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19 March 2023, 03:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Columbus, OH/USA
Posts: 11
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I'm baaaack!! (Or: a new hello from an old user)
Hi guys!
It's been forever since I submitted anything, and only then my count was < 10, so I felt it only right to re-introduce myself   Where to begin, where to begin... I've been a Commodore user and (rabid) fan since 1982, with my VIC-20. I bought my first Amiga in 1986, brand-new. I remember it well... the Amiga, monitor and an Epson JX80 color printer were $700 each, plus about $700 worth of software. Cqme to a total of roughly $3000. in 1986 dollars. I'll let that sink in for a few beats. I have a lifetime subscription to AmigaForever, but for me, emulation just doesn't do anyting justice. While on my last federal contract, I helped out RHN with tons of VMs for deployment with my SATCOM software... and I never could get all the nuances right. SO, I'm back to a real Amiga. I have an Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM, with KS 1.3 in ROM, and sadly only one internal floppy. I'm still looking for a 1010 drive or a GoTek, and a decently-sized memory expansion for the left sidecar. Why did I revert to my college days, you ask? There's a simple answer: programming used to be fun. I started developing because of my Amiga. I had fully intended to work in the Amiga development field after graduation. Hell, I wrote a very primitive speech recognition system for my beloved Amiga 1000 in college, to help my anthropology prof on her way to a PhD. Sadly, that system doesn't exist anymore thanks to an overnight compile during a lightning storm.  I just want development to be fun again. That's all. 
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19 March 2023, 06:24
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HOL/FTP busy bee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 31,608
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Welcome back Stan
 Enjoy your stay, but please don't start singing 
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19 March 2023, 11:22
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MI clan prevails
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Posts: 1,443
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But he's Amiga's biggest fan. It is Stan!
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19 March 2023, 11:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Italy
Age: 49
Posts: 2,942
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Welcome to the forum again !
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19 March 2023, 16:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Columbus, OH/USA
Posts: 11
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19 March 2023, 16:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,600
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Welcome back
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19 March 2023, 22:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Sweden
Age: 50
Posts: 2,953
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Nice, welcome back Stan
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12 April 2023, 08:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Eugene,Oregon,USA
Posts: 59
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I have been a member for awhile but figured this is the best place to try:
I use AmiKitXE and had MainActor installed and working. Then I installed more software and got a disk full. Then I was not able to run the program ? The first time, I installed the program first then the key in l: and read the docs so reversed the order and still nothing. I don't remember where I got the program but have had a long time. I have the original install on my 4 gig ultra wide scsi that came out of my 3000 when I traded it but turned very bad. I may have got the current install media from my former Amiga club president who lost every thing in a wild fire in Santa Rosa California but had a lot of his Amiga stuff in a storage building so gave his stuff to me. One of the item was a "STILL in the shipping boX" to Asha Develder aka Lady Asha from the bbs/telnet/Starship Amiga-Compuserve days. As for me, I am the founder of AmiWest and shortly after that, I updated Carl Sassenraths' 3000-that had the source code to REBOL-to a 060 with gcard updated SAS and more memory. Bo aka amicom used it for awhile and then Holger aka Miami, showed up and he got it and last I heard he had it when REBOL closed. |
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12 April 2023, 08:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Eugene,Oregon,USA
Posts: 59
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12 April 2023, 08:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: oslo/norway
Posts: 1,607
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Always nice to hear people coming back. It is hard to stay away from the Amiga to long
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12 April 2023, 11:00
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This cat is no more
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: FRANCE
Age: 52
Posts: 8,200
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welcome back.
If you want to code stuff, I suggest you develop on Windows using a modern environment, test on emulator (with cycle exact!) and then you can enjoy your productions on a real machine. |
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12 April 2023, 20:00
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Ex nihilo nihil
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: CH
Posts: 4,886
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Not sure you are this one
Anyway, welcome back, Stan the (Amiga) Man... 
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13 April 2023, 00:33
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cheeky scoundrel
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands
Age: 42
Posts: 6,919
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