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The Amiga has defeated me
« on: July 06, 2012, 11:10:19 PM »
Dear Amiga,

Well after having some luck in the beginning it's been all down hill.

Battling with my Indivision ECS was the start of the bad luck, old hardware rejecting the new transplant maybe.  

No matter what I buy or have done for you, you have blocked me every time. All I longed for is a good game of ruff'n'tumble on real hardware.

We started off great guns didn't we, I felt you cared. I bought you some amazing things yet in the end it was for nothing.

We had some good times though, many a Lemming was saved, many a bad guy shot, and the occasional playing around with say.

Laughing as you spoke to me in some strange robotic voice.

Many late nights spent building power stations and residential zones together.

Good times, good times.

However there have been many many more horrors that had me beating my head on the table, stuff that has been out of my control too which is the most annoying thing.

Nothing like components with a wonderful smokey smell in the morning.

The list goes on, so enough is enough, I think you are telling me it's not meant to be :(

So Amiga I tip my hat to you, retro gaming goodness will have to be WinUAE as my funds can't afford to keep fixing stuff.

A shame as I have a couple more gifts coming for you.

I'm not sure where we go from here, maybe I should box you up and think about it.

Or should I clean you up and salvage what I can then pass you on to someone else.

I shall go sit in the corner now, or maybe go for a walk. I can't look at you right now.

Lurch
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Re: The Amiga has defeated me
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2012, 11:43:44 PM »
Old board has a display problem flicks a lot and I can see a crack near the Denise chip.

New board kills expansion cards, has guru errors a lot, has recoverable errors a lot... etc etc.

Indivision ECS has a lines running horizontal down the screen and the display shakes/is fuzzy, have tested it in a couple of Amigas still the same thing.

Sent the Indi back to Amigakit under RMA. Still under warranty.

So my option would be to find a 100% working A500 with 2MB chip RAM and start again. Or I could sell up and maybe an FPGA arcade might be something I could afford, or a mini mig.

Have an IDE board from Mika coming and a bid on a accelerator card which I'm not sure what to do with.

Might change my mind again, it's a love hate relationship at the moment :-)
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Re: The Amiga has defeated me
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2012, 11:45:07 PM »
Quote from: partycentralpartygirl;699295
The Amiga is a female after all. Maybe she doesn't want to tell him what the problem is, insisting that he figure it out himself.


If I had said that I'd be told off :-)
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Re: The Amiga has defeated me
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2012, 01:23:16 AM »
Know what you mean magnetic, think I just need some space from it for awhile and come back to it with a clear head :-)
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Re: The Amiga has defeated me
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 04:26:15 AM »
Thinking minimig with arm controller, but then you're limited to 4MB?
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Re: The Amiga has defeated me
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2012, 09:12:32 AM »
Ahh here I go again, just bought another 1MB expansion to replace the "magic smoke" one ;-)

Now I'm looking at two A500+ boards and thinking I should get my soldering iron out and change over a couple of things and see if I can get one working A500+ :-)

My Indi ECS is winging it's way back to UK, kind of miss it even though it wasn't working fine.

Took so long to get it I was not looking forward to sending it back. LOL
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