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Title: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Miked on May 30, 2006, 04:31:30 AM
I'm not sure if this link was posted in the past but I just found it.  It's a bit dated but true Amigans will find it funny  :-)

http://anarch.ie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/text-amigausers.html

-Miked
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: uncharted on May 30, 2006, 07:54:58 AM
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14. Your main printer is a dot matrix.  And it's a 9 pin.
15. That dot matrix is a Star Micronics model.


This was so true, at least when I was growing up.  Everyone I knew that owned an Amiga at their height had a Star dot-matrix printer.

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58. Instead of buying a A2320 board, you use one of those tinted screen
    filters.


Yep, did that before I finally bought a proper monitor and ran DblPAL.  Because those filters can magically remove interlace flicker  :roll:
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Cyberus on May 30, 2006, 07:56:26 AM
Yep, it has been posted at least once before.

But that's not to say there aren't new/returning users who won't want to see it :-)
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Agafaster on May 30, 2006, 11:11:57 AM
heheh bostin' !

heres a new one:

...you chuckle when someone says 'Mil spec' in irony.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: AmigaMance on May 30, 2006, 12:57:41 PM
>1.  You'd rather say "co processor" and not "graphics chip".

 I doubt that this text was composed by someone with basic Amiga knowledge.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: drewz21 on May 30, 2006, 02:12:50 PM
Good stuff and some things I didn't know.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: steve30 on May 30, 2006, 02:19:33 PM
I am an amiga user then.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Lando on May 30, 2006, 02:32:38 PM
'You find the sound of a disk drive clicking strangely comforting'

'You paid $50 for a discount on OS4 and all you got was a lousy T-shirt'

'You think anything with PCI slots is 'high-end''

'Every time you see a PC game or application with the words 'open source' mentioned, you just have to post a new forum thread asking someone to port it to the Amiga'

'You can't see the motherboard any more in your A1200T because of all the expansions hanging off it'

'You think that anything that takes up more than 10Mb of hard drive space is bloatware and refuse to install it'

'Your OS partition is 6MB and you consider that excessive'

'You believe that dragons really exist (because you saw a picture of one on the Internet)'

Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: J-Golden on May 30, 2006, 03:18:44 PM
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Lando wrote:
'You believe that dragons really exist (because you saw a picture of one on the Internet)'



Wait wait, what are you trying to say here... They DO exist... right guys, I mean this is one MEAN joke to go around saying dragons are make believe...  Someone just might believe you... :lol:
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Matt_H on May 30, 2006, 04:59:51 PM
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23. Your 1084 has no front panel.
24. You tried to repair the 1084 front panel.

Incredibly guilty. I just did last week (even successfully, I might add).
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: steve30 on May 30, 2006, 05:48:40 PM
My CM8833-II doesn't have a front panel, but it came like that. It is useful as you don't have to keep opening it up in order to access the controls.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: coldfish on May 31, 2006, 10:42:54 AM
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Matt_H wrote:
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23. Your 1084 has no front panel.
24. You tried to repair the 1084 front panel.

Incredibly guilty. I just did last week (even successfully, I might add).


Ditto!

...unnerving.

...though mine was a 1084(s).
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: Agafaster on May 31, 2006, 11:04:57 AM
I kept the RGB cable from my M1438S when I was forced to ditch it.*

I intended building my own Amiga<->VGA adaptor (even bought the Sub D15) but never got round to it - to my own shame I got a ready made one from AmigaKit** - what a lazy get !




*it was the right thing to do. it was starting to get a bit 'dodgy'. but still :-(

**to amigakits credit, its really good for the faster linerates AGA can do! I just wish I had got the dosh for a scandoubler instead...
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: KThunder on May 31, 2006, 02:18:38 PM
if you periodicly show people how far aros is coming even though they have no interest whatsoever.

if you are excited to finally meet someone who uses the same type computer as you

if you know all three of the other people in your state/region/province who have amigas.
Title: Re: Signs You're an Amiga User- cute
Post by: PaSha on May 31, 2006, 03:55:29 PM
You buy a complete setup just to aquire one small piece of hardware from it.

You decide not to sell the remaining hardware from the setup you just bought, but keep it around for spares.