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Offline JGB

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #44 on: January 20, 2017, 02:26:41 PM »
Been lurking for a couple of decades, i think.  I check the site twice per week just to see what's going on.  I think this will be my second post.  Maybe I win the Lifetime of Lurking (LOL) award?

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Neither has been turned on in a very long time.  I did change out the A4K battery for a coin cell a long time ago, if you are curious.
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #45 on: January 20, 2017, 02:44:23 PM »
Quote from: JGB;820169


Neither has been turned on in a very long time.  I did change out the A4K battery for a coin cell a long time ago, if you are curious.


I just recently replaced the rechargable coin battery in my A12OO Blizzard 1230 IV..  now my ami doesnt have amnesia no more..  :)    looking forward to the 256meg ram I have in the post currently.  Not sure what I can do with all that memory space.
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #46 on: January 20, 2017, 03:10:49 PM »
Lurk here most every day but usually have nothing to say.
I'd rather while my time away keeping my miggy in play.
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #47 on: January 20, 2017, 10:11:16 PM »
I'm not a bot, but I do play one on television.
Saying the AmigaONE X1000 is not an Amiga is like saying the latest gaming rig is not a PC because it wasn\'t made by IBM, and doesn\'t have a CGA card.
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #48 on: January 21, 2017, 04:55:09 AM »
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I'm not a bot, but I do play one on television.


Best to prove it    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #49 on: January 21, 2017, 09:45:54 AM »
A1000, 2x A500, A1200, A3000.  The only one living is the 3K.  I dig it out of cold storage every few years to chant a hymn and knife a goat over its original power supply.

And I get inspired whenever Ars writes up a nice "keep it goin'" article on the Amiga.

My A3K just went from
CSPPC 233 + Picasso IV + Hydra AmigaNet + OS 3.9 and 48 megs RAM to
CSPPC 233 + Mediator 3000Di + Radeon 9200 + X-Surf 100 + Rapid Road + OS 4.1 FE and 400 megs RAM.  

Mostly I stick to the NetBSD side of things, but OS 4.1 FE might turn me.  In the words of Father Jack, "I'm a happy camper!"
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #50 on: January 21, 2017, 10:15:17 AM »
*rasies hand* Lurker here!

I've a stock A500 and A1200 in the loft that I should play with more. Had to sell most Amiga stuff and my towered A1200 that I used for Scala / Video titling a few years back :(

Since then it's just been nostalgia trips playing SWOS and The Settlers on WinUAE.

Still have loads of magazines and cover CDs which should keep me busy.

Viva Amiga!
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #51 on: January 21, 2017, 04:38:19 PM »
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Viva Amiga!


I guess you watched the documentary recently ?

https://amigafilm.com/
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #52 on: January 22, 2017, 03:59:28 AM »
I just got a PM from a user stating that he cant post messages on forums for some reason like its a bug with aorg?
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #53 on: January 22, 2017, 04:52:24 AM »
I can post fine.   Might be the login bug, where you login but system doesnt actually log you in.   affects some browser perhaps with filtering addons.
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #54 on: January 24, 2017, 10:57:24 AM »
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+1

About only Amiga site I bother to visit besides native finnish http://saku.bbs.fi/ Amiga forum, where I lurk pretty legularly too.


+1. Interested to see what's going on, but don't have much info or time to contribute.
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #55 on: January 24, 2017, 05:38:43 PM »
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In light of Wayne's thread Id like to say this to all the lurkers: If you dont post and get involved there will be no site to lurk on in 5 years.. :(


Recently I have been trying to focus on what I consider the most important part of using the Amiga; development. Without new development, fewer and fewer users, old and new, will be drawn to the platform.

So, I have been trying to write posts about developing on the Amiga platform. If anybody else wants to help A) make that easier and B) enlighten folks like myself with your knowledge before it's gone, the Amiga will be a better place

If you have coding examples, link them. If you have projects or open source stuff that folks can contribute to, do so. I think the Amiga is a great platform for learning C and working on stuff. The problem is really finding help on dev docs beyond just autodocs. Examples are desperately needed.

Getting started in C, with GCC, in WinUAE or a modestly upgraded Amiga, is easy. Start with the ADE package I uploaded to aminet a while back.

http://aminet.net/package/dev/gcc/ADE


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Instructions
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Extract the .zip wherever you'd like the environment to exist. Add the
following lines to your S:User-Startup (or other startup script)

; BEGIN ADE
Cd Sys:ADE ; Or wherever you extracted it
Execute ADE-Startup
Cd Sys:
; END ADE

Changing Sys:ADE to path to the directory where ADE was extracted.
Performing the commands manually or restarting the computer at this
point gives you a working development environment to start with


This file is currently in .zip format. I am fairly certain I will convert it to .lha for those who exist solely in Amiga land. :)
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #56 on: January 25, 2017, 02:55:52 PM »
I'm barely even a lurker (on any site). I signed up to ask some questions but don't get to interact much since the site isn't responsive (ie unusable on mobile).

As has been said already, Facebook info is not retrievable so the social media way isn't very helpful either. When it comes to asking questions, I prefer the stackoverflow style and so I use askamiga.com (disclaimer, I was part of the effort to get that online).

EDIT: I've just found the mobile skin in my profile. That may help :)
 

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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #57 on: January 25, 2017, 06:10:52 PM »
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so I use askamiga.com (disclaimer, I was part of the effort to get that online)


There should be a persistent link on the site for askamiga.com, even if the password requirements are ludicrous. Haven't you ever read this? https://xkcd.com/936/
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #58 on: January 25, 2017, 06:20:37 PM »
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since the site isn't responsive (ie unusable on mobile).

Changing to a responsive website template isn't likely to happen (in our lifetimes), but I've had no trouble navigating on any of the mobile devices I own.  Just gotta zoom in a bit. :lol: :lol:
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Re: ** attention lurkers **
« Reply #59 from previous page: January 25, 2017, 06:31:31 PM »
Mobile works fine for me.
I'd guess must be a specific device.  
I prefer firefox over the webkit browsers, it just seems to work better to me.