Psst!, wanna buy a working amiga walker?

[A6000]

I googled amiga walker and found a page where one was being sold, reading further, I realised that it was an emulated walker in "second life", now I don't know much about second life but if you do, maybe you would be interested.
The sale states that it can be turned on and will boot os3.2, and includes 7 disks, so maybe it will run amiga software.
This raises questions concerning copyrights which members here police far more rigorously than the copyright holders themselves.
What do you think?
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link fixed.

[Jeff]

We need a good link, it doesn't seem to work.

[A6000]

Sorry, link fixed

[Jeff]

So, I don't get it I guess. You get to own a pretend Walker for $190.00? Why stop there, you could own pretend A4000T with CS PPC running OS4!

[mingle]

Don't know much about 2nd life - I assume it's some sort of network game...

But, please, don't tell me there are saddos that would actually pay good (real) money for a 'virtual' item!

If so - holy cr*p, these people really do need to get a 1st life, never mind a 2nd one!

Cheers,

Mike.

[Retro_71]

I have heard about these nutter on the Discovery Channel i think.
The whole game is about you get to play out your life.... (sounds dam boring and for people with the IQ of an ant(sorry ants)):-D .

They can even buy Houses, cars, real estate, furniture, change their appearance and such, all of which can be had for real money.......  What a shame you can't crash their systems and end their lives....  :-P so to speak..

But really really a very boring game for losers who cant get anywhere or do anything in real life.

My 2c

[Sig999]

I was into Second Life, back during and after it's Beta trials - it was a pretty cool 3d persistent world that was entirely created by it's users with in game 3d modeling tools and scripting language.  After it's 2nd year they had a 'paradigm shift' where their ingame money (the 'linden dollar' - for linden lab, it's creators) could be sold to other users for real money.  Since then it's become a money grubbing den of 2nd rate 3d content, scammers, and hucksters who'll do anything to make a buck.  Development of the entire system is now half-arsed as Linden Lab dump 'feature upon feature' and when I say 'feature' I mean bug laden eye candy.

I still have an area in Second Life, though I haven't logged into it for over a year. Every 3 days I hit the web site and sell off any L$ my lil shop of gadgets and custom made animations may have accumulated.... I'll do so until it fails to pay for its own monthly bill and use the proceeds as pocket money.

In short - what you'd be doing is using your high level PC on your broadband internet connection to (hopefully) log into a very laggy and bug ridden 3d world to spend real money on a pretend computer.

[McVenco]

What bugs me the most about Second Life is that our government has spent tens of thousands of Euros on it, creating virtual job offices, townhalls and whatnot. Investing in IT is one thing, but this is completely ridiculous and a waste of money!

And not to mention all those people who earn money by letting other people have sex with virtual children, but that's a whole other story.....

[Sig999]

What bugs me about it is..... well everything...

Folks going there now and saying 'well it's all a bunch of TSO nutters, sexual deviants, and scam artists' would be pretty much on the money.

I had the fortune of being there when it was a small bunch of pretty bright people doing some pretty cool stuff - then watching it degenerate into a moneygrabbing cesspool.

But yeah - when they started having 'corporate islands' and other crapola I pretty much saw the writing on the wall.

On the upside - all those people wanting custom animations to sit in their virtual chairs and smoke their virtual pipes while talking to virtually everyone has paid for my ami

I enjoy not logging on at all - and once a day hitting up their website and having C note dropped into my paypal account... so long as that keeps happening I'll keep my account there.

[mingle]

Hmmm,

Interesting comments from some ex 2nd-lifers - I know 100% more about it than I did yesterday!

Cheers

Mike.