Why do we keep doing this again....??

[T3000]

I have a room full of amiga hardware and software. IF I can find the time, which seems to get less and less each month, to rebuild them to a functional state and maybe restore some of my lost art, I can say that I have no regrets going pc...  
AMD 64 Athlon x2 with 1 gig ram and Windows XP.
Say no more.

...the linked pictures below are from when the units were working a year ago.

The A3000D suffered some checksum errors and resutled in a HD failure. Lost years of photo scans, texture generations and 3D models.
The A3000T/VT one day just didn't power up. No matter what I reset or checked. This time in the middle of a paying project.

Just got fed up with it all...

 :-D

[T3000]

kvasir wrote:
T3000, btw, I should mention the cool image at the bottom of your post has now been added to the collection of 'miggy pics I have cluttering up my hard drive.

Thanks kvasir. That "cool" image was some of the last images I did on the Amiga before it decided to malfunction. Lightwave generated for a personal website featuring my Amigas and Amiga based art.

I haven't left the machines for dead. Will eventually get them going again, and again. Some of the pervious statements in regards to Amigas are spot on. -when they are functioning any way- and I owe a lot of my computing experience and hardware/software know-how to the Amiga platform.

Statements concerning how "overboard" windows and pc platforms are, IMHO are outta line. If I screw something up in XP, I can recover to an earlier date, problem solved. If my Amigas somehow get corrupted, (checksum errors)it takes me days to restore back to a funtioning state, not to mention the lost time in having to recreate lost work.

Yeah I miss some features the Amiga provides, and had to buy a new heardware/software for the pc to replace the ailing Amiga components, but the switch to PC and all it's overhead is totally worth the effort.

Laterz

[T3000]

stopthegop wrote:
Not if you backup your data regularly.  As you should, regardless of platform.

Had backed-up data regularly on a C= tape drive using QuarterBack Tools. Either I did something wrong or the back-up log got corrupted and can't retrieve the data. Then I got a 100mg ZIP Drive to do back ups with. Kept getting checksum errors on HD. After reinstalling the OS a number of times, the ZIP disks became unreadable. Once again, don't know if I did something wrong. Every time I tried to use DiskSalv, I'd endup trashing the recovery and would have to start over. Got to the point that I was spending more time backing up in fear of data loss and reinstalling programs from random checksum errors than actually using the computer for creativity.

stopthegop wrote:
Not in a million years would I put so much trust in XP's "autorecovery".  I don't believe in faith based backups.

Faith based?  :lol:
Faith based would be hoping the old Amiga system would switch on and work properly until it was time to shut down. "Hope and Pray" nothing goes wrong until then...

XP's System Restore function works fine.

Suppose to be bad weather this weekend, might go into the cold room and tinker with the Amiga.  
...and hope and pray it works.