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Re: Moving On Up With The Amiga 4000

Short answer, No.

The Amiga was primarily renowned for it's graphics capabilities, not
publishing. Even though it was able to perform decent printing tasks,
and there was software to do that, the Amiga had a lack of powerful
printer drivers that would have put it at a level of the Mac (or PC)
for such tasks.

As far as surfing the Internet, I'm not aware if the capability is
beyond that of a PC in the late 90's. There certainly isn't Flash or
other multimedia content software, and I don't know if Java is even
available in a form that's considered modern. As much as I'd like to
get my Amiga online, it'll be cost prohibitive for me to do so. I also
wouldn't expect the same enriched experience you get these days. My
Amiga gets used for games and nostalgic trips through my early 3D
graphics and animation creation.

As for reading a CD. I never had an Amiga configured to read any. I do
recall that it may only be possible to read ISO9600 formatted CDs. The
Joliet standard for modern Windows CDs may not be supported. I refer
that question to anyone else who has more experience working with Cds
on an Amiga.

--- In classiccommodore@yahoogroups.com, "Bro. Luby D. Jackson"
<ldjackson@...> wrote:
> My question is that if I invested in an Amiga 4000 and got all the
> upgrades, would I be able to browse the internet on DSL and then create
> sophisticated documents like
> I do with Corel X3 for winXP?





Mon Jun 2, 2008 6:46 pm

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Hey gang, Color printers did make a nice Christmas present in 1984. The Okimate 10 was affordable color printing, although it was a thermal printer and...
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May 24, 2008
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Thank you for the information about the color printers. I was excited about the Star Micronic 1000 series and finally got the CBM compatible one but it was...
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May 26, 2008
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The Amiga 4000 was late and high up the Amiga line. There were few of them sold. Most of them were sold for use with the Video Toaster card. Very few were just...
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Been lurking in the background for a while, reading the mail about printers. Was wondering --- Is there any way to interface an inkjet printer to either a C-64...
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May 27, 2008
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First, you'll need to get a Commodore to Centronics adapter. A company called Xetec was a popular vendor with their Supergrafix line. Here's an eBay link to...
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I'm sure you could find a cable but the problem then would be a printer driver. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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An inkjet from a few years ago might be useable if it had epson compatibility. One member of the user group I'm in does programming articles every month with...
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/Thanks for letting me see this. Was is Kyocera Unison that made that program? Do you have a screen shot of it and did it offer color printing and...
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Short answer, No. The Amiga was primarily renowned for it's graphics capabilities, not publishing. Even though it was able to perform decent printing tasks, ...
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