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Title: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 11:39:22 AM
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)

(Bet you it can't be done... ;))
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 17, 2011, 11:48:39 AM
Amiga? What's an Amiga? And what has it got to do with this forum?

No seriously what has 'The Amiga' got to do with this forum?

I only use this site for the pancakes and now people are talking about 'Amiga'. I'm confused :confused:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 11:51:52 AM
Just won a little bet I had with myself that you'd be the first one to reply... ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: fishy_fiz on March 17, 2011, 11:55:23 AM
Yeah, I must admit Amiga talk has been a bit light here lately. Personally Ive been a little quieter than usual 'cos Im grumpy with my a1200  :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 17, 2011, 11:55:30 AM
Quote from: Franko;622439
Just won a little bet I had with myself that you'd be the first one to reply... ;)

Not hard to figure out who would reply first when a certain someone watches the "who's online" 26 hours a day 8 days a week ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 11:57:48 AM
@ Fishy_Fiz

Haven't you managed to get anything sorted yet... :(

@ Kesa

And that's while you're watching me watching you 27 / 9... ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 17, 2011, 12:02:02 PM
I am always watching you Franko. You are the universe to me. I even wrote your name on my underpants in your honour :mickeymouse:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 12:06:51 PM
That could cause some problems if you get lost some day after your mum drops you off at nursery school, when they check your drawers they'll think your me and ship you off to Scotland... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: number6 on March 17, 2011, 12:08:48 PM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???



Yes. (you may ban me now for going off-topic)

#6
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 12:11:08 PM
Quote from: number6;622450
Yes. (you may ban me now for going off-topic)

#6


There's always one isn't there... :rolleyes:

Look matey if you want to talk Amiga then bugger off to an Apple site and talk about there... :madashell:

(Seems only fair if you ask me... ;))
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: drHirudo on March 17, 2011, 12:20:23 PM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)

(Bet you it can't be done... ;))

Me raises hand. I used Amiga just yesterday to check my e-mail, read Amiga news and watch CSI.
Then I solved a puzzle of BoxWorld, watched some more movies and went to sleep.

My next project with the Amiga is learning OpenGL and creating 3D worlds for exploration (3rd person).
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Gryfon on March 17, 2011, 12:36:19 PM
Short answer:  "Erm...yes?"
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: fishy_fiz on March 17, 2011, 12:38:48 PM
Quote from: Franko;622445
@ Fishy_Fiz

Haven't you managed to get anything sorted yet... :(



Nah, it's a bit of a pain. The main problem is just me getting sick of the tedious process I have to go through at the moment to get files onto my amigas harddrive. Got a network card hoping to make things easier, but thats giving me grief of it's own  :)
Doesn't matter, I'll get it sorted. Ive been meaning to do one last manual transfer of files for now (gonna go overkill so I can hopefully get by until I get my network sorted), but Ive been too busy the last few days procrastinating :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 12:42:44 PM
@ drHirudo

Watch CSI !!!    BoxWorld !!!    Watched some movies !!!

Methinks your not using a real Amiga somehow... :(

@ Gryfon

Must be a real Amiga user, simple, concise and eloquently put... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: klx300r on March 17, 2011, 01:54:12 PM
every bloody day:afro:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: dannyp1 on March 17, 2011, 02:04:23 PM
I seem to find more real "Amiga" talk over at EAB.  This seems to have turned into more of a site for "Social Butterflys".  I think that started when the people running and setting up the rules here, no longer owned or used Amiga's.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Pyromania on March 17, 2011, 02:21:27 PM
Well we do sometimes talk about MaxiPads unfortunately.

:)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: drHirudo on March 17, 2011, 02:30:23 PM
Quote from: Franko;622460
@ drHirudo

Watch CSI !!!    BoxWorld !!!    Watched some movies !!!

Methinks your not using a real Amiga somehow...

My AmigaOne is real Amiga. MPlayer replays movies just fine. BoxWorld (my version) was written on Amiga 4000 7 years ago. I recently recompiled it for AmigaOS 4 and other platforms.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: whabang on March 17, 2011, 02:33:36 PM
I use my girlfriend every day.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: save2600 on March 17, 2011, 02:37:26 PM
I bring the Amiga or MorphOS up anytime I can when relevant. In conversation the other day, I just learned that a coworker used to run an Amiga BBS board way back when. Was fun hearing him talk about his A2000, his affinity for the platform, how much RAM cost, etc.  :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: hardlink on March 17, 2011, 02:42:13 PM
Quote from: Franko;622435

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)


But what about ...Broccoli!? You didn't say anything about no Broccoli.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on March 17, 2011, 02:48:32 PM
On a casual basis. At the moment I am quietly content that the Amiga will have a long future, now that the FPGA Arcade is running smoothly (as seen on the videos). Maybe the site will lose a lot of the hardware hunting posts and the "look at the prices on ebay" posts now. Of course "how do I get warez?" posts from new users may increase though.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: minator on March 17, 2011, 03:53:54 PM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ?


Yes, I'm a big fan of Penélope Cruz ;-)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: runequester on March 17, 2011, 03:54:48 PM
I played Civilization last night on my miggy
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: persia on March 17, 2011, 04:04:37 PM
I met an old friend of mine who used to be in the local Amiga club at an Apple iPad 2 demo a couple days ago.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: rebraist on March 17, 2011, 04:21:18 PM
hmm... amiga? Yes! I use it everyday! i browse internet, i read mail, i render 3d gfx, i even play 3d cool games! on my iimac(*) obviously! but the amiga stands there, in front of me, under the monitor! ...so it can stand higher! Soon i'll buy a second amiga so i can take my monitor even higher! only amiga... makes it possible...

(*) iimac is the quintessence of imac. those 2 ii before the name mean this is not the classical imac but something beyiond. something that really turns pcs people full of envy. my iimac turns on and off and sometimes it makes this alone: steve jobs has a remote control that various moments in the day he clicks and then my iimac is gone dead. and if am ii working on some important document? this is not iimportant! The Big relative (we hate big brother!!!) thinks for me and this is cool! With my iimac life is easier! ii gave my brain to an apple shop. they will use iit for science. mabe not but they'll give me a new brain app!cool, don't you think??
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: TheGoose on March 17, 2011, 04:57:56 PM
I just awarded this thread a single star! Black hole wasn't on the list.

:lol:


Ok, I got my C64 MIDId to my Amiga last night and played around, the new DualSID thing I got worked perfectly, good sound.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: arttu80 on March 17, 2011, 05:05:29 PM
Well, yes I like to use my Amigas most days of a week. Now that I apperently managed to destroy my A1000, while attempting some kickrom hack (damn, shouldn't touch that soldering iron), I was little down and didn't touch these things for a while. Well life must go on, and maybe one day will repair her. So now it's A1200/indivision/030 and A500Plus/A590 in front of me to entertain.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Nlandas on March 17, 2011, 07:03:52 PM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)

(Bet you it can't be done... ;))


Once I get the rest of my man cave cleaned out. In the process of making room, I'll be setting up the table to hold 3 computers. 2 - oh, wait I can't mention them on this thread. They'll be running MAME for fun and educational software for my kids and my A1200 which is full of WHDLoad for my sons to experience all those old Amiga games I love. It was on the floor by an old TV, I'll get it back on my multisync and in a better home.

So, I talk about Amiga with them and how it was ahead of it's time. I talk with them about innovation and how much technology today is about marketing. They really like a lot about Amiga and don't understand why someone couldn't sell a little Amiga compatible system today that just had a lot of the old games embedded.

So Franko, How did I do avoinding my best Grumpy Smurf impression of I hate, (any of the above listed items)! LOL!
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 07:26:44 PM
@ Hardlink

Quote
But what about ...Broccoli!? You didn't say anything about no Broccoli.


Broccoli falls under the "anything non Amiga" wording, everyone knows you only use broccoli for cleaning the loo... :)

@ Whabang

Quote
I use my girlfriend every day.  


