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Members' Corner
Name/Moniker:
Amipal
Location:
Brighton, UK
Amigas owned and currently used:
A500, currently A1200/PPC/Voodoo3
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
Surfing, WP, gfx work, gaming
Five favorite Amiga apps:
FinalWriter'97, DPaint IV AGA, Cinema4D, Voyager, Personal
Paint
Five favorite Amiga games:
DuneII, Fighter Bomber, Worms DC, James Pond 2: RoboCod,
Team Yankee
First Amiga experience:
Playing The New Zealand Story on an A500. Oh happy days.
Why did you join the club?
To become an more integral part of the community
How do you see the future of Amiga:
Filling a niche in the market. There isn't a chance that
Amiga can reclaim the ground it lost when Commodore went
under, or 'defeat' M$, but I can see it at least gaining on
Apple due to a more user-friendly and understandable OS.
Name:
Alex
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Amigas owned and currently used:
1985: A1000s (still have it)
1988: A500 (sold)
1990:
A2000 (sold)
1993: A600 (sold)
1996: A1200s
(sold)
1998: A4000 (in use)
2002: Laptop w/Amithlon/XL
(in use)
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
I use the 4000 mostly for homation/security and audio
production. With its MC68060-50 the OS is still faster and
smoother than Windows 2000/XP on a 2GHz P4. That says a lot
about the OS and HW. Warm boot time: 13sec. incl. animated
boot sequence. I only use the PPC604-200 for audio processing
and some raytracing. As I need the mobility but won't use
windows for anything except looking through walls . I use
AmigaXL on my laptop to work remotely via the internet, for
programming, etc.
Five favorite Amiga apps:
BrowserII, Yam, Imagine, TVPaint, EZHome
Five favorite Amiga games:
When I used to play, I really liked Marble Madness,
Interspace and the old adventure games like Borrowed Time
First Amiga experience:
1985, I'm at a mall with my hands full of discounted
Sinclair Spectrum 48K games. A guy sees them and tells me he's
got about 500 apps and games on tapes for it that he doesn't
need anymore. What a trip! The one thing I've always liked
more than using any software is discovering it. Some kind of
novelty addiction, the magic feeling of the unknown, new
concepts, new thinking, new challenges. It's as exciting as
opening 500 gifts. So I follow him to his place to pick up the
tapes, and once there he can't resist showing off the very
reason why he's dumping the goodies. His brand new Amiga.
(Moment of silence) As my life flashes in front of my eyes, I
realize that I had wasted a whole year of it (and a perfectly
good girlfriend) memorizing every single address of the Z80
for some suddenly obsoleted future poking. After coming back
to my senses and picking up my jaw off the floor, I vow not to
rest until I have one I can call my own. Ancient wizards
wannabe might have used makebelieve wooden sticks, but this is
the real thing, baby. An actual magic wand! Well, money
doesn't come easy for teenagers so what I spent instead was a
whole month at my new friend's pad so that I could keep him
company (the computer, silly) while "the other guy" was at
work I pretty much sold anything I could find, and after
giving up any futile hope of finding a used 1000, I borrowed
money and finally bought my one way ticket to geekdom. Never
to see the other guy after that. Nah, just kidding. Actually I
brought my machine to his place so that we could learn from
each other and also connect them together with a null-modem
cable to mess with distributed computing. 17 years have passed
since, and we're still friends. His career choices dragged him
away from the Amiga, leaving him entangled in a MS of broken
glass, while I simply made my Amigas do whatever I needed.
Why did you join the club:
To add one soul to the list of tangible customers and
therefore encourage further efforts towards the AmigaOne and
OS4.0
How do you see the future of Amiga:
If for some unexplained reasons Amiga Inc decides to hire
yours truely, it may very well be the end of an era for MS and
the PC as we know it, 2005 bringing an Amiga code-named
"Magica", taking the world by surprise as everything it
thought about computers becomes irrelevant, witnessing in awe
the end of digital torture and the beginning of what it should
and could have been all along, thanks to some pretty simple
and apparently not-so-obvious ideas. Aren't you glad you
asked? I know it's hard to believe, but that's how I see the
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