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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: tonyvdb on December 01, 2006, 02:27:17 PM
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Well, I almost hate to admit it but about 8 years ago before I knew there was still a demand for Amigas I through out an Amiga 3000T because it did not work...I had it repaired twice in the past both times it was the same problem caused by a bad 030 board. I'm not proud of this at all and still KICK myself for doing it. :boohoo:
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I used to have an A1200 in a Power Tower with an Apollo 040, AteoBus, Pixel64, and lots of other bits and pieces. I loved it, but I had so many problems with it towards the end, mostly caused by the AteoBus I think. Eventually I lost my patience and decided to get rid of it. I took it to the dump and left it there :cry:
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moto
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I've done numerous stupid things regarding my Amiga's.
1. I sold my A500+A590 (around 1998)
2. I practically gave away my A3000. I traded it for some pc games like Unreal, Wolfenstein 3D, which I have all thrown away already (around 2001)
3. I sold my A2000 (can't really remember when)
Apart from being sorry for having sold my old Amiga's I've done some dumb things, which fortunately never harmed my Amiga's, like adding/removing harddrives and external SCSI units while the machine was still running.
The strange thing though, is that HDToolsBox RECOGNISED and PARTITIONED that harddisk which I added in the running machine! The drive and machine have never failed me since I pulled that trick.
Try THAT with a PC :lol:
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I know someone who was travelling home from Uni, packed his car and set off down the motorway. Suddenly realised that his A1200 wasn't on the passenger seat, remembered he'd put it on the roof while packing the rear of the car, braked and saw the poor miggy go flying off the roof to land on the carriageway in front of him (to be promptly run over of course).
Shame he didn't just pull over gently (rather than the jolt of the brakes) as the little rubber feet (LRF[tm]) had kept it on the roof up to that point!
He also had an 030-50 in there too so didn't just lose a vanilla 1200!
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gaah!!
I havent done anything that bad! I almost slung out my dodgy A1200 (I have one that isnt!) but didnt cos it wasnt that bad. the thought took about 1 and a bit seconds to be discarded as ridiculous!
I suppose then, the worst thing would be what I did to that 1200, which was nuke the databus/and a coupla chips (Lisa? Julia?) with a 3.5" 120MB Harddisk and a 24x external IDE CDROM.
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Back when the AmigaOne-SE was first announced, I pre-ordered it and held my pre-order for over a year before waking up to reality and canceling my order.
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1. I sold my a1200T that I buildt into a nice midi tower. Later Powercomputing sold that same tower model modified to fit an a1200. It was really proud of my work on it. But needed the money for an a4000. It had a 030 in it, pcmcia ethernetcard w/angel adaptor (and hardhacked reset fix).
2. I sold the remains of my a4000t for "nothing", again a own convertion into an aopen midi tower. The main board died, but it had a nice 060-50 card, a picasso IV w/Concierto and the tvcard-addon (I wish I had thoose now...). It also had an ariadne II, and two 80Gb wide scsi disks.
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@redrumola:
LOLOLOL
@thread:
Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb. Same thing w/my A2k.. that was about 15yrs ago.. lol
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Worst two things I ever did to my Amiga's:
I once broke my A570 by using the on/off switch while the Amiga was on. Broke my heart and the darned things where not obtainable anymore either so my nifty CD Rom drive was gone :-(
I also gave away my original A500 some years later. I'm still regretting it. The replacement I eventually got was not quite the same model and somehow misses something as a result. Silly thing, nostalgia.
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TheMagicM wrote:
@redrumola:
LOLOLOL
@thread:
Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb. Same thing w/my A2k.. that was about 15yrs ago.. lol
I used to do that with me speccy. but you see, theres the difference: good ol' rubber keys!!
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The worst things I've done with an Amiga? Here's a few in order of importance:
1. I inverted the ROM chips in a 1200.
2. I festered around inside a 1200 without an anti-static wrist band.
3. I sold my first A2000 for money while attending college. I'm sure the money wasn't wisely spent.
4. I gave Amiga Corp. 50$ for a t-shirt.
Fester
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OT...
TheMagicM wrote:
Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb.
I've got a friend who had a Speccy when he was a kid. He got so frustrated with the crappy rubber keyboard that he stabbed the poor Speccy to death with a screwdriver!
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moto
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b4st4rd! :madashell:
never got that nuts with mine, but it did used to annoy me - but ironically not the keyboard! the ZX81 was far more annoying!
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Failure to read the instructions caused most my Amiga woes...
1. Spent $50 on tapes for a C= tape drive, used QBtools to do the back up. Wiped the HD clean, realized the QB back-up log was not on a floppy. Basicly lost all work done up to that point.
2. Used DiskSalv.
3. Moved my systems from the loft down to the back bedroom where they get little attention.
Current state of systems.
(http://www.rcfreas.com/files/100_0531_sm.jpg)
Can you ID the hardware?
Maybe my sig should read, "AmigaWorldDisOrder"
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T3000 wrote:
Failure to read the instructions caused most my Amiga woes...
