Hi community!

[SamuraiCrow]

@Gilthanaz

You said your '030 accelerator can't address more than 8 MiB of RAM.  Some accelerators will address memory independently of the internal bus of the A1200 and can therefore access more than 8 Megs while still allowing the use of the PCMCIA slot.

I've got a 64-Meg SIMM card waiting to go into my Blizzard 1230.  The ACA series of '030 cards are even better in some ways since they use faster memory that comes built-in to the accelerator.  They come with 64 Megs hard-wired to the accelerator.

[Nlandas]

Nope. Grammar is spelt grammer. See above.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/group.php?groupid=50

LOL! Yes, it's on the Internetz so it must be correct. LOL!

We'll have to notify Webster's that they got it wrong.  8^D

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grammar

Seriously, though - his English is fine. He has no reason worry about it one bit, you should see how bad/nonexistent my German is.

[Gilthanaz]

Seriously, though - his English is fine. He has no reason worry about it one bit, you should see how bad/nonexistent my German is.

Thank you, fine Sir I shall inform you that I've learned all me english from scotsmen on the internet. I did not have any real english courses at school, but had internet when I was still pretty young; That caused me to find the wonders of IRC and hang out in a newbie channel where - seriously - people taught me english basically by linking pictures to words I did not know, and after I had acquired quite some vocabulary, correct my grammar over and over again

Later on, when VOIP came up with the first early tools, the same people went on voice chats with me to correct my pronounciation. The funny side effect is, that they were irish, scotsmen, aussies, british, americans (US) and some other countries - the outcome is that I can talk in several slangs now

And the part I like best is, that out of hundreds of people, I got the job of my dreams simply because I knew all the necessary technical stuff, but primarily because my english was the best XD Then again, thats not so great given that like, 90% of the people in this country can't even ask for directions to the bathroom without using international sign language and the must-go-potty-dance

In case someone did not notice yet: I really like to write on forums if I feel welcome, and for some weird reason I feel right at home here...

- Gil

[Kesa]

I can say slut and s**t in German. Both very useful words to know. Admittedly it make meeting new Germans somewhat awkward...

I also know thankyou and left.

[Franko]

I can say slut and s**t in German. Both very useful words to know. Admittedly it make meeting new Germans somewhat awkward...

I also know thankyou and left.

DON'T GO ON HOLIDAY TO GERMANY KESA... :eek: You'll start bloody World War III... :nervous:

German Native: Da Hello, Howz arze zyou dooinks...

Kesa:G'day mate, I've just left Australia and I'm here for a holiday thank you, is that slut you're with your grannie, my she is as lovely as s**t...

3 Minute Warning Sounds... :eek:

[Gilthanaz]

Well, the madness beings - yesterday my first acquisitions of old computer magazines (Amiga Joker, ASM) and the first old boxed game (The Patrician) arrived, all in mint condition Also my wife found perfect protective see-through bags that I can pack the nice stuff into, and have them on display without degrading much. Of course there is also no sunlight in that room - it hurts the colors

Tomorrow.... soon..... MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH! Can't wait to unpack that A1200 ... I'am eight years old again and waiting for Santa, s'bout the same feeling :/

- Gil

[Cammy]

Heya Gil, great to see another fun and interesting Amiga user joining the forum! I love your LAN room, and I think it's awesome that your wife is into alternative gaming too, maybe if you resurrect the A500 you can serial-link it to the A1200 and play some 2-player linked games together. In any case, I think she needs her own Amiga too. :p

I'm envious of your solar panels, I sure could do with some myself!

So you're an IRC user? Have we chatted yet on IRC, I'm in all the Amiga channels on a bunch of servers, if we haven't you should drop by. There are plenty of other Amiga enthusiasts and fellow gamers still hanging around on IRC too.

Hey Franko, it's nice to finally see some photos of your A1200s. I didn't know you used a towered one as well. I love your external IDE solution, I've been trying to work out the best way to go about it on my A1200 myself.

[Franko]

Hey Franko, it's nice to finally see some photos of your A1200s. I didn't know you used a towered one as well. I love your external IDE solution, I've been trying to work out the best way to go about it on my A1200 myself.

The towered one is my pride and joy, I've posted the pics before & they've always been in my alum in my user profile with a few more...

I like to add the 4xEIDE and an external connector like that to all my spare A1200's as it come in handy for testing new HD's or CD/DVD drives first without having to open up the tower to install one...

It's very easy to do as it only requires a small cut out on the side of the Amiga or the back if you prefer and all the cables can be bought ready made from Amigakit...

That reminds me someone asked a while back for me to post some pictures of all my A1200s after I had given them the RetroBright treatment, they all came up like brand new, I'd better do that today...

PS:I've always meant to ask, I notice you use a lot of FlatsScreen LCD monitors in your vast collection, do you notice a lot of blurring with scrolling games on them, as every flatscreen I've tried have been unusable due to the blurring on them and I've never found one that I was happy with...

[Gilthanaz]

PS:I've always meant to ask, I notice you use a lot of FlatsScreen LCD monitors in your vast collection, do you notice a lot of blurring with scrolling games on them, as every flatscreen I've tried have been unusable due to the blurring on them and I've never found one that I was happy with...

The LCD/TFTs I bought in the last 18 months or so don't have that problem anymore. They have reaction times of 3 - 5ms so there can't be much of a blurr Tho, problems might arise if you run them in non-native resolutions, as the interpolation isn't that good on the cheaper models. Even on the expensive models you might get pixely artifacts and a general blurr over the whole picture..

