The Amiga has defeated me

[bbond007]

Old board has a display problem flicks a lot and I can see a crack near the Denise chip.

Take the board out and start asking around and see if you can find a local shop (or maybe just some dude) and have the crack fixed under a scope and maybe look for additional cracks... That is easily solved...

I used to work with a guy who would have done that for some beer or something...

[Lurch]

Thinking minimig with arm controller, but then you're limited to 4MB?

[haywirepc]

I went down the same rabbit hole after trying to rediscover amiga. At one time I had an a1000, a2000, a1200, an a3000 and two a500's, a couple monitors and more. I still worry I'll start again but so far have resisted the urge to buy another amiga.

I spent probably way too much money on upgrades, scan doublers, accelerators, software, parts, more parts and more parts. Its a never ending rabbit hole once you begin...

I had to move so I sold the whole load of machines to a friend. I replaced them all with two things 1) A cybernet aio pc, really a winae pc that boots straight to os3.9, and an AROS machine in a mini tower.

These just work.  No expensive parts, no endless upgrades and tweaks.

But I do still miss the real thing. There is something really special about loading apps, games or demos on the real hardware and watching a computer that was 10+ years ahead of its time, going through its paces.

Magic in those custom chips. Emulation is like geek masturbation. Amiga is like REALLY good geek sex.

Anyone got an amiga I can have?  Oh no not again!

[danbeaver]

Dale Luck said the real magic in the chips was the blue smoke!  If the blue smoke gets out all is lost...

The Amiga is God's way of telling us life goes on, treading little foot prints in the snow until we forget where we have been, and only look forward to the next small triumph

[Lurch]

Ahh here I go again, just bought another 1MB expansion to replace the "magic smoke" one ;-)

Now I'm looking at two A500+ boards and thinking I should get my soldering iron out and change over a couple of things and see if I can get one working A500+ :-)

My Indi ECS is winging it's way back to UK, kind of miss it even though it wasn't working fine.

Took so long to get it I was not looking forward to sending it back. LOL