mr_a500

[adz]

Good to see you back :-) :pint:

[AmigaMance]

 Hey, i just noticed a post of yours in the "recent forum topics". Welcome back mr_a500!

[mr_a500]

Thanks guys. :elvis:

[Oliver]

Hi mr_a500,

Just want to chime in to say I always thought what you did with your A500 was really a great demonstration of the old girl - inspiring stuff.

I also thought it was a pity when you left the forum, though I can fully understand why one might. I don't have much to do with Amiga at all these days. I also moved to Linux, though I have not left it as you have, despite agreeing that it lacks most of Amiga OS's strengths.

I still really like the forum though. Of course there is a lot of repetition in the Amiga threads, though there is plenty of interesting and fun stuff here too, and plenty of interesting, fun, and generous people. Also, there is actually development in the Amiga scene, which I think is pretty good, all things considered.

So, you are still on Amigas, but are you interested in MorphOS of AOS4.x?

Great to see you back. An unexpected surprise.

Cheers,

Oli

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I wouldn't mind to let mr_A500 work with me A500 :-D

[X-ray]

Definitely. If they made a show called Pimp my Miggy, then Mr A500 would be the head honcho there.
Sadly my A500 doesn't get used these days and is in a very err .... substandard state.

[uncharted]

Welcome back Mr_A500!

Your A500 is the embodiment of everything I love about the Amiga.

[easy_john]

Do you plain to switch to a bit newer Amiga? May be 1200PPC or Efika/SAM? Or at least AGA chipset?
It's interesting to get maximum from a500, but may be in AGA you can better realise you art potential?

[mr_a500]

Wow, more responses than I expected... and nobody has called me a delusional psychotic freak (...yet). ;-)

So, you are still on Amigas, but are you interested in MorphOS of AOS4.x?

I've never tried them. I don't feel like paying for the expensive (obsolete) hardware. I'm really looking forward to the Natami though. I hope that's not a load of BS... like OS5 was. (my prediction was pretty accurate on that one)

I've been looking for an "Amiga replacement" since 1994, but I still haven't found it. I now have a NeXTstation, SGI Indy (IRIX), a bunch of classic Macs, a G3 with OSX, PCs (free...I'd never buy a PC) with BeOS & Ubuntu. I've used (been forced to use) every single version of Windows from 3.0 to Vista... and lots of older stuff like OS2 Warp, Novell, CP/M, QNX (and experimental stuff like MenuetOS). I've done lots of research and wasted lots of time.

Of ALL the computers and operating systems I've ever used, I still like Amiga the best. BeOS would come next, but it's still missing many Amiga features I like. Everything else is a combination of "too bloated", "too unresponsive", "too tedious", "too restrictive", "not enough software" or just plain "badly designed, intensely frustrating piece of rotten crapware".

I don't see any hope for future operating systems either. It's now all about controlling and limiting the user rather than giving the user control over his own computer. Amiga is far from perfect, but at least I control it rather than it attempting to control and block what I want to do.

Still, it's obvious that I can't continue using a 20-year-old computer for internet. Next month I'm getting high-speed internet connection (no more dialup for Amigas) and get the Mac, BeOS and Ubuntu on the internet. My Amiga internet days will finally be over. (...until I have enough cash to waste on an accelerator, Deneb and network card for my A3000)

Do you plain to switch to a bit newer Amiga? May be 1200PPC or Efika/SAM? Or at least AGA chipset?
It's interesting to get maximum from a500, but may be in AGA you can better realise you art potential?

I had been trying to get an AGA Amiga for years. Last year I finally got an A4000 (free!), but it has a motherboard problem. Fast RAM isn't recognized. I need an accelerator with RAM before I can play around with it. (but no money for that at the moment... I just bought a house so I'll have enough room for my "computer museum" :-D)

[A4000_Mad]

@ mr_a500

Looks like you'll just have to accept your celebrity status! Welcome back :pint:

[mr_a500]

I'm already a celebrity. Read about my TV series and movie roles. :-D ;-)

(photo of me was scanned using DCTV on A500, by the way)

Seriously though, I was in a movie - filmed in Paris. Sadly, it was a made-for-TV movie(ABC), filmed in Paris, Ontario and I was an extra. (...but at least I had a fake gun - I was a Texas sheriff)