Play a lot, do workbench stuff, add hardware I couldn't pay before...
& I LOVE to show my students how a REAL computer should work, doing lots of stuff with minimal resources. :rainbow:
:nod:
So undeniably true.
Kin
what do you use you Amiga for?
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:nod:
So undeniably true.
Kin
Time travel to return to the past when computing was fun
Time travel to return to the past when computing was fun
TIME TRAVEL TO RETURN TO THE PAST WHEN COMPUTING WAS FUN
still use for game playing producing music programing collecting stuff you could only dream of the first time around (A500,A1500,2000,1200,CDTV,CD32)
YOU WOULD OF HAVE TO OF BEEN RICHARD BRANSON THE FIRST TIME AROUND TO BUY ALL THIS LOT
Time travel to return to the past when computing was fun
TIME TRAVEL TO RETURN TO THE PAST WHEN COMPUTING WAS FUN still use for game playing producing music programing collecting stuff you could only dream of the first time around (A500,A1500,2000,1200,CDTV,CD32)
YOU WOULD OF HAVE TO OF BEEN RICHARD BRANSON THE FIRST TIME AROUND TO BUY ALL THIS LOT
Erm, running Amiga software? 
Sorry.
Sorry.
Justin
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wasting my life away getting them to work
and for using up any money i may have
and for using up any money i may have
My Amigs's are stored away, in a dark wardrobe, protected from UV light.
Every so often, maybe every 2nd month, I set them up, make sure they're still functioning (sound, disk drive, hard drive), and put them away.
I used WinUAE if I want to watch demo's or play a game, because I want to save the real hardware.
Every so often, maybe every 2nd month, I set them up, make sure they're still functioning (sound, disk drive, hard drive), and put them away.
I used WinUAE if I want to watch demo's or play a game, because I want to save the real hardware.
I tend to use an A500 to beat the wife with, i find that A2000`s make too much of a mess...
On a serious note, i still use my A2000 for Protracker and hippoplayer when i`m working in the garage.. My days of video are over, just audio now.. Unlike a PC i can get on with it and it ALWAYS works
Cheers,
On a serious note, i still use my A2000 for Protracker and hippoplayer when i`m working in the garage.. My days of video are over, just audio now.. Unlike a PC i can get on with it and it ALWAYS works
Cheers,
OK, so a less flippant answer to the question, what do I use the Amigas for?
Mostly it's building that dream Amiga I could never have afforded back in the day (Some stuff may be pricey now, but that's peanuts compared to how much it all cost new!)
I play a few games, hoping to try a few more that I never got the chance to play as a kid. I also like fiddling around in OctaMED (not that I'm any good at making music, but it's fun to try) and I plan on going through the vast heaps of software I've got on CDs over the years. (VistaPro looks like it might be fun to play around with)
Mostly it's building that dream Amiga I could never have afforded back in the day (Some stuff may be pricey now, but that's peanuts compared to how much it all cost new!)
I play a few games, hoping to try a few more that I never got the chance to play as a kid. I also like fiddling around in OctaMED (not that I'm any good at making music, but it's fun to try) and I plan on going through the vast heaps of software I've got on CDs over the years. (VistaPro looks like it might be fun to play around with)
Justin
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flippant, FLIPPANT!!
how very dare you, factual yes, flippant never! pah (etc, etc, so on and so forth)
how very dare you, factual yes, flippant never! pah (etc, etc, so on and so forth)
I've not used it before, no. I got it on a CU Amiga cover CD, back in the day, but never had an Amiga powerful enough to use it. As it stands, I still don't either! But I'm working on that one.
Justin
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i used to use a stock A1200 to run imagine and upgraded to an 030 with FPU to run VistaPro, the Mars fly bys were fun to do.
I remember buying Vista Pro from an Amiga show at the Novatel in London back when the A1200 was a new machine
I remember buying Vista Pro from an Amiga show at the Novatel in London back when the A1200 was a new machine
@ AndyLandy - Yup, it does require a bit of power to make the best of it.. We used to turn up with a pair of A2000`s, genlock, camcorder etc and people thought we were mad, at the end of most evening their perception of the Amiga changed and 3000+ people couldn`t stop commenting on how `cool` it was... Amiga 1 - PC 0!
@ Juv - Imagine, god i used to spend ages just playing with the cow example until i found lightwave, never looked back. Novatel, was that at the 16bit fair in Hammersmith by any chance? We had a stall there
Cheers,
@ Juv - Imagine, god i used to spend ages just playing with the cow example until i found lightwave, never looked back. Novatel, was that at the 16bit fair in Hammersmith by any chance? We had a stall there
Cheers,
Justin
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i wish i could remember the name of the show m8, yes it was Hammersmith, but i'm sure it was an Amiga show not a 16bit show (damn my old age poor memory
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)@ AndyLandy - Yup, it does require a bit of power to make the best of it.. We used to turn up with a pair of A2000`s, genlock, camcorder etc and people thought we were mad, at the end of most evening their perception of the Amiga changed and 3000+ people couldn`t stop commenting on how `cool` it was... Amiga 1 - PC 0!
@ Juv - Imagine, god i used to spend ages just playing with the cow example until i found lightwave, never looked back. Novatel, was that at the 16bit fair in Hammersmith by any chance? We had a stall there
Cheers,
skippy
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It's interesting to reflect on market price vs specifications vs affordability.
Buying ** year old hardware, to build that now ** year old flagship to use
the collated ** year old software.
In a sense you could say what we can 'comfortably' afford today gets us the leading technology already more than ** years old.
Hierarchy of social classes dictated by the wheels of Economics.
JetSet.
For me its the lovely hardware, I like trying to make the old girl do crazy things! Once i'm all up and running with my A1200 i'll be using it to play mega demos, games from old to new (Wipeout 2097!!!), might try and browse a bit on the web. Use OctaMED sound Studio 5 with my Delfina and generally tinker. I'm actually very rusty with the software as i've spent 99% of my time back with hardware so I need to re-learn alot of stuff in Workbench!! It will all be fun thats for sure
i wish i could remember the name of the show m8, yes it was Hammersmith, but i'm sure it was an Amiga show not a 16bit show (damn my old age poor memory
World of Commodore, or later the World of Amiga, (and also the 16 Bit Computer Fair I believe, but I didn't go to those)...
They were awesome - my dad took me and my mates a few times in the car, and we took the train by ourselves from Coventry to big ol' London a couple of times when we were a bit older. A friend and I made t-shirts on the train on the way down, and got commissioned by a london businessman on the train to make one for him... (We never did)
I got my first hard drive from that show once - a Spirit HDA506 with 20MB disk...
Happy, happy memories. Great days. Thanks dad!
Justin
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World Of Amiga!!! yes that was it! seriously good fun
woot!
http://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1997/970402-woa.html
and that fun is soon to be re-lived at the r3play show
thanks for the reminder Chiark
woot!
http://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1997/970402-woa.html
and that fun is soon to be re-lived at the r3play show
thanks for the reminder Chiark
