Lollypops and chocolate cakes

[drHirudo]

Such a shame what's happened here lately.  Old skool trolling and heavy handed moderation put me off posting a while back.

As it looks like its about to get worse, I think i'll bail out at this point before I get moderated out of existence.

So long, and thanks for all the pancakes!

Almost all the Amiga forums are dumps in the last months. Including Amiga.org. There is only one forum where still the old Amiga spirit is present and it is called EAB. Of course it will get worse here. All the so called Amigans here are now Windows, MacOS, iPhone, Android, you name it fans, but not Amiga enthusiasts. At least one can hope they will not ruin the English Amiga Board.

[drHirudo]

I haven't used an Amiga in several years, and still consider myself a fan.

As I said for Amiga fans Amiga.org is not the best forum on the Internet. Sad but true. Especially when I read the forums of ex administrator who claims to had cured his Peter Pan syndrome and similar garbage.

[drHirudo]

Say Doc, if you're an Amiga fan and this is not the best forum on the internet for Amiga fans, why are you here.

You see me here?
I think you are mistaking me with someone else, because for sure I am not here 99% of the time.

[drHirudo]

laugh all you wish, but I am an Amiga Snob for a really good reason. I carry Amiga with me in my brain even if I have not touched my old Amiga 2000 is a long time. It exists where it counts. And continues to inform my work no matter what device I use.

You are Amiga enthusiast, no matter that you use other devices. Back in 1997-1999 I did not had Amiga at home for a while. (I had PSX with very nice games), but I was pure Amiga enthusiast back then. I was reading about all the developments, visiting Aminet from the university, getting magazines, etc.. Collecting software, even if I did not had the hardware. I did not trash Phase 5 back then even if their PPC accelerators were practically unaffordable for me with not much software and games compared to the games for Sony Playstation.

[drHirudo]

+1

One particularly important thing my Amiga's and C64's taught me was patience

The Amiga loading was not that bad. After I got used to the slow disk loading of the Amiga, I got C64 with disk drive and original games. I expected to be faster as my Oric clone disk interface, and the Apple II disk interface, but the C64 interface was terribly slow. I expected 8 bit games to load faster. Then I tried loading original C64 tape from Cassete drive - that was sloooooow. A friend of mine told me about the slow loading times of ZX Sinclair, but I never had such machine at home. Only saw people playing Sinclair game at club. Most of the time during my half hour visit at this club was the players talking to each other while waiting for a game to load next stage. Now I see why we did not had facebook back then. We were socializing while waiting for a game to load.