Amiga doorstop!!!

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I assume you forgot to mention that your "power tower" is more expencive that the blazing PC he had built.  I guess you also did not point out that you can't playback HD res video or do anything serious in 3d. He would be lucky to get all the gear in  years time and then i'm not sure it would be reliable.  Anyway I have never seen a homemade tower that was not falling apart or that looked better the what commodore shipped.  Nothing is more confusing that half the truth.

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@amigadave
I dunno, It's nice, I guess.  

The truth is I don't like converted amiga towers, I think they are ugly, I love the real amiga 1200, I honestly can say I have never seen a "fake" tower that I liked.
I also don't care much for the mediator, so when I hear ppl saing how great that crap is I just can't feel it.  

@bootdisk and @spirantho
Having spent a fortune on amiga parts I can tell you, they are NOT going to be worth more in 10 years, they are worth much less than they where 10 years ago. I sure hope I'm wrong, becasue I have a lot of amiga stuff.  If anything a power tower will be worth LESS becasue he hacked up a perfectly good amiga into a tin can.

I still like the amiga but having a wide range of computers to play with, the amiga is SO very lacking in so many areas I often use other boxes.
(no not windows as some of you think that is the ONLY other option)
It's cool to find ppl that grew up with amiga and talk about how cool they where, I just don't see how you can get into it right now... it's very $$$ with limited results.


@swift240
"I then burnt a CD using CDburner, that really impressed him."

some ppl are very easy to impress I guess!! LOL My point is did you tell him how much it COST you to burn that CD?

"I also showed him Jabberwocky and other Internet stuff, SimpleMail Newscoaster, Yam."

did you show him how well the browers work?  thats alwasy IMPRESSIVE!

It's not about being negative, its about being realistic.
When he gets an amiga he should know, it's just for tinkering, otherwise he will be deapointed and out a LOT of cash....


@Framiga
takes one to know one, pal.

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See I happen to think lemmings is a better use of an old amiga!

@TiredOLife
limited? nah, just get a 4000d or t if you want to expand, I don't like hacky hardware, like mediator..(you do, oh well :whack: )  Never had the need for PCI or USB on any amiga I owned. why? the amiga does those things poorly.  It does other thigns well!  I like the toaster/flyer and still use that form time to time.  
I have many bix box amigas and use network card to connect them via NFS to my network.  Ihave beeter machines that do USB very well!

I don't want to keep them limited, I just dont; want to create a frankinstein box that is weak and $$$ at the end of the day.   Amigas are great right out of the BOX man!

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then enjoy it, I'm not so insane that I need to insult your setup.  It is yours.  

I perfer origional amigas. They look better.


one definition of hacky could be:

hacky, forcing something to do something it was not designed for, IOW making a 1200 have USB and a video card. Ripping it out of its case and wrapping it in tin foil (my opinion on power towers) and calling it "grovvy"  = hacky. (and tacky)

now there maybe more definitions of "hacky" and that's cool....



as to the mediator, there maybe more technical people that can tell why is a half ass USB stack....

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transfering large files?  
CD's are easy
using a networks is the best. I haven an NFS server that stores all my files fro all my computers.


well that's cool, I disagree.  I like the 4000 (T) the best.  I don't have a 1200 becasue it can't do what I want but I think it looks neat.  I like the samll form factor more and more.  It's smart they put the PSU outside ofthe case so it's quite and low heat!  I may just have to get a 1200 one day.. want ti to play old games!

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networks works fine for me, beside it's all backed up adn easy to manage.

the 1200 does look like a toy, a great, fun and interesting toy!  

the power tower looks like a regular PC or some kind of doorstop. LOL
 :horse:

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@swift240
ahh what the hell.

as for OS's....
unbutu is free, it can burn cd and dvds right out of the box,  you see that are many OS's other than windows and amigaOS, there are options!

The only thing I want from my amigas is a bit of oldschool fun, I'm not looking ot impress anybody, I'm not looking to make money or invent a modern day amiga.

in the end I'm just suprised that anybody is impressed by the things you mentioned, but I guess many people have never used anyting other than a windows box and just assume other computers suck, which they don't!


"Well I use my Athlon to do that sort of thing, and I use my Amiga for all other stuff as I like it that way."

thats my point why waist time and money forcing the amiga to do things that it sucks at, like surfing the web or doing USB stuff.

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sega dreamcast totally kicks the Wii's ass!