16 June 2021, 10:03 | #1 |
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Hello from Czechia
Hi all,
(disclaimer: English is not my native lang) ... after a looong break from anything Amiga-related (I had an A500 in my childhood) I slowly began to acquire some A500 boards on eBay and elsewhere 5 years ago. Due to recent moving I was unable to get a single A500 fully working with nice video output, so this year will (hopefully) be my comeback to the Amiga world. Why not AGA? Well, I don't think my limited time would allow me to concentrate on more than my beloved A500 machine, and I also like the limitations of OCS/ECS. I think that's what makes it somehow special I hope to find answers here to my new A500 problems like a parts list, because I will have to re-cap some boards and I also found a damaged resistor on one of my rev6a. BTW I was shocked how expensive the A500 boards are on eBay nowadays! From 50 EUR (5 years ago) to at least 150 EUR today... That's just sick, don't you think? |
16 June 2021, 10:36 | #2 |
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Hello.
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16 June 2021, 10:44 | #3 |
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Hi Amarok, welcome to EAB. Yes, Amiga prices are crazy at the moment.
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16 June 2021, 16:20 | #4 |
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Many of us moved to different emulation - form RPi to MiSTer FPGA due to prices getting higher and old machines slowly dying off...
BTW, welcome to EAB. Is Czechia Czech Republic?? |
16 June 2021, 16:32 | #5 |
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Hi and thanks.
Yes, Czechia short for Czech Republic. The land of beer :-D I don't like emulation much, but at FPGA seems to be a good alternative. Better HW simulation than SW emulation... |
16 June 2021, 16:34 | #6 |
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Welcome from a long-time emulation user
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16 June 2021, 16:49 | #7 |
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16 June 2021, 17:07 | #8 |
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Welcome, I love both forms really. Emulation is super flexible, but I do enjoy the touch of real hardware. My kids also love putting the disks into the drives. I think they miss something they never had. He He
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16 June 2021, 17:28 | #9 | |
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It's quite funny that people today use sound emulation in their GoTek drives, to hear the sound of a floppy drive |
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16 June 2021, 17:42 | #10 |
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Most Amiga emulation, but i tried also other computer and console systems, just for fun
Anyway i always returned to Amiga emulation only ..... no surprise since this is an Amiga forum ! |
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BTW, mid 1995 I visited couple of small towns around Prague. How bad my memory is, I don't remember their names, I know they sounded Slavic. After unsuccessfully asking for directions in German, I figured out that use of Slavic language get's you where you want to go. Just add ch to my original language - and almost there. Sure, but both have their positives and negatives. |
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16 June 2021, 18:28 | #12 | |
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Dunno, I don't use Google But Czechia is the official name short name for Czech Rebublic since maybe 5 years or so. Most people here don't like that shorter form but I do, "Republic" always reminds me of StarWars and is just too long
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16 June 2021, 22:53 | #13 | |
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So true, Czechia sounds like Chechnya. F*cking hate it. But apparently we have to have a shortened version of the Czech Republic... |
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17 June 2021, 03:13 | #14 |
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CzeRe True that, at first I was not sure if is Czech or Chechnya.
Nice country, but from what I see much changed since mid 90s. |
17 June 2021, 07:44 | #15 |
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TL;DR Chechnya vs. Czechia -> yes, sound similar, but that could also be said with: Slovenia vs. Slovakia. Interestingly I've never heard someone say he lives in the "Slovak Republic" (which is the official name), everyone uses the short form Slovakia. Maybe that's also the reason for the short name Czechia (because we used to be Czechoslovakia)? Probably. |
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17 June 2021, 09:29 | #17 |
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Indeed. And I miss [FLOPPYDISK] as an icon for "save" in today's programs (which are now called applications), now we have to click on weirds boxes with some arrow
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17 June 2021, 14:13 | #18 |
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It is interesting with country names... in southern Slavic countries - Slavic is called 'Slaveni' and people from Slovenia are called 'Sloveni'. Quite confusing.
Last night while setting something up on MiSTer FPGA, I loaded A500 1.3 configuration, and just bit later I loaded Turrican 2 just to listen intro music... Nostalgia... |
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You have no idea :-) In czech Slavic => Slované / Slovani Slovak => Slováci p f Slovenia => Slovinci |
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17 June 2021, 15:23 | #20 |
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Somali => Somálci
nightingales => slavíci slugs => slimáci |
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