I'am using Samsung and Hanns.G mostly, always been happy with their performance for the lower price range (the biggest one you can see is a 28" that I bought about a year ago for ~260 Euros).

Here at work i got BENQ G2420HDBL and also can not notice any blurr on native resolutions.

- Gil

[Franko]

@ Gilthanaz

I've tried just about every brand and I aint found one yet that I was happy with (they seem to get worse on the more expensive models especially Sony & Panasonic)...

The last one I tested just before christmas was a Samsung model (supposedly 2ms response time) but was blurry as hell when I tried Alien Breed on it (Alien Breed's one of the simplest ways to test for blurring during scrolling)...

Some people say I'm just too fussy, but it's the one reason why I still haven't bought a flatscreen for my living room nor for use with my Amiga's, the blurring just drives me mental. Think I'll have to stick with CRTs until someone finally fixes this problem or invents a better technology..

[Gilthanaz]

I'd go and test my screens for you, but unfortunately the A1200 will be hooked up on a CRT TV, as I dont have a ... whats the thingy name... yarr... scandoubler/deflickererer..er.

@Cammy: Which servers/channels are you hanging out? I got pretty **meeped** about majority of IRC users on the bigger networks, so I'am hosting an IRC network for myself where I hang out nowadays. Pretty alone, but I can K-Line pricks

[Cammy]

Franko, I guess I somehow never saw those pics before, but I do usually browse with images turned off in IBrowse, and selectively load images when I need to and probably just never noticed those ones. As for my LCDs, they are Vivid LCD TVs, very cheap models with very good energy star ratings, which is very important to me, and also they have a native resolution of 1366x768 so my A1200's Workbench displays perfectly without interpolation (in 4:3 mode) in HighGFX 1024x768 with the Indivision through the VGA port. They also have S-Video, Component, HDMI, Composite, and RF for video input as well as an input for sound from the Amiga while it's using VGA (PC-in, which is just a headphone/microphone jack). I have never noticed any blur, and I play Alien Breed (mainly Tower Assault) a lot. I also have my Efika (running MorphOS), my PC (running Aros and Linux), and my PS2 (running games) all hooked up to the same monitor and they look fine. I think you just have to take your Amiga with you to the shop when you test these things out sometimes, I did that with my CD32 the first time I got one. I remember LCDs used to blur terribly, but I haven't noticed much blur on the later models thankfully.

Gilthanaz, these are some of the servers and Amiga channels I hang out on:

irc.amigaworld.net #AmigaWorld,#Amiga68k
irc.efnet.net #Amiga
irc.freenode.net ##Amiga,#Aros,#MorphOS,#AmigaE
irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk #Amiga
irc.superhosts.net #Team*AMIGA

[brownb2]

the blurring just drives me mental.

Franko after seeing your insane MDF work I think you're already past this...!

[Gilthanaz]

Well, I'am here for some days now. Sooo, I'll show some pics of what has happened so far


Amiga 1200 on a rather large CRT:




And the collection of Amiga Games (Some PC Games there too, right now - they're place holders until I get my hands on Maniac Mansion, Zak Mc Kracken, Monkey Island and some other Games I'am missing in my collection.


Behold! The games I wasted my youth with, mostly:



I'am rather proud about the original Apidya ... was expensive enough, too Unfortunately it is hard to see as the protective foils reflect the flash pretty bad.. or good, depends on point of view, I guess


If you excuse me now, its time for some....




Cheers!
- Gil

[Cammy]

Looking good there, Gilthanaz! I love your game shelf setup, nice idea protecting them in plastic. I hope you find somewhere to move a few of those magazines to before they go curly. :p

As for your A1200, just a suggestion but it might look nicer if you centre the Workbench display on your screen using the Overscan Prefs (In the Prefs drawer). Also, if you don't want your Workbench desktop stuck inside a window, select "Backdrop" from the Workbench menu. Then the window will disappear and the icons will go directly onto the screen, like in other OSs. You can clean up or move around your icons, then make sure you select "Snapshot - All" from the Window menu, but make sure you have the Workbench screen selected, not another open window (because then it will snapshot that window). Snapshotting is the Amiga's way of saving the positions of windows and icons, so they always open exactly where you want them to, and if you move them by accident it won't save their position, unless you choose to Snapshot again.

[Gilthanaz]

Hi Cammy!

Thanks for the heads up! Iam aware of the snapshot method used by workbench - I kind of had no other choice but to learn to use it after I've installed roughly a hundred WHDLoad Games and wanted to sort the Icons Then, I found out I can also just switch to "View as List" and Snapshot that. Easier to find things than with all those drawer graphics

Thanks for the hint with the overscan! I'll check on that soon. However, the picture on the CRT is pretty... 'wobbly', and since its also pretty large and the serial mouse / joystick / joypad cables are very short, I get a headache and hurting eyes quite fast. So, as you suggested in some other thread, I plan on simply getting a LCD/TFT TV - that should probably fix it for me

Also, thanks for remining me on getting protective covers for the magazines - those in that shelf are "only" from 2004 - 2009 and PC magazines, but I forgot to take pictures of the magazines I bought in mostly great condition And those are "ASM" and "Amiga Joker", two of the biggest back then. I've bought the issues that have the tests for my favourite games in them

Also, I found my first two computer magazines, from 1989. They're in great condition as well, I shall take care that they end up in protective covers and in some place where people can look at them.

Hm, my place is slowly transforming into a mix of computer museum and zoo ^^

Thanks,
- G