Thus wrote alienrelics@...:
>
> --- Paul Juhasz <paul@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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! ;-)
>
> So I'm a bit jumpy. I've had a few lately take my humor as if I
> meant it. Even as obvious as that one was.

Only on the second look. That was why I had to laugh, it was cleverly
disguised and almost dropped me into despair.



> > 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!
>
> Yeah, isn't that cool? JPL used to be run by Amigas. Starting
> almost as soon as the A1000 came out, yet Commodore did nothing
> with that info.

The management of C= was a real PITA - without them the Amiga would be in
a better position now, and maybe C= could have survived. "Get out of this
world with Amiga - follow NASA."

Probably Independence day gave more boost to iMac than any of their ads.



> > The fanfold does sound familiar, same with the TRS-80. So you're
> > a geek
> > too? ;-)
>
> Oh, yeah. Most of my computers never get the covers back on them
> now, well the Amigas do, but the Wintels seem to need something too
> often. Upgrades, burnt out network cards, what a bunch of cheap
> junk.

And to think that a lot of ppl wanted the Amiga to be compatible with
off-the-shelf PC cards! More modern? Pah! Gimme old fashioned Zorro cards
any day - more expensive, but a lot more durable. Just need to be a bit
updated...



> > 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 laboriously and carefully desoldered the edge connector and
> reconnected it with 2 inches of ribbon cable, and hot glued the RAM
> pack face down on the top of my ZX-81. And built an 8V regulated
> power supply for it, to cut down on the heat produced by the 7805
> 5V regulator inside.

Now you almost lost me - did that RAM pack really have a voltage ragulator
inside? I had no idea - but I did consider doing the same, I mean doing
the ribbon cable trick, just that I was too lazy for these things. I'm
more of a software person. As in: How many programmers does it take to
change a lightbulb?



> > 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!
>
> Hah! You've got that right. As long as MS Winblows doesn't
> interfere, Amiga Forever is as smooth as a real Amiga. It runs
> better on MS Windows than MS Windows runs by itself!

I just find it a bit sad that they are now trying to turn OS4 into
something like Linux - with all the overheads that will produce. Their
excuse is that memory protection is "more advanced". I believe that
writing proper software that doesn't poke indiscriminately into public
memory and crash the machine, is more advanced.



> > 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.
>
> I don't know, I really pushed my Amiga 3000 and it didn't have
> these problems. I did some phenominal things that I took for
> granted, that bring my W2K computer to it's knees. Print an 11x17
> inkjet while downloading some large files, and while it's putting
> the print in the buffer it pauses several times and becomes
> virtually unuseable, even if all I'm doing is reading email or
> typing a letter. I used to do a lot more than that on my Amiga.

Yep, I often play mp3s while doing other things - without it intruding in
the slightest - but then I have a Delfina DSP card with the decoder
running on the DSP. Original Amiga psychology to use custom chips for
custom jobs.


C'ya,

--

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