From what I've heard, so does half the neighbourhood... :D

@ TheGoose

Quote
I just awarded this thread a single star! Black hole wasn't on the list.


That one was corny even by your standards... I've just taken your gold star away for that, now go stand in the corner... ;)

@Nlandas

As you didn't mention what you didn't mention then I can only assume that what you didn't mention was one of the unmentionables, so therefore you did pretty well, I think... :)

PS:I've just came back from church where they were philosophising on the two main computer systems Apple & Microsoft and how the money they have between them could solve all the world disasters... :D

Erm... think I'll ban meself from this thread now... ta, ta... ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: TheGoose on March 17, 2011, 07:29:41 PM
"That one was corny even by your standards... I've just taken your gold star away for that, now go stand in the corner... "

I'm turning into my father, :(
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 17, 2011, 07:37:01 PM
Quote from: TheGoose;622555
I'm turning into my father, :(


Don't worry it happens to us all eventually... :)

Look at me, with me slippers and hot water bottle and favourite pipe sitting here swearing like a trooper at all the crap on the telly and complaining about me creaky joints... :(

Oh... hang on... I've taken after me mother... :(
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Lurch on March 18, 2011, 03:08:29 AM
Still use my A500 for gaming, althought it's killing me at the moment with hardware woes. It may need to retire :(

Don't talk about it much, but my nearly 4 year old loves playing SWIV :)

A500 hardware donations required ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 18, 2011, 03:20:37 AM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)

(Bet you it can't be done... ;))


Hi,

For a minute here I thought I was at AmigaWorld, but darn it, it's only Franko.
trying to talk Amiga again on the Amiga.org site. What a waste of broadband width

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 18, 2011, 03:41:17 AM
Quote from: Franko;622435
Reckon the title should speak for itself... :)

But just in case... that means no Religion, Philosophy, World Disasters, MicroSoft, Apple (especially Apple) and anything non-Amiga in this thread please... :)

(Bet you it can't be done... ;))


Hi,

I would like to report that the author of this subject matter has failed to release a XXX rating on this post, he is talking about nude Amiga subject matter. This kind of material shouldn't be allowed on Amiga.org

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: kd7ota on March 18, 2011, 04:18:45 AM
i reckon the amiga is a wee bit ancient for me normal day usage....... :/
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 18, 2011, 04:32:26 AM
Quote from: kd7ota;622695
i reckon the amiga is a wee bit ancient for me normal day usage....... :/


Hi,

I wouldn't say that, if you have an old star 1000 color dot matrix printer and a 2400 baud modem, you could possibly download porn shots and print them out in color. I remember I used to be able to do 2 a day with that equipment.

I also enjoyed playing soliton, and mega ball, and was always trying out new versions of doom to see if they will work.

If you like doing data basing you can log in all your Amiga floppies, and pc floppies, I use pen pal for that.

If you are a mod collector you can collect and play mods on your favorite Amiga.

The Amiga still has a lot of use today, it won't be able to play games like fallout3, or surf the internet and show all the video's on the internet, but it all depends what you like to do, be creative, and if you really get tired of it, take one and smack Karlos up alongside the head, and say that one is from smerf for spoiling his trolling fun.

but

then again if you hit Karlos in the head even with a good A2000 the only thing you would break would be the A2000, and that would be a waste of a good Amiga.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: kd7ota on March 18, 2011, 04:40:46 AM
@smerf

I know. Dont get me wrong, I do hop on WinUAE (My Amiga 1200 is still in pieces and hasnt been touched in over a year) and mess with octamed and listen to the old modules or play some of Psygnosis games.

I was just trying to be a smart ass and just talk like Franko. I only normally just check out whats happening on Amiga.org, but just gets very old when he inputs on every single thing/thread.  Reckon he has a wee bit of a problem.

@Franko

Dont bother replying. Don't care. Don't waste your time. I don't have to like everybody. Only stating you are very annoying.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Retro_71 on March 18, 2011, 05:09:38 AM
Now that my A1200 is fully working again with its nice 80GB HDD i can starting to use it more and more... even the kids are asking when they can play on it. I think after this weekend it will be fully finished and i can get started on the A2000 upgrades and fixes.. Yeah!!!!
O BTW HAM FTW....

