-- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 7th of October 2011 07:01:03 PM
Sheba said
07:32 PM Oct 7, 2011
5 days to go 'til what Wombat?
Cheers,
Sheba.
pauline said
07:41 PM Oct 7, 2011
Ah now that is the million dollar question ?
_wombat_ said
07:55 PM Oct 7, 2011
sheba, pauline and I know, will let you ALL know in 5 days time
AmandaJayne said
09:15 PM Oct 7, 2011
I think blokes like computers... hubbys got 3 screens infront of him atm all going... not too sure what he does with all the computers going at once tho... I just have the one on at a time but I have to admit to having 2, one a laptop for the bus tho...... and I also am wondering over the count down....
pauline said
09:35 PM Oct 7, 2011
I don't know, I don't really think you know either.
_wombat_ said
10:16 PM Oct 7, 2011
I know
pauline said
10:19 PM Oct 7, 2011
I knew you didn't know, because if i didn't know, i knew that you wouldn't know what I don't know.
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 7th of October 2011 10:25:22 PM
03_troopy said
09:24 AM Oct 8, 2011
_wombat_ wrote:
jonathan wrote:
.. looks like an old Commodore Amiga ..
It is, wish I still had mine.
Like your new av
-- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 7th of October 2011 07:01:03 PM
Looks more like a Commodore 64... And I've still got my Amiga 500, with 1MB Fast Ram, 4MB ram expansion, SCSI interface and a 110MB SCSI HDD.
_wombat_ said
09:53 AM Oct 8, 2011
03_troopy wrote:
_wombat_ wrote:
jonathan wrote:
.. looks like an old Commodore Amiga ..
It is, wish I still had mine.
Like your new av
-- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 7th of October 2011 07:01:03 PM
Looks more like a Commodore 64... And I've still got my Amiga 500, with 1MB Fast Ram, 4MB ram expansion, SCSI interface and a 110MB SCSI HDD.
you are right it's the 64 the keyboard had the vents at the back of it, Amiga had no vents there.
03_troopy said
10:14 AM Oct 8, 2011
I opened mine when it was only a week old (obviously voiding any warranty) and performed some major surgery on the motherboard to convert the 500K RAM (slow ram) expansion to Fast Ram, and a little while later fitted the the new OS ROM physically on top of the original ROM and added a switch to select between 2 different operating systems. The reason for this was that some of the old software wouldn't run on the new OS. Running the system from a HDD was the best upgrade I made and with the added 4MB of RAM mine used to fly. I haven't fired mine up in over 12 years, but I may just drag it out and dust it off again and see what happens. It's a shame poor marketing labelled such a fantastic computer as a games machine and sealed its fate. For many years they reigned supreme for sound and graphics and it took the PC to get to the 486DX33 before they could even come close. Incidentally the Amiga could run an emulator and run the PC software of the day as well as its own, which the PC couldn't do.
I used to enjoy typing in all the code for a game and then debugging it just to see a couple of sprites moving about the screen, boy this sure takes one back a few years.
I think I do prefer today's computers
jonathan said
10:37 AM Oct 8, 2011
.. the newer generation of puters certainly do have an advantage. Mind you, I too started with the 64 then later graduated to to the Amiga ..
The Amiga had quite a few extensions available to it .. you could also boot into IBM format and I even kicked off my "C & Pascal" training through it ..
but .. after buying a 2nd hand IBM unit, I soon lost that affiliation with Amiga .. but memories are sweet as ..
Jon
_wombat_ said
10:58 AM Oct 8, 2011
jon, they call it progress, but I'm not so sure
jonathan said
11:33 AM Oct 8, 2011
.. I agree !
Delta18 said
12:56 PM Oct 8, 2011
Ahhh the memories. My first foray into computers was toe old Atari 400, complete with membrane keyboard & cassette tape drive. Gave it a major upgrade with a "key" keyboard then a 5" disc drive.
Cheers Neil
AmandaJayne said
08:14 PM Oct 8, 2011
I had a texas Instrument.. still remember that darn thing telling me off if I did something wrong!!! roflol
see pic
.. looks like an old Commodore Amiga ..
Lots (only 5 days to go)
It is, wish I still had mine.
Like your new av
-- Edited by _wombat_ on Friday 7th of October 2011 07:01:03 PM
5 days to go 'til what Wombat?
Cheers,
Sheba.
sheba, pauline and I know, will let you ALL know in 5 days time
I think blokes like computers... hubbys got 3 screens infront of him atm all going... not too sure what he does with all the computers going at once tho... I just have the one on at a time but I have to admit to having 2, one a laptop for the bus tho...... and I also am wondering over the count down....
I know
I knew you didn't know, because if i didn't know, i knew that you wouldn't know what I don't know.
-- Edited by pauline on Friday 7th of October 2011 10:25:22 PM
Looks more like a Commodore 64... And I've still got my Amiga 500, with 1MB Fast Ram, 4MB ram expansion, SCSI interface and a 110MB SCSI HDD.
you are right it's the 64 the keyboard had the vents at the back of it, Amiga had no vents there.
I opened mine when it was only a week old (obviously voiding any warranty) and performed some major surgery on the motherboard to convert the 500K RAM (slow ram) expansion to Fast Ram, and a little while later fitted the the new OS ROM physically on top of the original ROM and added a switch to select between 2 different operating systems. The reason for this was that some of the old software wouldn't run on the new OS. Running the system from a HDD was the best upgrade I made and with the added 4MB of RAM mine used to fly. I haven't fired mine up in over 12 years, but I may just drag it out and dust it off again and see what happens. It's a shame poor marketing labelled such a fantastic computer as a games machine and sealed its fate. For many years they reigned supreme for sound and graphics and it took the PC to get to the 486DX33 before they could even come close. Incidentally the Amiga could run an emulator and run the PC software of the day as well as its own, which the PC couldn't do.
I used to enjoy typing in all the code for a game and then debugging it just to see a couple of sprites moving about the screen, boy this sure takes one back a few years.
I think I do prefer today's computers
.. the newer generation of puters certainly do have an advantage. Mind you, I too started with the 64 then later graduated to to the Amiga ..
The Amiga had quite a few extensions available to it .. you could also boot into IBM format and I even kicked off my "C & Pascal" training through it ..
but .. after buying a 2nd hand IBM unit, I soon lost that affiliation with Amiga .. but memories are sweet as ..
Jon
jon, they call it progress, but I'm not so sure
.. I agree !
Ahhh the memories. My first foray into computers was toe old Atari 400, complete with membrane keyboard & cassette tape drive. Gave it a major upgrade with a "key" keyboard then a 5" disc drive.
Cheers Neil
I had a texas Instrument.. still remember that darn thing telling me off if I did something wrong!!! roflol