Comments on: Who’s viewing PCPro.co.uk on an Amiga?

By: fsckit

fsckit — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:42:53 +0000

Not all Amigas are from Commodore. I suspect MorphOS and AROS will report as Amigas as well as AmigaOS4.

By: Varthall

Varthall — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:40:21 +0000

Speaking of Amiga browsers, the first alpha release of the Firefox port for Amiga has been released, the ported browser is called Timberwolf: http://www.osnews.com/story/23431/Firefox_on_Amiga_Timberwolf_Goes_Alpha

By: AmigaMan

AmigaMan — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:37:21 +0000

Why use the Amiga .Amiga is the best by far -true 64bit -true 48bit graphics ineach cahnneln of superior rgb and e -that alone is why we use amiga
secondly, your stuff couldnt read our webbrowsers as amigas and calls them 95 or 3.11 half the time anyhow-remeber you ur self had said you ahent seen the 95 machince in years
and yes linux kicks win 7s arse so it will kick win 95 arse

By: AMC258

AMC258 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:44:38 +0000

I use an Amiga, because I switched over from PC’s when I finally realised I’d have to get Windows 95 to make my PC useful, back in 1996. I haven’t gone back since. If my Amiga can’t do it, I don’t need to do it. My latest Amiga, since 1998, which I am typing this with, is a Commodore-Amiga A3000UX, circa 1989. It sports a 200MHz PowerPC 604e, and runs AmigaOS4.0 “Classic”. I am using OWB (a WebKit browser), which actually seems to render better than IE and Opera, which I use at work.

I wonder how many others are using Amigas here and their user-agent shows up as something else, just because they set IBrowse to spoof as something else and never thought to change it back. It’s easy to not think about that. And, it’s required for a lot of sites.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:08:40 +0000

you should see what my c64 can do never mind amiga use for web.

By: Roger W

Roger W — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:05:31 +0000

This is a fascinating thread! Most of the contributors here will be expert users but I suspect that a few technophobes out there (and a few skinflints!)would see no reason to move on from Win 95. I encountered two PCs last year that were seriously old – one was running 98 on a Gigabyte board plus AMD K6-3 450cpu with 256Mb PC100 RAM in. Another still running Win 95 B was found but this had been retained because its owner claimed the CAD software he used for business (marine draughtsman)didn’t work with XP. A peek at the machine was like a trip down memory lane: remember all those times you ended up going round in ever decreasing circles when some new item of hardware just wouldn’t install? There’s probably a good bit of truth that some machines detected will be spam/address harvesting bots but what worries me is that folk running such antiquated hardware are unlikely to be protected adequately, as the baseline spec for many security products (like Kaspersky)does not support any o/s older than XP.

By: Tom H

Tom H — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:49:26 +0000

My web stats (for a smallish website targetting a fairly elderly non-techy demographic) show almost no use of windows 95 *by humans* but quite a lot of spoofed windows 95 browsing by spam posting/email harvesting bots. I suspect that that accounts for much of PCPro’s stats.

By: Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:05:50 +0000

It’s a shame that “Macintosh” has been lumped together in one category, I wonder if anyone’s using System 7 or upwards on old hardware.

A couple of weeks ago, I set up a Macintosh IIci (1989 vintage) with a 50MHz DayStar accelerator card, plus a NuBus Ethernet card I bought off eBay. I’ve been using it for browsing the web using the excellent, under MacOS 7.5.5.

By: Joey Bhananas

Joey Bhananas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:24:17 +0000

The best explanation is that some people like to run computers that they like, not what the market corners them into. As for it being a necessity, I can’t vouch for the rest of the world’s hardware availability, but you don’t browse the Internet with an Amiga due to ‘necessity.’ It is distinctly more difficult to get a ‘nettable Amiga than just about anything else out there. So make that a point towards “because you can.”

Why should I buy a 2010 Mustang? Why even a 2008 Honda Civic? Do we need the newest equipment to do our thing? Whatever it might be?

I happen to like the 1956 Thunderbird, guess that makes me an idiot.

Why play that 1898 Stradavarius, when this new violin comes in different colors!

And you’ll find there’s people out there running virtual Win 95 on Mac OSX just so they can load some of those “Internet Explorer only” sites. Or maybe they just like a smaller faster OS than, for instance, Windows Vista’s 15GB bloatware.

By: Michal Bergseth

Michal Bergseth — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:53:56 +0000

Hi. I am using MorphOS, an AmigaOS for PPC. With it I am using OWB, a webkit based browser. Amiga is fully alive,.. just check it all on the web!

http://www.amigaworld.net
http://www.morphzone.org
http://www.aminet.net
http://www.amiga.org

Amiga is alive, thanks to the brilliant speed of its OS which still none of the other operating systems matches, even today! Now you can run MorphOS on an MacMini G4 PPC also!

http://www.morphos-team.net

Amiga Community.. The Creative Community!