Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.

[Franko]

Edit: The forum is still there, just browse the archives.

Last time I did that I ended up in soapy bubbles...

[Franko]

I dunno, everything went better than expected

True, but at the time I thought my membership here was about to be as short as my time at Oxford...

[Franko]

Can't have been much shorter than my time there

If you are looking for an example of a heated CH exchange of yesteryear, http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30675

Try not to necromance it.

Whoah... too heavy for me that one, best left in the vaults for the historians to ponder...

(PS:After a 14 hour drive my time at Oxford was just under 45 minutes...

[Franko]

Ah, well my tenure was slightly longer. Just not long enough to complete my degree there :lol:

Tunure !!! Degree !!! I think there's been a slight misunderstanding here...

When I say I went to Oxford, I only meant that I went there to deliver some computer equipment when I worked for Ferranti, Me and old Reg the van driver had to deliver some crates of gawd knows what as we weren't allowed to open them and anywhere we went with such consignments we were always escorted my two MPs (Military Police).

Anyway back then I was into Ska (The Specials & Madness etc...) and used to wear these big Doc Martins and bleached denims & braces and of course the obligatory skinhead.

Trouble was when we were guided to the entrance of the old building where the stuff was to be delivered these two old Professor types came out one dressed in a white lab coat and the other in what looked like a batman cloak, they stared at me and I stared at them then one of them went over to the MPs and said something.

One of the MPs came over to me and told me to get back in the van and he would help old Reg move the crates inside. Never found out what was actually said, but that was my time at Oxford, short but memorable...

(It was a ruddy 14 hour drive there and nearly 20 coming back cos old Reg kept nodding off... )

(PS: I did get an A+ in my O'level Woodwork though... hence the reason I became a brickie...

[Franko]

Latest Church Of Amiga Notice...

A Memorial service is to be held on Sunday the 18th Of December at 10:00 am in the Coffee House in remembrance of Kickstarts humour which suddenly & sadly passed away at 2:05am on Friday 17th of December 2010.

The A.org Wee Free Church Choir Gospel Singers will be singing a few jaunty little hymns such as 'O Praise the Org, For It Is good' & the evergreen 'O Lamb of Gawd, Who Tastes Divine' (especially with mint sauce).

A collection shall held in order to help fund the new rehabilitation wing that is to be added to the Coffee House in order to help those who have lost their sunny disposition. In honour of the dear departeds sense of humour the new forum is to be called "The Kickstart Home For The Terminally Bewildered", please give generously...

Tea & biccies will be served in the hall straight after, stronger stuff can be found in the usual place just behind the pew next to the vicars secret stash of holy wine. Multi coloured and spinning bow ties are optional.

In Memoriam ...

Kickstarts humour has faded away,
It's up for sale on Amibay,
You can place a bid if you dare,
but just remember it's only vaporware...

Kickstarts Humour Aug 2006 to Dec 2010 R.I.P.
(gone but not forgotten...

[Franko]

@ Karlos

That site is almost like peering inside my mind, kinda comforting in a strange sort of way with balloons tied on & yellow flavoured shoe's dancing on a hot summers day on the dark side of the moon... if you know what I mean...

[Franko]

@ Iggy

Me meds are are legit prescribed stuff, the various combinations they've been trying me on for nearly thirteen years now have had no effect on me or my alien implant , I still think & see things the same way I did before I started on them...

@ Wayne

How can the father of Amiga.org say that the Amiga is dead or even just a toy, that's like telling all the little kiddies that Santa or the easter bunny doesn't exist, they do and they live in my basement, so therefore the Amiga is alive and well and far from being a toy it's still the most advanced computer in my house...

@ -BobW-

Why let the greatest computer ever created die, it's a bit like the royal family, they go one forever and get the best care and attention just like the miggie does, all good things come to those who wait and the magic 30 year waiting period is only 5 more years away and that's when us true believers will finally be rewarded for keeping the faith... :`)


A message to all who say the Amiga is dead... :madashell:

Are you lot in the habit of playing around with dead things, there's a name for that you know... cos thats really weird and scary... :eek:

[Franko]

Harsh guys! There's nothing wrong with either cross dressing or being gay!

Having three older sisters & being the only male and the youngest, when I was a kid the hand me downs made me grow up thinking cross dressing was perfectly normal...

(it's taken me over 40 years to kick the habit... honest...

[Franko]

wow, isn't it sad that some people have never had the pleasure and honor to use an Amiga! We are the Elite.

Wow... the sarcasm really hurts... ooh the pain... :rolleyes:

[Franko]

no sarcasm. I am dead serious.

learning how to use a computer on an Amiga teaches you something special. I can't put it into words, but I know it taught ME something

Apologies cecillia, I thought it was one of the grumpy brigade having another go at me... sorry...

[Franko]

At the risk of repeating myself, Everyone here needs to join NORML! or go to California and get your much needed 'script... or fly to Amsterdam... whichever....
This should give you the proper perspective on the "live vs dead" issue, and just keep doing what you've been doing.

Whas NORML !!! :confused:

Is it like ABBEY NORML !!! :confused:

[Franko]

Woops - It's a U.S. thing - National Org. for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws
As in:  http://norml.org/

I should have known that one, the brother-in-law in Portland Oregon is into all that hippy stuff...
(he's not the one who said were all "sad retards" by the way that was the one in Glasgow who said that... he's just a fat smelly bugger...)

But shouldn't it be NOFTROML ...

[Franko]

You try repeating all that when your baked :lol:

It's easy for me to say cos I'm only half baked...

[Franko]

It isn't 1984 anymore.  You can't come up with ground-breaking hardware without huge R&D and marketing budgets.  I'm sure that there will be great stuff like the Replay board and whatnot coming out of the Amiga community, but that is about it.  We're at a stage now where desktops are no longer the main platform for the average computer user.  Think about what that means -- in 1984 the average home computer user was a hobbyist or a teenager with smart parents.  People who used computers to do anything but play games were either engineers or geeks and they were easy to sway with a few extra colors or a little higher resolution or even another 64K of RAM.  But here we are in 2010 (!) so if whoever owns Amiga comes out with some new uber-desktop it won't matter if it can because it will just be a desktop.  You won't be able to touch the screen or tell it to dial your mom's house or mount it on your dash and have it tell you where the nearest pizza place that serves gluten-free food is (good luck with that if you need one.)

But the reality is, Amiga lives.  Yay.  I hope somebody does something cool with the new X1000 or the Replay AGA Minimig.  How about an Amiga Tablet with a Touch UI and an FPGA emulator that runs Android and iOS stuff in the background?   Hehe.

Thats one of the things I don't get or even understand, why do some folks want the the Amiga to have touch screens, mount it on a dash, or even be a tablet etc.. etc..

There are plenty of these gimmick machine already available on the market why would you want to change the Amiga into something it wasn't designed to be and spoil the charm and joy of what using an Amiga is all about...

The only requirements I would like to see for the Amiga is the ability to run old Amiga software like Pagestream & ImageFX for example a bit faster, the only thing I use a Mac for is to access the net and to be honest in 25 years of using the Amiga on a daily basis the ability to access the net with it is something I haven't missed or am really interested in it being able to do so...

Use the Amiga for what it is and always will be, something a wee bit different from all the mundane world of modern PCs and gimmicks. It's a machine that is a joy to use and learn about, if you want tablets and all that malarky go out and buy one they are avalble if thats your thing...

To me the Amiga is unique in the computer world and I'm quite happy for it to remain that way...