That's it!

[olegil]

Hey, I know how to solve that one, xaccrocheur :-)

Don't use GVP ;-)

Oh, that's not the solution you wanted? :-P

[olegil]

Hmm, if I had a CPPC I might have taken you up on that trade ;-)

My sister has started to produce offspring, and somehow I get the feeling my parents think I should have beaten her to it, being older and all. So I need either: a girlfriend, or: a less backstabbing sister :-P

[olegil]

Not right now, thanks. The G3 is enough for me for some time yet :-)

[olegil]

Dan wrote:

Nobody said that anyone is abandoning the Amiga...
I'm just ditching my A1200. I'll still hang on to my A600 ( if it still works  ).

well that makes sense, but ggsdata has a1200 mobos for 850SEK if you want one.
Anyway since you aren´t abandoning the Amiga will you buy an AmigaOne???
I mean when OS4 is released of course.

Well, I purchased one of each of these, and am not regretting it :-)

(1 A1200 motherboard from GGS-Data, and 1 A1G3-SE last year).
At the moment I am also considering spending 200EUR on an Access 1200 to put in the A1 tower (neat solution for old software, I think :-) ).

And I played Hybris on the A500 last night :-)

[olegil]

The good news is that all the systems that still work are not those who failed immediately :-)

The bad news is they're now also approaching the normal life of a doohickie-thingie. I'm on the second A500 and the second A1200. The Apollo 1240 has needed some fixes already, but I'm not afraid of working the old soldering iron on it (I've already fitted an extra memory-slot I got from a non-working RS/6k motherboard (I still have two working ones, so no biggie :-) )

The thing is, for some of us these machines represent a lot of past and present fun, and should not be thrown out just because they might fail. However, once they DO fail, there's sadly not much you can do. That said, the thing that most often does fail is CIA chips, and these can still be fixed.