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OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 12:21:25
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| So, I love looking at the dates on our avatars for each post. I know I'm not the "oldest" user on here, but I looked at my join date of 2004 and I just thought, wow, I have been a member of this board for 12 years...pretty much longer than the existence of the original Amiga. Time does fly for sure.
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 12:42:49
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Heh, few days apart
Every day is one step closer to your grave, so enjoy the ride while it lasts...
...i could have said "one step closer to your retirement and massive free time to invest in amiga"...but, no government wants to pay for your retirement, so you'd better be dead before the suits come and...ask why you're still wasting air |
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 12:56:45
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Yeah, I certainly have wasted far too much time here and worn out a few keyboards too... _________________ OS4 Rocks X1000 beta tester, Sam440 Flex (733)
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 15:45:40
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 17:57:07
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Summer of 2003 for me, posted a lot back then, when the attitude here was more positive, don't post so much these days because of the negative attitude that seems to have taken over. _________________ Hate tends to make you look stupid... |
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 18:32:34
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Summer of 2003 for me, posted a lot back then, when the attitude here was more positive, don't post so much these days because of the negative attitude that seems to have taken over. |
Yeah, I remember people raving about Teron boards like it was the new dawn. The ridiculously over optimistic vibe following the release of these substandard machines was vomit inducing as I remember. Then we had the Troika debacle. The situation is far better now and people are more realistic about this being a hobby with no conceivable way back to the mainstream. But hey we're all having fun _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 18:43:14
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Eek.. 2003. |
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 19:36:53
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 20:02:35
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 20:35:18
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 20:50:34
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Time really does fly, doesnt it?!
I joined in April 2003 after getting involved and chatting to members on IRC 'back in the day'. Glad to still be here, even though I'm not very active these days!
Steve Last edited by stevieu on 08-Jun-2016 at 08:52 PM. Last edited by stevieu on 08-Jun-2016 at 08:52 PM.
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 21:53:44
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Yeah, I remember people raving about Teron boards like it was the new dawn. The ridiculously over optimistic vibe following the release of these substandard machines was vomit inducing as I remember. |
The Teron boards had 3 main issues that were easily rectified.
1. Using the network controller while DMA was enabled on the IDE controller resulted in the system locking up.
The solutions were to stick to PIO modes, add a SIL680 IDE card that cost around £10-15 or apply a dubious* hardware fix.
2. USB ports would stop working after unplugging a device.
This could be fixed on the motherboard, by using a powered hub or a simple external fix that added some resistors between the USB ports and a USB device.
3 They couldn't get the onboard audio to initialize.
This was remedied with a PCI sound card which most people preferred to do back then anyway. Eventually the Davy Wentzler discovered how to initialise the via 686 audio and a driver was released in 2006.
I think the situation was handled very badly and instead of finding solutions to mitigate the effects of the bugs it ended up in a public tit for tat argument between Eyetech and Genesi over whose boards were worst affected by the bugs in the Articia P. That became massively overblown and ultimately would have badly both companies.
The reality of it is, that in my experience, the A1 turned out to a pretty decent machine which lived up to my expectations as a next generation Amiga.
I was very happy with my XE G4. Already had a SB Live ready for it, bought SIL680 so I wasn't restricted to PIO modes and USB never caused be much of an issue so I just stuck to a passive hub to increase the number of ports.
It was really nice to have a powerful system that could run pretty much all over my favourite software much faster than ever before, brought a whole load of new free software and allowed me to do things I couldn't even do well with my B1260 or BPPC.
Sure many of us were overly optimistic but I think there was still the potential, at that time to get back to where the Amiga was in the mid to late nineties. There were a lot more dealers at that time and a few software companies turning out decent products. There were plenty of people who had the cash to spend on hardware but a combination of delays, the OS4/MorphOS split and the row over Articia caused a lot of people to sit on the fence. This starved the market of much needed cash, resulting less commercial software, slower development, which in turn led to those holding onto their money to get bored and leave. The subsequent hardware drought only exacerbated things.
The market today is probably much better today we are still clean up the mess from the early 2000's but things would be much better if all that damage hadn't been done in the first place.
*I say dubious because Alan Redhouse warned the could be unforeseen problems with the DMA fixed, and it turned out there was when people started testing Radeon X and HD cards on the A1.
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 22:26:11
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I think the situation was handled very badly and instead of finding solutions to mitigate the effects of the bugs it ended up in a public tit for tat argument between Eyetech and Genesi over whose boards were worst affected by the bugs in the Articia P. |
To be fair, neither camp understood the hardware bugs. The documentation of both the Articia and the VIA Southbridge was appalling, leaving hardware and software designers scratching their heads wondering what to try next. Rather like the Freescale documentation today - no, I didn't say that.
The Articia didn't even try to implement coherence, although its detractors called it a bug at the time. Cache coherence was intended to be added to a later model, which never happened. To get around the lack of cache coherence, the OS4 camp added it in software, while the MorphOS camp tried to do it in hardware with their "April" chip. Neither solution worked very well.
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 8-Jun-2016 22:54:27
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 0:11:32
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2003 here also. I seem to remember having to reregister here though for some reason, a change in sytems, servers or maybe it was at AOrg.
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 2:04:22
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For some reason I have a some fuzzy recollection that this site something else before it became Amigaworld... Am I crazy or do I just have a wacky imagination
Anyway.... Where DOES the time go?? Never a dull moment in the world of Amiga.
Here's to another 14 more!
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 2:09:30
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 9:44:08
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*unlurk*
I'm stunned someone with admin rights somewhere hasn't garbage-collected me from the database. Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well.
*re-lurks*
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 10:42:35
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30-Sep-2003 for me.
I stupidly sold my Amiga 4000 for £100 6 years ago, then stupidly sold my Amiga 500 for £50 5 years ago, then in a fit of madness i tossed my Amiga 1200 with a broken keyboard but including a Viper '030 accelerator into a skip when we moved 2 years ago.....!
I also owned an AmigaOne XE but sold that to Trevor Dickinson to be used as a Developer machine.
So, here we are, and I've just purchased AmigaForever 2016 + AmigaOS 4.1 FE Classic. I've spend the last couple of days getting it all setup.
Looking good.
Why have I done all this? - just fancied writing some software (I'm a commercial C/C++ coder et al.) for the Amiga. No idea what, but thought it might be interesting.
Good to be back, and trying not to think too hard about that Amiga1200 that is somewhere in the ground! -- (sorry!) |
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Re: OMG has it been that long?! Posted on 9-Jun-2016 11:16:50
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The boards were crap but OTOH they were never really meant for end-users. Aside from any design flaws on the motherboards, they had that notorious FUBAR northbridge that never worked (not one single revision of it) as it should.
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