Current state of systems.
Can you ID the hardware?
Maybe my sig should read, "AmigaWorldDisOrder"
I can probably id that little red and white bottle of Tylenol or the generic equivalent? :-)
Fester
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What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga
Buying stuff (e.g. BPPC) in order to sell it a year after, in order to buy a new one a year after, in order to sell it a year after, in order to (...). Hope you get the point. Never sell Amiga-stuff before you are *REALLY REALLY* sure that you will quit forever. And who can really say that?
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I loaded and ran Microsoft AmigaBASIC on my A500 for quite a few years.
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T3000:
Amiga 4000
(2) Amiga 3000
Amiga 3000T
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Some of your stories make me cry (whole A3000 towers in the dump)!
In the mid-to-late 90s, when Amigas were starting to show their age and were beginning to be out-performed by Macs and PCs, I occassionally got frustrated/discouraged and came very close to selling my A2000 setup to get something more "up to date". Thank goodness I didn't, as those Pentium IIs I thought were so great are now worthless.
Now that the old Classic Amigas have been totally surpassed (speed wise) by modern PCs, etc. I have gained a whole new type of enjoyment from my Amigas (retro computing). I enjoy them for what they are and the unique things they can do rather than trying to compare them to modern PCs.
However, in terms of the worst thing I have ever done to an Amiga: I once plugged a Commodore 128 power supply into an A500 that I purchased from a Thrift Store (which was missing its power supply). The power LED went on for a couple seconds, then there was a *POP* inside it and the smell of burnt ICs. Uh oh. I was sorry to have ruined an Amiga, but I only paid $2.99CAD for it, so no financial loss (and it's still good for some spare parts).
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I've never really done anything too terrible to an Amiga. The worst offense is probably that I have two A4000Ds sitting unusable, due to lack of suitable processor cards. (I have a dead 3640 and a dead CSMKII 060 I need to get fixed.)
Funniest error resulting in lost data:
I managed to muck up the directory structure of my HD on my old A500/DataFlyer rig. I somehow had a complete dh0: inside my c: assignment on dh0:. Accessing any of this would result in an instant Guru Meditation. I only found this much out when I booted the system from floppy. :lol:
Most durable computer ever witnessed:
My friend punched an A500 hard enough that the processor came out of the socket. This was while the machine was running, mind you. Broke several small bits of case plastic, as well. He turned it off, opened it up, re-seated the completely dislodged processor (after straightening a few pins, and reseated the half-dislodged Agnus (!!), applied power, and it booted right back up. Amazing.
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I once broke my A570 by using the on/off switch while the Amiga was on. Broke my heart and the darned things where not obtainable anymore either so my nifty CD Rom drive was gone
I never quite understood why doing that could break external devices? It's not like you're crossing pins or voltages anything. Why can turning off sidecar devices while the Amiga is still on break them? Is there some sort of voltage spike?
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I blew a chance to have an A2000 given to me by my parents when the A2000 was brand new - does that count?
As far as physical abuse, let's see...I broke a cold solder joint in my A520 composite converter for my A500 which forced me to wedge a book under it and keep it at a weird angle to make the video work - caused a loud buzzing from the speaker of the TV I used at the time, and eventually killed the CIAs in the '500 (thank goodness this was a time when you could find stores - plural - that'd fix Amiga systems).
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I tried to towerize my CD32 and SX1 combo.
Hooked the power leads up from the tower's PSU wrong and smoke came poring out of the motherboard.
Very sad day indeed. :(
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-Ran a pirated copy of rainbow islands that had a virus and erased my HD with lots of VisualPrefs themes that i made and never released.I was too lazy to restart the work and disksalv it could not recover them :bigcry:
-Sell a HD disk drive on ebay and miss it later :-(
-Attach a HP scanner to my Amiga parallel port to saw if it work and it trashed my HD :madashell:
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When towerizing my A500 I zapped my Apollo A520 accelerator by putting it wrong way. Had to buy Blizzard 2060....
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I once helped a friend "towerize" his A1200. It was such a hack job but it worked... up until we tried to replace the internal keyboard with an external one. That part required soldering and neither of us knew much about how to solder nor did we have the proper equipment. Needless to say we never got the external keyboard to work and after that no other part of the A1200 worked either. We tried to get it fixed but there was only one Amiga repair shop in town at that time and unfortunately it closed down before they finished fixing my friend's A1200.
Sadly, my friend bought a PC after that and has no interest in returning to the Amiga scene. :cry:
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Sell it cheap
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Using an A500 every day for years, with a half-broken tv-modulator that constantly needed supervision and adjusting as it was causing bad pictures, flickering, b&w @$!=*!
The modulator was so sensitive that when someone closed the door in the floor under me it affected the picture..(I was too little at the time to fix the broken connector to the tv-output). :pissed:
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What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga
Well... I guess it answers the question but not the way others have. Here it goes...
My first miggy was a A500 I had setup in the basement. I ran this really cool screensaver/trick that would flash a skull on the screen every five or ten minutes and creat a blood curdling screem.
