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Re: So... How we doin?
« on: January 11, 2017, 09:56:21 PM »
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I'm surprised that -- after 3 or so days -- I only got two responses.  Glad to get them, but it's rather telling.

As for me, I probably haven't physically laid eyes on an Amiga in what... a decade now (when was the last, good Amiga show?)...  I've tried the emulators a few times, but just can't figure out a single thing that I actually want to do with them.  

It's kind of like loading Parallels on my Mac to run PC software.  Useless if you don't need to run any Windows software..

Since selling AO to BillP all those years ago (time flies), computers in general, and indeed, even my Web sites have taken a real back seat to everything else.  Moving from Alabama to Virginia and then to the D.C. area has provided somewhat of a culture shock and I just really don't have the time to focus on computers as I did when I was 20 and working as a low-end support geek.

That being said, to those of you who have been around long enough to remember me, I wish you well.  To those of you "youngsters" who've arrived since I left, let me say "welcome"...

Last I heard, you guys were planning to update the site to something else.  Maybe Trevor will actually do something with Amiga.org some day, before it's too late to transition to anything newer...

I guess I could always offer him a couple hundred bucks for the site to see if I could revamp it..  :)

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so much less fighting cause so much less traffic.  Hardly any of the old school seem to post anymore.  Just lurk like me.

I must be honest spend more time at EAB these days as so much more active.

But good to hear from you dude.   I can never leave this site.  Been here for getting on for two decades now its a home from home.
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2017, 07:17:54 PM »
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I wouldn't wanna be considered conceited or anything, so... Presto.  Now there's just one thread...  :)

(Am I the only one doing anything remotely adminny around here?)
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site admins if they exist do literally %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! all. not even a %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!ing xmas theme.
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2017, 03:00:08 PM »
Apart from the games in EABs leagues I dont use amiga ever now :(  Just no time
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2017, 05:54:48 PM »
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Your loss mate. I hope you have a fulfilling career. At home, doing modern mundane computing tasks like syncing a smart phone to a modern Mac laptop to send photos from the hard drive via Whatsapp is easy and satisfying it's more like operating a photocopier than being creative. Same with Photoshop/Premiere it's all tweaking and airbrushing photos or video these days! You learn the skills but you might as well be learning MS Excel such is the disconnect between user and machine. It's JUST a tool now.

Sprites, bobs, brushes and parallax scrolling. This is what was FUN in computing in he 80s and 90s and it's been replaced by professionals with fancy Photoshop filters and Maya skills in 3D. Who the hell can afford Maya? Deluxe Paint came with Amiga bundles and Lightwave was attainable if you really wanted it. I really hope the BBC Micro:Bit gets kids into coding because heaven forbid they all just become Photoshop monkeys. Someone on my course is writing a mobile game in his own time, fair play to him. At least this keeps the Amiga creative spirit alive but what are the chances he can get it noticed in the vast sea that is the Google Play store or Apple App store? Amiga Format was great for rewarding and promoting game coding talent!


Its more when you have been wrangling with java web services and JBOSS all day in work, you don't really fancy switching a computer on when you get home to do anything but relax and play games.

Well I don't anyway
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2017, 12:48:16 PM »
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Wow. This tells me that Amiga.org has actually not been updated since we went to vBulletin 15 YEARS AGO and lost the true join dates when we got off of whatever came before it...

That's both sad, and impressive at the same time. Amazes me that this site is still standing, but hey, it's not mine to play with any more... Pfft :laughing:

Yes after the site got hacked and we all lost our accounts.   Seem to remember a very unpleasant picture getting posted
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2017, 10:02:55 AM »
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Was that the one with Wayne's avatar's head on a naked body?


the one i remember seeing was a gaping sphincter with some homophobic words aimed at wayne.

Might be mis-remembering though
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Re: So... How we doin?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2018, 12:21:57 PM »
To my shame I mainly lurk these days :(
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