[Silly] How amiga communities work

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one guy who finds the amiga for the fist time MANY years after the bankcrupcy of commodore and is very suprised it's still beeing developed by actual companies.

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A whole bunch of crazies paying 1997 prices for used hardware in 2010.

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I've actually just aquired a copy of lightwave, the only catagory of software (3d) that stops me from 24/7 amigaing. Oh, and games of course. 'sall good.

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What, popular?

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Jelousy much?

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Perhaps some people just like computers where installing a peice of software doesn't involve hours of googling for bizzare version numbers of libs because aminet is either on the blink or only has an incompatable version. I'm looking at you, netsurf.:roflmao:

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Alright forum, when was the last time any of you used an amiga for any form of productive work at all?

And how do I make the above sentance not sound really bitchy in my head?

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Amiga users bashing PC/Windows/Mac/Linux while rebooting their Amiga cause an application has just brought everything down: "man ! It boots so much faster than my Windoze 3Ghz box !"

*Reboots for 5th time in hour*

Man this boot time is so fast! whoa!

*Opens Wookiechat, OWB*

*system freezes*

*reboots for 6th time in hour*

I think it's clear the amigaish systems only boot/respond faster because there's absolutely nothing holding them together other than hopes and dreams. Once you get an app that doesn't want to play nice for whatever reason, the entire thing falls down. If only someone at motorolla put in an MMU...

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Well, it was also kitbashed together over time. The typical amiga OS install has a ton of stuff that was pieced together from a ton of different sources, much of which was never expected when they wrote the OS (the various internet stuff f.x.)
 
So I guess its a wonder that it does work as much as it does

I like to think of "updated" amigas like cars in a demolition derby game. Banged up pretty badly with the wheels wobbling over the place, large sections of the structure worryingly absent, was put together from the wrecks of three others, and it's also on fire. Yet somehow, it still moves.

wb 3.1 with the commercial software of the era is pretty stable. wb 3.9 is in a twlight zone where people using it want to use whatever the latest software is, but that means downloading all sorts of weird crap to add to the system. pretty soon it's wobbling all over the place and you can see daylight through the floor.

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I think somebody should make an amiga clone board that reboots if you slam lots of random keys repeatedly. Would make the whole thing much more efficent.

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Amiga OS 3.9 has jpeg.datatype.
Amiga Os 3.1 has not.
The idea of resignation from the jpeg, as something someone in the Amiga Os 3.9 does not like, is extremely stupid.

Does anybody here know what this guy is talking about? I sure don't.

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In the days of yore, my basic OS 3.1 A1200 with HD and 4MB expansion had an uptime of about a month before I had to reboot it. Things were less stable when I got my 040 card. After that, the longest it stayed up was about 12 days, IIRC.

Eventually I succumb to the urge to install all sorts of hacks and patches and I ended up with a chicken soup system but I've reverted slightly since then. Even today it doesn't usually crash unless a buggy app takes it down though I suspect by now the hardware will need some attention. I've not tried to run it for more than a day or so, so the jury's out.

Sadly a "chicken soup" setup is the only way to run recent aos software. It sucks.

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I think I fit into that category a little also.  I also seem to have about 3 or 4 projects going at once and instead of quickly finishing one, I keep rotating between them doing things so it takes forever to really complete one.

Ahh, the pentium 4 method.