What should i buy as my christmas present?

[smerf]

Hi,

@Amigadave,

Never said how long ago or how I got my PPC card or A1200. This is just one of those projects that is still in work

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@persia,

Are you trying to say that you own a MAC!!!
God you are beginning to sound like Wayne, who talks with a southren nasal accent

smerf

[Gulliver]

Well thinking it a bit more, i got to the last two posible choices:
2-Buy a mac mini (Maybe install Morphos) - and get a nasal accent included free of charge
4-Spend only 40 USD in expansions to make my old PC AROS capable, Amithlon capable, KXLight capable, etc

@Smerf
i am also in the long, never finishing process of towering my Amiga 1200, but i never tend to do it for one reason or another. I already bought a Lyra2, an IDEfix interface, have the accelerator, the elcheapo scandoubler, a nice new black Amiga mouse, a PC to Amiga floppy adapter with a black PC faceplate floppy, an ATX PSU with an Amiga converter cable, a PCMCIA ethernet card, and a few of oldies goldies that i enjoyed when young (digiview, midi interface, gvp dss+,ect).

@Alexh
I looked through freescale 68040 datasheets to do the 060 upgrade, with the two empty sockets and 3.3volts from my atx psu, but then the doc showed it had too many GND and VCC pins in that specific datasheet. So soldering two pins at first, wasnt a big issue for me, but then i saw the document, and i relized i had to solder like 30, which is a no goer for my skills, and i was a bit afraid of screwing my accelerator in the process.

[persia]

Everybody around here used to speak with a nasal accent, but that's changing now, people who live in the city are slowly becoming less nasal.  There are various explanations for it.  Some say the nasal accent was really just a way of talking that kept the flies out of the mouth and now that we are mainly urbanites there's no longer need for that.  if you look at the third and fourth generation farmers, you'll notice the nasal accent also corresponds to the complete lack of lip movement, so I think there's likely a relationship.

At any rate I'm not sure why Gulliver thought that the Mac would appear to country folk more, as most of the Mac stores seems to be in bigger cities or whether he was just a snob trying to make fun of rural people (We Amigans are by definition elitists), but the comment really made no sense.

I have friends who run a farm to the west of Dubbo, hot dry country bordering on the outback.  It's hard, backbreaking work, if Gulliver spent a few days working with them maybe he's be less disdaining of people who live in rural areas.  My guess is he wouldn't last half a day trying to keep up with these "nasal speakers" he thinks are funny.

What exactly is a "nasal accent"? Nasality is a feature of resonance, not pronunciation.

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moto

[koshman]

I think it was actually smerf who made that remark.

[TheGoose]

2 - Buy a mac mini (Maybe install Morphos) -THIS IS YOUR WINNER

Do not do 5 !

[Ruud]

I'd go for the mac mini option myself.  That's what I've settled on, and that's after buying a Sam and doing the whole tower up an A1200 thing!

[platon42]

What should i buy as my christmas present?

The thing is that i have 300 USD burning a hole in my pocket, and are in the fate of becoming my Christmas gift.
So basically i am having some problems on deciding where should that money be spent. I have narrowed down the  choices to:

1-Buy a mediator for my 040 Amiga 1200
2-Buy a mac mini (Maybe install Morphos)
3-Buy a Power Mac G4 (Double mirrored drive) (and maybe install Morphos for it when available)
4-Spend only 40 USD in expansions to make my old PC AROS capable
5-Sell my Amiga+accelerator+miggy stuff to buy a SAM (This option is the most underrated by me)
6-Something else

What would you do?

If you'd really want to stick with your Amiga, a Deneb USB card probably offers the most flexibility to add cheap hardware that you can use with any computer later.

[skurk]

5-Sell my Amiga+accelerator+miggy stuff to buy a SAM (This option is the most underrated by me)

I would do that in a heartbeat.  Again.

[recidivist]

@platon42

"If you'd really want to stick with your Amiga, a Deneb USB card probably offers the most flexibility to add cheap hardware that you can use with any computer later."

A very good bit of advice.

Thank you .

We all should keep in mind that just about  anything except CPU upgrades can use USB with the proper driver.
 I've been thinking of usb for my classics but then the money went for a Mac mini G4-and now we hear   MorphOS will soon be  out for the Powermac G4 I already had.

[koshman]

A graphics card over USB would be nice. There would be no need for PCI anymore

[Karlos]

A graphics card over USB would be nice. There would be no need for PCI anymore

USB graphics cards do exist. I've seen them for laptops. I can't imagine they are very good, somehow.

[tone007]

USB graphics cards do exist. I've seen them for laptops. I can't imagine they are very good, somehow.

They're USB2.0 only I believe so the speed isn't horrible, and they work well for 2D stuff like presentations and web browsing.  I wouldn't try playing any games on them though.

[koshman]

Yes, sure they exist, but unfortunately not for classic Amigas

[tone007]

True, even if someone wrote a driver, I doubt a classic Amiga would have the horsepower to run the thing.

[Gulliver]

@persia
It was a simple and innocent joke aimed at @smerf, not related to mocking farmers, only meant for what he said previously. I am sorry you missunderstood it, and got hurt in the process.

@platon42
I dont like the subwayUSB interface, but i would have bought a deneb without hesitating. The problem is that  it only works on zorro amigas. And a zorro A1200 busboard, as cheap as it may seem, due to the excesive shipping charges i witnessed generally from european postal services, means like 140 USD and then i would have to buy/hack an ATX psu(more $) and then buy the deneb (even more $)!.
I totally agree a deneb is a cool buy, but then it comes to much more $$$ than its price, as i have explained (I wish i had an A4000!).