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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Hell Labs on March 07, 2010, 05:08:02 PM
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280471801797
Guy didn't write the discription so clearly but the pictures did the talking for him. Bidding was intense, I could barely move the mouse properly from shaking so much.
Good deal? This is hard to type.
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Wow... Yeah, I'd say you got a helluva deal there!
Refreshing (or not) to see Americans aren't the only dickheads on ePay though. Nice ad buddy! All caps and a monstrous sized font. lol
I couldn't get through the entire ad without being annoyed, but didn't see mention of specs. Ram, HD, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to find a 1260 under the hood? I'm guessing someone with the wherewith all to use and purchase one of those, would have written a more civilized ad though. lmao
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Not bad! (heh, there's nothing like Pac-Man to show off the A1200)
WOW, those Software 2000 floppies take me back. I had a ton of those.
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an 060 would be great, this clever cloggs probably never bought one though. If it's just a bog standard 1200 with no hard disk i'm not too bothered. Plenty of 2.5 drives littering my room.
Shame for him, if he didn't write the ad like a mong he might have actually got something for it:roflmao:
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From my inbox:
Dear smaudsley1990,[/B]
YES IT HAS ALREADY BEEN SENT! DID YOU HAVE A NICE
CHAT ON THE AMIGA.ORB (Wow... Yeah, I'd say you
got a helluva deal there!
Refreshing (or not) to see Americans aren't the
only dickheads on ePay though. Nice ad buddy! All
caps and a monstrous sized font. lol
I couldn't get through the entire ad without being
annoyed, but didn't see mention of specs. Ram, HD,
etc. Wouldn't it be nice to find a 1260 under the
hood? I'm guessing someone with the wherewith all
to use and purchase one of those, would have
written a more civilized ad though. lmao ) NICE!
- 0792michael
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TBH, if you call somebody a "dickhead" or a "mong" then you have to expect them to be a bit irritated, no matter how annoying the advert might have been to you.
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moto
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I never called him a Dickhead, that was save. As for mong, well. What's he going to do? Chase the royal mail van down the M62? (http://www.amiga.org/forums/member.php?u=4167)
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Yeah, what's the hullabaloo about? Someone forwarded what I said to the seller? Or he just happened to see it on Amiga.ORB? lmao
Wasn't trying to be malicious on a personal level - but the ad is what it is.
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My comment was directed at both people who made comments, not just Hell_Labs. There's no need to make a big deal out of it - I just don't think there was any need to be rude to the guy.
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moto
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Oh yes there is. I just got it given to me by a neighbour.
It smells like cat piss like you wouldn't beleave. Would have been nice of him to let me know. How do you get cat piss smell out of an amiga?
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He probably peed on it himself after reading the thread here.
Dissasembly and soap and water to the plastic would probably help, it's easy to get the "electronics" of the keyboard itself off to wash the keys and plastic frame.
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Thanks for the advice, i'll try that. It boots, and has a hard disk fitted. No idea what's on there untill I plug it in the telly. With a mysterious sega master system RF box.
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Oh yes there is. I just got it given to me by a neighbour.
It smells like cat piss like you wouldn't beleave. Would have been nice of him to let me know.
Irrelevant. The rude comments were made before you knew about that. If I was in his position I'd be quite upset to read comments like that on a forum, and to be honest I'd probably be tempted to piss on it too.
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moto
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Oh yes there is. I just got it given to me by a neighbour.
It smells like cat piss like you wouldn't beleave. Would have been nice of him to let me know. How do you get cat piss smell out of an amiga?
ROTFLMAO!!!
I wonder if that was a post or precondition type of thing? I'm with you though, I'd be pissed (pun intended).
Try douching her down with some Summers Eve, err... I mean, Febreeze. You guys have that kind of thing over there? Also, on a serious note - I've had extremely good luck putting cases AND keyboards in the dishwasher. Just make sure they sit on the highest rack and that you don't over dry 'em. While that's only used as a last resort, never had a problem refurbishing old electronics and cases that way. Even PCB boards can be given that treatment if you're careful and be sure to fully dry before plugging in.
