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From my work it’s become very obvious that people have wildly varying innate, inbuilt levels of sensitivity to things like confrontation, criticism etc etc. You were able, with your own variables and starting point, to accept what you needed to in order to be happy. Please don’t assume that we are all coming from the same starting point. |
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Right, this is fairly off topic, apologies for that.
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That said, I sometimes wonder if the way that society at large presents certain problems might not hinder people who suffer from say minority stress. What I’m getting at is controversial perhaps, but being told by your peers that what you go through is bad/oppressive (even though it’s actually correct) might just hinder your ability to cope. Case in point, I was taught that some people finding me weird or strange or less in some way is more or less how people are/life is - some people are nice, some are not and some things in life are ‘fair’ and others are not. And thus, I had to learn how to cope. On the other hand, societies stand on how evil mistreatment of minorities is (while very much accurate!), might just reinforce feelings of how unjust any such treatment you* received is (Which, IMHO, may contribute to your levels of stress/depression/etc). It’s a complex issue because you’re not going to get rid of unreasonable people, so what do you do? *) not you personally, but rather someone having these problems. Anyway, I think I’ve cluttered up this thread enough now, so if you’d like to talk more about this, let’s either PM or make an off topic thread about it. |
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The only thing I would say is that, in my experience (and I stress this is just the people I have worked with) aside from a small percentage of people we call the “invulnerable”, people generally don’t cope with trauma/hardship/discrimination. Heavy scars being made are the normal thing, at least how I have seen it, and this is whether the abuse is “called out” or not. I’m just trying to fix the resultant mess, and through that, hopefully fix myself at the same time. Happy for you to PM me at any point |
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15 August 2018, 12:08 | #84 |
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For me it is still WHDload.
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15 August 2018, 12:29 | #85 |
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I know many wont agree but after I try something under emulation it blows my mind when I run it on real hw and see it on CRT if I hear floppy its even better
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15 August 2018, 16:28 | #86 |
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I completely agree. I prefer playing Amiga games on a CRT and from floppy disks. For me there is great satisfaction popping in physical media and hearing all the clicks and whirrs that go along with it.
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15 August 2018, 17:50 | #87 |
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I haven’t CRT’d yet.
I’m using a cheap LCD TV. I was AMAZED that the hi-res modes don’t flicker anymore??? I would have killed for that in the early 90’s. |
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There is an old term for this: "Amiga persecution complex" |
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15 August 2018, 22:41 | #89 | |
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Simple two player party games could easily draw a layman in, SWOS or what have you. No one is gonna be down on us for using Amiga’s any more |
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17 August 2018, 13:35 | #90 |
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For years i was occasionally taunted for saying 'amigas are better than PCs' during high school.
When I first said it in 94, as far as the PCs the average family owned, it was true! I remember playing Dune on a friends fathers PC and being aghast at the god awful sound. Sure, at this point the cutting edge could do a lot better, but the cutting edge just wasn't representative of what people actually owned. The insanely rapid development of PCs and the 'a computer in every home' win 95 craze, however, meant that this claim very very quickly looked ridiculous. |
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Yeah, WHDLoad is magic. I love how I can run a clean OS3.1 (or even 1.3) temporarily with WHDLoad, just booting off from a drawer - perfect for programs that for whatever reason don't run so well with thoroughly hacked&patched OS3.9
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I got a load of preinstalled games and most of them were 2007/2013 versions, some didn’t work on my fast, full of RAM 68000 machine and I thought “crap, well that’s that.” Crashes, loading saving issues, etc. NOAUTOVEC and the like kinda helped on some but not on all. But, looking on the WHDLoad webpage (which looks gloriously 1997 by the way, don’t ever change the look!) there’s lots of new installs available that let us 68000 users join the party and often get quit key support too. It feels really nice to be catered for like that. |
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What blows my mind about using an Amiga in 2018 is the fact that some people use only Amigas as their main desktop computer, saying that it fulfills all their daily tasks. I wonder how limited their daily tasks on the computer are, then... And the people that talk about all the music, video editing and modern surfing you can do on an Amiga. If you don't care about fidelity, VSTs, complex DSP effects, high resolution video, modern editing effects, modern compression, fast frame rates, modern websites which use html5 and javascript, modern gaming, modern communication programs, fast 3D graphics etc, then yes I can understand you. At least I'm open-minded enough to enjoy modern technology.
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And the VSTs are running on the Amiga itself?
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22 August 2018, 17:46 | #96 |
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Hahaha no!
I do have every interesting software instrument and effect that can run on a 68000 though. And also use assembly code to turn on Paula’s channel AM. My favourite is probably sonic arranger, it does crazy stuff. |
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Was not thinking about the old 680x0 Amigas here, but the new tower versions that aren't made by Commodore. If someone were to use an Amiga as their main computer, it would probably be one of these. Naturally an old 680x0 Amiga won't have the processing power to do VSTs.
Paula's AM/FM synthesis is so limited that it's not appealing to me at all. Not to mention that it needs a whole dedicated channel to operate, which is a costly sacrifice. |
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Yeah it seems no one else cares.
I love AM, Paula sounds kinda similar to the Kawai K1. And due to having other instruments, I don’t mind it’s use as a monophonic/duophonic sound source. Made some cool stuff by ring modulating drum tracks with some waves, or doing AM with long ominous low bit rate pads, very sci fi sounding. I am like a mad f***int scientist though. |
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No, seriously, Paula is a musical instrument. Use it/her if you want to have the Paula sound in your music. There is no reason to use her for everything and pretend that no better synthesizer has been conceived in the past 33 years... |
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Anyways, the sample is pretty much everything in Paula-based music. Last edited by 8bitbubsy; 23 August 2018 at 10:56. Reason: typos |
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