I was thinking about how in the States and UK the Amiga is remembered for different things. A lot of people remember the Amiga as a games machine however I must admit that I hardly played any games on my Amiga, mainly I used it for graphics 2D and 3D, animation, multimedia like SCALA, and music. Even now I still don't use it for games but for using Brilliance and OctaMED. Are there other people out there who use their Amigas not as a retro game machine but as a retro productivity machine?
What do you use your Amiga for?
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This might sound daft but I just like to make things work. I can sit and muck around with simple scripts to setup a rad drive and boot games on a reboot, just silly little things like that as you feel you are doing it for yourself. Whereas in Windows it's hard to understand or workout how things work due to all of the crap that is hidden away and the fact none of it makes sense unless you know what you are doing.
The Amiga has always been about trial and error teaching yourself by making mistakes and learning from them, but unlike Windows it's easy to correct problems without resorting to fresh OS installs when you haven't a clue how to put things right again.
Modern operating systems might be more newb friendly but the Amiga is about exploring. Exploring is what makes the Amiga an Amiga, users are/were willing to try things and let their creative sides out, and most of it is in plain English so you at least have some idea of what you are doing.
My fascination with the demo scene is nice too and I like some games
The Amiga has always been about trial and error teaching yourself by making mistakes and learning from them, but unlike Windows it's easy to correct problems without resorting to fresh OS installs when you haven't a clue how to put things right again.
Modern operating systems might be more newb friendly but the Amiga is about exploring. Exploring is what makes the Amiga an Amiga, users are/were willing to try things and let their creative sides out, and most of it is in plain English so you at least have some idea of what you are doing.
My fascination with the demo scene is nice too and I like some games
Process Data (For example I can search my 2TB hard drive 2000x (two thousand x) faster than the ridiculously stupid search function in Windoze XP.
Invent new things.
Play Total Chaos AGA,
Play various other gamez.
Make gfx.
Make muzax.
Make sfx.
Make anims.
Have fun.
Type.
Organize.
Chat on IRC.
Basically everything except web browsing.
Invent new things.
Play Total Chaos AGA,
Play various other gamez.
Make gfx.
Make muzax.
Make sfx.
Make anims.
Have fun.
Type.
Organize.
Chat on IRC.
Basically everything except web browsing.
My 500 and 500+ are for games and playing Mods + Demo's
My 1200 is for lots more :
Art + Graphics manipulation (Morphing Animations and 3D Renders)
with Hand Scanner + Digitizer for input
+ Music with self taken Samples (Dogs bark / Baby Laugh etc)
My 1200 is for lots more :
Art + Graphics manipulation (Morphing Animations and 3D Renders)
with Hand Scanner + Digitizer for input
+ Music with self taken Samples (Dogs bark / Baby Laugh etc)
Ed.D
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When I first started out with the A500 I was into Real3D and a few favorite games; Exile, Walker and flight sims. Also, like Acid I used to love trying to get things working, adding new bits on to every interface I could afford to. I wanted to get into programming but could never grasp syntax or program flow back then. It's a bit easier now that I've worked with HP-UX and Perl scripting but C and stuff like that are quite a mystery and to be honest unless you have something that you want to write a program for it's a bit difficult getting past any tutorials.
Nowadays since I've come back to the Amiga around 2010 I found new stuff to play with and try to integrate, Mediator PCI, Fast ATA, Blizzard 1230 etc. I get a lot of enjoyment still from trying to expand original amigas to the max, but where they don't diverge too much from the basic 68000 platform.
Nowadays since I've come back to the Amiga around 2010 I found new stuff to play with and try to integrate, Mediator PCI, Fast ATA, Blizzard 1230 etc. I get a lot of enjoyment still from trying to expand original amigas to the max, but where they don't diverge too much from the basic 68000 platform.
