10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
9:36 a.m.
Sellam,
You're probably talking to a lot of folks who have a several Amigas (like
myself) and love 'em. Just because you not familiar with them doesn't
automatically make them "a joke". Remember, they were doing graphics in the
'80s in a manner similar to SGI while costing a fraction of the price - in
many ways, way ahead of their time. Amigas supported NTSC, PAL and several
"VGA" modes - including their monitors - which non-Amiga systems and monitors
of the time couldn't begin to support (other than SGI). And if you think
Amigas are a pain to setup, try an equivalent SGI box ;-)
I would have been glad to help you setup the Amiga's if I had known about this
in advance - as it is, I'm pretty much booked until this evening's CHM mtg.
Give me a call if you are still "stuck" and I'll try to help.
Lyle
On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:30, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
You know, everytime I have to setup a computer other
than an Apple, I'm
reminded of just how lame every other computer is.
So I pull an Amiga 1000 off the shelf and proceed to set it up since I'm
making no progress with the 500 and time is being lost. It still doesn't
work with any of the video cables I have, but I was able to get a cable
splitter to connect the composite output to the inputs on the back of the
display. Now I have color. But, now I have no boot disk. The disk that
booted on the 500 won't boot on the 1000. I have a Workbench v1.2 disk
that works on the 500 and the 2000, but not the 1000. What a joke.
You know, there's probably a really good reason why Commodore and Atari
are gone but Apple is still around.
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"