🚀 go-pugleaf

I read this group as well...

I am in the process of restoring my A500.   I had done a lot of programming work
on it, and graphics processing.    It is accelerated, and max'd out for ram
w/fpu.
I can't wait to get the keyboard.   should be about 1 wk.    then I'm back after
2 yrs. (I wasn't able to find a replacement kb up till recently.)

S-E-A wrote:

> iknowyouok@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > I just "susbsribed" to this grop becosue i was interesed to see what
> > Amiga's were used for.  and didn't seem to be any activity.
> >
> > I see u used a computer runing windows 95 to send this :).
> >
> > so can u use a Amiga on the net?
> >
>
> You can, but don't expect it to have all the features of Nutscape or Internet
> Exploiter (sorry Netscape and Internet Explorer).
> The good thing is, you can have a PIII turbo-nutter bastard PC, and Amiga,
> both will run the same speed on the internet, due to the limitations of the
> net.
>
> >
> > can u still buy them new. ??
> >
>
> There are some still floating about, but only from specialist stores. The Mac
> and PC are much easier to find. There are promises for a "new" Amiga, but the
> Amiga name keeps changing hands, and in terms of computing power, the Amiga
> is about 8 years behind.
> To give you an example my A1200 has a 030 processor running at 28Mhz. I'm
> using a PC with a Pentium MMX running at 233MHz to do most other things.
> If you have got the money you can go to town with a "Tower Amiga", powered by
> a Power PC chip, have graphic, and sound cards fitted, in fact the only true
> Amiga bit will be the operating system. (OS 3.5 came out towards the end of
> last year). With the money spent on such a system you could build a
> high-powered PC.
> The thing that holds the Amiga users together is the Workbench operating
> system. It does the job, and uses a faction of the memory that Windows does.
> I have around 10 Meg of memory fitted in my A1200. I have 3 Meg in the A2000.
> Both are perfectly usable. Try that on a system running Windows!
>
> >
> > u say u use it for midi sequencing, is there audio sinthis beter than
> > the sound cards u get for a IBM compatible ? or is it the software.
> >
> > what are they use full for??
>
> MIDI sequencing is different to soundcards and the such. The sequencer is
> acting like a audio recorder, but its only recording the note data, not the
> sound. As a result when you play back the data you have full control over
> what instrument plays it.
> I have several MIDI synth modules (mostly made by Roland), a dedicated
> sampler (again Roland), a drum module, and two keyboard synths. The sequencer
> controls all of them.
>
> I know that there are some sound cards around for the Amiga, but most of the
> time people use the sample play back technology built-in to all Amiga's.
> Again by today's standards 4 channels of 8 bit sound is some what crude.
> However when the Amiga was first released in the early 1980's it was unheard
> of. It made my save all my pennies to get one.
> It's easy to add MIDI to Amiga's, you just get a simple MIDI interface that
> plugs into the serial port, and because they are simple, they are relatively
> cheap. MIDI hardware isn't so cheap. I think even the most basic General MIDI
> modules a round �150 to �200.
> I put a �20 sound card in the PC. It has the Yamaha XG chip on it, and for
> �20, was a bargain. It would cost around �20 for a MIDI interface for the
> Amiga. Sickening isn't it?