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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: wurzel on February 06, 2007, 12:11:21 AM
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Hi all,
I've just joined after being recommended by people on mailing lists and IRC. I've asked for a bit of help which was readily forthcoming, nice one guys (& gals).
I 1st started with an A500 around 15-17 years ago (I still have accounts on my hard drivve from 15 years ago!), and upgarded to an A1200 with 060. I fitted a Subway to it around 2-3 years ago and was thrilled with the ease of transferring data from PC->Amiga->PC, better than Zip drives.
Anyway, 2 years ago I got an LCD widescreen TV and that's when I realsied I HAD to get a graphics card. I had to use Multiscan:Producyivity mode & it was so slow. So over the last 18 months, I bought the bits I needed to produce the system you see in my sig ;)
I live in Jersey, Channel Isles and although there was 1 other miggy user 5 years ago, he doesn't use it any more so I guess I'm the only one in Jersey. There used to be one in Guernsey but I haven't seen her online for quite a while. This means, I can only use places like Amiga.org for help but I have to say, everyone really does.
IBrowse really rocks with this setup and I shall be popping in here MUCH more frequently now :)
Russell Butler A1200 Power Tower, Blizzard 50mhz 060 with SCSI, 196mb RAM, Mediator, 16mb Voodoo3, Fast Ethernet, Hauppage TV, Soundblaster & Spider USB card, IDE 2Gb & 40Gb drives, CDRW & Hypercomm1 fast serial
Member, Team AMIGA The Amiga lives on!
Past President, Jersey Junior Chamber (JCI)
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Welcome to A.Org!
Never made it to Jersey, but spent a long weekend in Guernsey - very nice part of the world! Lots of friendly people too!
- Ali
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Hello from Texas.
We are glad to see more people joining.
Rick. :-D
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Hi Wurzel
In August I will be visiting Jersey for the third year in a row. I have totally fallen in love with it. I wish I could add to the number of Amiga users there permanenly, but my boyfriend doesn't want to move :-(
I hope you consider yourself very lucky to live in such a beautiful place :-)
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moto
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Will be in Jersey on 5th March for one week at Hotel Du France.... Will put the Boing ball Tshirt on, look out for me lol!
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motorollin wrote:
Hi Wurzel
In August I will be visiting Jersey for the third year in a row. I have totally fallen in love with it. I wish I could add to the number of Amiga users there permanenly, but my boyfriend doesn't want to move :-(
I hope you consider yourself very lucky to live in such a beautiful place :-)
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moto
boyfriend? are you a woman???? :-?
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@wurzel
G'day from Australia and welcome to a.org :-)
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keropi wrote:
boyfriend? are you a woman???? :getmad:
No I'm gay. Sorry that makes you so angry :roll:
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moto
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it does not make me angry. in fact I don't care. you are free to do what you like :-D
I thought that was the :-? pic, I did not notice the angry stuff... lol
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Oh ok sorry, I thought you had intentionally used the angry face :-)
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moto
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@ motorollin
Hi motorollin
I noticed you listed a C64 and disk drive in your list - but what is a Prophet?
I still use my trusty old 1541 and my most treasured floppy disk game is Loco by Gremlin Graphics :-) Great Jean Micheal Jarre tune lovingly re-created by SID !
Retromania
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Prophet64 is a cartridge for the C64 which contains a 303-style bassline synth, a lead synthesizer, a drum machine and a sequencer.
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moto
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@ moto
Sounds like good fun !
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It's wicked :-)
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moto
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Welcome wurzel
I was lucky enough to live in beautiful Jersey for about 5 years. It was sun, sea, sand and something :lol: all the way. I've never seen so many gorgeous girls in one place during the summer season in Jersey, when they all came over to work and party.
Excuse my spelling of them but are great places like the pub Le Buvette in town still around?
What about Lords disco? Madisons disco that had the amazing beach party on Thursday nights to which the boys wore T-shirts and shorts and the girls wore Bikini's? (Hmmmmm.... wet T-shirt contest) Thackereys diso? Sands disco way out at St Ouens? Les Arches was a Saturday night favourite for me and the lads too.
I believe you can't get residential qualifications to live there now unless you were on the island before 1981 and stayed there for 10 years? The only other way is to have a £zillion pounds in the bank right? Does Roger Moore still have the place he called Moonraker after one of his films?
EDIT - Actually, some of my mates married local Jersey girls and could then stay there with them of course 8-)
A4000 Mad
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Welcome!
:-D
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Hi A4000_Mad,
Cor, you're taking me back in time lol. Those were the days :lol:
Madisons burnt down with a quarter of the Hotel; it's been rebuilt as a medical centre.
Thackerys has closed and is now a bank building. La Buvette is still there but is now called the Original Wine Bar. Lords keeps changing it's name and is now La Cala and they have a restaurant there too.
You can now get qualifications to buy or rent a home in your own right if you live continously for 13 years (soon to come down to 10), or, as you say, you have millions.
Roger Moore never actually owned or lived at Moonrakers :) It is still there but has been converted into flats after the owner sold up.
However, Ian Woosnam, Derek Warwick and the other English F1 World Champion (whose name escapes me atm, with a moustache and dark hair, not Damon Hill, older) do live here.
Pity you don't live here, there'd be 2 Amigans
:-D
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A4000_Mad wrote:
I believe you can't get residential qualifications to live there now unless you were on the island before 1981 and stayed there for 10 years? The only other way is to have a £zillion pounds in the bank right?
Is that really true? I have contacted the Dpt of Immigration in Jersey and they said they know of no such restriction (to have megabucks in a Jersey account) as long as you are a UK resident.
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moto
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Welcome Wurzel :-D
Andy
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motorollin wrote:
A4000_Mad wrote:
I believe you can't get residential qualifications to live there now unless you were on the island before 1981 and stayed there for 10 years? The only other way is to have a £zillion pounds in the bank right?
Is that really true? I have contacted the Dpt of Immigration in Jersey and they said they know of no such restriction (to have megabucks in a Jersey account) as long as you are a UK resident.
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moto
Well, the answer is yes, and no ;)
You CAN live here without qualifications, but you CAN'T rent or buy a house in your own right until you've lived here 13 years. Until then, you live in bedsits, or VERY expensive small flats, or share a house with someone who has Qualifications. Check out www.jerseyrights.org for further details, if you're thinking of moving over ;)
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That's what I thought. Although part of the UK, Jersey has its own government and it appears there will be no immigrants arriving there to claim benefits and be housed.
If a fortune drops into my lap I know where I will be heading back to and taking my Amigas with me ;-)
(oooooooh..... I guess I should take the wife and kids too :laughing:)
A4000 Mad
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wurzel wrote:
...and the other English F1 World Champion (whose name escapes me atm, with a moustache and dark hair, not Damon Hill, older)
Nigel Mansell
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You can count me in :devildance:
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lorddef wrote:
wurzel wrote:
...and the other English F1 World Champion (whose name escapes me atm, with a moustache and dark hair, not Damon Hill, older)
Nigel Mansell
That's him :-D