So.. how are you guys doing?!
It hard to tell from what i read sometimes..
Anyway, i'll start with the basics.. Like many of you here (i'm fairly sure), I have joined .org because i have returned cap in hand to the world of amiga.. so i've got me an a1200, always wanted one after my a500's
Something started tweaking in me, distant memories, fractured.. yet in those fleeting images was a lucidity, a certain vivid remembrance of how things used to be. Call it nostalgia maybe, a misguided belief like the kind a motor enthusiast has when talking about a hilman imp, but i had a yearning to go back to an earlier, simpler time, when there seemed to be some form of cameraderie, when using a computer was actually fun.
All those lost days and nights, sat in front of a wedge of plastic..
I knew nothing, but i'd tinker, and things would happen! Imagine that, little me pushed buttons, and stuff actually happened and i felt engaged.
so i've come back for that.. i thought surely now that all that kit is old, i can tinker with near impunity, if it dies then there is more kit available out there that people don't want.. And at the same time i saw that there seemed to be a large group of peeps who still held high esteem for the old girl.. people still doing things, amazing things.
BUT. On closer inspection, there seems to be a worrying trend.. It hasn't permeated entirely, but theres a bitterness i don't remember.. Instead of people building each other up, keeping things going.. there seems to be a snide atmosphere at times. people ask a question, some will help but a disturbingly large element seem to want to put people down.
Like a child who's found the largest chocolate egg and worked out how to get it out of the wrapper, and would rather keep it to themselves until it has all gone..
In a situation where to be honest, this platform is hanging on by a thread, i cannot see the point in breaking people down and pushing them away, when really the amiga scene needs to keep peeps in, welcome, interested and educated.
I'm hoping this place is better than most :-)
I'm gonna need your help at time peeps, just a pointer to where the stuff has already been posted and the like.. I want to mod these boxes of mine like i never could when i was younger.. 'cos i couldn't afford to break 'em
And i could never afford the bits anyway..
So first question is naturally about interesting mods for the twelve.. Flashrom might be nice?
Even on the schematics there's a section on it, is it case of classic commodore 'optional'?
