Stupid Amiga Tricks

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 07:10:26 2004

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc Shipley" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
To: <General_at_mdrconsult.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Stupid Amiga Tricks


> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > Why does everything have to be so difficult?
> >
> > I'm trying to set up an Amiga 500 for tonight's Computer History Museum
> > event. It's got a DB-23 RGB output and a Mono out. I've got an Amiga
> > 1080 high resolution color monitor. It's got a Video and Chroma input,
> > plus a DA-9 RGB input. I've got an Amiga RF Modulator that plugs into
> > the DB-23 on the back of the Amiga and has a composite Video and Audio
out
> > (and an RF out). Then I have several video cables. One is a DB-25 to a
> > DIN. Another is a DIN to three RCA leads. And then there's the DIN to
> > DA-9. At least one of these might be for the Atari 520ST (which I also
> > need to set up).
> >
> > None of this connects up in a way which gives me colour on the display.
> >
> > Is it too much to ask to have products designed by people who are not
> > insane?
>
> Nothing personal, Sellam, but that sort of statement drives me nuts.
>
> After reading this and the post about the A1000, it looks like you're
> expecting to be able to set up a machine you know almost nothing about,
> as easily as you would a machine of the type you've used all your life.
>
> To coin a phrase, that doesn't compute. The Apples are simple and
> obvious to you for the same reason Windows is simple and obvious to most
> people - they're *familiar*. Even with an unknown model, you have a
> good, *educated* feel for the design philosophy. To expect that kind of
> intuitive understanding of an Amiga or an Atari (or an S/390) with
> little or no experience is what's insane.
>
>
> Doc
>

I never had too much of a problem setting machines up that I never touched
before, most have allot in common. Google is a big time saver if you ever
run into problems. If you start getting into the architecture find a decent
forum that caters to those kind of machines. Having a manual is very
helpful, and if you get frustrated put the thing down and go do something
else for a while. I guess even Sellam is human like the rest of us and has
bad days.
Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 07:10:26 BST