My Amiga is ALIVE - and this machine ROCKS!!!

[FluffyMcDeath]

OK, so the A4000 died, and after much fiddling, it seems that it runs if I take out the Picasso IV.
But of course, then I'm looking at my old display and it's not so good. Plus the poor old thing suffers from the heat and gets very flaky after an hour on.
So, time to get a new machine. I've been saving up the money and so for Christmas I gave Justin at livewire systems a little business and after a bit of a long trip (7 business days) the machine is here.

And I'm POSTING from my new uA1. And it's beautiful.

LOVE,LOVE,LOVE,LOVE IT!!!!

I actually had it yesterday morning and was going to post then, but just at that moment amiga.org was brought to its knees. I hope it wasn't from the shock of having a new Amiga try to connect. There must be others before me.
So who else has one?

Now with my old A4000 up I can start the transfer of my files from the SCSI on the A4000 to the IDE on my uA1.
Guess it would be easier if all my A4000 drives were IDE, but oh well.

Anyway, it's very exciting and if you haven't got yourself a new machine yet but are thinking about it... stop thinking. Just get one!!


Did I mention I LOVE it?

(BTW that means that my A4000 isn't going to be used too much so if anyone wants to try their luck with it or its bits ... there's also most of a A3000 around here somewhere)

[jjans]

Congratulations on an amazing machine!

I recently was able to view a demo of the A-One here in Edmonton with at the monthly AMIQUE meeting. A fellow from Calgary AMUC brought an Micro A-One for us to slobber over...

I was impressed with what what this little machine could do, multi-media like the latest bloated XP, yet run FinalWriter or any other old Amiga App that didn't bang the hardware, both at the same time, with the emulation running seamlessly.

The OS installation (OS4 Beta), was under 30 MB I believe, that included the SDK CD. SDK was impressive, as Steve programmed an intuition Window to open with only a couple lines of code, right in front of us...

OS4 Beta still has some flakyness ( I think he said with JIT), that appeared to be minor, but I believe they are doing the right thing by delaying the OS until it is stable. It will be well worth the wait. Unlike the Windows having the users doing the beta test... Steve went over a list of things that the developers had worked on over the last few months, that until recently did not work, and so they are in fact making progress, maybe a little too quietly for some, but it is obvious that there is some fantastic talent working on this OS.

The thing that really amazed me was the 4 second Hot re-boot! Compare that with the 5 mins it takes my XP to finish farting around on re-boot...

I am jealous!!!! Gotta refinance the house now!!!

[kindergip]

Fluffy McDeath said:

>I actually had it yesterday morning and was going
>to post then, but just at that moment amiga.org
>was brought to its knees. I hope it wasn't from
>the shock of having a new Amiga try to connect.
>There must be others before me.

Indeed there are! The Vancouver usergroup meets once
a month on the first Tuesday at Sunset Community
Centre.

>So who else has one?

http://amigairc.amigarevolution.com/kinder.html

I got a one day turnaround on my order.

[cecilia]

you Wacally wabbit, you! :lol:

[FluffyMcDeath]

kindergip wrote:

Indeed there are! The Vancouver usergroup meets once
a month on the first Tuesday at Sunset Community
Centre.

So is this the old PaNorAmA group? I've been to a couple of those, but Tuesday evenings aren't too good for me. Gotta watch the pups.

[FluffyMcDeath]

cecilia wrote:
you Wacally wabbit, you! :lol:

Yes, you wanna play with it? It may not be very big, but you'd be amazed at what it can do!

[kindergip]

Indeed it is PaNorAmA

http://panorama.dhs.org/

WE have a weekly breakfast meet at Royal
City Cafe on Columbia just up from New
Westminster Station on the South side
approx 2 city blocks away.

11:ish on Saturday mornings about 15
to 20 diehards, good prices and mix of
Canadian and Chinese dishes.

Next one looks to be after new years though.

WE also hang on #amigairc.

[FrankBrana]

You love that miggy?

Only you??? :-D

Amiga Rules brother!

I LOVE every amiga chip, every amiga bit, but, since i had in my hand the MicroAone...you know, i have just ordered :-D

best Regards

[cecilia]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

cecilia wrote:
you Wacally wabbit, you! :lol:

Yes, you wanna play with it? It may not be very big, but you'd be amazed at what it can do!

maybe I can breath some life into it and make it more impressive?


 :-D

[FluffyMcDeath]

cecilia wrote:

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

Yes, you wanna play with it? It may not be very big, but you'd be amazed at what it can do!

maybe I can breath some life into it and make it more impressive?


 :-D

I'm sure an artist like yourself could work magic with such a tool.

(Just as an aside, I'm getting pretty good up-time with my new unit, way better than the old one. Of course, I haven't really been working it hard yet.)

[gregthecanuck]

kindergip wrote:
Indeed it is PaNorAmA

http://panorama.dhs.org/

WE have a weekly breakfast meet at Royal
City Cafe on Columbia just up from New
Westminster Station on the South side
approx 2 city blocks away.

So how many A1 users would you guess are in the Lower Mainland?

Once OS 4 goes gold I will probably pick up a new machine.  No spare cash at the moment...  

[kindergip]

"So how many A1 users would you guess are in the
 Lower Mainland?"

Me. NeRP, Jeremy, Atheist, Nunavut.
Oh, and now Fluffy!