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Irrelevant. The rude comments were made before you knew about that. If I was in his position I'd be quite upset to read comments like that on a forum, and to be honest I'd probably be tempted to piss on it too.
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moto
Oh c'mon -now that's an even less mature stance to take. You can't be serious.
Truth is, it is kind of embarrassing that the thread was discovered. I'm embarrassed for my comment(just hate seeing ads like that), Hell_labs and now this. It's just not cool or mature. But the fact remains, the ad was terribly written, he could have gotten more for his stuff had it been better read and now there's the ethical question of just what the seller actually did to the unit before shipment.
In any event - chalk this up to experience I guess. Bad or good, depending on your point of view. Either way, ePay sucks and Hell_Labs ignored a couple of red flags with this purchase, banking on the expectation that he was getting a "good" deal. So much for that prospect! :lol:
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I also once got an A1200 that smelled like cat urine. The problem with cat urine, it actually seeps into the pores of the plastic. I tried every cleaning solution known to man, but the room it was in always smelled horrible so eventually I had no choice but to toss it. :-(
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OK good deal. Now what's that pacman game on the TV screen? Is that running on the A1200? I thought there was no official pacman version for the Amiga...
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I don't know about that version, but there's Puc-Man from '96 that's excellent. Even maintains the proper vertical aspect ratio of the arcade instead of being all stretched out. You should be able to find it fairly easy by Googling or whatever if you don't already have it. I know there's a WHDLoad version of it...
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OK good deal. Now what's that pacman game on the TV screen? Is that running on the A1200? I thought there was no official pacman version for the Amiga...
Ive got one called PacMania, dunno if thats whats on the screen though. Maybe the OP can identify it?
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Deluxe Pac Man is great!
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The pac man game is called "pacman 96". I'm about to put the case in a bath full of soapy water, once I get this last rusty screw out. Anyone got any experiance with pulling the caps off an 1200 keyboard? It seems to be put together a bit different than el cheapo PC keyboard.
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The pac man game is called "pacman 96". I'm about to put the case in a bath full of soapy water, once I get this last rusty screw out. Anyone got any experiance with pulling the caps off an 1200 keyboard? It seems to be put together a bit different than el cheapo PC keyboard.
Ahh.... so it has been lingering in a crummy environment all this time if the screws are rusty. The keyboard keys just pop off is all. I think there's only metal brackets for the space bar, shift and return keys. Those can be a little tricky re-installing.
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It really is easier just to take the 20 or 30 little screws out of the back of the keyboard, pull the metal plate, and gently put the membrane aside (fragile things.) All the keys will stay on the keyboard, and you won't have to worry about springs flying everywhere. If it is dirty enough to require all the keys be removed, it's easier to pull the keys apart from behind with a pair of pliers anyway.
Just my experience, and I've stripped a few keyboards.
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It seems the keyboard stinks the worst! No signs of "fluids" anywhere inside the machine, thank god. I'll have to have a look at a new keyboard from amigakit. And a new mouse, this one doesn't go up or down. Maybe the hard disk, it boots from it "sometimes". I haven't took the RF sheilding off the motherboard, so god knows what thats like. None of the many many workbench 3.0 disks boot beyond an amigaDOS window.
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63 pounds is about 95 bucks. Yes, you made off quite well!
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Just gave the case and top half of the keybaord a bath. There's not really a smell on it now, but when I came back to the room where the rest of the stuff was, I nearly passed out from the smell. Please god, let it be the box. Please. Not the disks. Not the joysticks. Not the manuals. just the box. Please.