P.S. anyone played WoW would get that... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: itix on March 18, 2011, 05:26:38 AM
I was playing Railroad Tycoon on my Amiga just few days ago.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: runequester on March 18, 2011, 05:51:45 AM
I always wanted to play Railroad tycoon but I never quite figured it out. Think I'll need to find a manual somewhere.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: ChaosLord on March 18, 2011, 05:59:08 AM
Quote
Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???

I do both.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: J-Golden on March 18, 2011, 06:12:29 AM
My amiga is in another country...  and she has my wife with her too!!!:angry:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Drummerboy on March 18, 2011, 06:55:52 AM
Yep..  I use every night to write some Cars Articles for the Web compreautomovil.com, visit forums, check email, news, and more in Internet. All this under cool Mods music atmosphere..
Sometimes Mp3s too. (depending on my  mood)

My Amiga its like my pen to write.. and help me many times to be creative..

And ofcourse play WHDload Games.

Incredibly Amiga can still be used nowdays.

Anyway if you can`t use, or not want, you lazy to use another machine (in addition to your PC) , does not seem practical, thats ok..  i think if you not use you Amiga nowdays (or not have any Amiga)..does not mean you're not Amigan.

Hardly another computer soon appear as Amiga in the whole concept that means, Currently it seems to me Currently I think Amiga  may be more a philosophy or a way to take computer science. All the people I know who was Amiga user has a different way of seeing what concerns computers.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: ChaosLord on March 18, 2011, 07:57:57 AM
Quote from: Drummerboy;622710
Y
My Amiga its like my pen to write.. and help me many times to be creative..
You are a Real Amiga Man (tm)  :cool:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: ChaosLord on March 18, 2011, 08:03:00 AM
Quote from: J-Golden;622707
My amiga is in another country...  and she has my wife with her too!!!:angry:

You sir, are a genius!

You have invented a new way to get rid of your wife without the messy illegalities of murder or the extremely high cost of divorce!
  :roflmao::lol::laughing:  :rofl: :biglaugh: :cool:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Varthall on March 18, 2011, 09:07:46 AM
Well, yesterday on my AmigaOne I figured out how to set a log of an already committed revision on a Subversion repository, too bad that the log still doesn't show up in the Google Code "Updates" page. I have worked a bit on MPlayer, on the "out of sync" problem some videos are having. Talked to my brother on Skype (via imo.im), sent him via sprend.com a video I grabbed from Youtube he couldn't see (because of Youtube national locks). Plus the usual email and forum posting.

Varthall
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: fishy_fiz on March 18, 2011, 09:11:30 AM
Quote from: ChaosLord;622720
You sir, are a genius!

You have invented a new way to get rid of your wife without the messy illegalities of murder or the extremely high cost of divorce!
  :roflmao::lol::laughing:  :rofl: :biglaugh: :cool:


It's still a pretty hefty price though if it cost him an Amiga  :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 11:12:22 AM
Quote from: kd7ota;622697
@Franko

Dont bother replying. Don't care. Don't waste your time. I don't have to like everybody. Only stating you are very annoying.


Awe... but I can't resist replying to such a nice wee statement about meself, I know you really care otherwise you wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to post here... :)

It's ok I'm not wasting my time I've got bucketloads of it... :)

I think you really do like everybody, it's just that your a wee bit shy... :)

Very annoying, I must be slipping, need to get up a bit earlier and practice more... :)

PS:I even wrote this on my Amiga in ED and imported it to the Mac just for the sake of this thread... ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 18, 2011, 11:16:42 AM
Quote from: Franko;622763
Awe... but I can't resist replying to such a nice wee statement about meself, I know you really care otherwise you wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to post here... :)

It's ok I'm not wasting my time I've got bucketloads of it... :)

I think you really do like everybody, it's just that your a wee bit shy... :)

Very annoying, I must be slipping, need to get up a bit earlier and practice more... :)

