What is the most difficult thing on the Amiga?

[ElPolloDiabl]

Hi, What would you consider the most difficult thing on the Amiga from a personal perspective?

[lsmart]

Hi, What would you consider the most difficult thing on the Amiga from a personal perspective?

You mean, like, watching Blue Ray discs?

[zipper]

Selling any piece of my gear - last time done it about '97.

[dammy]

Hi, What would you consider the most difficult thing on the Amiga from a personal perspective?

Modern/popular games.  That horse left the barn nearly two decades ago.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Okay, I actually meant more like setting up the internet or programming, but I wanted to be general so I could get some personal experiences.

For me internet was a breeze so were hardware expansions, I never took the risk of buying some new fangled hardware.
I did have a lot of trouble going from ROM 1.3 to 2.04 and up it was years before I later got Relokick.
It also took me a while before I got a hard drive too, they were unbelievably expensive.

[Crom00]

The flicker...
I think the flickering screen is the single biggest wrecking ball to hit the Amiga. Why? well I remember seeing the A4000 setup next to a PC and Mac display in NYC years ago. It was sad and funny to watch folks using the A4000 and saying thing's like "what the f*ck is up with this flicker" lol... 4 folks said the same thing...

How are you going to attract new users with a flickering display like that. Shows how out of touch Commodore were. Hey Let's remove the flicker fixer chip to validate to the outdated technological claims our competitors are making.

[mousehouse]

Agreed... the flicker of the screen in any decent resolution was a nightmare... still is btw. If the FF of the A3000 was too expensive they should have included a onboard RTG solution based on the ET4000 or something, they must have been able to hack something together.

Dave Haynie interview in which he talks on the A3000+ / A4000: http://landley.net/history/mirror/commodore/haynie.html)

[mfletcher]

Id say a completely easy way to partition and use large hard drives.
And networking.

[Franko]

For me it's been the disassembling of most of my original Amiga software in order to bug fix or improve upon it.

Using ReSource V6, you can with a lot of patience and time, disassemble all your Amiga software into source code. Then with even more patience and time you can study the source code make improvements,fix bugs or add new features. Then reassemble and you have a new & improved version of whatever.

Most of the software I use on a daily basis on my Amiga, eg: DirWork, SampleZ and almost all files in the C: dir have been improved upon, bug fixed or optimized in some way.

It took a long, long time to do, but it was well worth it in the end...

[Buzzfuzz]

Well I'd go for Amiga's with old batteries, Ni/Cd.
Fixing the battery area after leaking, that is such a pain in the *** to clean and repair, if it can be done at all :furious:
If they had put button cells on them, we wouldn't have much problems with them.

[Tripitaka]

Hi, What would you consider the most difficult thing on the Amiga from a personal perspective?

Fitting a hamster into the floppy drive! Damn things get stuck every time.

[Tripitaka]

Okay, that was a joke, I don't shove hamsters in the drive. To answer the question properly I would have to say: The cost!
Or rather, justifying the cost. We all know this issue far too well I should think..... so 'nuff said from me.

[Tenacious]

Hi, What would you consider the most difficult thing on the Amiga from a personal perspective?

Longevity wise, I would point out the mouse and keyboard.  Roller ball mice are notorious regardless of who made them.  I prefer optical trackballs, anyway.

I love the Amiga's keyboard, the deeper finger wells to mark the F and J keys.  It has all the keys I need and no extra fluff that has no function.  I wish Commodore had made them as bullet proof as IBM made the original keyboard for the 5150.  I have a few Keyra adapters, they work well enough I suppose.

I have no other complaints.  Despite it's limitations with ever changing file and web standards (PDFs, Flash, CSS, etc) , Amiga OS is far and away my favorite OS.

[TheGoose]

The battery acid damage at the bottom of my A3000D is currently my most "Difficult" thing for me. Thanks for the outlet....

It mocks me with a blue color !

[marcfrick2112]

The most difficult thing.... getting everything to work

What I would love is some type of 'automatic update' option for AOS 3.1-3.9 (and beyond?) But with full user control. Something that would check a knowledge base to make sure libs, handlers, commands, etc. are OK and up-to-date... It's rough to set up a 'new' Amiga system.....