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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: XDelusion on November 12, 2010, 08:50:29 PM
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I just wanted to write and thank all of you in the Amiga (and Atari {Atariage.com}) Community that I have ever dealt with. I can not say that I have ever experienced such warmth, helpfulness, and friendliness in any other community, be it religious or otherwise!
Everyone has been very helpful when ever I have had an issue with software or hardware, and I can not say that I have ever been ripped off by anyone in the community when dealing with hardware sales and or repair. In fact I've transfered money from my bank account all the way to Poland on good faith, and I'm talking about $500 here, and I still did not get ripped off!
Sadly I haven't made it to many Amiga or Atari shows, and those I've been to were years ago, but even when I attended them it was always warm and the company was always VERY diverse (there are some creepy lookin' mofo's out there I'm tellin' ya), which just proves that those faces behind the screens of virtual reality, are in fact for real at least in the case of these two communities.
So anyhow, there is my little rant, thank you all again for being there and keeping the spirit alive!
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while Im sure there's bad apples (Doomy?), Ive found amazing help and support from the amiga community. Invaluable when I decided to get an amiga again, and put it to some use
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What's the story with "Doomy" then?
I always see his name popping up but no idea who he is.
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What's the story with "Doomy" then?
I always see his name popping up but no idea who he is.
There was a guy who came onto amiga.org (maybe other sites) who proclaimed various things in a trollish/obnoxious manner, things like the A2000 was the best amiga ever, that all the Amiga custom chips were "mil spec" because they were in ceramic cases and had gold leads, that he was privy to knowledge about Amiga hardware that no-one else was, that he was the best voice in the Amiga community, ad infinitum.
Oh...what else was his...! Yeah, I recall now, when PC gaming came up he claimed that Doom was the pinnacle of all PC games, ever, that Win98 was the best PC OS out there, that 2000 and XP were junk (despite, by this time (2004-2005 was when he was up to this) the fact that '98 had been abandoned entirely by devs - he even went so far as to claim that Doom3 with some hacked exe that allowed it to run on 98 ran better...).
Then there were the people unfortunate enough to trade with him; he was notorious for mailing out copies of software he'd sold. For example, someone bought Amiga OS 2.01 from him and he apparently mailed out some grotty old disks with copies rather than an SW version; when the buyer complained here he came stomping in claiming (or maybe the user posted the emailed response he got) that 2.01 was "rare" and the buyer would have to have been mental to have thought he was selling a real copy. I think there was another case of someone buying some h/w from him and just flat out getting ripped off, and a third who finally got some h/w after chasing him around for a good bit, filing complaints, etc. and when it arrived it it had obviously been vandalized prior to being put in the box.
Argumentative, threatened to hack this site, then claimed that he was best suited to be a moderator here...the list just goes on and on.
That's Doomy.
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Well he was right about one thing, or close to right...
DOOM does indeed rock! I've been playing it since 93 or 94 and still find my self coming back to it and writing levels and mods for it's various expanded ports. Might I also add that I salivate every time I see DOOM that has been ported to one of my favorite OS's and or Consoles. :)
So yes, even though I have been gaming since 1979, I still must hold that DOOM was one of the most important games to have ever been written, at least according to my gospel.
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Thanks for the info!
I assume he has either got himself banned from most sites or is no longer an active amigan?
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Doomy has been banned on at least 2 other sites that I'm aware of: Atariage.com and Amibay.com.
I bet there's more.
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The guy actually still lurks about. I think he appears sporadically on the moobunny site.
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Look at retrogeek computers - that's him.
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Is this the guy who made the 'only amiga' soundtrack? :confused:
And are you talking about the youtube retro computers series of the golden age of computers? :confused:
That guys dodgy? He looked so sweet! Apart from the serial killer like pauses during the clips he seemed like a good bloke :(