Anywho, one day I come home to find my olderst brother ready to kill me. Heres why...
I left for work at 8, he gets up right after me and goes into the shower. A little way into it, He hears the worst sounding scream ever! He takes off running out of the shower, thruough and AROUND the house to find who ever just got killed, stabed, etc. Not finding anything he jumps back in only to have it happen again a few minutes later!
He does this THREE TIMES!!!
The third time of patroling the house, he's mad; he's frustrated; he's dripping wet and soapy; he walks past my miggy JUST at the right time... I THINK he jumped so high when it went off he hurt himself :evilgrin:
And THAT is the worst thing I've ever done that involves an Amiga :lol:
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Sell off my power tower, 060/PPC-Grex Voodoo3 SD/FF amiga with eizo monitor because i wanted to get turntables. still regret that till today
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I once wanted to upgrade my first A600 from
1MB to 2MB. Purchased a new 1MB card + clock.
I couldn't get it fit because of the small
trapdoor space, so I forced it into place with
a knife. I must have wrecked some traces while
doing it, because after booting the system left
me with only 1.5MB instead of the desired 2MB!
:getmad:
I played around with that 1.5MB Amiga for about
2 years until I sold it!
:lol:
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Left my modem plugged in during a lightning storm. The poor amiga1200 didn't have a chance. Took over 2 months to get it back fixed.
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> What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga
This is *so* tempting, but I decline to comment.
Wayne
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"This is *so* tempting, but I decline to comment"
Hope you aren't referring to this site :-P :-)
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I recently bought a FastATA and didn't read the instructions correctly. Started the 1200 and in a blue flash the FastATA, 1200 mainboard and harddrive all dead.
Good in a way because I then had the excuse to replace with an expanded 4000 :-)
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I heard a French Canadian chap jerked off over his motherboard while it was powered up and ended up with a totally fried board.
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in the late 90's i sold my a500 with hundreds of games and programs to my ex girlfriends little brother, and bought my self a PC..
:headwall:
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i played a game with my amiga instead of playing a game with my wife...
ok maybe i dont like my miggy that much (id need a port adapter anyway) (a BIG port adapter) (wow that came out pretty lame, just do the "big port adapter" part with a nasally geek voice)
i ditched 2 dead a1000s once. i could have done a case mod for uae machines.
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CannonFodder wrote:
I heard a French Canadian chap...fried board.
Il a tué son Amiga avec sa queue? Un vrai comique celui là.
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Fester wrote:
CannonFodder wrote:
I heard a French Canadian chap...fried board.
Il a tué son Amiga avec sa queue? Un vrai comique celui là.
Oui, cet athée est un imbécile !
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Fester wrote:
I can probably id that little red and white bottle of Tylenol or the generic equivalent? :-)
Yeah. The headache removal tool get lots of use with my systems. Think I might need to upgrade though... :-D
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Worst things I've done:
- Sold my Amiga 500 with 3 mb ram and 60 gb hd. (Stupid!)
- Sold my Blizzard 1230-IV 50 MHz Accelerator card with SCSI controller. (Why???!!!)
- Set my Amiga on fire by mistakenly inserting the IDE cable in the wrong orientation. (Well, only the cable burned up luckily)
Corrected mistakes:
- Bought new Amiga 500+ with 8 mb ram and 340 mb HD.
- Replaced burned up IDE cable :)
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Apart from being sorry for having sold my old Amiga's I've done some dumb things, which fortunately never harmed my Amiga's, like adding/removing harddrives and external SCSI units while the machine was still running.
Well, SCSI is supposed to be hot-swap. Meaning you can add/remove SCSI units while the system is on. No harm in that afaik.
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I got a free A4000T. Had video toaster 4000, Fully loaded. Sold it on eBay. damnit!
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Back in the days when CDROM drives were very expensive and I had a brand new A3000: I used my old A500 with an A570 attached as CDROM 'server' via Parnet.
Late one night I had to print a page for the next morning, so I removed the Parnet cable, plugged in the printer cable and repowered the A3k - realizing that nothing happened and there was a smell of something burning in the air...
Of course I had plugged the printer to the SCSI port, situated very conveniently directly above the parallel port. Fortunately only two picofuses (pretty hard to get those days) and a vaporized board trace had to be replaced. And I added a blind DB25 plug to the SCSI port, just in case. ;-)
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1. Sold my A1200 in 1997 and got Pentium something, dont remember anymore exactly. But i remember where the guy lives whom i sold my A1200.
2.Traded my A1200+Blizzard1230 50mhz. A cruel fate. 2001.
3. Burnt down a Delfina Flipper and FastATA 1200 (had too many beers that day). 2006. (got new ones).
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OMG... What is the worst thread you ever read on amiga.org? I guess this is the one... :-o
What a bunch of horror stories :-D
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Tonyvdb gets the prize for the worst calamity. Nobody can beat that!
I do feel sorry for pan1k too though. Did you at least get good bucks for it?