PS:I even wrote this on my Amiga in ED and imported it to the Mac just for the sake of this thread... ;)

How many peopel this week have blocked you so far Franko? The way you are goinh you are catching uo to me  ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: whabang on March 18, 2011, 11:20:44 AM
Quote from: Franko;622553
@ Whabang
From what I've heard, so does half the neighbourhood... :D
:lol:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 11:25:59 AM
Quote from: Kesa;622765
How many peopel this week have blocked you so far Franko? The way you are goinh you are catching uo to me  ;)


I think I'm only two behind you now, unless you count friends and family who block my emails as well... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 18, 2011, 11:33:09 AM
Quote from: Franko;622763

It's ok I'm not wasting my time I've got bucketloads of it... :)


You and me both. Being a university student means i have all the spare time in the world :)

Meanwhile all the sad tossers on A.org have to go to work tommorrow :roflmao:

So i wonder how many people are going to block me now? :)

P.S. i'm drunk so tyr not to take anything i say seriouly :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 11:45:39 AM
Quote from: Kesa;622773
You and me both. Being a university student means i have all the spare time in the world :)

Meanwhile all the sad tossers on A.org have to go to work tommorrow :roflmao:

So i wonder how many people are going to block me now? :)

P.S. i'm drunk so tyr not to take anything i say seriouly :)

Looks like we've done it... :)

100% blockage my everyone else, cos no one else is replying to us... :D

A.org is ours now, we can type whatever keech we want and no-one will notice... :D

PS:what you doing drunk at this time of the morning, I've only just woke up ten minutes ago and still on me first bottle of scotch... ;)

PPS:I'm gonna take the day of today from doing absolutely nothing just so I can spend all day here posting... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 18, 2011, 11:55:40 AM
You mean there are others? I always just assumed it was just you and me...

Franko it'd 10:50pm where i am. I drank a bottle of tequilla cause we had a mexican themed birthday party. I made a big boo boo tonight, i was dancing with this cool hot chick only to find out her boyfriend was one of my mates. Opps...

This is a great opportunity to troll now that everyone has blocked us. All we have to do is find someone to pick on  :smack:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: amigakit on March 18, 2011, 11:57:19 AM
We use Amigas every day to process orders..
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 12:01:39 PM
Quote from: amigakit;622781
We use Amigas every day to process orders..


Ah... so that explains why it take ages for my orders to arrive... :lol:

(Only kidding... keep up the good work... ;))
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: TiredOLife on March 18, 2011, 01:46:09 PM
Of course I still use an Amiga, how else could I post here?
Trust somebody from the wrong side of Hadrians wall to have a problem with fruit ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 02:07:35 PM
Quote from: TiredOLife;622810
Of course I still use an Amiga, how else could I post here?
Trust somebody from the wrong side of Hadrians wall to have a problem with fruit ;)


Oi... Im on the best side of the wall... :D

PS: wassa "fruit" and does it contain alcohol... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 03:29:19 PM
I spent last night lemon juicing my wrecked A2000 board and cleaning my A4000 board......then got high washing that off with IPA......they are now drying and I have nothing to do! Apart from look after the kids and talk to the wife!
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: TiredOLife on March 18, 2011, 03:32:50 PM
Well it's the best side for you to be on yes. ;)
Fruit, hmm.
Try to think of it as ale not ready to drink yet.
Wine, Cider, that type of thing. :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 04:02:23 PM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622844
I spent last night lemon juicing my wrecked A2000 board and cleaning my A4000 board......then got high washing that off with IPA......they are now drying and I have nothing to do! Apart from look after the kids and talk to the wife!


Good gawd... this man needs help quick... :eek:

Someone dial 999 and ask for an emergency Amigabulance to be sent asap... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 05:43:31 PM
After 24 hours drying may start rebuilding!
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: save2600 on March 18, 2011, 07:22:28 PM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622887
After 24 hours drying may start rebuilding!


