Which Amiga would you recommend to people to buy?

[Retro1234]

My floppies are just loose in a box and still seem to work. My Aunt just the other day where I have some stored said these are old tat now, can I throw them away. I calmly said - just hold onto them for now and ill sort them out soon.

[desiv]

Originally Posted by Retro1234

Ok thanks for the reply. What were some other protocols used for dial up and did the end user notice any difference?

Sorry going off topic just PPP made me think of an old lecturer talking about it and his teaching was horrendous, I just kind of skipped it.

The other one I am aware of is SLIP, which is an older protocol.
SLIP (as a protocol) didn't have authentication and you had to use static IPs I believe...

I am not sure any serious ISP would have used SLIP. It was more used to support specific devices you needed to have connect it. It wasn't really used for end users.
Although my first internet connections way (way) back were SLIP, but that was at the university and then at work where I set it up. ;-)
(Before we got our Shiva Lanrover connected to a Windows NT machine for REAL Dial Up!!! Bwahahaha!) ;-)

Oh, I just remembered the before I had a SLIP connection at the university, I had a shell account, so I had to use SLIrP, which would let you do SLIP over a shell account.. Good times!) ;-)

[Retro1234]

Thanks again

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by Anubis

Not for me... Since I got MOO, MOM, X-Com, Settler 1 and 2 and Civilization 2, PC never was boring... (with or without internet)

And that was my point: if you had hundreds of hours of potential gameplay installed, be it a PC, Amiga or whatever, you didn't need the internet to make it not boring. But I guess us mere mortals were a different breed...

[BigD]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

And that was my point: if you had hundreds of hours of potential gameplay installed, be it a PC, Amiga or whatever, you didn't need the internet to make it not boring. But I guess us mere mortals were a different breed...

I got offered a PC mobo to build my own PC today! I felt a bit sick to be honest! It's because I showed a friend my refurbished A1200 but I honestly see no connection between messing around with an Amiga and building a modern x86-64 based machine! Yuck, I'd rather dismantle a Sony PS2 to replace a DVD laser assembly or pull 7 No. stuck Blu-Rays out of a PS3 drive (yes my eldest caused that issue once)! Work on a generic PC! Hell no thank you!!

[ImmortalA1000]

off topic, Windows PCs really killed my love of computers. The A1200 is the last computer system I had any respect for. I suppose you can add the awesome Next Step OS to that but that was neither affordable or initially even a colour computer format.

[tommywiz]

Back in the day I bought a 2000 because of all the expansion cards you could add. What I didnt realize was the cost of these cards.

[Megalomaniac]

Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000

off topic, Windows PCs really killed my love of computers. The A1200 is the last computer system I had any respect for. I suppose you can add the awesome Next Step OS to that but that was neither affordable or initially even a colour computer format.

I loved using Amigas because of what they were and what they somehow stood for in my mind, a rebellion, our little club. I love using PCs because of what I can do with them, no other reason. If any form of Amiga derivative existed today that had 75% of the power of a PC in the same price bracket, I'd be using it, and probably still buying Amiga Format most months. Apart from a wave of excitement over new games at first (because even a 3 year old PC that was upgraded a bit 18 months ago was useless for new games, whereas a 1987 A500 could easily be upgraded to run lots of 1994 games), getting a PC always felt like a necessary evil rather than something I relished.