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

[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

[humppa]

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

Buying stuff (e.g. BPPC) in order to sell it a year after, in order to buy a new one a year after, in order to sell it a year after, in order to (...). Hope you get the point. Never sell Amiga-stuff before you are *REALLY REALLY* sure that you will quit forever. And who can really say that?

[golem]

I loaded and ran Microsoft AmigaBASIC on my A500 for quite a few years.

[TheMagicM]

T3000:

Amiga 4000
(2) Amiga 3000
Amiga 3000T

[Ral-Clan]

Some of your stories make me cry (whole A3000 towers in the dump)!

In the mid-to-late 90s, when Amigas were starting to show their age and were beginning to be out-performed by Macs and PCs, I occassionally got frustrated/discouraged and came very close to selling my A2000 setup to get something more "up to date".  Thank goodness I didn't, as those Pentium IIs I thought were so great are now worthless.

Now that the old Classic Amigas have been totally surpassed (speed wise) by modern PCs, etc. I have gained a whole new type of enjoyment from my Amigas (retro computing).  I enjoy them for what they are and the unique things they can do rather than trying to compare them to modern PCs.

However, in terms of the worst thing I have ever done to an Amiga: I once plugged a Commodore 128 power supply into an A500 that I purchased from a Thrift Store (which was missing its power supply).  The power LED went on for a couple seconds, then there was a *POP* inside it and the smell of burnt ICs.  Uh oh.  I was sorry to have ruined an Amiga, but I only paid $2.99CAD for it, so no financial loss (and it's still good for some spare parts).

[Ilwrath]

I've never really done anything too terrible to an Amiga.  The worst offense is probably that I have two A4000Ds sitting unusable, due to lack of suitable processor cards.  (I have a dead 3640 and a dead CSMKII 060 I need to get fixed.)

Funniest error resulting in lost data:
I managed to muck up the directory structure of my HD on my old A500/DataFlyer rig.  I somehow had a complete dh0: inside my c: assignment on dh0:.  Accessing any of this would result in an instant Guru Meditation.  I only found this much out when I booted the system from floppy.  :lol:

Most durable computer ever witnessed:
My friend punched an A500 hard enough that the processor came out of the socket.  This was while the machine was running, mind you.  Broke several small bits of case plastic, as well.  He turned it off, opened it up, re-seated the completely dislodged processor (after straightening a few pins, and reseated the half-dislodged Agnus (!!), applied power, and it booted right back up.   Amazing.

[Ral-Clan]

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 never quite understood why doing that could break external devices?  It's not like you're crossing pins or voltages anything.  Why can turning off sidecar devices while the Amiga is still on break them?  Is there some sort of voltage spike?

[B00tDisk]

I blew a chance to have an A2000 given to me by my parents when the A2000 was brand new - does that count?

As far as physical abuse, let's see...I broke a cold solder joint in my A520 composite converter for my A500 which forced me to wedge a book under it and keep it at a weird angle to make the video work - caused a loud buzzing from the speaker of the TV I used at the time, and eventually killed the CIAs in the '500 (thank goodness this was a time when you could find stores - plural - that'd fix Amiga systems).

[AmigaHeretic]

I tried to towerize my CD32 and SX1 combo.

Hooked the power leads up from the tower's PSU wrong and smoke came poring out of the motherboard.  

Very sad day indeed.

[Fransexy_]

-Ran a pirated copy of rainbow islands that had a virus and erased my HD with lots of VisualPrefs themes that i made and never released.I was too lazy to restart the work and disksalv it could not recover them :bigcry:

-Sell a HD disk drive on ebay and miss it later :-(  

-Attach a HP scanner to my Amiga parallel port to saw if it work and it trashed my HD  :madashell:  

[zipper]

When towerizing my A500 I zapped my Apollo A520 accelerator by putting it wrong way. Had to buy Blizzard 2060....

[mpiva]

  I once helped a friend "towerize" his A1200.  It was such a hack job but it worked... up until we tried to replace the internal keyboard with an external one.  That part required soldering and neither of us knew much about how to solder nor did we have the proper equipment.  Needless to say we never got the external keyboard to work and after that no other part of the A1200 worked either.  We tried to get it fixed but there was only one Amiga repair shop in town at that time and unfortunately it closed down before they finished fixing my friend's A1200.

  Sadly, my friend bought a PC after that and has no interest in returning to the Amiga scene.  :cry:

[stopthegop]

Sell it cheap

[kidkoala]

Using an A500 every day for years, with a half-broken tv-modulator that constantly needed supervision and adjusting as it was causing bad pictures, flickering, b&w @$!=*!
The modulator was so sensitive that when someone closed the door in the floor under me it affected the picture..(I was too little at the time to fix the broken connector to the tv-output).  :pissed:

[J-Golden]

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

Well... I guess it answers the question but not the way others have.  Here it goes...

My first miggy was a A500 I had setup in the basement.  I ran this really cool screensaver/trick that would flash a skull on the screen every five or ten minutes and creat a blood curdling screem.

Anywho, one day I come home to find my olderst brother ready to kill me.  Heres why...

I left for work at 8, he gets up right after me and goes into the shower.  A little way into it,  He hears the worst sounding scream ever!  He takes off running out of the shower, thruough and AROUND the house to find who ever just got killed, stabed, etc.  Not finding anything he jumps back in only to have it happen again a few minutes later!

He does this THREE TIMES!!!

The third time of patroling the house, he's mad; he's frustrated; he's dripping wet and soapy; he walks past my miggy JUST at the right time...  I THINK he jumped so high when it went off he hurt himself :evilgrin:

And THAT is the worst thing I've ever done that involves an Amiga :lol:

[Craven1200]

Sell off my power tower,  060/PPC-Grex Voodoo3 SD/FF amiga with eizo monitor because i wanted to get turntables.  still regret that till today