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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: TheMagicM on January 07, 2009, 11:44:12 PM
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you start. I'll chime in..
no flames please. Old news is old news.
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Loaded Akira.
Damn that game was bad :lol:
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Called it Atari. :-o
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I sold it, an Amiga 3000, in 1999! But thanks to EBay I've got a 3000 again.
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Spilled water on my old A500... :-(
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I use cardboard box my A500 came in to store an Atari STe!
I used an old iron core A500 PSU (minus cables) as a door wedge in the conservatory.
Argonaut Software used an un-powered A3000 as nothing more than monitor stand for the receptionists PC for 5 years or more before I rescued it in 1998.
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Loaned my first A500 to a friend and never got it back. (My fault, not his.)
Loaned my external 3.5" DD drive to a friend and never got it back. (His fault, not mine.)
Grounded the business side of my A1200 motherboard to its tower chassis. Summoned magic smoke. Killed serial port, sound, and probably other things. Replacement in hand but not installed.
Fried one of my RRNet cards connecting it to a clockport cable the wrong way around. (The cable was striped correctly, but the IDC connectors were on backwards--or something. Regardless, dead RRNet.)
Unless you meant "worst" in a moral or ethical sense, in which case, I was a 14 year old with a modem. I downloaded contraband just like the rest of the kiddies. I'm sure I called people names, too, and lied about being 18 to join adult boards.
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I am into 3d raytracing. The worst possible thing I ever did was to load 'imagine' and try to model in it.
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rednova
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Amen
Bought one in the first place and acquired this ridiculous obsession.
(http://www.tourspecgolf.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/tsg_smiley_beach.gif)
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Trev: yea, the moral sense.. like running a pirate ftp site and stuff. lol. so I guess thats my moral "bad thing" even though I didnt really care.
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Not my doing, but funny still...
About 10 years ago, a guy at the university donated a couple of A2000 boxes to our computer club. These two machines had been used by the administration up to quite recently at the time, which pussles us a bit... amigas in univ administration?
When we booted them up, they came up with old 1.x workbench, and then an almost full screen window was opened and ancient MSDOS was started in it, and finally the application of the administration people had been using. We opened them up and found a couple of 8088-based cards in the zorro+isa slots. So for years and years these two poor amigas had been used for nothing than running MSDOS applications - how bad is that?! :lol:
Anyways, it turned out that these were the more or less useless german made A2000-A models, with zorro1-ish bus, odd keyboards (I suspect compatible with CDTV). They were also very yellow and greasy, probably from smoking. Soon after we got them, the PSUs died, and since they require a PSU with "tick", they ended up in the attick.
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http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39759
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oh, and I wrote a "wargames dialer" in AmigaBASIC and had my Amiga 500 running it. LOL! that was fun.
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Trev: yea, the moral sense.. like running a pirate ftp site and stuff. lol. so I guess thats my moral "bad thing" even though I didnt really care.
Yeah... Most all my moral problems with an Amiga came from back in my high school days and involved a phone line.
I helped run a few pirate BBS over the years.
Stole a list of phone number and modem settings off a teacher's desk. I had no idea what it was. I was hoping it was a grading computer. Instead, I ended up on Merit/MichNet and was quite mystified by it's size and complexity. (Hey... This was 1990? How many high school kids were really aware of the size of the internet back then?)
I might have accidentally crashed the school's attendance computer once, too. (Really, I was just trying to find an easy way to tie up the phone line the automated system uses to notify parents when their kids skip classes. I wasn't really expecting it would have a terminal I could connect to...)
On a more funny note, 'say' can make some HILARIOUS prank calls. DSS8 can mask a voice pretty well, too. :lol:
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Ilwrath wrote:
(Hey... This was 1990? How many high school kids were really aware of the size of the internet back then?)
I know what you mean. When I got my first email address through a BBS/Shell acount using PINE I sent an email to somebody and I just figured it would take like a day to get there. I didn't realize email was "instant". :lol:
But, worst thing I've done to my Amigas is trying to towerize my CD32. Hooked the power cord up wrong from the tower cases PSU and fried my CD32 motherboard. Madmaxx on here has that board after all these years (10+) and might even have it working now finally I think or close!
