Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley_at_bickleywest.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 16:36:24 2004

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"
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