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Title: 2 new articles for you at AmigaWorld.org
Post by: AmiDelf on October 31, 2003, 04:39:42 PM
Today we have released 2 articles. One about Jay Miner, the father of Amiga. We have the official login to Jay Miners BBS too. The other is a Amiga Guide wich is under expansion at the moment. It will give a easy brief of how nice Amiga is for people not knowing anything about what Amiga computer is.

31.10: Jay Miner and me
http://www.amigaworld.org/JayMiner.html

31.10: Amiga Guide #1
http://www.amigaworld.org/GuideToAmiga.html

Happy reading!

Regards,
Michal

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Title: Re: 2 new articles for you at AmigaWorld.org
Post by: TheMagicM on October 31, 2003, 04:50:25 PM
I liked the Jay Miner story, but the Amiga Guide was not really a true guide though..the Installation of the OS said nothing on how to install it just told you in a nutshell, go buy the OS, install it.  As for the hardware, even that is not correct.  You're telling people to install a PCI Voodoo 3 card yet how can you do that with a bare bones A1200, A3000, A4000 ?Needs to be revised.   Sorry to sound so rough on ya though!
Title: Re: 2 new articles for you at AmigaWorld.org
Post by: Cyberus on October 31, 2003, 06:21:00 PM
I agree - the Jay Miner story was cool to read, but the guide was of limited use, to say the least! (sorry)
Title: Re: 2 new articles for you at AmigaWorld.org
Post by: AmiDelf on November 01, 2003, 12:02:47 AM
The Guide is not ment to be a Guide for the advanced Amiga user. Its a promotional guide. I am expanding it and improoving it at the moment. A AmigaOS installation guide would be far, far more interesting for Amiga users. This is comming later on.

Regards,
Michal
Title: Re: 2 new articles for you at AmigaWorld.org
Post by: CyberViking2000 on November 01, 2003, 06:37:14 AM
The screenshot of logging into Padre's bbs that was using Skyline BBS software brings back a lot of fond memories.

I had used Skyline since it was first called Atredes, and later called Omnilink. I had become a beta tester of the software and had a ball with it and Skypix, the graphics protocol. It was a great preview of what would later be seen on the internet.

One of the nicest things about running a BBS on the Amiga is that PC hackers couldn't drop it to DOS and reformat the hard drive. One kept trying for over a week on mine and I made an ANSI-bomb that was ready to reprogram his  DOS-based PC (keyboard scramble and blanking screen, etc).  I was the only computer running a BBS in the city that could stonewall him. And I owe it all to having an Amiga.  :-D