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Moral? Probably the same as many here. An older buddy of mine had a UK connection, and I recall feeling pretty smug about playing Settlers before the US release :lol: Driving to the PO to pick up the "shipment", pizza, pepsi (was still much to young to drink) and floppies... definitely some magical times. :-) I've spent the last several years hunting down the originals of all my favorite games as a kid, down to a pretty small list now... (hint, hint, anyone wanna part with their copy of Traps 'n' Treasures?)
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Using X-Copy back in they day ;)
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stopped using it.
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TjLaZer wrote:
Using X-Copy back in they day ;)
Tick, tick, tick, tick... good thing there are programs like tetra copy. I remember punishing my DF1: drive by playing "El condor pasa" using the drive head when it misbehaved.
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heh, x-copy, d-copy... i got an external drive before the 1meg upgrade for my a500. not done anything really bad to hardware, but was part of the schoolyard copying contingent to my shame.
i seem to remember some ray tracing program i had, was able to use disk for virtual memory. i set it to df1: . you just wouldn't even consider it these days would you! :lol:
otherwise, selling the A500 that got me started down this route. stupid stupid stupid.... haa well... :roll:
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Probably collecting near a thousand pirated games over the years.
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This was when I was much younger. I mean 16 years ago and before.
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I once traded a load of copied disks with mate in exchange for a date with his gorgeous little sister which went to 3rd base.
So effectively I used my Amiga to facilite fraud and prostitution ;-)
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Stop talking in american. :-D WTF is third base.
could you list the bases please.
My best guess has always been
1st base = klissing
2nd base - bit of titty grope
3rd base - warm and wet fingers
4th base - making the camel with two backs.
is this correct ?
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No, but what does it matter anyhow?
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Well as alexh seems to have lost his sense of humour, any americans explain what the bases are. Always here it refered to, never known what they are
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And you seem to have lost your imagination. It doesnt matter what it really meant you get the idea ;-)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=third+base
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alexh wrote:
what does it matter anyhow?
Exactly, and all your base are belong to me anyway :-)
OT: there are quite a few bad things that I've done to Amigas. Probably the worst is hot-plugging SCSI devices on my A3000, not only on the external port (Syquest drives, CD-Rom drives), but also internal.
However, the A3000 didn't cry about that: I once plugged in a 2nd harddisk while the machine was running - I opened HDToolBox and it just let me install and partition the drive. How's that for a rock-solid computer? :-)
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I got the idea and was not asking for clarification of what you got up to on the back of this :-D
I was just too lazy to look this up on our heavily , montiored and restricted internet.
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JJ wrote:
Well as alexh seems to have lost his sense of humour, any americans explain what the bases are. Always here it refered to, never known what they are
I'm with you here, I have no idea what these various sexual euphanisms mean... It's like trying to work out what someone means when they state a time period using school "years"... Don't people realize we all went to different schools... And in different countries... I went to a private school in England, I have no idea what a "Year 9" is!
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Worst thing?
Sold my first Amiga 500 :-(
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@ bloocdline
exactly i was pre national curriculm( nearly 32 ouch ) So to me it will always be.
Junior school - standrard 1 -4
comprehensive - forms 1 - 6
I have no idea what years are either :-D
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I too have been known to copy a game or two... That was very much part of the Amiga's sucess... But my childhood hobby of computer programing did keep my piracy down to the odd game that I never played much... All my favourite games and apps were purchased at christmas and birthdays :-)
My most regretable incident was almost certainly buying a BlizzPPC... It was nothing more than an expensive space heater and I have never really used it... I also have a BVision, so I guess at some point I'm going to try MOS on it... But there really doesn't seem any point.
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JJ wrote:
@ bloocdline
exactly i was pre national curriculm( nearly 32 ouch ) So to me it will always be.
