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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: TheMagicM on September 07, 2004, 07:37:40 PM
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(copied from http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/text-amigausers.html)
Signs You're An Amiga User
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Calum Tsang (tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca)
Hey kids! Find out if you're an Amiga user! If you fit a few of
these categories, then maybe you're one of the crazy few who are lucky
enough to own such a wonderful yet tacky machine.
1. You'd rather say "co processor" and not "graphics chip".
2. You have more than one Amiga, and the other one is an A500.
3. You considered the A500 040/25 board.
4. Sandwiching expansion devices between chips is an acceptable expansion.
5. You thought the Walker prototype case was cool.
6. For you, a local area network means Parnet.
7. You ran a BBS. And you did it with a one floppy A500.
8. You have a Comspec ARM, or know what it is.
9. You seem to always say "but it's popular in Europe!".
10. You have (or more!) one of the following:
-Amiga shirt
-Gold Disk t-shirt
-AmiEXPO t-shirt
-NewTek shirt
-a cinnamon cat lollipop
-prototype Amiga hardware
-a copy of The Deathbed Vigil
-blue button that says "Only Amiga Makes It Possible"
-Amiga promotional literature hanging on your wall.
11. You walked the Deathbed Vigil.
12. You think running an Amiga is possible on 4MB RAM.
13. You said AMosaic 1.3 was a good try.
14. Your main printer is a dot matrix. And it's a 9 pin.
15. That dot matrix is a Star Micronics model.
16. You've compared an 030 to a Pentium before.
17. You tried to explain that custom chips offload CPU usage.
18. You always say "but raw CPU speed isn't important" at the start of
every conversation.
19. You mumbled "Windows95 is like the Amiga in 85" but you forgot
about constant disk swapping, and the lack of RAM.
20. You saved the January 1990 BYTE cover "Mainstream Amiga: A3000".
21. You thought AmigaWorld was a good magazine.
22. You thought Laura "Maxine Headroom" Longfellow really liked you.
23. Your 1084 has no front panel.
24. You tried to repair the 1084 front panel.
25. You built your own DB23 to DB15HD converter.
26. You forgot the 74Lxx class inverter and fried your Denise chip.
27. You don't mind 15 Khz interlace flicker.
28. You like MUI.
29. At a trade show, you went up to Kiki Stockhammer at the Play booth.
30. You know all the models of the Amiga, including the ones never
released. Yes, that includes the CDTV II.
31. You write for Amiga Report International. And you put it on your
resume.
32. You built a slingshot hack.
33. Your Amiga sits on a fibreboard built-it-yourself wooden desk with
handy monitor hutch with lovely wooden veneer.
34. The A2000/3000/4000 case is never on.
35. You've replaced at least one chip.
36. You sell used Amiga stuff, posting it on BBSes. Or you're a one man
Amiga store.
37. You constantly bug me, trying to offer ridiculously low prices
in response to my forsale ads.
38. You can recognize at least two of the following terms:
-DMA
-softkick
-upclock
-deinterlace
-sync rate
-copper
-random number generator
-bob
39. You compare the Amiga to SGIs. And the Amiga wins in your comparison.
40. You believe those textfiles about new Amiga specs.
41. You wrote messages describing what YOU think the next Amiga should
have.
42. You know what's at 3470 Pharmacy Avenue, or 1200 Wilson Drive.
43. You plan to visit Los Gatos, West Chester and Branschweig in the near
future.
44. You took a hacksaw to your A3000/3000T to get Input 1's BNC to stick
out.
45. Instead of normal desktop speakers, you have a receiver hooked up to
your Amiga. And it's an old one.
46. You're miffed you can't argue with Atari ST users anymore.
47. You've told Mac users that PowerAmigas will be out in 1997.
48. You keep saying the VideoToaster is cool, but you've never used one.
49. Nonlinear editing means cutting up 320x200x32 ANIM5's.
50. You tried the 2MB chip hack.
51. You know Workbench 2.1 is missing narrator.device and translator.library. You copied it over
anyways.*
52. You run MagicWB and wonder where all your CHIP RAM is.
53. You tried to set someone up with an Amiga too.
54. You had to expand your desk to fit the expansion modules.
55. You play MOD files and you sample them too.
56. The LIBS: directory is full of libraries you never use.
57. You install pointless software, because it's fun. Then, you wonder
which program is crashing your machine sporadically.
58. Instead of buying a A2320 board, you use one of those tinted screen
filters.
59. You write letters to the editors of publications that comment on the
Amiga negatively, or ones that don't write for the Amiga.
60. You know the story of the Guru Meditation.
61. You have a giant collection of DSDD floppies near your desk.
When you see them for sale, you scream "bargain!"
