Amigas still useable for serious work today?

[Vangar]

I'd say a lot of Amigas are still being used for their retro-sounding music tracks and backing tracks. A lot of music in indie games or animations like to use Retro-Amiga music.

[Teho]

Some of these do use actual Amiga sound. I installed a Tetris game on my work-PDA a while ago (S-Tris 2), and it used an old Amiga module I immediately recognised from an old Amiga game called Cubulus. Either these are the same devs, or the composer Bjørn Lynne retained the rights to the music. I don't know, it's properly credited in the game anyway so not a case of theft I think. I thought it was pretty cool to hear it again in a modern production.

[amigakit.com]

All the computers (except one) are networked Amigas in our office, we use them every day for invoicing and processing orders.

[Harrison]

That is great to hear that an Amiga store is actually using Amigas for its business.

Great stuff

What about the site though... is it hosted on an Amiga?

[amigakit.com]

No - its a Linux server unfortunately, but it is heavily modified to work with Amiga Ibrowse.

[Harrison]

That is a shame, but we all know that Amigas are not really up to the task of hosting todays websites. At least you are cattering for real Amiga browsers.

[amigakit.com]

We need a lot of bandwidth to cater for all the customers.

However on the backoffice, networked Amigas are great for order processing and printing. We use Wordworth 7, Pagestream 4, IBrowse, Ghostscript 8.6, GS8Viewer for PDFs, EasyNet for networking.

[TiredOfLife]

That is a shame, but we all know that Amigas are not really up to the task of hosting todays websites. At least you are cattering for real Amiga browsers.

Not up to the task?
There are a couple of sites hosted on speccys and C64s.

Wouldn't want the emergency services to be hosted on those though.