Junior school - standrard 1 -4
comprehensive - forms 1 - 6
I have no idea what years are either :-D
Though I'm younger than you the archaic system in use at my school was unchanged for over 100 years... So I used the same system as you, with the Junior School forms 1-4 and the Senior School Forms 1-5 and a Lower and Upper 6th Form
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I destroyed keyboard connector on my first A500 by using 'graphite spray' on it.
yes, those keyboards are not expensive, but all others are slightly different :(
also, used soda to 'neutralize battery leakage' which probably only made it worse (but fixed that after wasting a lot of time)
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yeah did my nut in too, but apparently, year 9 is the year before the gcse years.
the gcse years being 10 and 11
12 and 13 being lower and upper 6th form.
anyway, back on topic,
thinking about it, it was fairly amazing i didn't cook any CIAs the amount of hot plugging i used to do. even scsi devices. i'm a bit more carefull these days though. its not like A500's are still in production :-D
i found you can reset a miggy by hot plugging the 23pin video port and getting it wrong by shorting one of the pins to ground with the plug shielding. even scared myself and got a blue spark one day, but the miggy carried on like nothing had happened. no speed boost or anything either though.. (blue sparks - mario kart, badoom tish...)
still took care grounding out static, but not so far as to wear an anti-static wrist strap ;-)
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JJ wrote:
Stop talking in american. :-D WTF is third base.
could you list the bases please.
My best guess has always been
1st base = klissing
2nd base - bit of titty grope
3rd base - warm and wet fingers
4th base - making the camel with two backs.
is this correct ?
Wait, stop talking Welsh: making the camel with two backs?
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stefcep2 wrote:
Wait, stop talking Welsh: making the camel with two backs?
= f*king.
Think about it...
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moto
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motorollin wrote:
stefcep2 wrote:
Wait, stop talking Welsh: making the camel with two backs?
= f*king.
Think about it...
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moto
Nope still can't picture it..
OK give me a hint: what sort of camels we talking about one or two humps
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It's going to take a lot to beat Alexh's corruption :-D - that's brilliant, and had me laughing in the office. Oops!
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Watched Stag- and Bodacious bordello beauties-series :crazy:
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I guess the thing I regret most was back in the mid 90's I traded an A2000 Bomac tower I had built that was fully loaded (flickerfixer, accelerator, cd-rom, 2 floppy drives, etc.) for an a1200 that was pretty much stock. It was just after Commodore went belly-up and they became hard to find. No internet for me yet and the dealers in the magazines who had them wanted a fortune. I just had it in my head that I had to have AGA graphics. At that time almost everyone in the local club had an A500. It was all that anyone could afford. People forget or weren't there to remember how much most of the hardware cost back then. It makes some of the insane prices of today not seem so insane.
This has been a nice, interesting thread. Other than one of the regular cranky ones being a little testy, it is great!
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When carrying an A500 downstairs to use on the big TV (when i was a kid) I dropped it and it tumbled and bounced end over end down the stairs before cracking open against the front door!
Very carefully put it back to together having opened it up to reseat everything (I've always been fairly technically minded) and happily it all worked fine :-)
I do remembered being both mortified AND terrified that it might be broken!
Andy
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Putting Apollo A520 accelerator wrong way into my A500T Micronik bus board edge connector - pffffft...Had to buy Blizzard 2060 so happy end but not moneywise :crazy:
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Lorraine wrote:
alexh wrote:
I once traded a load of copied disks with mate in exchange for a date with his gorgeous little sister which went to 3rd base.
So effectively I used my Amiga to facilite fraud and prostitution ;-)
Holy sh*t, is this one true?
You bolda*s horndog!
What gets me is he says he exchanged his disks for a date with someone's sister. In other words his mate was pimping his younger sister (I suspect we don't want to know how young) for his illicit wares. So we have
a) a theif
b) a prostitute
c) a pimp.
All in one Amiga story. Well done!
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spirantho wrote:
Lorraine wrote:
alexh wrote:
I once traded a load of copied disks with mate in exchange for a date with his gorgeous little sister which went to 3rd base.
So effectively I used my Amiga to facilite fraud and prostitution ;-)
Holy sh*t, is this one true?
