I need to tell someone about this. I've held it in for fourteen freakin' years.
I remember falling in-love with Aminet after I discovered how to use crossdos with my brothers Win95 PC (circa ~1997)
I'd browse Aminet for hours on-end, most of the time I went after modules and applications for sound editing/playback; it was absolute HEAVEN for me. Now it seems kind of silly, but I really did love the Amiga platform and everything that came with it, I defended it with a passion.
...Then I came across this file, "PC JOKE" I believe it was called, I can't find it on aminet anymore. I ran it on the PC and it created an un-deletable icon on the windows desktop with some sort of anti-pc text attached to it. I thought it was funny at first, but then I realised it was my BROTHERS PC, and he'd probably kill me!
So I frantically opened my shiny new yahoo mail account, found and mailed the author, and pretty much begged for his help. Well, he didn't help me. His exact response was:
Amiga?! AMIGA! The world laughs behind your back.
I felt absolutely gutted that a fellow Amigan would do that to me. I didn't eat for days! (mind you I had just entered highschool at that time) - In the end an old friend of the family bailed me out by editing the registry, I'm fairly sure I even cried over it heh.
Hopefully I'm not the only one to go through something like this, probably should've posted from a throw-away account or something! Have you guys had any similar experiences?
