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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« on: March 23, 2006, 03:41:21 PM »
Welcome to the Amiga world! Where are you from? There may be an Amiga usergroup, or just some local Amiga users, who can help you out with your Amiga, and lend their expertise in person.
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2006, 03:53:03 PM »
Lemmings never did fill the screen on PAL systems... it left the lower 56 lines blank. Same for quite a few games, like Weird Dreams for example.
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2006, 04:20:10 PM »
Hi Kiniki,

Thats cool. If you get stuck at all, you're welcome to bring your Amiga round and i'll help you fix it or upgrade it (PM me to arrange that).

There was an Amiga usergroup, called SWAG, but it sort of died. There are still people on the mailinglist, though:

http://www.swag.org.uk
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/SWAG/

(edit: I actually live in Bristol, I hadn't noticed that my location still said Bath on Amiga.org ;-) )
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2006, 04:48:11 PM »
Note, though, that I don't think you can boot from a USB hard disk (unless you install kickstart modules with Blizzkick, which requires an accelerator card like the Blizzard 1260 or 1230). It also would be quite a lot slower than fitting a hard disk to the internal IDE port.
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2006, 05:03:13 PM »
Note that a USB mouse won't work in most games since they read the mouse port directly.
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2006, 11:58:21 PM »
Yeah, I power my A1200 from an AT power supply. Works great.
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 08:57:47 AM »
@milkrucio

At the end of the day, all of the advice given by Amigakit has been accurate. Whats wrong with giving advice, just because you run an Amiga online store, if the advice you give is actually pretty good? Sure, they added links to their own shop, but its not like they forced anyone to buy their stuff.

Besides, AmigaKit do have a lot of products that make upgrading Amigas easier than ever, like the pre-formatted hard disks that boot straight into an installer, or the network cards that come with an Amiga specific printed manual, drivers and their own networking GUI to make life easier.

(no, I don't work for them, just a happy customer ;-) ).
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Re: Hi from the biggest Newbie ever
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 08:59:04 AM »
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darksun9210 wrote:
i'm not sure yet, but if you use WHDload, the USB mice should work (i hope so), because the subway install puts in a loadmodule that patches the input.device.


Hmm... I'd be VERY surprised... WHDLoad games still access the hardware directly.
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