Very geeky things you did

[ancalimon]

Here I go:

Many many years ago I was trying to play Larry5. One disk had checksum errors in some places and I got another set of disks from somewhere. It too had checksum errors but on different places. and I edited the binaries of them using Filemaster and created a working copy by copying the proper checksums over each other. I felt like a could take over the world after it worked

[Thorham]

I once had an Alienbreed disk which had some crap on it after spilling something over it. After a few years I wanted to play it again, and guess what, it didn't work (duh). So I just cleaned of the disk with water and tried to copy it with x-copy. Whenever some tracks were read in properly, I would just copy them. I then repeated this until the whole disk was copied. And guess what, it worked

[keropi]

I used GameWizard PRO to register Scitech Display Doctor 5.3 , and some times I preffered computing than sex. yes, that's right. and with nice girls too...

[Graham Humphrey]

Keropi wins, surely no-one can top that

[AliasXZ]

all my geeky stuff has nothing to do with Amiga's unfortunatly Ive only started messing with Amiga's this year, when i owned one back when I was about 6 I only played games that my uncle got from car boot sales (copies) lol - I have copied games that had bad sectors back in the day, but I think the most geeky thing ive done is used an old Xbox as a standard pc and using it to compile things for my main system.

The most geeky thing with Amiga's so far is replacing the memory in my A600 when it wouldn't kick up

[keropi]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Keropi wins, surely no-one can top that

the gamewizard thingie, or the spicy thingie?

[Hungry Horace]

er... learning to hack up bloodwych, swos, mega-lo-mania, coding AMOS games and editors, making multiplayer amiga games online playable, use IRC, visit EAB every day.....

the list is endless!

[kriz]

Hanging out at Eab ?

[davideo]

I wrote and sold software for the UK101 and BBC B at a later date

My intention was to carry on with the Amiga but most stuff I've created to date was for my own use only

I'm now getting back into the Amiga after getting hold of Winuae

Also still got a few real Amigas kicking about though.

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by keropi

the gamewizard thingie, or the spicy thingie?

Of course, obviously I meant the GameWizard thing

[Zetr0]

I make a point to do something very geeky every day...

[Graham Humphrey]

Visiting EAB? I guess that is geeky really

Also, I was searching through my old posts (geeky in itself) and it seems (though I'm not so sad to check this properly) I've posted every single day since 20th March last year

Now THAT'S geeky

[DoogUK]

about 5 years ago a real expensive motherboard of mine died, i had a thought of firing up a motherboard, swapping the bios after post with the dead motherboard bios and reflashing it ...and it worked!

A geeky thought paid off.

[NLS]

Only AMIGA related geeky things:

- We were trying to upgrade my (second) A500 to 512 extra KB RAM (switchable chip/fast) when we broke a pin of one of the RAM chips - CLEAN from the chip packaging! Well... we used a broken needle and managed to solder it in place WITHOUT destroying the chip - still works last time I checked...

- I was using MultiUser FileSystem in my A4000/040 since day one (with all the problems I had to face, with managing to lock myself out once or twice etc.)... and I was the only person using the computer.

- I once used CBM64 emulator, to run... Spectrum emulator (yes exists for CBM64, but is for Spectrum BASIC only) and wrote a program I found in a magazine. (in fact I've done the same with WinUAE, running 3 emulators one inside the other)

(to many to number but those three just came to me now)

[Merlin]

.... All these posts and not one mention of using a plaster to fix your glasses, or a top pocket full of pens, or having Star Trek themes on your Workbench?

This thread doesn't read like serious geekmanship......shame on you all...

PMSL

Merlin

[DoogUK]

Admits to having the Enterprise class D as my screensaver

[NLS]

never did any of those

but I did try once a piece of software that makes PocketPC look like a tricorder (in fact look like Star Trek bridge console but anyway) - didn't like it

[Eclipse]

On an original A600,
Copying disk 4 of F1GP to RAM (it had RAM expansion) and relabeling the RAM to F1GP-4 (or whatever it was).
Then after a while I changed the SS-Sequence of disk 2 so that it asked for the disk, copied it and relabled it for you.

I then did this with nearly every game that you could alter the SS-Sequence on.

[dlfrsilver]

i used to got a pre-version of Risky Woods (yes the one with the demo thingy outro), and this bitch was on disks which had problems, and guess what it acted like a protection !! i was unable to copy them lol ! anyway, i got it back later in the tosec

[DigitalQuirk]

Back in the day, my Workbench 1.3 startup screen on my Amiga 500 showed a colour-cycled picture of the Enterprise flying through space as one of the first things that it did, and when the startup sequence finished, I had the Amiga say to me, "Welcome to Amiga."

I only used television to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. After each episode, I connected to BBS's with my 2400 baud modem and participated in the FidoNet and WorldNet Star Trek discussions, where we usually nit-picked the latest episode we just watched.

When I migrated to OS/2 Warp 3 (post-Amiga), I replaced all the event sounds with those from ST:TNG.

All through school, I always carried with me at least one floppy disk in my binder...just in case I needed it.

I own (and wear) two different styles of Casio calculator watches.



I made my son an "Evil Robot" costume for Halloween: