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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Digiman on January 07, 2011, 12:36:19 AM
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Classic Amigas from Commodore that is like A500 and A1200 etc etc.
In the next 12-24 months I am going to stop working (not even 40 yet before you ask) for health reasons and because I worked bloody hard and my property assets are more than any pension would ever provide me.
Me? One thing I want to do is learn 68000 assembler properly and start trying to write demo quality code by hitting the hardware hard and seeing what cool bugs can be utilised :)
What would you do with all that spare time if you finished your last day of work this Friday?
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Funny you should say that. I have a few ex-coworkers who retired. They say they don't get anything done and the reason is they put stuff off because they know they have plenty of time to do it tomorrow.
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I always had this idea about creating a small, open-source application suite for classic systems (OS 3.1 and 2+ Mb RAM), with a small-footprint web browser, word processor and so on. Everything would be system-friendly and would run on a plain OS 3.1 install.
I never got around to it as I lack the time, skill, experience, and lately, motivation. Besides, the demand for stuff like this is minimal anyway.
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Classic Amigas from Commodore that is like A500 and A1200 etc etc.
In the next 12-24 months I am going to stop working (not even 40 yet before you ask) for health reasons and because I worked bloody hard and my property assets are more than any pension would ever provide me.
Me? One thing I want to do is learn 68000 assembler properly and start trying to write demo quality code by hitting the hardware hard and seeing what cool bugs can be utilised :)
What would you do with all that spare time if you finished your last day of work this Friday?
Well as I stopped working due to ill health in 1999 I'm already there and still happily coding, creating GFX, and generally mucking around with my miggies each and every day... :)
Only thing that's changed a wee bit in recent months is I discovered the internet and now happily sit here bugging folk online with this old Mac while my miggie sits happily beside me doing all the good stuff... :)
PS:Happy retirement when it comes, I can heartily recommend it... :)
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The same thing I'm trying to allocate more time to now: music and film art. But it would also be very cool to be part of a team to produce new software for the classic Amiga.
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I find as I get busier and busier with work I am a frustrated I don't get to do creative stuff as much as I would like (art, music, film, computer graphics). While I am hoping I get a lot of creative work done in the twenty years BEFORE I am eligible to retire, but I am also hoping to enjoy all the free time after retirement to go crazy playing with all the retro hardware I currently don't have time to fully explore (should I live that long - lets hope)! Maybe that's when I'll finally have time to play all the Infocom text adventures! Boy, the classic stuff will really seem old then if I still have it! I'm thinking that by then technology will be so far advanced there will be some perfect and cheap Amiga clone reproduction as well - heck maybe we will have some sort of replimat type or "physical printer" device where we can just materialize an Amiga clone from an open source design - just think about what has been accomplished in the past ten years in this regard....I remember in the 1990s we never thought that UAE would ever be useful, and things like FPGA clones were not even on my radar!
Digiman: although I'm sorry that your current health has forced you to retire before 40, I hope that you health now stays "on track" and lets you enjoy early retirement! Think of all the great fun things you can do every day!
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I would spend time learning to Program again and create programs what I would want to use, and ofcourse playing some Amiga games.... BUT IF you talk about retiring i would be Fishing or hunter 3-4 days per week the rest would be on Amiga's... :D
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I would build all of my Amigas into a shrine and develop a cult.
(Think... Beneath Planet of the Apes )
(http://www.kaosradioaustin.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1424&g2_serialNumber=2)
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Ya got two different questions here that ultimately have two different directions...
A. If you retired today what would you do with your Amigas?
B. What would you do with all that spare time if you finished your last day of work this Friday?
A. I'll be working to the day I die. I have no "nest egg" so to speak, just having gone through divorce, bankruptcy and mental anguish...
B. If my last day of work is to be this Friday, I would be spending the "spare" time looking for another job and listing my Amiga collection for sale. As it is anyway, I'm going to start going through the collection and hope to raise enough money for a major auto repair headed my way...
In a perfect world however, one where food, utilities and auto repairs don't cost anything, I'd imagine I would be...
WORKING!
Because a perfect world doesn't exist! :D
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I would probably do nothing with the ones I have and go ahead and cobble together that elusive A4000 I've never gotten around to owning.
Hopefully the caps dont dry out in the meantime because I would hope to be way too busy pissing over the transom of a saltwater vessel in between pints of exotic beers.
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Good point, let's assume your retirement/last day of work is due to having enough money to live off for the rest of your life reasonably comfortably :)
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In that case... ;)
Work with the VT/Flyer system.
Re-learn Lightwave.
Sell off un-needed Amiga components.
