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Members' Corner
Name/Moniker:
Stephen Cropp
Location:
Brighton, UK
Amigas owned and currently used:
- Amiga A500 - 1meg expansion and extra floppy drive -
purchased in 1988
- Amiga CD32 - Now dead with SX1 and 4 meg simm and a
124meg 2.5" hard disk, Purchased in 1993/4
- Amiga 1200 - Purchased second hand in 96 when my CD32
died, upgraded with a Blizzard 1230mk4 and 16 meg simm,
squirrel scsi a Revo CDrom drive, and a Zip drive. in 2001 I
tried to rejuvenate it a bit, adding a Z-IV tower, a
mediator, and sound and GFX cards and a 68882 FPU, but it
was too slow and was not really up to the task any more
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
Up until 1998 I used my Amigas for everything! Games,
programming, Games, word-processing, Magazines, Games, Simple
video editing, Games, drawing, Fidonet, and even a bit of
internet. Nowadays, I do most of this on my PC, but never seem
to be as much fun. Hopefully with my Amigaone XE G4 running
OS4 I will be able to enjoy my computing again!
Five favorite Amiga apps:
- Spot - A netmail and echomail reader. Extremely simple
interface, but very powerful at the same time. I have not
seem a better newsreader or mail tool on any platform. Its a
shame it is not really suitable for use with the internet
- Cygnus Ed - One of the first things I look for when
starting work on a new platform is a decent text editor. CED
is great. Its quick and easy to use, and it is very
flexible.
- Photogenics - I am not an artist by any stretch of the
imagination, but I do enjoy photography, and this package is
great for tidying up photos.
- Devpac 3 - I can't see myself programming in PPC
assembler, but my university projects were a joy to code on
my Amiga rather than the 68k SBCs that we were supposed to
be using" I will probably be in the market for a decent C++
IDE for my A1XE.
- Wordworth 6 - Not the best word processor in the world,
but it served me well through University. I suspect I will
move over to a decent DTP package in future, Pagestream
looked really good when Robert Williams Demoed it at the
World of Amiga last year.
Five favorite Amiga games:
[Note: these are five of my favourite games, they are not
my five favourite games because that list is way too
complicated to compile]
- Speedball - The ever amazing Bitmap Brothers game. An
absolute classic! The best game ever, especially in two
player mode.
- Supercars II - Not a good game to play just before a
driving
test.
- Pong - breakout on its side. Great fun, and freeware!
- Tilefall - I still hold this game responsible for my bad
coursework marks
- XenonII - An excellent shootemup with even better theme
tune.
There are no wargames in this list, or adventure games,
purely because I
ran out of space! Next time it will have
to be a top 50. :)
First Amiga experience:
I cant remember that far back. :) It would almost
certainly have been at a friends house in 1987.
Why did you join the club?
Because I want to start enjoying my home computing the way
I used to. Coming back to the Amiga has been a dream of mine
ever since I was forced to move over to the PC in '98, and
joining this club was a small step on the road to making that
happen. Its great to see the end in sight now.
I cant wait!
How do you see the future of Amiga:
Hmm. Difficult one this. In the computer industry it is
not easy to see more than 6 months into the future, but there
are plenty of exciting possibilities on the horizon.
Before the release of OS4 I do not see the Amiga community
moving much further on than it is already. While I am looking
forward to playing with my A1, I am not really all that
interested in another faceless linux box. I want A computer
with character.
Once OS4 arrives, the next big milestones will be the
arrival of any big software packages in development. When
these arrive the community will be able to start growing
again.
AmigaDE looks good, and I think is very much under
estimated by the Amiga community. The opportunity to
distribute highly portable software that is capable of running
quickly and efficiently looks very promising.
I am very much looking forward to the Amiga coming out of
the wilderness again. I think this year is going to be one to
remember.
Name:
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder
Location:
Dinslaken, Germany
Amigas owned and currently used:
Owned: three (A500, A1200, A1200PPC)
Currently used:
One (A1200,603e-175/060-50,BVision,Z-VI, X-Surf, OS3.9
How do you use Amigas in your everyday life:
Burn CDs, Internet, E-Mail, Web-Design, Text-Processing
and more.
Five favorite Amiga apps:
MakeCD, GoldED, arteffect, AmigaWriter, YAM
Five favorite Amiga games:
Quake, Napalm, T-Zero, Superfrog, WipeOut 2097
First Amiga experience:
1989/1990 (after a C=64)
Why did you join the club:
Why not? :) `cause I`m a Amiga-Fan and so I "must" be in
the club
How do you see the future of Amiga:
hmmm. like "Asterix"-Comic (you know it?): The whole
world? - No a little community
I think Amiga will be a hobby for freaks and fans. Why
should a Win***-user say: yes I will have an Amiga? to go back
in the brain Amiga must be everywhere (not only special
dealers. Also Big Companys (e.g. MediaMarkt, ProMarkt, Metro
in Germany) must sell it, Software must be available
everywhere (also in supermarket) and great newspaper (e.g.
BILD in Germany) must be write about Amiga. And: Promotion,
Promotion, Promotion In every town, in every street, everyone
must read the letters: "The Legend continues" and everyone
must be know what it mean. |
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