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Title: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: redrumloa on December 20, 2008, 03:19:52 AM
Amiga Party Pack (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120352651253) on eBay.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: weirdami on December 20, 2008, 03:40:22 AM
so the party pack was just the Amiga DE SDK, but costed more because there was a supposed coupon thingy?
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: redrumloa on December 20, 2008, 03:56:12 AM
It included some extra games afaik.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Belial6 on December 20, 2008, 03:56:55 AM
That is an awesome description!  No one can say that you are not up front about describing what you are auctioning.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Plaz on December 20, 2008, 04:16:36 AM
Yup, still have my boxed copy. Ah, wait... I think mine is the linux version. Looks like Red's is the Windows version. I wonder which is rarer? If I recall, once you had it, you could register as a developer using the included serial number.  I think my account is still out there on Amiga.com some where. If my serial number is any indication, I'd say they probably sold less that 10,000.

The best part about this item...??? The pretty colored box. :-)

Plaz
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: persia on December 20, 2008, 05:05:37 AM
Honesty in an Ebay auction!  An Ebay first!

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Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: rkauer on December 20, 2008, 07:02:40 AM
 I like the sticker (and only it).
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: weirdami on December 20, 2008, 10:18:52 AM
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redrumloa wrote:
It included some extra games afaik.


Games made with the SDK as like examples?
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Post by: Lorraine on December 20, 2008, 10:19:25 AM
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Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: weirdami on December 20, 2008, 10:24:48 AM
How do we know that McEwen wouldn't have delivered if things had gone better?
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Post by: Lorraine on December 20, 2008, 10:38:10 AM
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Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Darrin on December 20, 2008, 11:04:57 AM
Jim, you certainly know how to call a spade a spade.  :-D
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: amigadave on December 20, 2008, 11:56:03 AM
Red, where did you find my long lost Party Pack?  It had been lost in the mail for so long I had started to give up hope that it would ever arrive or be found!

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Lorraine wrote:
Tell that to the people who got shafted.


Here, here.

All the rest of you suckers that got shafted like me raise your hands.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Kin-Hell on December 23, 2008, 04:41:14 PM
@ red

That's NOT a party Pack m8!

There isn't any Beer in it!  :lol:

@ all

This is now a self-abuse thread where you can openly admit you were totally shafted! :crazy:
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: spihunter on December 23, 2008, 05:47:35 PM
That party was busted along time ago!
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Fester on December 23, 2008, 09:51:34 PM
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amigadave wrote:
All the rest of you suckers that got shafted like me raise your hands.


Me too. It never installed on my machine. Amiga support at the time responded that I needed updated drivers. They asked me to sign some sort of a non-disclosure agreement, which I did and faxed back in. They never responded and never gave me access to their download page. I finally sold my copy on eBay.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: Bezzen on December 23, 2008, 11:03:32 PM
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All the rest of you suckers that got shafted like me raise your hands.


Yeah, I have to raise my hand here. I played around with the SDK for a while and then then box ended up in a storage box in the attic.
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: mihcael on December 23, 2008, 11:32:39 PM
Why did it become AmigaDE, is that for Dead End?
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: weirdami on December 24, 2008, 12:20:51 AM
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Lorraine wrote:
Tell that to the people who got shafted.


Eric Schwartz seemed to be able to make something from it.
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Post by: Lorraine on December 24, 2008, 12:31:58 AM
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Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: redfox on December 24, 2008, 03:06:14 AM
@redrumloa

:bow:  Well done, Sir.  :-D

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redfox
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: B00tDisk on December 24, 2008, 06:27:19 AM
Hey, it could be worse: you could have bought the Party Pack and one of these (http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/hardware/amiga/developerbundle.html&cart_id=1903150_81815) jewels to develop on!

(For the link impaired or lazy:
The d'AMIGA is THE solution for Amiverse developers seeking excellent value in and support in a complete development workstation

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

    * Motherboard Gigabyte GA-5AX
    * CPU AMD K6-11 3D 500Mhz
    * Memory 128 Mbyte SDRAM DIMM PC100
    * Hard Drive 10 Gbyte IDE
    * CDROM 40X
    * Floppy 1.44 Mbyte
    * Sound Blaster 256 LIVE!
    * Video Matrox G400 Dual Head
    * Speakers 20 W
    * Network Linksys NC100 v2.0
    * Warranty 2 year 'Sealed Case' P&L

 - all yours for $1059!  I guess I'd take pity on someone offering a system like that if they'd knock off $1055 first :LOL: )
Title: Re: FA: A shameful piece of Amiga history
Post by: darksun9210 on December 24, 2008, 07:17:23 AM
wow! i had a machine with a scarily similar spec. years ago! only difference it had a TNT2 gfx card.
that got me into and through my first quake3 torny....
meeeeemories...

think i've still got it somwewhere gathering dust... just need to find a case that looks the same and sell it for one thousand dollars! woohoo! :crazy: