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Not a happy bunny!!
« on: August 01, 2012, 12:16:10 AM »
:rant: alert!

Well I must say how disappointed I have been with my Amiga 1200.

I  bought it off Ebay just before Christmas 2011 and it came with a 4GB CF  Hard Drive fitted. This is my last Amiga computer EVER!

I have never used such a frustrating OS before and I fail to see why so many owners rave about them.

Admittedly I have been 'spoiled' with easy-peasy PC's for the last 15 years....but that may explain my gripes with the Amiga.

I  cannot for the life of me understand why so many of the fanboys seem to  think it's a great idea to make it such hard work to do such a simple  thing like install a new desktop replacement, such as ClassicWB, etc.  Why not make a straight forward download (or even a zip download) of it,  that can be installed from floppy/CF card direct to an Amiga, without  having to use WinUAE? Not all PC's can run WinUAE and what about if you  have used a modern mobile phone to download ClassicWB?

Why the  need for .adf/hdf files? Most modern PC's have large enough storage  space on them, that they don't need compressed files anymore.

I,  like many people, don't or can't be bothered with faffing about with  emulators, for whatever reason -- and it's not a crime not to want to  use one. If I want to download a certain program on my PC, it comes with  an EXE file that I just click and install.....Simples!!

On the  Amiga?......Oh yes, install WinUAE, find a copy of some ROM's, either  legally, or not. Then use some archaic looking decompression software to  extract the program with. What's wrong with not having to use an  emulator?! Why not not just allow a direct install to real hardware?

Amiga  fanboys remind me so much of Linux fanboys........they seem to think  that there chosen OS is the most superior in the universe and have never  considered moving with the times and making life easy for themselves.  And no, I'm not preaching that they should ditch their Amiga's for PC's.  Just that they acknowledge the Amiga as being old hat and deservedly so  and that if they want to keep the platform alive for the next  generation who fancies a bit of retro action, then at least make life  simple for them when it comes to installing stuff.

I have tried  installing AmigaSYS, ClassicWB (various versions), and MagicWB on mine  and only the latter worked satisfactory enough to use. The rest of them  had such arse about face install routines, that I gave up on them in the  end.
Amiga 1200 M-tec Viper 1230 68030, 8MB @ 42Mhz & 4GB C/F HD
Atari 520 STe 4MB RAM & 4.2GB HD
Citizen Swift 240c Colour Dot Matrix
Epson LQ100+ Dot Matrix
Sinclair ZX81 with Windows Vista 64 bit installed (oooh, why does it take so long to boot up?:))