62. You've built one of the following:
-dualspeed HD floppy drive
-mouse adapter
-home made SCSI adapter
-LUCAS/FRANCES board
-parnet cable
-PAL/NTSC toggle switch
-sync strainer for Toaster
63. You balk at paying $349 for Ethernet hardware.
64. You continually say a composite video signal path is not a problem.
65. You'll argue the AmigaOS is faster than Windows, even comparing
it on 060's versus, Pentium Pro's, at the same price point.
66. When defeated on an Amiga argument, you complain you're being
personally attacked.
67. You say your Toaster/Flyer is broadcast quality. Your main product
is wedding videos anyways.
68. * - You emailed me to correct me about narrator.device.
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I think number 17 is the most popular Amiga user saying, followed by number 53.
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Well
2,4,10,12,23,28,45,48,52,53,56,57,& 65.
:-D
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How about "You bought more than one Amiga games magazine in 1996"?
Remember, the choice was Amiga Power (which begged to die with dignity), Amiga Action (once memorably included 2 pages where the writer, fired to cut costs, slated everything about the magazine, the publishers, the writers and the rest, and it got printed.) and The One Amiga-Maverick edition.
Oh, and indeed, dear.
Oh, and "You've never played/looked at Pro Evo because you just know it won't be as good as SWOS"
And "You insist on calling GTA 'Payback'"
Will agree on a number on that list.
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There's one missing:
You took great delight by showing PC users how your 'keyboard' (A1200) could format a disk, raytrace, play a mod and play a Vista anim all at the same time, while his stupid 486 could not.
Oh, and the Amiga could be reset and restarted quick as a flash, in only (insert your fastest boot time here) seconds...
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TheMagicM wrote:
3. You considered the A500 040/25 board.
It´s so insanely cool, a maxed out A500 in it´s orginal case(the proof of Doommasters mental illness, he put an A500 in a pc-tower) is the dream machine.
I would always choose a A500 040/25 board over an A1000.
9. You seem to always say "but it's popular in Europe!".
I live in Europe :-)
14. Your main printer is a dot matrix. And it's a 9 pin.
Not my main, but I have one working
28. You like MUI.
Ooops, guess quite a number of developers doesnt like Amigas:-)
30. You know all the models of the Amiga, including the ones never released. Yes, that includes the CDTV II.
Doesn´t everybody? :-D
50. You tried the 2MB chip hack.
But not with a paperclip!
And not the pause button-hack.
51. You know Workbench 2.1 is missing narrator.device and translator.library. You copied it over
anyways.*
It isn´t an Amiga without it. Say was the only reason to boot WB in the good old days.
52. You run MagicWB and wonder where all your CHIP RAM is.
I don´t wonder about chipram, but I prefer MagicWB-icons over NewIcons or Glowicons.
57. You install pointless software, because it's fun. Then, you wonder which program is crashing your machine sporadically.
I don´t wonder about it on Amiga, I find out which program it is. And this problem is much worse on pc.
64. You continually say a composite video signal path is not a problem.
Composite???? :-? I always use rgb-scart. Oh, I forgot Never The Same Color :lol:
Otherwise
1. 2. 4. 5. 10. 12. 13. 17. 38. 40. 41. 45. 46. 48. 55.
56. 60. 61. 62.
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The_Power_of_the_Ginger wrote:
How about "You bought more than one Amiga games magazine in 1996"?
Remember, the choice was Amiga Power (which begged to die with dignity), Amiga Action (once memorably included 2 pages where the writer, fired to cut costs, slated everything about the magazine, the publishers, the writers and the rest, and it got printed.) and The One Amiga-Maverick edition.
I bought UK Amiga magazines, here in Sweden in the local supermarket. In those days we got those magazines here.
I think this is going to be a nostalgia thread.
Oh and I got to add
59. You write letters to the editors of publications that comment on the Amiga negatively, or ones that don't write for the Amiga.
Datormagazin which was the big swedish C64/Amiga magazine has been revived and is writing about winPC and Linux, although they had reports from the Amiga show in Gothenburg and even reviewed a Pegasos. And sometimes they write about Mac too.
46. You're miffed you can't argue with Atari ST users anymore.
What the amiga community needs is the infamous pc-idiots Aras&Axa who wrote to the lettercolumn of Svenska Hemdator Nytt(Swedish Homecomputer News) and claimed that a 386 with DOS was better than all other computers. Since SHN was a magazine for all kinds of homecomputers both pc, mac, Atari and Amiga the users off Atari, Mac and Amiga UNITED against the pc-freaks.
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Hoya!
Well, in my case, some of it is true! ;-)
Being an Amigan is being a dinosaur, OK, but a DEAD COOL one!
Be funky
M A D
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36. You sell used Amiga stuff, posting it on BBSes. Or you're a one man
Amiga store.
37. You constantly bug me, trying to offer ridiculously low prices
in response to my forsale ads.
:lol:
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Ahh! I still miss DMZ. We need someone like Brad S in today's magazines! :-D
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