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For some stupid reason I've been obsessing about Amigas for the last few weeks, and it's gotten so bad that I actually put money down on a crowdfunded A500 case reproduction even though I sold all my Amiga poo poo way back in 1995. So I guess in like two years a nice new case will show up, and I reckon I should probably figure out what to actually do with it. I know I'm an idiot, but someone in here can help me be an even bigger idiot by spending way too much money on ancient dead computer poo poo surely?
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make sure to nab some sw8 software like video toaster and OctaMED when the time comes
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May 31, 2018 22:12
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I don't know anyone who used amigas irl
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May 31, 2018 22:19
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akadajet posted:I don't know anyone who used amigas irl I don't even have the excuse of being a euro
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May 31, 2018 22:20
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all I know about amigas is they were 3rd rate computers used primarily by furries.
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May 31, 2018 22:20
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eww no seat safety switch might be your amiga amigo
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Jun 1, 2018 06:33
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Enos Cabell posted:someone in here can help me be an even bigger idiot by spending way too much money on ancient dead computer poo poo surely? hi 
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Enos Cabell posted:For some stupid reason I've been obsessing about Amigas for the last few weeks, and it's gotten so bad that I actually put money down on a crowdfunded A500 case reproduction even though I sold all my Amiga poo poo way back in 1995. So I guess in like two years a nice new case will show up, and I reckon I should probably figure out what to actually do with it. hi i own an Amiga 2000 with way too many add-ons installed. it's not plugged in atm because i have a mac plugged in its place or i'd whip up a giant spinning "get out" in lightwave. i suggest purchasing an Amiga 2000, OP. perhaps with a GVP 68040 accelerator and a 386 Bridgeboard so you can run Windows on it in a little window on your desktop mine has... - 68030 accelerator @ 40MHz with 68882 FPU - 16MB of 32-bit RAM, 4MB of Fast RAM, 2MB of Chip RAM - Picasso II video card (Cirrus Logic chip from 1993), resolutions up to 1600x1200 with 256 colors or 800x600 with 24-bit color - SCSI2SD and 4GB of storage - 8x CD burner - Dual 115200bps UART card - A2286 Bridgeboard, 8MHz 286, 287 FPU, 1MB of RAM - ATI VGA Wonder and a generic ISA serial card for the PC side Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 08:25
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When I was a teenager I had an A500 with a second disk drive and the 512kb memory expansion, but I lusted greatly after an A1200. Alas, it never happened. I wonder how much they cost these days. I still regret getting rid of it all. The UK Amiga gaming mags back in the day were the best. Demo disks on the front and pages full of barely disguised sexual innuendo. clone on the phone fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 08:40
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my uncle had amigas and he had all the pirated games you could wish for then one of them pirated games gave all of his amigas a virus and he was sad and i was sad because i couldn't play Lemmings when my mother dragged me over to his dank hovel that he calls a home thanks for listening to my Amiga talk.
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Jun 1, 2018 10:06
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Luigi Thirty posted:hi i own an Amiga 2000 with way too many add-ons installed. it's not plugged in atm because i have a mac plugged in its place or i'd whip up a giant spinning "get out" in lightwave. Back in the day I had a GVP sidecar for my A500 with an 030 accelerator and a 40mb scsi hd, that thing ruled. I'm kinda surprised to see there are companies still making hardware for this stuff. I'm kinda thinking it might be a still dumb but not as dumb idea to pick up a Vampire Apollo v4 standalone fpga, slap that in the new 500 case when it shows up, and call it good. You win
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Jun 1, 2018 13:56
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clone on the phone posted:When I was a teenager I had an A500 with a second disk drive and the 512kb memory expansion, but I lusted greatly after an A1200. Alas, it never happened. I wonder how much they cost these days. I still regret getting rid of it all. Dude just stop now, that was where I was a few weeks ago and now I'm bidding on 1084s monitor auctions. It's not a good path to be on.
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DJ Commie posted:eww no people keep giving me haggard amigas, and I pull the clock batteries off the board and fix all the corrosion that results. i think i like fixing them more than using them, because the euro-style "press up to jump" character platformers are some of the worst games on the planet. the copper is cool as hell though. you can race the beam without having to get your timings exact. my favourite machine is my amiga 2500 (an a2000 with an '030 card installed into it from the factory) but it's been a project and still needs a lot more work. i posted a bit about it in the retrocomputer gaming thread. getting it to work on a regular vga monitor is expensive, because it has a wacky horizontal sync and a no-longer-made 23-pin RGB connector. oh it has composite, you say, i'll just make it work on a tv? haha most of the early chipsets can only display composite in black and white. vampire kind of sidesteps those two problems (it has hdmi, right?) but it seems expensive. the serial chips blow up when you hot-swap mice or keyboards so don't do that. two things you need:
things are dumb expensive though and i have no idea why. they made a bunch of a500s and that's all the amiga you need or want for games. still better than the atari st, but that's a low bar. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 14:42
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Seat Safety Switch posted:people keep giving me haggard amigas, and I pull the clock batteries off the board and fix all the corrosion that results. i think i like fixing them more than using them, because the euro-style "press up to jump" character platformers are some of the worst games on the planet. I've got at least a year before that new case shows up, so I'm going to keep my eyes out for a 500 in rough shape and see if I can get the boards at least cleaned up. Are the old power supplies still any good, or should I plan on a new one? Shaggar posted:all I know about amigas is they were 3rd rate computers used primarily by furries. Just noticed that a monitor I bid on is being sold by a guy with "fur" in his username. gently caress. Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 14:57
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Enos Cabell posted:Dude just stop now, that was where I was a few weeks ago and now I'm bidding on 1084s monitor auctions. It's not a good path to be on. Man I had one of those monitors. So many games too. Maybe I'll just grab the Amiga Forever emulator and call it done.
