A1200T with 68040-25 and PPC603e-166, BVisionPPC, 64MB
Fast RAM, 8.4GB Hard Drive
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
Internet, Programming
Five favorite Amiga apps:
IBrowse, StormC, PerfectPaint, YAM, TurboPrint
Five favorite Amiga games:
Payback, Ambermoon, Turrican 2, Elite 2, The Settlers
First Amiga experience:
I bought my A500 in 1989 with 3 free programs (because
there were a million Amigas sold at that time): "Jeanne
d'Arc", some maths trainer and the great "Reflections".
Why did you join the club:
I think the AmigaOS is the very best OS around, so I
wanted to help keeping it alive.
How do you see the future of Amiga:
I don't need the Amiga to be the worlds most selled
platform. As long as there is some development, I can have fun
with my favourite computer, and I am happy. So I'm not too
worried about the future. It really should become at least a
bit better with A1/OS4 than it is now
Name:
Vance Lee Schowalter / Cyber Viking 2000
Location:
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Amigas owned and currently used:
previously AMIGA 2000, AMIGA 3000T; currently AMIGA 4000,
Amiga Forever.
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
I've used Amigas for games, 3D rendering, image
processing, Internet.
Five favorite Amiga apps:
LightWave 3D, The Digital Universe, DOpus 4.x and up,
Disney Animation Studio, Final Writer.
Five favorite Amiga games:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Quake, Shadow of the Beast,
Turrican, Batman The Movie.
First Amiga experience:
In a department store in 1985 that had a complete showcase
for the AMIGA 1000, I went as often as I could to see what new
software, demos, and accessories there were.
Why did you join the club:
To lend a show of support for my favourite platform.
How do you see the future of Amiga:
It will likely never replace the PC, but it stands a good
shot at replacing the Macintosh as the number two platform of
choice. The same ranking when the A1000 was out. The niche the
Amiga has to focus on is entertainment, which includes
professional video production. The real selling point of the
old and new Amigas is that they have a much longer life than
the PC and are more fun to use. It's easier to tweak the
AmigaOS than it is to get under the Windows or Linux hoods to
tinker. The Amiga also has the leanest apps in the world.
That, incombination with mass storage is a real selling point.
As long as the Amiga remains innovative, it'll do fine. If
we're going to spend the remainder of our days porting all of
the PC apps, then who's going to want a computer with nothing
but old apps and game?
