What is the worst thing you've done that involves an Amiga

[tonyvdb]

Well, I almost hate to admit it but about 8 years ago before I knew there was still a demand for Amigas I through out an Amiga 3000T because it did not work...I had it repaired twice in the past both times it was the same problem caused by a bad  030 board. I'm not proud of this at all and still KICK myself for doing it. :boohoo:

[motorollin]

I used to have an A1200 in a Power Tower with an Apollo 040, AteoBus, Pixel64, and lots of other bits and pieces. I loved it, but I had so many problems with it towards the end, mostly caused by the AteoBus I think. Eventually I lost my patience and decided to get rid of it. I took it to the dump and left it there  :cry:

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moto

[McVenco]

I've done numerous stupid things regarding my Amiga's.

1. I sold my A500+A590 (around 1998)
2. I practically gave away my A3000. I traded it for some pc games like Unreal, Wolfenstein 3D, which I have all thrown away already (around 2001)
3. I sold my A2000 (can't really remember when)

Apart from being sorry for having sold my old Amiga's I've done some dumb things, which fortunately never harmed my Amiga's, like adding/removing harddrives and external SCSI units while the machine was still running.

The strange thing though, is that HDToolsBox RECOGNISED and PARTITIONED that harddisk which I added in the running machine! The drive and machine have never failed me since I pulled that trick.

Try THAT with a PC :lol:

[AmiGeezer]

I know someone who was travelling home from Uni, packed his car and set off down the motorway. Suddenly realised that his A1200 wasn't on the passenger seat, remembered he'd put it on the roof while packing the rear of the car, braked and saw the poor miggy go flying off the roof to land on the carriageway in front of him (to be promptly run over of course).

Shame he didn't just pull over gently (rather than the jolt of the brakes) as the little rubber feet (LRF[tm]) had kept it on the roof up to that point!

He also had an 030-50 in there too so didn't just lose a vanilla 1200!

[Agafaster]

gaah!!

I havent done anything that bad! I almost slung out my dodgy A1200 (I have one that isnt!) but didnt cos it wasnt that bad. the thought took about 1 and a bit seconds to be discarded as ridiculous!
I suppose then, the worst thing would be what I did to that 1200, which was nuke the databus/and a coupla chips (Lisa? Julia?) with a 3.5" 120MB Harddisk and a 24x external IDE CDROM.

[redrumloa]

Back when the AmigaOne-SE was first announced, I pre-ordered it and held my pre-order for over a year before waking up to reality and canceling my order.

[ravnen]

1. I sold my a1200T that I buildt into a nice midi tower. Later Powercomputing sold that same tower model modified to fit an a1200. It was really proud of my work on it. But needed the money for an a4000. It had a 030 in it, pcmcia ethernetcard w/angel adaptor (and hardhacked reset fix).

2. I sold the remains of my a4000t for "nothing", again a own convertion into an aopen midi tower. The main board died, but it had a nice 060-50 card, a picasso IV w/Concierto and the tvcard-addon (I wish I had thoose now...). It also had an ariadne II, and two 80Gb wide scsi disks.

[TheMagicM]

@redrumola:
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Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb.  Same thing w/my A2k..   that was about 15yrs ago.. lol

[Roondar]

Worst two things I ever did to my Amiga's:

I once broke my A570 by using the on/off switch while the Amiga was on. Broke my heart and the darned things where not obtainable anymore either so my nifty CD Rom drive was gone  :-(

I also gave away my original A500 some years later. I'm still regretting it. The replacement I eventually got was not quite the same model and somehow misses something as a result. Silly thing, nostalgia.

[Agafaster]

TheMagicM wrote:
@redrumola:
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Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb.  Same thing w/my A2k..   that was about 15yrs ago.. lol

I used to do that with me speccy. but you see, theres the difference: good ol' rubber keys!!

[Fester]

The worst things I've done with an Amiga? Here's a few in order of importance:

1. I inverted the ROM chips in a 1200.

2. I festered around inside a 1200 without an anti-static wrist band.

3. I sold my first A2000 for money while attending college. I'm sure the money wasn't wisely spent.

4. I gave Amiga Corp. 50$ for a t-shirt.

Fester

[motorollin]

OT...

TheMagicM wrote:
Sometimes I lose a few games when I'm playing..so I get pissed off... I hit the A500 kb a few times and had to replace the kb.

I've got a friend who had a Speccy when he was a kid. He got so frustrated with the crappy rubber keyboard that he stabbed the poor Speccy to death with a screwdriver!

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moto

[Agafaster]

b4st4rd!  :madashell:

never got that nuts with mine, but it did used to annoy me - but ironically not the keyboard! the ZX81 was far more annoying!

[T3000]

Failure to read the instructions caused most my Amiga woes...

1. Spent $50 on tapes for a C= tape drive, used QBtools to do the back up.  Wiped the HD clean, realized the QB back-up log was not on a floppy. Basicly lost all work done up to that point.

2. Used DiskSalv.

3. Moved my systems from the loft down to the back bedroom where they get little attention.

Current state of systems.



Can you ID the hardware?

Maybe my sig should read, "AmigaWorldDisOrder"

[Fester]

T3000 wrote:
Failure to read the instructions caused most my Amiga woes...

Current state of systems.

Can you ID the hardware?

Maybe my sig should read, "AmigaWorldDisOrder"

I can probably id that little red and white bottle of Tylenol or the generic equivalent? :-)

Fester