Screw waiting for 'em to dry... why not take the wife's hair dryer to 'em?   :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: motrucker on March 18, 2011, 08:40:56 PM
I am in an odd situation. We are being hacked by my roomy's x wife (and friends) so completely that nothing can be done with the windows or Mac machines here. My Amiga still works however! I guess they can't figure out how to hack her. I am damn glad I have at least one machine that works!

PS - sorry to interject a serious note...
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 10:02:38 PM
Welll......but her back together and fuck me, my wife was right! It doesn't work ;(

Still looking at it......could be a long night
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 10:05:17 PM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622932
Welll......but her back together and fuck me, my wife was right! It doesn't work ;(

Still looking at it......could be a long night


To cheer yourself up a wee bit, try shuffling some of words about in your comment above, could be a very interesting night instead... ;)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: SysAdmin on March 18, 2011, 10:09:16 PM
@Franko
 
Please expect some minor hickups with the site as we slowly migrate it to a softcore porn portal.
 
:)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 10:19:09 PM
Quote from: Transition;622937
@Franko
 
Please expect some minor hickups with the site as we slowly migrate it to a softcore porn portal.
 
:)


That's the way to do it, lull them in first with soft stuff then once you've got em hooked... wallop... hit em with the hard stuff... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: kickstart on March 18, 2011, 10:26:31 PM
Im playing Fire and Ice sometimes these days.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 10:40:21 PM
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR *fiddle fiddle*.....ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - *continues to fiddle.......*
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: save2600 on March 18, 2011, 10:48:17 PM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622944
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR *fiddle fiddle*.....ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - *continues to fiddle.......*

[youtube]hFhO7EU08Tg[/youtube]
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 10:53:12 PM
*Sighs*......*fiddle....brushed hands together, hits the power button and sits down to watch*.............fixed  it! Whoop!!!!! One Running Amiga 4000 after a week of cutting out a  leaky battery, dusting, brushing, covering in lemon juice and  alcohol, drying, and putting back together............
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: save2600 on March 18, 2011, 11:00:13 PM
I've got an extra A2000 front panel if you'd like to jury-rig that onto your A4000. Hey, it'd be better than nothing!  lmao
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 11:02:06 PM
Er....I've kept it off for a reason thank you very much! ;).....it needs some retrobright.....which I will be asking Franko for his equation soon!
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 11:15:23 PM
Quote from: save2600;622945
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[B]hFhO7EU08Tg[/B]

...how do you embed a youtube vid or is that not kool here?


cut and past the bit after the "=" sign and place it between the following... :)

NOTE: use "[]" brackets and not "()" brackets that I've used here to show you this example... :)

(youtube)hFhO7EU08Tg(/youtube)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: save2600 on March 18, 2011, 11:18:27 PM
Thanks Franko! You know how people can't be bothered to click on a link anymore. Gotta "embed" or bust!  lol
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 18, 2011, 11:18:42 PM
@ LordSpunky

Pardon me for being a nosy bugger but what type of monitor is that your Amiga is hooked up to, can't quite recognise that one... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 18, 2011, 11:50:56 PM
Somekinda Citizen Pro CM 14i? Multisync? It came with it ;)
Gotta 19" Sony I wanna try sometime.........
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 12:04:05 AM
Never heard of that one, rip it apart and take a few pics of the inside please, I'm such a nosey git... :D
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 03:52:11 AM
Quote from: ChaosLord;622720
You sir, are a genius!

You have invented a new way to get rid of your wife without the messy illegalities of murder or the extremely high cost of divorce!
  :roflmao::lol::laughing:  :rofl: :biglaugh: :cool:


Hi,

@ChaosLord

I don't think any court in the world would convict you for killing your wife, especially if she took your miggy.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: ChaosLord on March 19, 2011, 03:56:31 AM
Quote from: smerf;623000
@ChaosLord

I don't think any court in the world would convict you for killing your wife, especially if she took your miggy.

smerf
True.  That would be classified as "Justifiable Homicide" :roflmao:
:laughing:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:01:29 AM
Quote from: amigakit;622781
We use Amigas every day to process orders..


What type?

A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000, CD-32, CDTV, or SAM440, or minimig.

