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Troldborg <troldborg@worldonline.dk> skrev i en
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> i do...
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i do to :-)

Well dose any body ever write stuf, becosue i haven't seen any acshon,
@ all.  I don't atcherly have a amiga i was just intristed to see what
happend here.

do u use amigas what are they like??? what can u do on them.

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>Troldborg <troldborg@worldonline.dk> skrev i en
>nyhedsmeddelelse:veVi4.1024$L4.19991@news020.image.dk...
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>> i do...
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>i do to :-)
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iknowyouok@yahoo.com wrote:

> just out of curosity???? - dose any one read this news grop???????????
>

I might do. Why do you ask?
I have 2 Amiga's. A 1200, which I use for MIDI sequencing, and an ageing
A2000 as a backup.

So there you have it........

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:57:27 +0000, S-E-A
<SonicEnergyAuthority@cwcom.net> wrote:

>
>
>iknowyouok@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> just out of curosity???? - dose any one read this news grop???????????
>>
>
>I might do. Why do you ask?
>I have 2 Amiga's. A 1200, which I use for MIDI sequencing, and an ageing
>A2000 as a backup.
>
>So there you have it........
>
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?

can u still buy them new. ??

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??

A curious person wrote,

> Well dose any body ever write stuf, becosue i haven't seen any acshon,
> @ all.  I don't atcherly have a amiga i was just intristed to see what
> happend here.

This is a quiet newsgroup if you want lots of posts then try the
comp.sys.amiga.* hierachy.

> do u use amigas what are they like??? what can u do on them.

Amigas are still used in a number of niche areas, such as

Rocket telemetery
Public informatiom kiosks
cable TV video programming

I use my amiga for all my home computing needs, including the
internet. Basically there are very few things that cannot be done with
the amiga, however as there are far fewer programmers this means a
slower rate of developement.

--
Steve

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?

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?