06 July 2021, 01:06 | #121 |
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I lost my Supra Drive around 2004 or so when I was moving. It had stuff I wrote and some simple mod music I had made. This has bothered me long after. I now have another, larger Supra drive but it is the loss of data that bothers me. My A500 had died on me and I had no way to make backups.
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06 July 2021, 14:36 | #122 |
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Trying to do the A500 Chip Mod ---
Ended up killing the machine Swapped mobo for a good un |
07 July 2021, 15:40 | #123 |
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oh oh oh i've got a good one:
Not quite finishing Mr Beanbag! Hello everybody, it's been a while.. just turned on my Amiga for the first time in years and very relieved to say it still boots |
16 July 2021, 12:19 | #124 |
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Like many, my biggest regret is throwing stuff away. Luckily, some of it got "thrown away" to a museum (https://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk got a big haul, including a couple of NeXT workstations) but some not…including my A500. Luckily the A1200 I bought much later and the A1084S survived this moment of madness.
My next biggest is abandoning the A1200 in favour of a PC when I went to university (2000). If I'd spent less money than the PC cost on an ethernet card and a TCP stack I would have probably had a better time (less studying, more Zool, probably). |
16 July 2021, 14:19 | #125 |
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Ah don't knock yourself now, I blew a large chunk of my education by being glued to my Amiga so it was probably for the best that you went for a PC
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16 July 2021, 15:42 | #126 |
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Good marketing: "buy Windows: it's so boring you'll get your work done"
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23 July 2021, 18:59 | #127 |
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Swapped my old broken A600 for some C64 games and bits.
It wouldn't normally bother me but it was a present from my mum who is no longer with us. Hence my next bit of Amiga hardware will be an A600 - just finding one though is tough going. M. |
24 July 2021, 15:37 | #128 |
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Biggest regret - selling my original three Amigas - a towered A1200 with an Apollo 040 accelerator, a mint condition A3000 and a towered A4000D 040. It was the early 2000s, they were not being used and I needed the money. I must get back in touch with the guy I sold them to.
Can’t see me getting that far back down the rabbit hole, but in the last few weeks I fell back into original hardware and bought a good condition A1200 which I am in the process of recasing and upgrading, along with an Apollo Vampire V4 Standalone - because I quite like modern FPGA recreated systems over emulated ones (have FPGA-based ZX Spectrum Next and an FPGA-based Ultimate 64 (A C64 basically). |
24 July 2021, 19:41 | #129 |
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1) Sending my BPPC 060/603e 200MHz/SCSI to a certain (in)famous French repair guy. Never got it back.
2) Ordering a Prism sound card at a certain Amiga dealer in the UK that still exists. Never received it. EDIT 2022: Point 2 has been resolved, yay! Last edited by Hedeon; 23 October 2022 at 11:45. |
23 October 2022, 11:17 | #130 |
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Only small regrets.
Having an A1000 setup, 2 drives, monitor.. Right when they came out. Sold it a few weeks afterward for fear of not having software. Recuperated 90% of the cost. So not too bad. Having gotten an A500 in 87? And then selling it off around 2010 figuring I won't use it again. Only a small regret. Not missing the hardware, but some of the demos I collected. I did have the foresight to save all hi-res pictures, the ones I downloaded when gifs were the thing, all the ones I drew myself - of RingWorld and sci-fi cars, and futuristic alien computers. That was a good thing! I do not regret switching platforms from Amiga to PC. Got into PC prior to Doom, with a 486 DX2/50 with internal cache and FPU! Wow! And of course a Soundblaster, and SVGA, and 4MB (soon to be 8 and then 16). So I was good there. And got to experience the surprise of Doom as it happened - not seeing it and then wanting it, but running it the first time and being blown away by it. I needed a serious science computer and something with "compatibility". And DOS/486 machines delivered in spades. Today presently I periodically enjoy Amiga through WinUAE. It's enough to fulfill the pangs of nostalgia. I'm not attached to the hardware anymore, just the good times of discovery and exploration into graphics the Amiga provided. |
23 October 2022, 11:28 | #131 |
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Most of my games from back-in-the-day got sold off, the Amigas themselves were kept but no longer work properly. I will repair or replace them one day. I wish I'd pursued programming or something serious too, though I was too young to make a living from it and I doubt skills from 68x coding were transferrable onto working on PCs or later consoles.
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23 October 2022, 14:07 | #132 |
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'upgrading' my A500 to the A500+ and realising about 75% of my (albeit cracked/copied) games would not work and then selling and getting a SNES (which admittedly was freekin' awesome). Anyway, have an A500/600/1200 now
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23 October 2022, 15:07 | #133 |
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giving away the last A1000 I owned (in like new condition!) for free in the early 2000s.
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23 October 2022, 15:57 | #134 |
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Selling my spare A4000-040 with a CV64-3D with scan doubler for $400 AUD.
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26 October 2022, 16:24 | #135 |
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26 October 2022, 17:42 | #136 |
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In hindsight, I wish I had upgraded my 1200 and stuck to it a bit longer than I did.
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27 October 2022, 14:49 | #137 |
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Gave my A4000/040 away on Amiga.org.
With my A1200 sound up the spout, I could do with it right now! |
13 November 2022, 18:53 | #138 |
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Selling my A500 when I was a kid. Second in my brother selling his A1200.
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13 November 2022, 21:17 | #139 |
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Thrown away 1084 about 2000, when TFT was new and hot.
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