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Offline whabangTopic starter

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That's it!
« on: April 04, 2003, 04:47:21 PM »
OK, I'm fed up!
The last month has been a total nightmare; I lost my job, my graphics card for the PC died, I got a virus in the PC ( so much for Norton... , and, worst of all, my miggy died.
I'm not going to get it repaired. I'm tired of this crap, so I'm going to sell it all ( actually, I'll keep the A600 for games ).
I'm not going to ditch the community ( I'd miss the politocal discussions too much :-P ), and I'm going too keep using UAE, but hardware wise the amiga is now dead for me...
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2003, 04:51:13 PM »
Bugger!

Glad to see your sticking around here though.

If you don't mind my asking, what happened to it?
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2003, 04:55:13 PM »
Sorry to hear about the problems with your system (not to mention the job, et al).  Let's be honest though, even in the best of cases, it's 8 year old hardware with a designed shelf-life of 5 to 7 years.  I am very, very afraid that this will start happening to lots of people at an alarming rate.

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Re: That's it!
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2003, 05:01:40 PM »
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Let's be honest though, even in the best of cases, it's 8 year old hardware with a designed shelf-life of 5 to 7 years.

Actually, the motherboard wasn't much older than a year, though it has proably been on a shelf for a while...

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I am very, very afraid that this will start happening to lots of people at an alarming rate.

True. Good thing that emulators exist. I allready use it for all things amiga, except older games.
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2003, 05:03:54 PM »
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Bugger!

Glad to see your sticking around here though.

If you don't mind my asking, what happened to it?

Couldn't leave. This site is to addictive. If it handn't been for AO I wouldn't be around the amiga anymore.
I have no idea what happened to the miggy. One day it worked, the next it didn't. The acc. wasn't in the computer at the time, so it's still working.
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2003, 05:04:56 PM »
I hardly ever touch my miggies now, for fear to killing them... 10 years of abuse has taken it's toll... Though the machines work fine, I'm just scared.
:-(
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2003, 05:05:52 PM »
Sorry to hear that, always a bummer to hear an  Amiga dies.

As for how long one can get out of an Amiga, i wouldnt go with that, i know people who still use there A1000/A2000 alot since they where released and there still  going strong, thats not that far of 20 years!
 My A1200 Mobo is now on the verge of 10 years old, used heavily and it has no probs besides timing, fingers crossed.

Not that poorly designed then.
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2003, 05:08:57 PM »
Nope.
I think the C= stuff has better quality than the Escom stuff though...
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2003, 05:11:47 PM »
@whabang

bad stuff  :-(  but when my Amiga died (only had an Amiga, nothing else) went to x86 with Windows 2K and ran WinUAE, Amithlon and looking at it now it was the best move i ever did, running AOS programs at speeds as they should be, doing more stuff with AOS under emulation  than i could ever do on a real Amiga without paying hundreds on old hardware and still it would not be as fast.

So looking back it was a shame but now it was 100% the best move i ever did.
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2003, 05:48:46 PM »
What I'd like to know is if the ESCOM manufactured A1200s (subcontractor solectron???) was based on Commodore made AGA chipsets or if (solectron?) had the plans to make AGA chips???


Anyway,sorry to hear about your bad experiences. I hope things get better for you! :-D

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Re: That's it!
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2003, 06:09:05 PM »
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Darth_X wrote:
What I'd like to know is if the ESCOM manufactured A1200s (subcontractor solectron???) was based on Commodore made AGA chipsets or if (solectron?) had the plans to make AGA chips???


Anyway,sorry to hear about your bad experiences. I hope things get better for you! :-D



Solectron just Assembled Amiga using the parts that they got out of the C= factory in the Phillapines.
A few changes to the Motherboard layout.
EG: the power smoothing and Panasonic Floppy Drive.
I remember reading that either C= in the last months or it could even been Escom, it was that long ago, got AGA into one chip.
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2003, 06:23:15 PM »
What should I say ? I'm trying to no avail to overcome the  4Gb barrier, my main miggy is open and useless since 3 weeks !

I've  been told to upgrade to SFS, witch did'nt cure anything and even made things worse...

Fact is, I've been told a LOT of things, and sometimes they were not true.  Looks like *nobody here* knows how to use big HDs with a GVP adapter.

And please, stop telling ppl that OS3.5+ solves the 4Gb problem, that simply is FALSE, at least with a (up to date) gvpscsi.device.

Grr, I'm relly pissed off. I WON'T settle for "not use the drive beyond the 4Gb limit" like I've been told too :) because 1:I need the space 2 : I got another big HD waiting 3 :  that plain bugs me.

I'm the man, she's the 'puter. She will eventually do what I want her to.

This morning in the tube I was envisioning the worse scenario... Well NO, I won't give up.

Even if sometimes, it feels very lonely...

pX
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2003, 07:14:54 PM »
you never specified what kind of amiga you had (that died). . . ?

as for old hardware still going strong, I'm amazed about the reliability of the A2000/060-50/64mb RAM webserver i'm using, that thing keeps going and going for months on end without a reboot.. . .

kevin orme
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2003, 07:55:08 PM »
Hey, I know how to solve that one, xaccrocheur :-)

Don't use GVP ;-)

Oh, that's not the solution you wanted? :-P
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Re: That's it!
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2003, 08:27:48 PM »
Good one olegil... Excuse me if I don't laugh too loud, I'm a little tired today ;)

I'd sell my sister for a Cyberstorm PPC & SCSI... In the meantime I only have the GVP option.

If anybody knows how to get out of this trap, please mail me.

pX
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