Thus wrote alienrelics@...:
> Well I just wanted to say that I'm deeply offended by your use of
> punctuation.

ROTFL! Thanks, you made my day. :-))


> Just kidding.... ;')

Now don't go and spoil it! ;-)



> Yep, my website was originally done in a text editor on my Amiga,
> previewed in iBrowse. Then I used a program from Aminet that was
> really still just a text editor but it had hot buttons to insert
> the HTML code, but I was still working in the source code.
>
> Now I use PageMill in (yuck!) MS Windos but my early experience
> makes it easy to tweak the source.

It will always take a human to improve programs - other programs can only
write bloat. Though maybe those page creators could be handy to quickly
chuck something together to start you off.

I do like your site, interesting pictures - archmargfox - an intellectual
looking girl wearing glasses and leaning on a two-handed sword?!? Or am I
being too practical here?

Whereas the page on NASA /is/ practical - some of my PC-friends think I'm
behind their time, wonder what they'll say when they see that!



> Almost all the graphics on my current website were done on an Amiga
> 3000.

Mine were a combination - except for one, done in PhotonPaint, most were
acrylic on paper, scanned in or photographed, then some 3D stuff rendered
in Imagine with the scans/photos being used for backgrounds. But that was
when I had time to spare - now I'd like to re-design it to speed up
loading and rendering, but can't find the time for it...



> I started on time-share fanfold paper terminals in high school, got
> access to the TRS-80 Model 1 when I worked at Radio Shack (also in
> high school) then a Radio Shack clone of the Sinclair ZX-81 for one
> day (returned the piece of junk the next day), then a Vic 20,
> followed by a C64 and a bunch of ZX-81's to play on, got a few
> Wintel 386's rescued from a dumpster, then quickly ran up the
> ladder of Amigas.

The fanfold does sound familiar, same with the TRS-80. So you're a geek
too? ;-)

And the ZX81 was not /that/ bad - for the price, anyway. I remember having
endless hours of fun playing Cheops' Tomb on it - provided the RAM pack
didn't wobble and crash it - which meant another 8 minutes to re-load.



> I currently run MS Windows 98, ME, and 2000, and Lindows 4.5, and
> Amiga mostly via Amiga Forever. I consider MS Windows to be death
> of a thousand cuts. In other words, there is no one single huge
> deficiency, there are a thousand little ones that slow you down and
> cut productivity and piss you off.

You described it just perfectly - I also use a Win98 300MHz laptop with
UAE on it - which seems almost more responsible than Win itself! It's
hooked up to my A4000 via Parnet. Win98 can be a real arrogant beastie,
telling me off, when the crash was clearly its own fault!



> I mean, c'mon, I run MS Win2000 on 1.2GHz with 768M of RAM, why
> does my mouse pointer become unuseably jerky just because it's
> downloading a virus checker update?

Perhaps because that update is a 10MB file? It sometimes scares me when I
think what will be going on ten years from now. Size is STATUS! I'm sure
even broadband on a 15GHz penti will be brought down to a crawl.


C'ya,

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Paul :.................: strandedUFO : http://www.sufo.estates.co.uk :.: