Jose wrote:
Why not let people on a low budget have the chance to get the Amiga, or Amiga board they haven't been able to put their hands on all these years
Let me tell you my Amiga story.
For years I was working on customizing the snot out of my Amiga system. I wrote custom scripts and small programs that made linux geeks drool over. I helped Martin "Mason" Mertz build some of the extension to his glow icon collection. I helped with the debugging of Eve (text editor) and even helped write an ARexx web server. I had created custom image sets for MUI. My icon package I was working on made it to almost 1283 custom icons (A complete set of GlowIcons w/o the extremely ugly shadows). I had seveal backdrops I created along with tutorials. My setup was a 4000D converted to an Elbox Power Tower. Inside I had two high density floppy drives, 40GB hard drive, the latest Picasso-IV, the latest Concierto, the last of the Phase5 CSPPCs (060/50 604/233) with 128MB memory. I had a VLab, an Ariadne II, and an X-Surf. It was a very pimp setup that cost me almost 4000 total setup (I still have the 22" true flat CRT monitor and the Altec Lansing ACS45 speakers). One day when tweaking something on the ARexx web server I smelled smoke. Four months later I lost the cushiest jobs I ever had (webmaster working for Gateway.com). I was scrounging all the money I could trying to raise a child and a cheating x-wife to get the computer system fixed. Soon after, I lost my job in the midst of the dissolution of marriage. I was making 40,000+ a year only to turn around and be in debt up to my ankles after diving in head first. That was in the middle of June 1999 that I've been fighting to get a real working Amiga again. I've since piecemealed PCs together from thrown away computer systems, or received from donations due to services I've performed on their computers. Still struggling to find even a decent job after four years, I'm back in school and only working part time. Through all this, I've been doing everything I can to get my hands on a working Amiga again.
Here's a screenshot of my Amiga when it was working. This shot is sporting one of the ten different "themes" I had been working on. The site
detailing my work has been archived and left in its unaltered form on the RequestFocus.com web site.
Anyway, that's my Amiga story... So who wants to know what really happened to Jim Collas and his reasons for the abrupt ending of his Amiga career? I think there's only five other people who know the truth behind it. :-o
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