10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
8:59 a.m.
On 10 Jun 2004 at 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.
Now, now -- the Amiga rocked. It had technology that Apple couldn't touch at
the time, like
multiple windows, each with their own resolution and bit depth, all onscreen at the same
time.
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.
The 500 and 2000 had Kickstart in ROM (Kickstart is the actual hardward bootstrap
code
that loads before Workbench loads.) The 1000 didn't have Kickstart ROM's -- there
should
be a separate Kickstart disk that boots first.
You know, there's probably a really good reason
why Commodore and Atari
are gone but Apple is still around.
Two words: Jack Tramiel.
Well, Tramiel and incredibly incompetent marketing.
By the way, did you get the package?
Paul Braun
Cygnus Productions
nerdware(a)ctgonline.org
"If you can make it all the way through Warren Zevon's 'The Wind' without
crying,
you have no soul.
"At Microsoft, Quality is Job, oh, I dunno, maybe 6 or 7?"