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i put it to teh binz
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Hypno-Toad sez:
(http://meanasspenguin.org/images/hypnotoad.gif)
"GIVE YOUR AMIGAS TO THE BILGE RAT!!"
:D
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Well, by the time I would really retire is about 33 years further :roflmao:
I guess I would hit email and ask someone to update all of my Amiga's with new caps and other repair works.
But I would still play games I guess, wouldn't do anything too complicated.
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I guess I would hit email and ask someone to update all of my Amiga's with new caps and other repair works.
You have 33 years to learn how to do it yourself!
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Hmm, so I won the lottery eh? Or my employer suddenly does really really well :-S
After setting myself up with a nice cottage in the countryside, I think I'd get an Amiga (FPGAArcade if it's out by then) and do some game programming and graphics (hurrah, Personal Paint!) to satisfy myself. I might write some OCS games that benefit from the faster 68k on Minimig/FPGAArcade, for example.
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You have 33 years to learn how to do it yourself!
I'm already trying, but soldering isn't something I done much, yeah in high school, but that was about 20 years ago.
I've done some repair works on 2 A2000's which were a no go anyway.
But I have much to learn I guess.
I am capable of desoldring things, but then resoldering is quite a mess I think, considering I'm using a tiny Weller WM12.
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Classic Amigas from Commodore that is like A500 and A1200 etc etc.
In the next 12-24 months I am going to stop working (not even 40 yet before you ask) for health reasons and because I worked bloody hard and my property assets are more than any pension would ever provide me.
Me? One thing I want to do is learn 68000 assembler properly and start trying to write demo quality code by hitting the hardware hard and seeing what cool bugs can be utilised :)
What would you do with all that spare time if you finished your last day of work this Friday?
you got keep active and brain working thats biggest thing use or looose it
l been out work bit over year know and first few months felt like hoilday but know its kinda getting frustrating to say least. but l look after my 9 month son , do housework
and volunteer once a week at spca , for me its important to feel part a team
so yeah also am restoring a honda motorbike its simple single cylider desing so not diffcult at all . run a bbs also , go help my mum go for walks etc.
but its your life buddy just fill way you enjoy make most of the sitwation you in
its a blessing enjoy each day in small way.
oh hang out with you mates here on amiga org
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exactly what I do now but just more of it:afro:
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Retirement terrifies me. I think the boredom would drive me mental in the brainbox.
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moto
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Retirement terrifies me. I think the boredom would drive me mental in the brainbox.
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moto
Don't worry, by the time we should be retiring, it won't be an option. We'll be compulsorily euthanised by the state who will in turn us into food wafers for the remaining population after even intensive farming fails to provide enough food resource...
However, unlike the 1970's depiction of this, Soylent will be available in a range of flavours!
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I am capable of desoldring things, but then resoldering is quite a mess I think, considering I'm using a tiny Weller WM12.
I always found the desoldering to be more of a pain. A 12watt Weller is also my iron of choice for most things, when I can get away with it.
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after even intensive farming fails to provide enough food resource...
I have a friend from Jamaica who used to eat dirt. He turned out ok!
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Retirement terrifies me. I think the boredom would drive me mental in the brainbox.
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moto
Only death terrifies me......religion is a lie!
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I have been more or less retired for the last couple of years, and you know what I've done with my Amiga?
Bugger all!
When I retire for good, I'll probably have to hock my miggies for pill money.
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Assuming I was still ok healthwise, I would probably have more time to enjoy using my Amiga systems. For the last few years, I have concentrated my spare time on my OS4 PPC system, shovelling snow in the winter, mowing the lawn in summer, and a few other unrelated hobbies. ;)
redfox
Canada:)
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I'd play UFO and Alien Breed.
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Don't worry, by the time we should be retiring, it won't be an option. We'll be compulsorily euthanised by the state who will in turn us into food wafers for the remaining population after even intensive farming fails to provide enough food resource...
However, unlike the 1970's depiction of this, Soylent will be available in a range of flavours!
Excellent point. Thanks, I feel much better now :D
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moto
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Only death terrifies me......religion is a lie!
Surely if religion is a lie, then death is less terrifying? With no worries about where you're going when you die and whether or not you'll suffer unimaginable torture in the afterlife, you're free to just get on with you life.
Of course, the lack of an afterlife kind of puts the pressure on to do something significant with your life now. Which kind of sucks when you can't think of anything.
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moto
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Classic Amigas from Commodore that is like A500 and A1200 etc etc.
What would you do with all that spare time if you finished your last day of work this Friday?
Start making Amiga games. I can already do the art and design, would have to learn to code.