You bolda*s horndog!
What gets me is he says he exchanged his disks for a date with someone's sister. In other words his mate was pimping his younger sister (I suspect we don't want to know how young) for his illicit wares. So we have
a) a theif
b) a prostitute
c) a pimp.
All in one Amiga story. Well done!
Plus possible peadophillia!!! Wow I think Alex wins this thread!
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Hi All-
I set up my A4000 and just let it run for a few years, playing freecell every time I walked by. Finally it started to crash more and more often. If I let it cool off it would run again for a while, leading me to think I had a cooling problem. I took it apart and found that a mouse had got in to the power supply (a warm place in a cold climate) and built a nest and packed it with stored food. Cleaned it up and it has been running fine since (over a year). Robust machine.
CRL
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I sold my 3000 to pay the rent...
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Oh boy.... You are so amateurs :)
Worst thing; when i bought my pc (~3-4 years ago), a month later i throwed away my A1200+Blizzard IV + 16MB ram + half-functional mouse.
I am not sorry too much about that, but i should have give it away to some collector....
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Srbin wrote:
Oh boy.... You are so amateurs :)
Worst thing; when i bought my pc (~3-4 years ago), a month later i throwed away my A1200+Blizzard IV + 16MB ram + half-functional mouse.
I am not sorry too much about that, but i should have give it away to some collector....
OMG!! You did NOT do that?? :-o
Please tell me you are jokeing!!
:ranting:
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Tried to Sabotage an A600,
Not exactly my computer.
My friend bought an A600 from Dixon and was unable to return it unless it was faulty, so cleverly we decided to pour orange juice on it. Nothing happened.
Result - A sticky 1200 keyboard and no refund!
Ach well!
Thanks for a resilient and trusty machine! :)
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Srbin wrote:
Oh boy.... You are so amateurs :)
Worst thing; when i bought my pc (~3-4 years ago), a month later i throwed away my A1200+Blizzard IV + 16MB ram + half-functional mouse.
I am not sorry too much about that, but i should have give it away to some collector....
:-x :-x :-x :-x :-x !!
I don't think I can top that!
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JJ wrote:
Stop talking in american. :-D WTF is third base.
2girls1cup ;)
I watched Stag on mine too, and yes, had a hell of a lot of copied disks too...
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edit - That should be 'A600' keyboard, and Dixons should be plural otherwise people might wonder just who Dixon is??!
not some Rogue trader! :lol:
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Sell a CDTV to fund for a PS1 :boohoo:. Later I sold the PS1 for funding of a BlizzardPPC (that's the one Bloodline regrets buying :lol:). No idea where that money went, probably funded the local pubs.
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Sold my Beloved A500 in the early 90's to get money for gas, so that i could visit my girlfriend.. Nowadays ex girlfriend.. What didn't a young man do for some p****y those days.. well hmm.. when i think about it, nothing has changed.. :-D
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Andeda said
"when i think about it, nothing has changed.."
And I'm starting to believe it never will.....
Dan
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@ bloodline
Yes we had lower and upper sixth too
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2 girls 1 cup, just sooooooo wrong.
I can not belive the abuse my a1200 has teken over the years. how many times my tower has been taken apart and put back together, and bad traced relpaced with wire etc etc.
ITs the most abused piece of electronics I have ever owned ( and had the mobo since 92), and its still running fine.
Taken to levaing on for days and dyas at a time using the bpcc on the amiga team rc key effort. solid as a rock
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odin wrote:
Sell a CDTV to fund for a PS1 :boohoo:. Later I sold the PS1 for funding of a BlizzardPPC (that's the one Bloodline regrets buying :lol:). No idea where that money went, probably funded the local pubs.
:lol: No, I don't regret buying your old BVision... Finally I had some use for my BPPC :-)
I bought the BPPC when I was 17 and really I had to go without a lot to afford it :-(
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The worst thing that was/is being made to the Amiga is prolonging its state of the coma, unless of course, u're against euthanasia for moral principles.
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Two years ago I fried an A4000D by putting the kickstart roms in the wrong way round...
