, one of my favourites.

And yes your point on it being the touchscreen generation is very much valid we do need some new blood and one of the things they could do with learning is how things work behind the scenes. One of the nice aspects of AmigaOS is that unlike other OS'es we still have to configure things in the old fashioned way compared to say Windows or Mac OS where apps now work straight away.

[agami]

Lately, bugger all.
But mostly for a nostalgia fix.
And the Amiga that sits to my right in my home office serves as a reminder of my mission.

[David Wright]

It's hard to get kids today interested. For a while they will play but still gravitate towards nintendo switch, X box and all the others.

As far as regular computing, they don't even do that on pcs.

I have a 1000 set up with aca 500 plus now on a crt. Still love playing F18 game.
Vampire, a few times a week with graphics and a game or two.

[Thorham]

Mainly used for programming in assembly language. Sometimes my Amiga is on everyday for hours, and sometimes less than once a week.

[kolla]

The MiST is the system I have at my "home office" (since it is tiny), and I use it every day if I am home, as terminal client, DPaint/PPaint/Brilliance, light web browsing, scripting and lately building simple GUIs to manage my "cloud" systems (via Raspberry pi that acts as a proxy). In my TV I have plugged in Minimig and CD32/SX32, not used every day, but typically several times a week - both online via bluetooth null-modem  For "daily" use with RTG, there is FS-UAE on my Macbook. The rest I pull out when I want to tinker or do specific tasks that they are fit for - A3000/CSPPC/CVPPC, A1200 with Blizzard 1260, another with Blizzard 1230, yet another with ACA1220, A600 w/Apollo 630, A600 w/V600, CDTV w/V500, Peg1 w/MorphOS... and whatever else I have forgotten now

[dovegrace]

Hmm, it appears I'll be using my Amigas a lot more often now... I've finally resurrected my A4000D!

(Maniacal laughter)

[Iggy]

Not much, since my fpga system is dedicated to other uses, and my A2000 is awaiting some upgrades (but we don't need to go there again).
I wish I'd bought an A1200 when they were available and relatively cheap, but I do have a CD32 with an SX1 that acts as a substitute.
That would be my primary Amiga system, as I don't consider my MorphOS systems Amigas.
And I think I get more use out of the MorphOS hardware (even without legacy hardware compatibility), because it just plain runs SO much better.

[BozzerBigD]

@Iggy

I hope the SX-1 is treating you well. Mine was a bit unstable with the addition of a 2.5" hard drive AND 8mb SIMM module. Either one or the other was fine but not both! Yes, I had a beefed up power supply, but the SX32 was a far better machine IMHO.