Hi community!

[Cammy]

Heya Gil, great to see another fun and interesting Amiga user joining the forum! I love your LAN room, and I think it's awesome that your wife is into alternative gaming too, maybe if you resurrect the A500 you can serial-link it to the A1200 and play some 2-player linked games together. In any case, I think she needs her own Amiga too. :p

I'm envious of your solar panels, I sure could do with some myself!

So you're an IRC user? Have we chatted yet on IRC, I'm in all the Amiga channels on a bunch of servers, if we haven't you should drop by. There are plenty of other Amiga enthusiasts and fellow gamers still hanging around on IRC too.

Hey Franko, it's nice to finally see some photos of your A1200s. I didn't know you used a towered one as well. I love your external IDE solution, I've been trying to work out the best way to go about it on my A1200 myself.

[Cammy]

Franko, I guess I somehow never saw those pics before, but I do usually browse with images turned off in IBrowse, and selectively load images when I need to and probably just never noticed those ones. As for my LCDs, they are Vivid LCD TVs, very cheap models with very good energy star ratings, which is very important to me, and also they have a native resolution of 1366x768 so my A1200's Workbench displays perfectly without interpolation (in 4:3 mode) in HighGFX 1024x768 with the Indivision through the VGA port. They also have S-Video, Component, HDMI, Composite, and RF for video input as well as an input for sound from the Amiga while it's using VGA (PC-in, which is just a headphone/microphone jack). I have never noticed any blur, and I play Alien Breed (mainly Tower Assault) a lot. I also have my Efika (running MorphOS), my PC (running Aros and Linux), and my PS2 (running games) all hooked up to the same monitor and they look fine. I think you just have to take your Amiga with you to the shop when you test these things out sometimes, I did that with my CD32 the first time I got one. I remember LCDs used to blur terribly, but I haven't noticed much blur on the later models thankfully.

Gilthanaz, these are some of the servers and Amiga channels I hang out on:

irc.amigaworld.net #AmigaWorld,#Amiga68k
irc.efnet.net #Amiga
irc.freenode.net ##Amiga,#Aros,#MorphOS,#AmigaE
irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk #Amiga
irc.superhosts.net #Team*AMIGA

[Cammy]

Looking good there, Gilthanaz! I love your game shelf setup, nice idea protecting them in plastic. I hope you find somewhere to move a few of those magazines to before they go curly. :p

As for your A1200, just a suggestion but it might look nicer if you centre the Workbench display on your screen using the Overscan Prefs (In the Prefs drawer). Also, if you don't want your Workbench desktop stuck inside a window, select "Backdrop" from the Workbench menu. Then the window will disappear and the icons will go directly onto the screen, like in other OSs. You can clean up or move around your icons, then make sure you select "Snapshot - All" from the Window menu, but make sure you have the Workbench screen selected, not another open window (because then it will snapshot that window). Snapshotting is the Amiga's way of saving the positions of windows and icons, so they always open exactly where you want them to, and if you move them by accident it won't save their position, unless you choose to Snapshot again.