Mind you, the com ports were already not working properly due to battery leakage :)
Battery has been removed and it's sitting in my parents attic now - may still prove useful for someone in a few years!
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@TheMagicM
Installed OS4.
Installed MorphOS.
Come on be honest, you wanted the flame wars really. :-D
Sorry couldn't resist. :lol:
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bloodline wrote:
spirantho wrote:
his mate was pimping his younger sister (I suspect we don't want to know how young) for his illicit wares. So We have
a) a theif
b) a prostitute
c) a pimp.
All in one Amiga story. Well done!
Plus possible peadophillia!!! Wow I think Alex wins this thread!
It's not a bad as you make it sound. I do not remember how old we were, I didn't get my Amiga until 1990 so we would have left school (i.e. over 16).
I remember she had braces ;-)
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I used to make all my backups with PK Azip. I´m still trying to rescue my lost data...
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While in college, I eventually sold my first Amiga for lunch money and _such_.
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alexh wrote:
bloodline wrote:
spirantho wrote:
his mate was pimping his younger sister (I suspect we don't want to know how young) for his illicit wares. So We have
a) a theif
b) a prostitute
c) a pimp.
All in one Amiga story. Well done!
Plus possible peadophillia!!! Wow I think Alex wins this thread!
It's not a bad as you make it sound. I do not remember how old we were, I didn't get my Amiga until 1990 so we would have left school.
I remember she had braces ;-)
After school eh? So you would have missed Grange Hill... Hmmm...
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Quote: Srbin wrote: Oh boy.... You are so amateurs :) Worst thing; when i bought my pc (~3-4 years ago), a month later i throwed away my A1200+Blizzard IV + 16MB ram + half-functional mouse. I am not sorry too much about that, but i should have give it away to some collector.... OMG!! You did NOT do that?? Please tell me you are jokeing!!
Well... i am tell you that, but i don't lie, sorry...
Will i burn in amiga hell for such sacrilegion? 8-)
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Srbin wrote:
Quote: Srbin wrote: Oh boy.... You are so amateurs :) Worst thing; when i bought my pc (~3-4 years ago), a month later i throwed away my A1200+Blizzard IV + 16MB ram + half-functional mouse. I am not sorry too much about that, but i should have give it away to some collector.... OMG!! You did NOT do that?? Please tell me you are jokeing!!
Well... i am tell you that, but i don't lie, sorry...
Will i burn in amiga hell for such sacrilegion? 8-)
Yes :-D
And you have to donate all your money to some kind of Amiga development ;-)
Well.. Maybe it's just me, but I hate to throw away ANYTHING that works or maybe can be usefull for parts, etc...
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The worst things I've done!
1. Installed a Fast ATA MkIII incorrectly into my A1200 killing both instantly.
2. Using a perfectly good 4000D case when drunk as a barbecue!
3. Give away my original CD32 + games collection to a pal at school.
Oh well, live and learn! ;-)
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Thinking about this some more I have one or two confessions to make...
1) I'm yet another of those who used x-copy to aquire a games collection (which I no longer have, I might add).
2) When I lived at home with my parents I only had a smal room. I bought so many Amigas in various states that some of them did end up down the tip due to lack of space. In my defence it was only some manky A500's, possibly one or two crusty A2000's and a non-functioning A1000 which was quite yellow. I still feel bad about it though as I could have stripped them for loads of spares :-( I really don't remember why I didn't.
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I had an A1000 in high school with front side mem expansion and Spirit Board 2 mb expansion as well. Added two external floppies (one high density). Gave it to my brother when I went to university and got an A2000. My brother's basement apt. flooded and the A1000 was under water for a weekend. Dried it out for a week and it lived! Internal floppy died so replaced it with one for an A500. It was too long so I cut the front face plate off so it could stick out the front. Then it sat at my parents place unused for ten years or so. My dad cleaned house and threw it in the trash. To be fair, he did warn me.
Bought an A500 with the GVP Turbo side car thing with a HD. Never really used it. Sat in my garage forever. I had completely lost interest in the Amiga at that point and the wife wanted the garage cleaned so I threw it out.