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Since you got such a good deal on the package and he apparently didn't have his cats purposely spray on your stuff, maybe the nice thing to do would be to send him some air freshener for the house and a coupon to a pampered kitty spa or something? :lol:
I don't know what exactly it is with some cat owners, if it's the cats themselves or how well or not they're maintained, but I dated a gal once that (believe it or not), had this cat odor about her. Totally pretty gal mind you - but that litterbox smell permeated her entire being. Only got through a date or two before I couldn't stand it. Her house smelled like it too, so did her mother and her auto. Yes, there were cats, but the place wasn't all gross, hairy or whatever. Odd, odd stuff. I have one cat and you wouldn't even be able to tell I have one unless you saw her. Bathed her twice in 4 years (whores bath, not even a true water/shampoo dunking), feed her Wysong food and use a 'green' (like wooden saw dust), no clay based cat litter. Oh and she's been fixed. Maybe that's the difference. If your cats aren't spayed or neutered, they'll want to spray their scent all over the place in an attempt to mark "their" territory. But back to the litterbox... can't stand the silica (or whatever) dust most of the cheap stuff is comprised of AND it's been known to give 'em cancer. A little FYI for anyone with cats that would like to investigate that...
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It's even funner when some girls smell like funky cats and wear black with all the cat hairs on their cloths. I like cats but jeeeezzz.
I've know some folks that smell like wet dogs and tehy're cool with it.
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It's even funner when some girls smell like funky cats and wear black with all the cat hairs on their cloths. I like cats but jeeeezzz.
I've know some folks that smell like wet dogs and tehy're cool with it.
LOL! I use the wet dog analogy all the time to describe the smell of sooooo many of the natives around here in WI. To compound matters, almost everyone smokes and wears Carthart or those stupid puffy skiing type coats (even though they don't ski)... so yeah - there you have it... a cigarette smoking dog that has been left out in the rain wearing cotton so that the funkiness stays with 'em no matter where they go. Those people just must be so used to their own funk - to NOT get it. lol
Oh and yeah, what's with women and their friggin' pets laying on them all the time OR their furniture?? Especially gross when they let them sit up near their faces when sleeping. Yuck.
May as well change the thread title to: "Pet lovers unite"! :lol:
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LOL! I use the wet dog analogy all the time to describe the smell of sooooo many of the natives around here in WI. To compound matters, almost everyone smokes and wears Carthart or those stupid puffy skiing type coats (even though they don't ski)... so yeah - there you have it... a cigarette smoking dog that has been left out in the rain wearing cotton so that the funkiness stays with 'em no matter where they go. Those people just must be so used to their own funk - to NOT get it. lol
Oh and yeah, what's with women and their friggin' pets laying on them all the time OR their furniture?? Especially gross when they let them sit up near their faces when sleeping. Yuck.
May as well change the thread title to: "Pet lovers unite"! :lol:
Not just pet owners who smell. Been to many an Amiga user group over the years and I can tell you that as a general group personal hygiene is not something they do well. LOL
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Not just pet owners who smell. Been to many an Amiga user group over the years and I can tell you that as a general group personal hygiene is not something they do well. LOL
That seems to be true of a large percentage of video game/computing fanatics. No doubt! Pretty remedial stuff when you're wondering why you haven't landed a date for the past 20 years. lmao
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Anyone know how to plug the keyboard back in?
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Anyone know how to plug the keyboard back in?
Hi there,
You need to lift the plastic connector up and slot the ribbon back in. Then you push it back down to close and hold the ribbon in place again if that makes sense.
Steve.
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I almost fell off my chair laughing about the cat piss stench.
Baking soda and water, as much baking soda as will disolve in hot water...
That will soak up the cat piss stench, only on the keyboard and plastic parts, very lightly, don't put that on the circuitboard or electronic parts.
Usually, cat piss won't get inside, unless its one crafty cat, replace the keyboard if you can and just wipe the thing down a few times with baking soda/water solution.
I got a pc once with this problem, and that fixed it.
You really never know what your getting on ebay I guess, you got a good deal but maybe not after keyboard replaced and so much work to get it unstinky.
Steven
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Sorted it! Problem now is that the mouse won't go up or down. Can I use a joystick instead, or?
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Great deal, even with cat piss and clean-up.
I take it that the mouse is de-gunked fully? Maybe there's a real mouse inside blocking it up, which attracted the cat in the first place.
A replacement Amiga mouse is £14 on Amigakit.
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Luckily someone at commodore had the sense to let you use the keyboard to move the mouse cursor. I think I'll leave off buying a new mouse for a while, Atleast untill I have room to move one, anyway.