The Amiga has defeated me

[Lurch]

Dear Amiga,

Well after having some luck in the beginning it's been all down hill.

Battling with my Indivision ECS was the start of the bad luck, old hardware rejecting the new transplant maybe.  

No matter what I buy or have done for you, you have blocked me every time. All I longed for is a good game of ruff'n'tumble on real hardware.

We started off great guns didn't we, I felt you cared. I bought you some amazing things yet in the end it was for nothing.

We had some good times though, many a Lemming was saved, many a bad guy shot, and the occasional playing around with say.

Laughing as you spoke to me in some strange robotic voice.

Many late nights spent building power stations and residential zones together.

Good times, good times.

However there have been many many more horrors that had me beating my head on the table, stuff that has been out of my control too which is the most annoying thing.

Nothing like components with a wonderful smokey smell in the morning.

The list goes on, so enough is enough, I think you are telling me it's not meant to be

So Amiga I tip my hat to you, retro gaming goodness will have to be WinUAE as my funds can't afford to keep fixing stuff.

A shame as I have a couple more gifts coming for you.

I'm not sure where we go from here, maybe I should box you up and think about it.

Or should I clean you up and salvage what I can then pass you on to someone else.

I shall go sit in the corner now, or maybe go for a walk. I can't look at you right now.

Lurch

[AmmoJammo]

so what's actually wrong with it?

[partycentralpartygirl]

so what's actually wrong with it?

The Amiga is a female after all. Maybe she doesn't want to tell him what the problem is, insisting that he figure it out himself.

[Lurch]

Old board has a display problem flicks a lot and I can see a crack near the Denise chip.

New board kills expansion cards, has guru errors a lot, has recoverable errors a lot... etc etc.

Indivision ECS has a lines running horizontal down the screen and the display shakes/is fuzzy, have tested it in a couple of Amigas still the same thing.

Sent the Indi back to Amigakit under RMA. Still under warranty.

So my option would be to find a 100% working A500 with 2MB chip RAM and start again. Or I could sell up and maybe an FPGA arcade might be something I could afford, or a mini mig.

Have an IDE board from Mika coming and a bid on a accelerator card which I'm not sure what to do with.

Might change my mind again, it's a love hate relationship at the moment :-)

[Lurch]

The Amiga is a female after all. Maybe she doesn't want to tell him what the problem is, insisting that he figure it out himself.

If I had said that I'd be told off :-)

[magnetic]

Lurch

Dont go UAE man there is no soul there. Nothing like a real amiga! Dont forget this gear is over 20 years old now, get a reliable board. I have many amigas running for years no problems.. a500 and a2000 very easy to fix usually.

[Lurch]

Know what you mean magnetic, think I just need some space from it for awhile and come back to it with a clear head :-)

[Damion]

Amiga purgatory is no fun, spent plenty of time there myself. (Including a few "magic smoke" moments, DOH!) Delfina and DENEB were my two last nasty experiences - took almost a year off without touching the computers, though I did eventually get the Delfina working almost perfectly. I was also getting tired of the subtle WHDLoad problems on the '060 cards.

For now I'm keeping it simple. I just put together a C= A1200 I had stashed away, installed a GVP '030, IDE-Fix Express, and new 80GB notebook drive. Only waiting on the NOS 20" Sony PVM I bought to show up so I can start playing some games. Hopefully the computer doesn't self destruct in the meantime.

[slayer]

Get yourself another Amiga?

I'm just in the process of getting all my Amiga MBs fixed. I done 4 x A4000 last month and I'm taking another 4 up to Anthony at the end of this month once I do all 12 I'll start on my A3000 series :drink:

[smerf]

Hi,

Know what you mean, hang in there, move away from it for a while until you get the urge again.

I get ticked off at my Amiga, you know they are just like a women, one moment they make you happy, the next hell have no fury like a scorned Amiga or women.

When my Amiga upsets me, I go and trot off to Amiga Forever, and just like most plastic women, Amiga Forever is always ready to perform, and play, as a matter of fact it out does all the original Amiga's, Sometimes it perfoms so good that it takes all the fun out of what the original Amiga was about, but at least it not a pretend to be Amiga like the Mac.

Hang in there and remember just like a women the Amiga will return

smerf

[partycentralpartygirl]

If I had said that I'd be told off :-)

Ha! I have more trouble with other females than I do with my male friends. I don't understand women myself.

[motrucker]

I too, feel for you. But hang in there - the problem will eventually make itself known.

[kvasir]

When my Amiga upsets me, I go and trot off to Amiga Forever, and just like most plastic women, Amiga Forever is always ready to perform, and play, as a matter of fact it out does all the original Amiga's, Sometimes it perfoms so good that it takes all the fun out of what the original Amiga was about, but at least it not a pretend to be Amiga like the Mac.

Hahaha! :-D Same probs with touchy hardware here, to the point that my wife (jokingly) tapes tampons to the Amiga's case whenenver she hears me cussing at it too much. Scary thing is it's actually worked....

[bbond007]

Or should I clean you up and salvage what I can then pass you on to someone else.

I shall go sit in the corner now, or maybe go for a walk. I can't look at you right now.

Lurch

Commodore stuff never had the best quality control when it was NEW and then got worse as went on and then came Escom...

all this stuff is aging getting stuff like caps start to fail, plastic parts get brittle, some soldering can crack, etc...


My a-power PS broke the other day and so now i need to use this stupid "bigfoot" thing. (sh)it happens.

If you decide to sell your stuff maybe you could get the new FPGAarcade or even an older 1.1 Minimig (although I'd suggest finding which with an ARM controller)

I have to say, and I know some won't agree, but the Minimig BETTER than the real thing...

[bbond007]

Old board has a display problem flicks a lot and I can see a crack near the Denise chip.

Take the board out and start asking around and see if you can find a local shop (or maybe just some dude) and have the crack fixed under a scope and maybe look for additional cracks... That is easily solved...

I used to work with a guy who would have done that for some beer or something...