Regained interest a few years ago and pulled my old A2000 with GVP 030/40mhz, ram, SCSI expansion out of the basement. Still works! Yes I removed the battery, and I still have the high density floppy. Now I cringe when I think about the two machines that I trashed. :-(
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I got an A3000 off a programmer and then loaned it to my friend who 'knew' more about Amigas than I did. It never worked right again.
I fried a motherboard in the A1200 tower I bought. I bought a replacement and I think I fried that one too on accident. ARGH!!!
I remember when I helped my friend set up his first BBS. All I can say is CNET! (A great BBS program after we beat our heads trying to learn to run it.)
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Trev wrote:
Loaned my first A500 to a friend and never got it back. (My fault, not his.)
Loaned my external 3.5" DD drive to a friend and never got it back. (His fault, not mine.)
Grounded the business side of my A1200 motherboard to its tower chassis. Summoned magic smoke. Killed serial port, sound, and probably other things. Replacement in hand but not installed.
Fried one of my RRNet cards connecting it to a clockport cable the wrong way around. (The cable was striped correctly, but the IDC connectors were on backwards--or something. Regardless, dead RRNet.)
Unless you meant "worst" in a moral or ethical sense, in which case, I was a 14 year old with a modem. I downloaded contraband just like the rest of the kiddies. I'm sure I called people names, too, and lied about being 18 to join adult boards.
Hi Trev,
Can I borrow 'A1200/Blizzard1260/SCSI-IV/Z4/MediatorZIV/Deneb/Voodoo3/VT4000/CatweaselMk4' please? :-)
Rude!
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This thread is hilarious - AlexH wins by a mile :-)
I also thought 3rd base was feeding the horse!
Rude!
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Disclaimer: This all happened a long time ago.
I remember reading about someone building a sampler connected to the joystick port. So, in my ignorance and lack of technical knowledge, I hardwired a microphone to the joystick port (tried various pins), started Audio Master and *puff* out came the blue smoke of death.
I also gave the same computer some serious beating after coding for hours (without saving) followed by the beloved guru meditation. Oh, the anger...
And for a while the Agnus overheated all the time. Solved it with a home made fan (disk drive motor and some cardboard) to keep it cool. The motor was just balanced on top of the Agnus with the wires hanging loose inside the miggy. Amazingly no shorts, and it was just enough cooling to keep it stable.
She survived everything and is still in my posession. :-)
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Up to now, most of the things I've done with my A500+(s) have been bad :(
When I first got an A500+, it gave me a green screen of death when I booted it. Except I didn't know this because for some reason I'd decided that the MONO output was actually colour output (resulting in it being a green screen of death).
Dad and I opened it up to find out why, finding a lot of what seemed to be verdigris (battery leakage?) all over the motherboard. In attempting to clean the chips, I managed to remove some of the metal contacts in Gary's socket, probably make the situation far worse, and what we ended up with was an Amiga that didn't even turn on properly.
So, I'm now on my second A500+... and, using the stack of cover disks that came with the first one, I managed to total 2 floppy drives before I realised that many of the cover disks were so degraded that they were destroying the drives. I also managed to total most of the Workbench disk copies that also came with it, including the original, mostly by trying to write to the already barely readable disks... one of the disks died because I had the A500+ too close to a wall and accidentally pushed the eject button into the wall while the disk was being accessed.
However, I now have a working floppy disk (I use one of the dead ones, stripped so I can spin it manually, to check disks for catastrophic damage), a working copy of Workbench, and my Amiga appears to be happy and not hold a grudge against me for being such a Mexican Bee Man to start with...
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The worst thing I have done with my Amiga(s) is not use them enough. I have neglected them for too long in the past, but I am trying to make up for that over the last two years.
Other than that, the worst thing I have done is to break, or bend a couple pins when removing peripherals to work on something.
And lastly, I am guilty of buying more Amiga gear than I could possibly use, but I have made up for that by teaching some of the neighborhood kids how computers work with many of my Amigas set up.