This has to be a precise answer since we at Amiga.org want to know which Amiga you are using to process orders.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 19, 2011, 04:07:45 AM
Quote from: smerf;623003
What type?

A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000, CD-32, CDTV, or SAM440, or minimig.

This has to be a precise answer since we at Amiga.org want to know which Amiga you are using to process orders.

smerf

Why? :confused:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 04:09:29 AM
Quote from: smerf;623003
What type?

A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000, CD-32, CDTV, or SAM440, or minimig.

This has to be a precise answer since we at Amiga.org want to know which Amiga you are using to process orders.

smerf


You left out the A1200, bet it's an A1200, it's bound to be an a 1200, I'm pretty sure it must be an A1200... :)

(on the other hand I could be wrong, it might be an A600 or even an A500... :()
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:11:06 AM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622932
Welll......but her back together and fuck me, my wife was right! It doesn't work ;(

Still looking at it......could be a long night


Hi,

I know your situation, every time my wife says it doesn't work, I just have to settle in for a long night and use my hands.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 19, 2011, 04:20:28 AM
@Smerf. Your avatar is tripping me out. Everytime i look at it i think it's a piece of bread :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 04:24:41 AM
Quote from: Kesa;623009
@Smerf. Your avatar is tripping me out. Everytime i look at it i think it's a piece of bread :)


Took me months to figure out it wasn't an old slipper left lying in a barn and that it's actually a dead guinea pig that's been badly buried under some straw... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:26:50 AM
Quote from: LordSpunky;622947
*Sighs*......*fiddle....brushed hands together, hits the power button and sits down to watch*.............fixed  it! Whoop!!!!! One Running Amiga 4000 after a week of cutting out a  leaky battery, dusting, brushing, covering in lemon juice and  alcohol, drying, and putting back together............


Hi,

@LordSpunky,

That is one ugly monitor you have there. No not the one sitting top of the Amiga, the one that is showing the OS 4.0 screen. I would use some black paint and try to cover up that insignia on it. TRULY DISGUSTING.

What is your OS 4.0 running on. I get so frustrated, because I have a Amiga 1200 with a ppc board and can't get OS 4.0 to run on it. I have been thinking lately of just throwing in the towel and doing the one act that I thought I would never do.

BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT

to see what OS 4.0 is really like.

but

which apple product.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 19, 2011, 04:31:42 AM
Franko he hasn't replied to our posts we are making about him. I think he has blocked us! :madashell:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 04:32:32 AM
@ smerf

You didn't manage to get OS4.0 running, why not !!!, I thought you had it all working ages ago... :(
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:33:45 AM
Quote from: Kesa;623005
Why? :confused:


@Kesa

Because I want to know if they are using one of the newer ones or one of the classics and Franko is probably right it will probably be either an A1200 or an A500, because I forgot them, I know it isn't an A600 since nobody back in the day they came out considered them a real Amiga, we all considered them as a cut down low cost piece of trash.

Only Franko would notice that.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 04:34:08 AM
Quote from: Kesa;623014
Franko he hasn't replied to our posts we are making about him. I think he has blocked us! :madashell:


Nah, he's so old half deaf and half blind and with his arthritic fingers it takes him two weeks to type something... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 19, 2011, 04:40:07 AM
Quote from: Franko;623018
Nah, he's so old half deaf and half blind and with his arthritic fingers it takes him two weeks to type something... :)

OK we need to find someone else to pick on then... :hammer:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:49:34 AM
Quote from: Kesa;623014
Franko he hasn't replied to our posts we are making about him. I think he has blocked us! :madashell:


Hi,

@Kesa & Franko,

No, I haven't blocked you out, I almost blacked out from laughing so hard.

A piece of bread, and a dead guinny buried badly.

LOL, LOL, LOFL,

but

it is my pet guinny hiding under the straw, but Franko you were a lot closer than Kesa because Jenny is dead, but she is buried out in the yard with her own head stone. She was the sweetest most behaved ginny I ever had. She was smart too!!! you could sit her on the table, give her her food, and she would wait until everyone sat down to eat before she started. Will miss her indeed.

