[Silly] How amiga communities work

[Karlos]

Yes, but the LPT market does have monthly downloads :hammer:

*chortle*

[Karlos]

I think we hurt a Mactard's feelings.

The thing is, throwing words like "mactard" around., you sound just as helplessly fanboi as the guy you're deriding.

[Karlos]

Rebel isn't hanging around on Mac forums spamming Amiga advertisements every day.  So no, he really doesn't sound the same.

Slight exaggeration, there. Thus far, he's made 175 posts, about a dozen of which are along the lines of "this was/is so much easier on the mac". Admittedly, some of those were highly ridiculous but people are entitled to their opinion.

[Karlos]

Slight exaggeration, there. Thus far, he's made 175 posts, about a dozen of which are along the lines of "this was/is so much easier on the mac". Admittedly, some of those were highly ridiculous but people are entitled to their opinion.

And before anybody starts, my lack of love for Mac is a matter of public record ;-)

[Karlos]

..but getting the software working on an Amiga is (more than) half the fun!

:lol: That's certainly true in a lot of cases.

[Karlos]

The bloody thing has been unstable since day one, clean installed systems guru.  It's part of the Amiga charm.  Hey we crash, but look how fast we reboot!  Amiagish systems are a fun hobby but can anyone seriously depend on them?

Too many rose coloured glasses around I think.  Just enjoy the hobby and stop dreaming of world domination.

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.

[Karlos]

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

I don't think that's particularly true. My classic machine doesn't crash just by running everyday apps and it's pretty Frankenstein as far as hardware goes. On the software side, though, it's pretty much a bare 3.9 install with a few additional libraries and drivers to support the PPC, gfx card and NIC.

My UAE installation, which is pretty patched up with AfA OS and the like isn't particularly unstable either.

I don't get to reproduce your experience, anyway.