What is the worst thing you've done with your Amiga?

[Starrunner]

I got an A3000 off a programmer and then loaned it to my friend who 'knew' more about Amigas than I did.  It never worked right again.

I fried a motherboard in the A1200 tower I bought.  I bought a replacement and I think I fried that one too on accident.  ARGH!!!

I remember when I helped my friend set up his first BBS.  All I can say is CNET!  (A great BBS program after we beat our heads trying to learn to run it.)

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[Rudei]

Trev wrote:
Loaned my first A500 to a friend and never got it back. (My fault, not his.)

Loaned my external 3.5" DD drive to a friend and never got it back. (His fault, not mine.)

Grounded the business side of my A1200 motherboard to its tower chassis. Summoned magic smoke. Killed serial port, sound, and probably other things. Replacement in hand but not installed.

Fried one of my RRNet cards connecting it to a clockport cable the wrong way around. (The cable was striped correctly, but the IDC connectors were on backwards--or something. Regardless, dead RRNet.)

Unless you meant "worst" in a moral or ethical sense, in which case, I was a 14 year old with a modem. I downloaded contraband just like the rest of the kiddies. I'm sure I called people names, too, and lied about being 18 to join adult boards.

Hi Trev,

Can I borrow 'A1200/Blizzard1260/SCSI-IV/Z4/MediatorZIV/Deneb/Voodoo3/VT4000/CatweaselMk4' please? :-)

Rude!

[Rudei]

This thread is hilarious - AlexH wins by a mile :-)
I also thought 3rd base was feeding the horse!

Rude!

[skurk]

Disclaimer: This all happened a long time ago.

I remember reading about someone building a sampler connected to the joystick port.  So, in my ignorance and lack of technical knowledge, I hardwired a microphone to the joystick port (tried various pins), started Audio Master and *puff* out came the blue smoke of death.

I also gave the same computer some serious beating after coding for hours (without saving) followed by the beloved guru meditation.  Oh, the anger...

And for a while the Agnus overheated all the time.  Solved it with a home made fan (disk drive motor and some cardboard) to keep it cool.  The motor was just balanced on top of the Agnus with the wires hanging loose inside the miggy.  Amazingly no shorts, and it was just enough cooling to keep it stable.

She survived everything and is still in my posession. :-)

[hayashi]

Up to now, most of the things I've done with my A500+(s) have been bad

When I first got an A500+, it gave me a green screen of death when I booted it. Except I didn't know this because for some reason I'd decided that the MONO output was actually colour output (resulting in it being a green screen of death).

Dad and I opened it up to find out why, finding a lot of what seemed to be verdigris (battery leakage?) all over the motherboard. In attempting to clean the chips, I managed to remove some of the metal contacts in Gary's socket, probably make the situation far worse, and what we ended up with was an Amiga that didn't even turn on properly.

So, I'm now on my second A500+... and, using the stack of cover disks that came with the first one, I managed to total 2 floppy drives before I realised that many of the cover disks were so degraded that they were destroying the drives. I also managed to total most of the Workbench disk copies that also came with it, including the original, mostly by trying to write to the already barely readable disks... one of the disks died because I had the A500+ too close to a wall and accidentally pushed the eject button into the wall while the disk was being accessed.

However, I now have a working floppy disk (I use one of the dead ones, stripped so I can spin it manually, to check disks for catastrophic damage), a working copy of Workbench, and my Amiga appears to be happy and not hold a grudge against me for being such a Mexican Bee Man to start with...

[amigadave]

The worst thing I have done with my Amiga(s) is not use them enough.  I have neglected them for too long in the past, but I am trying to make up for that over the last two years.

Other than that, the worst thing I have done is to break, or bend a couple pins when removing peripherals to work on something.

And lastly, I am guilty of buying more Amiga gear than I could possibly use, but I have made up for that by teaching some of the neighborhood kids how computers work with many of my Amigas set up.