I like tinkering - basically seeing what is possible on an expanded A600, but I also enjoy exploring the past in general, playing with creative applications like Personal Paint etc. or installing Windows 3.1 for fun using PC Task 
I just love exploring, and I love the fact that it feels like a secret niche to explore like computing felt like when I was a kid, rather than the world and his dog into it like the standard Windows and Macintosh platforms today.. :roll:
I just love exploring, and I love the fact that it feels like a secret niche to explore like computing felt like when I was a kid, rather than the world and his dog into it like the standard Windows and Macintosh platforms today.. :roll:
I'm linking all mine together on a mega network like 'Skynet' so they can take over the world :twisted:
Only kiddin' (or am i?)
I love tinkering too, as you probably all noticed from my threads. I enjoy customizing my workbenches and love pushing the limits of what's possible.
I love the simplicity of an A1200 with an 030' for playing WHDLoad Games like Superfrog, Swiv, Sensi Soccer, Pang, Silkworm, Mega Typhoon, Banshee, etc, etc. It's nice to enjoy these too with the mod Con's like the Indivision AGA/ECS on modern TV's.
Although I must say recently I was testing some Amiga's on a CM1833 monitor and OMG, it was like being in an Arcade 20 years ago!
I like to where possible play games on their original platform so I have a real CD32 and a big stack of CD32 Games
My Pimped out Big Box Amiga's see a lot of Quake & Doom, I've been testing out a lot of Doom Wads recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhXEee5WrE
And spending a lot of time fine tuning my Workbench setups:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVO8Mr-9ofY
I occasionally take them online for basic browsing (Aminet & IRC(WookieChat) - I recently sold my A4000T but for ages it was my everyday work horse Amiga:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VH6BZX-y0
That's about it :bounceBoingBall:
Only kiddin' (or am i?)
I love tinkering too, as you probably all noticed from my threads. I enjoy customizing my workbenches and love pushing the limits of what's possible.
I love the simplicity of an A1200 with an 030' for playing WHDLoad Games like Superfrog, Swiv, Sensi Soccer, Pang, Silkworm, Mega Typhoon, Banshee, etc, etc. It's nice to enjoy these too with the mod Con's like the Indivision AGA/ECS on modern TV's.
Although I must say recently I was testing some Amiga's on a CM1833 monitor and OMG, it was like being in an Arcade 20 years ago!
I like to where possible play games on their original platform so I have a real CD32 and a big stack of CD32 Games
My Pimped out Big Box Amiga's see a lot of Quake & Doom, I've been testing out a lot of Doom Wads recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhXEee5WrE
And spending a lot of time fine tuning my Workbench setups:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVO8Mr-9ofY
I occasionally take them online for basic browsing (Aminet & IRC(WookieChat) - I recently sold my A4000T but for ages it was my everyday work horse Amiga:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VH6BZX-y0
That's about it :bounceBoingBall:
Mostly I like tinkering with them. Plugging bits in, upgrading them and making them work nicely.
On the rare occasions I have an actual, working and installed Amiga, I occasionally play games on it, or muck about with MOD files in OctaMED.
On the rare occasions I have an actual, working and installed Amiga, I occasionally play games on it, or muck about with MOD files in OctaMED.
edd_jedi
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When it's all together I use it to play games, mainly adventure games and generally games that use a mouse - I have a SNES for joypad games
But I also enjoy just tinkering with stuff which is why I got an A4000.
But I also enjoy just tinkering with stuff which is why I got an A4000.
"and frying their CF cards."
:rofl3"and frying their CF cards."
James, now you own me a German Hefeweizen can :beer: and a maiden to clean my monitor.
You can choose the nationality, but she must resemble Jessica Alba in shape and form.
"and frying their CF cards."
Oh, I thought we were talking about what we enjoyed about Amigas, not what part is the bane of our existence.
Or do you believe I secretly enjoy CF card destruction and it's all just a great big ruse to eliminate every CF card that passes through my hands?
Damn! I've been rumbled!
I have a sex slave who resembles Jessica Alba in Shape and Style but not Form. Darn. I was so close. Maybe next year when I get my new models in we'll have better luck.:rofl3"and frying their CF cards."
James, now you own me a German Hefeweizen can :beer: and a maiden to clean my monitor.
You can choose the nationality, but she must resemble Jessica Alba in shape and form.
