Oh, I also use my amiga for reading new issues of Commodore Free when theyre out (that is you isnt it?)

@RobertJDohnert

Currently the owner of a sam440flex here...
I count AmigaOSv4, MorphOS and AROS as the "Children" of AmigaOSv3.x and earlier...
so I still think *all* members of the family are somewhat relevant to this question.

For day to day computing and using TimberWolf(at least 7 tabs without issues except when closing...),
AmIRC(this seems to be the primary culprit of system crashes care of TextEditor.mcc... I need to try debugging this further beyond capturing crashlogs aplenty),
BitCoin trading (randomly),
Software Development(Whenever I get the chance to type a little bit of code... not everything gets committed to svn no googles cloud ;),
Listening to music (Tunenet or commandline players),
Watching my video media collection (graphics performance is so-so here).

Currently messing around with Japanese Input and trying to properly present UTF8 for Applications who can have the option c/o perception...

I'm also trying to write a couple of Emulators (very slowly and in small steps)...

Having a couple of *large* HDDs in the machine seriously helps for the majority of tasks...
as is having space for a reasonably sized swap partition.

I'm also awaiting an updated OS component relative to the Japanese Keyboard sent to S.Solie (postage from my own pocket... so meh to the naysayers...)

I have tried Linux (several years sys admin) and was trained with Windows...
and my opinion about them both is... "meh"... Linux is too technical for everyday usage...
Mac is just treating me like "there there, heres a baby rattle... go play" and Windows is no better than mac most of the time.

AmigaOS has always been the most *open* commercial offering retaining a simplicity for the OS layout and this is pervasive...

Openly simple but also powerfully capable from the choices made by various component authors towards a holistic system design.

I know there is a few things I still can't do myself properly (device drivers and filesystems primarily) but I am still open-minded to learn if I can document out a design as an abstraction to make a sensible driver or filesystem.

I'll end my book of an answer there, if anyone has any questions about what I am doing... ask me directly... anything "negative" or "go away" can go back to the bitbucket of "duh, I'm stupid!", I currently hold the opinion there is no one in this branched community who is accurately perceivable that way currently.

please don't prove me wrong... (I'll just TPB style publish the more excessive detractions with or without redaction and let the community see how excessive some of the "hate mail" gets... and this is what "newbies" get to see too...sigh)

I surf the web, watch youtube clips, listen to music etc. Im musician but havent finished anything in years and hope to continue soon.

On my laptop (win8) i normally watch movies (connected to tv) and surf. Sometimes videoediting when i dont do anything amiga specific in the video. Saves some time ;) And ofcourse stuff that dont work on my miggy. Like Google+, GooglePlay etc.

The everything web (owb/wookie/pftp/yam/clipdown&Getvideo)
Listen to music (Tunenet/AmigaAmp3)
Make music which i havent done for ages (HD-Rec/CodeAudio)
Multimedia (mplayer/Arteffect/Collagemaker/Ktadd's software)

My album with x1000
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150761252434899.502760.837819898&type=1&l=dfc5307fb8

Mines keeping the spiders company !

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@RobertJDohnert

For me:
Amiga = personal computer
Windows = Impersonal computer
Mac = Obnoxiously condescending personal computer
Linux = boring, albeit very useful to know, personal computer

Putting aside hardware tinkering as a use, for me the enjoyment of Amiga came with building ones own personal computer system - not just changing backgrounds, icons, themes, palettes and fonts etc but creating how the sytem operated as a whole, how applications interreacted, what went where and knowing why. Having an operating system whose operation you understand and control, not one where computer seizures happen seemingly at random followed by a full splash-screen of "Adobe updates are available!" as default behaviour.

These aspects have been built upon and expanded, and all Amiga compatible systems (AROS, AmigaOS,, MorphOS) seem to have retained this philosophy of keeping the user in control. That is also reflected in the user interface, which is legendary for its responsiveness to user input, as opposed to the "you'll just have to wait a minute, I'm busy" approach of other OSes (I'm looking at you Mac colourwheel).

This is all my own experience of course, and I recognise that different people have different tastes. Most people want everything done for them, I'm just a control freak and prefer to do as much as possible myself.

And whoever at MS are responsible for
a) the Office Assistant;
b) the "Troubleshoot" button
deserve priority tickets for the B-Ark. Both are utterly useless resource-hogging abominations of feeble-minded obviousness which have no analogue in the Amiga world.

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At the moment, mainly:

- Web browsing (but I still use Linux/FireFox for some critical sessions like PC Banking)
- Mail
- ARexx scripting
- Browsing/sorting/updating data from my old A4000
- Fine tunning my new A1 X1000

Next, I plan to buy Hollywood.

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I use my Amiga's for fun.

TrevorD

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@AmigaPhil

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Next, I plan to buy Hollywood.

Didn't think it was available to buy for the Amiga any more

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@RobertJDohnert

I use my real Amigas and FS-UAE for hobby programming for pleasure. Coding for the sake of coding, no deadlines, no fixed goals and no PHB breathing down my neck! :)

I use my PowerBook G4 for the same plus web browsing with Odyssey, AmIRC, ssh to my off site Linux server, mod playing and general tweaking the OS to fit my workflow.

No other OS gives me the same feeling of control than Amiga OS/MorphOS/AROS. Not even my highly tweaked KDE/Linux laptop.

