Amiga guilt and time distortion.

[Franko]

Various symptoms may manifest themselves, such as feeling a need to post in as many conversations as possible with any of the following:

How much commodore sucked

They didn't, they brought us the Amiga, it was down to little sh!tes like Mehdi Ali that brought about the downfall of Commodore & the Amiga not all the other folk at CBM who worked to bring us the Amiga...

How much PPC sucked

It didn't, it just arrived too late (after Commodore had folded) and was still too new and expensive to be a mass Amiga market hit...

How terrible the amiga was compared to the PC

Bollox...

How much every amiga model past the 500/1000/2000 was awful and terrible

More Bollox...

How much better Turrican 2 was on the C64

Possibly...

That x86 solves everything

Biggest load of Bollox ever...

How terrible AGA was

AGA was and still is, the best thing since sliced bread, end of story...

That the X1000 is super expensive, in case you hadn't heard

Maybe, but consider how much you spend on PCs/ Macs/ Consoles etc... then for a new small market product it aint that bad and if your too miserable to part with the cash then stop ruddy complaining about it...

[Franko]

Every time someone mentions about how wonderful VGA was, I have to laugh and think "after all these years the poor sod still doesn't get it"...

These folk either have forgotten or didn't know in the first place why the Amiga used the video standards it did for a very simple reason, It was the aim of the Amiga to use video modes that would run on the TV in the corner of your living room or any other TV in your house, plain and simple...

No need to go out and buy a monitor cos you couldn't run VGA modes on your TV, just hook your Amiga up to any TV in your home and you were up and running...

Seems some folk either missed that point or deliberately ignore it...

[Franko]

+1

Too many new users who haven't even touched an Amiga since the 90's, let alone contributed anything useful to the community are the reason this place is going downhill recently.

-1

Gotta disagree with that point of view... a lot of "new users" or folk who are finding the Amiga once again post quite a lot of interesting questions looking for help setting up their Amigas, which when I can, am only too glad to help out with...

It's mostly "old members" who post the "downhill" stuff about PCs, iPhones etc... and use the place as some sort of social club that detract from the real Amiga questions & topics new users have...

[Franko]

I've just found another nice shiny silver teaspoon...

This time it was just behind my 3rd ear (the second one on the left that is) beside my old stuffed tortoise...

Anyone round here got a spare onion I could borrow for half an hour... ta...

[Franko]

I beg to differ,
More Atari 2600 VCS consoles were sold than all Atari AND C= 8 bit home computers combined.
NES outsold Amiga + Atari ST combined
Megadrive outsold Amiga + Atari ST combined

Hmmm... gawd knows where you came up with the load of keech... :rolleyes:

But even if you took the worst guestimate sales figures for both Atari & Commodore 8 bit computers they far outweigh the so called 30 million sales figures of the Atari 2600...

The only consoles of that era that according to the various sales figures that could come close to such a claim is the NES with figures of around 61 million, followed by the SNES with figures of around 49 million sold...

Methinks you're just making thinks up to try and prove some pointless point...

[Franko]

Gawd... are you two ladies still at it in this thread... :lol:

If you're gonna have a wee cat fight, at least make it a bit more lively instead of this handbags at 10 paces malarky...

Failing that... get a room...

[Franko]

Here Franko, I'm sure I've seen someone else hanging around with your picture just a minute ago, was a bit of a double take....and anyway I can't work out how to make a picture work....nor can I design a logo ;(

Just click on "UserCP" in the top right, then select "Edit Avatar", click on "Use Custom Avatar" then choose file and you can upload your own pic/avatar from your computer to use...

Your pic must be no more than 120x120 pixels and no bigger than 19.5Kb in size...

PS:they may try to imitate, but there's only one Franko...
PPS:If ye cannae draw sumthin fur toffee, then send me a PM with an idea and I'll make one for you...

[Franko]

@ LordSpunky

It's a start... you just need to add some blood and guts to it now and you should be onto something...

[Franko]

Batman rules!!!

Nah... I always preferred The Joker meself...