Hey Franko old friend, found out what was causing my A4000 not to work, about a year and a half ago I bought a buddha board from Amigakit, while I was installing it I was eating a snickers bar, guess what I found my snickers bar, it was resting on top of my 68040 CPU. Spent all day licking the snickers off the cpu, dried it out and it works perfectly now.

Last night I tried again to install OS4.0 on my A1200, tried hitting the escape key on the A1200 when turning it on and cannot get the computer to see the PPC rom, I may have to go back to a regular hard drive and disable my CF drive. Will see, I haven't given up yet, would of gotten to it today, but licking a snicker bar off my CPU took a lot of time.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 04:51:10 AM
Quote from: Franko;623018
Nah, he's so old half deaf and half blind and with his arthritic fingers it takes him two weeks to type something... :)


Hi,

@ Franko,

I represent that remark

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 04:54:53 AM
Awe, sorry about Jenny I've got 6 wee grave stones at the bottom of me garden where my pet hamsters are buried, although my sister says I should really wait till they die first before burying them, ah well we live & learn I suppose... :(

Gonna give you a quick PM about OS4.0, hang about a tick... :)
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: runequester on March 19, 2011, 05:00:32 AM
Quote from: smerf;623023

Hey Franko old friend, found out what was causing my A4000 not to work, about a year and a half ago I bought a buddha board from Amigakit, while I was installing it I was eating a snickers bar, guess what I found my snickers bar, it was resting on top of my 68040 CPU. Spent all day licking the snickers off the cpu, dried it out and it works perfectly now.


I just spit ginger ale on my keyboard you bastard
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Franko on March 19, 2011, 05:09:18 AM
Hi Smerf... :)

All done... Rivet, Rivet... ;)

Cheers

Franko
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: Kesa on March 19, 2011, 05:09:45 AM
Quote from: runequester;623028
I just spit ginger ale on my keyboard you bastard

why would someone spit on their own amiga? You sir are a disgrace... :madashell:
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: smerf on March 19, 2011, 05:40:55 AM
Quote from: runequester;623028
I just spit ginger ale on my keyboard you bastard


Hi,

Sorry about that, know all about that stuff, you take a swig, and it gets in your nose starts to bubble and you spit it everywhere, been there done that.

but

On a happy note, you can buy an Amiga PS2 keyboard module from Amigakit and can use cheap PS2 keyboards on your miggy. Bought one last year I sure did when I had the same thing happen to me, I spit pepsi all over my Amiga keyboard, checked on ebay for another one and found out they where going for $49 and up. So I went to Amigakit, bought a lyra module plugged in one of my old PS keyboards in it and have been happy ever since.

AND

Just think if you happen to spit on your keyboard again, you just lost a cheap, highly replaceable keyboard.

But never, and I mean never place a snickers on your 68040 board, those damn things get hot.

smerf
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: cha05e90 on March 19, 2011, 08:23:05 AM
Ok, and now something totally irrelevant, 'cos it's ON-TOPIC:

Yes, I do. My Commodore Amiga 2000 systems are fired up and used at minimum once a week. Not much talk about them, 'cos they just run. Most regular update: Peter's icon.library. which helps especially my 68030-based A2000 to cope with it's 8Bit-PicassoII-P96-Workbench.

If I assume my so-called "Amiga NG" systems as Amigas (Bplan PegasosII, ACube SAM440ep) then it's "yes, too". In contrast to my 68k-Amigas they are used daily - sometimes both of them, sometimes one of them. And I talk about them very often, 'cos there's a lot of things going on and a lot to learn.
Title: Re: Anyone Here Still Use Or Talk About The Amiga ???
Post by: LordSpunky on March 19, 2011, 08:47:29 AM
@Franko - I may do at some point....I'll take some more photos for you.
I will be on your RetrObright post at some point asking you EXACTLY how to mix and apply the paste.........;)

@smerf - That Apple product is a 27" iMac Intel i5 Quad Core running Mac OS & Windows 7 - I wanted an Amiga background found the OS4 one and use that.......just to remind me everyday how much I love them!