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Jun 1, 2018 15:01
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computers ruined forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNR5vxAR22A
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Enos Cabell posted:I've got at least a year before that new case shows up, so I'm going to keep my eyes out for a 500 in rough shape and see if I can get the boards at least cleaned up. Are the old power supplies still any good, or should I plan on a new one? my a500 power supply is still good, the power supply that came with my a1200 is from an a600 and clicks if you plug it into the computer before you plug it into the wall, so i replaced it with some guy's new power supply off an amiga forum. they're not as bad as the c64 power supplies which go crazy and melt the chips after a few decades of storage, but i would probably still test with a meter before plugging a new-to-you one in.
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Jun 1, 2018 15:05
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Enos Cabell posted:You win thanks. you too can spend too much money and get one of these commodore watches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QeGuF53Lik
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Jun 1, 2018 16:05
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my dad had an st
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Seat Safety Switch posted:still better than the atari st, but that's a low bar. gently caress you 
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I remember being in a computer store before Egghead and Slothware Etc and this Amiga guy was constantly running Amiga games versus their ST versions sad part was a lot of the time he picked ones where they didn't use jay miners fantastic blitter chips or whatever he also delighted in running tragic sack or whatever the Mac emulator was and even tried to convince people they could do everything on the meega they needed under emulation luckily commode-dore had management that couldn't make future decisions worth a poo poo and pc clones became the norm and now people run their 68040 boards or whatever and play faery tale adventure and bouncing polygon demos ad infinitim the way people collect Apple //es and marvel over stickybear bop and Aztec as the heights of their lives Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Jun 2, 2018 01:22
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Luigi Thirty posted:gently caress you
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Jun 2, 2018 04:45
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the st was a piece of trahs
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Shaggar posted:all I know about amigas is they were 3rd rate computers used primarily by furries. no, Amiga was solidly second rate, Commodore had enough resources to design their own chipset the Atari ST was the third rate computer which was practically just a 68K reference design, and shipped in versions without even a floppy drive after all, the Atari ST not only had a text mode, it also had a cartridge port that it could boot from if you didn’t have a floppy drive, like something out of the 1970s I have a VT102 emulator cartridge for mine eschaton fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Jun 2, 2018 04:55
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When the books I write become cult classics I will tell nerds I wrote them in WordPerfect 4.1 on my Amiga just to screw with them. Man I loved WordPerfect and I can’t even remember it 
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Jun 2, 2018 06:49
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x-postin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxnyGPRgGqY
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Jun 2, 2018 06:57
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Still waiting for the vampire A1200 so I can upgrade mine I already have an Indivision AGA so you can hook it up to DVI monitors but it sucks because it only does 60hz so you don't get the famous amiga smooth scrolling in PAL games 
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eschaton posted:no, Amiga was solidly second rate, Commodore had enough resources to design their own chipset commodore as a company and the developers of the amiga had nothing to do with each other which is a big part of why their relationship was so antagonistic and why the amiga design got basically no real updates until 1992 Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:commodore didn't design poo poo, in fact jay miner did a lot of the work while he was still at atari yeah sorry for my imprecision, I meant that Commodore had enough resources for Amiga to design their own chipset and then actually get bought by a company that could ship it to users rather than just disappear
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Jun 2, 2018 08:14
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eschaton posted:Commodore had enough resources for Amiga to design their own chipset 
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Jun 2, 2018 08:19
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yeah and what would have happened if commodore hadn’t bought them?
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Jun 2, 2018 08:28
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I know there's nothing like the real thing but I downloaded WinUAE today and spent a few hours reliving my childhood. So many great games and I finally got to try that A1200 
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Jun 2, 2018 09:52
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for some reason the Amiga that’s on the way to me is painted black my hope is that it’s easy to strip and the paint’s preserved the original color (I hope the board isn’t ruined by capacitor or battery leakage)
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eschaton posted:for some reason the Amiga that’s on the way to me is painted black which one did you get? most a500s have a clock card, but when the battery pops on those it just ruins the card and keeps the amiga from booting until you remove it (i am working on fixing mine because i gotta have that 512K). the a600/a500+ seem to be the most hurt by batteries popping, and the a3000/a4000 is probably close to unrepairable so i got lucky. clock batteries suck
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Jun 2, 2018 16:21
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eschaton posted:for some reason the Amiga that’s on the way to me is painted black Am I remembering wrong or did they actually make some black-case amigas?
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clone on the phone posted:Am I remembering wrong or did they actually make some black-case amigas? oh and this thing 
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Jun 3, 2018 04:04
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haha what is that. You are right, I was thinking of the CDTV
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Jun 3, 2018 06:27
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escom's 1996 prototype for a "new" amiga based on the same old aga chipset that was obsolete on release four years earlier 
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Jun 3, 2018 06:49
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I have a video editor from 1995 that's a homemade amiga with a digital video card and a 16-bit sound card lol
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The 1084s I bid on ended up selling for drat near $500, aka the same price I paid for my 50" 4k tv. I think Amiga people might be too crazy for me, so mayhaps I will stick with the raspberry pi.
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