@BigD

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Didn't think it was available to buy for the Amiga any more

AFAIK, Hollywood 5.3 was supposed to be available to new customers at a later time.
If this does not happen, am I not be able to buy an older version and upgrade ?

@IntuitionAmiga

"No other OS gives me the same feeling of control than Amiga OS/MorphOS/AROS."

+1



I've found out (after I had my 30'th birthday) that I'm too old to learn to master Linux 100% like I did with AmigaOS3.x. Now I'm above 40 and Linux is not any easier. (+64bit linux does not seem to work yet (at least every app in linux mint kde 64bit seems broken)). +they seem to radically change linux internals faster than I manage to learn.
OSX does things it's way, not my way.
Windows is just insanely sh*tty os to use for anything.

So, I prefer familiar Amiga OS (and it's derivates). Simple, working, fast, cool, ....

Even if I need some win/linux/whatever application I would love to use it from Amiga environment (by using RDesktop or VNC or emulation) rather than use it natively under some ugly OS..

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@RobertJDohnert

since i only have Amiga and no mac,pc,linux etc ...well that means i have to use the Amiga for everything, everything from gaming to blogging, netbanking to development..

stuff i can't live without?

Directory Opus
Ibrowse
A CSS browser (like owb/muiwob)
AmigaOS4
ArtEffect 4+
photogenics
YAM
AmigaOS4SDK tools

there's just too many to mention but the above are actual programs and apps i have running in the background now when i write this.

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I also use my AmigaOne X1000 for serious business:

Customer Database:
- MUIBase based
- Adress-, mail- and phonenumbermanagement
- logging of workhours per project
- automatic invoice via ARexx and FinalWriter
- "History" per customer


Text Processing
- FinalWriter
- simple letters for communicating with my customers

geobiz.de Website
- pftp, ArtEffect, CubicIDE
http://www.geobiz.de

presentations
- Hollywood
- company presentation
- in case customer does not need Powerpoint results

Windows Download:
http://www.geobiz.de/Win_Gebietsplanung@geobiz.exe

AOS4 Download:
http://www.geobiz.de/AOS4_Gebietsplanung.lha

product videos
- Hollywood
- including screencasts taken on WindowsXP etc...

creating PR-Stuff
- PageStream4 68k
- diagram layout for magazines
- businesscard
- Fleyers, Leporellos
http://www.geobiz.de/geobiz-leporello-2013.pdf

burning Data CD's
- FryingPan

creating customized "clickable maps" for field staff
- CubicIDE
- ArtEffect
- SMSCreator*

http://www.geobiz.de/SMS/
http://www.geobiz.de/Clickmap/
- clickable maps are also available for mobile devices, see here: http://geobizblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/sms/

*SMSCreator splits and groups CSV files (e.g. containing adresses). Afterwards it will automatically create html lists and reports out of that. SMSCreator is an internal tool written in Amiblitz3
Sadly Amiblitz3 doesn't work on X1000, though I need WinUAE in case I want to add code to SMSCreator.

Privateley I use it for usual things. Imagemanipulation,-organisation and -publishing is done via iBatch ( http://www.geobiz.de/iBatch )
Example: http://www.geobiz.de/amiganoid/gerograph-2/

regards Gero Birkenfeld

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I used Hollywood Designer and ffmpg/ffmpg GUI for creating a video for our new Geomarketing App (Sales Mappings System):


Geomarketing App Video

Some more Hollywood created Videos will be added in the near future!

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@gerograph

Wow, I just realized this thread is from September 2013. I'm surprised I missed it back then.

Anyways, I use my Amigas for fun. I tinker with ARexx, TVpaint, PPaint, Final Writer 97, surf the net, and play a few old favourite games.

I have installed several web browsers, AWeb, IBrowse, NetSurf, Odyssey Web Browser, Origyn Web Browser (OWB), TimberWolf.

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Many years ago I used my Amiga for everything that I could, but as PCs, laptops, smartphones took over I was forced to use my A1200 secondarily.


One thing I used my Amiga for exclusively was animation, which I still do! After years of de-motivation due to severe mental health issues I did less and less, but eventually picked up and decided to create a Youtube channel to upload all my old work to, plus a recent one.

The animation is drawn on Deluxe Paint 5, sometimes digitised with the FG24 digitiser (successor to the ProGrab,) then audio and timing is added with AnimatED.

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Last time I used Amiga for "serious work" was to create 2018 Christmas and New Year greetings card for my father: PPaint (68k) for basic brushes and GIMP (OS4) for layered composition is an ideal combination.

@RoqueFort

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then audio and timing is added with AnimatED.

It's great that you still use the Amiga for ALL parts of your animation. I've got used to using iMovie for timing and audio though I used to use Scala to do the same job on the Amiga which was a great program.

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@RobertJDohnert

I use my A4000 for some gaming and backing up of my Amiga files. It has most of my floppy collection from when I lived off floppies. But with a CyberStorm 060 is less useful for gaming as A500 games don' t tend to work even with WHDLoad patches.

I use my X1000 for internet use like some browsing and doing email. I play some games on it from time to time. The rest I would spend on some programming project, usually C or E and sometimes AmigaDOS scripting. I could be working on some port otherwise it would be my own project.

Here is another video clip I produced with Hollywood

geomarketing video hollywood

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