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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

post ur favorite amiga memories itt, please

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

i never had an amiga. i finally got one out of a garage last year. i turned it on once and now it sits in the closet with the apple ii. that's my amiga story

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
that time pagancow changed all the thread tags to

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
i had a friend who had an amiga and he always used to laugh at me because our pc could only do 16 colours while his amiga could do 32, and then my dad finally bought a decent gfx card and we could do like 65536 colours all at the same time and for some reason this seemed like a really amazing thing, possibly because at that time i did not yet understand that within a generation or two both i and everyone i have ever known or cared about will be dead and forgotten

elite_garbage_man
Apr 3, 2010
I THINK THAT "PRIMA DONNA" IS "PRE-MADONNA". I MAY BE ILLITERATE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKy57re_6BY

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvha_2hAzq0

Baxate
Feb 1, 2011

my favorite amiga memory is when it came out 18 months after the Macintosh already took the world by storm

emoji
Jun 4, 2004
I don't remember, OP. My first memory of a computer was of a real computer.

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
i always thought only weirdos from europe used amigas

so naturally, as someone born in germany, i'd own one

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


my favorite amiga memory was made just today in the pics thread

Raithe
Apr 17, 2008

Don't worry: I've got the moon covered...
Had an Amiga 2000 with a card for putting titles and animations on VHS tapes. Learned to animate in Deluxe Paint 3. I seem to recall that the rendering for Seaquest DSV was done on Amiga workstations.

Then there was the furry soft-porn before I even knew what furries were. Or porn for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlB9XnmJU1o

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Raithe posted:

Had an Amiga 2000 with a card for putting titles and animations on VHS tapes. Learned to animate in Deluxe Paint 3. I seem to recall that the rendering for Seaquest DSV was done on Amiga workstations.

Then there was the furry soft-porn before I even knew what furries were. Or porn for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlB9XnmJU1o

:wtf: did i just watch? mods?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


Amiga cartoon artist Eric Schwartz and his father Ron were offering a variety of what appeared to be used hardware and software for sale as well as a selection of articles including some of Eric's fabulous artistic Amiga creations.


lol of course

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Amiga should have ha 1.44mb floppy and it would have dominated the scene

also it started out well but fuxkin shot itself in the foot


cd32 anyone?

Raithe
Apr 17, 2008

Don't worry: I've got the moon covered...
CD32 was ahead of its time. First 32bit home console. They were about two grand though :shepspends:

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

echinopsis posted:

also it started out well but fuxkin shot itself in the foot
irving gould shot it in the foot
then the other one
then idk the shoulder or something

then he brought in mehdi ali to finish the job

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
btw happy birthday amiga :toot:

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

akadajet posted:


Amiga cartoon artist Eric Schwartz and his father Ron were offering a variety of what appeared to be used hardware and software for sale as well as a selection of articles including some of Eric's fabulous artistic Amiga creations.


lol of course
eric schwartz is by far the most yospos furry

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

papa_november posted:

eric schwartz is by far the most yospos furry
furries in general are fat and like computer though, what sets him apart? if anything he's less yospos because Sabrina Online represents a far deeper commitment of time and talent into a labor of love than anyone here is capable of mustering.

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

Got a A1200 sitting at home. Replaced the 20MB HDD with a CF Card using a CF Card to 30 pin IDE adapter

Got it running Kickstart 3.1 (I think)

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

Sham bam bamina! posted:

furries in general are fat and like computer though, what sets him apart? if anything he's less yospos because Sabrina Online represents a far deeper commitment of time and talent into a labor of love than anyone here is capable of mustering.

it's the platform selection + diehard evangelism i guess

nobody else in that little scene comes close really

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

papa_november posted:

it's the platform selection + diehard evangelism i guess

nobody else in that little scene comes close really
so what you're saying is that he's by far the most doritos furry

i suppose you're right but the dorito-heavy furry diet raises the baseline quite a bit, maybe "by far" is an overstatement

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 24, 2015

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

You Am I posted:

Got a A1200 sitting at home. Replaced the 20MB HDD with a CF Card using a CF Card to 30 pin IDE adapter

Me 2, it's sitting next to my Stebe shrine in the basement (pardon the mess, I should clean that room)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt9fZ8ItTl4

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




lol

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
what sizer disk can the amiga drive type go to

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
i'm not particularly nostalgic for a computer that was created a decade and a half before i was born

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i often have feelings of nostalgia for things that occurred before I was born. or at least old enough to know anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQSZhazYk8

that makes me nostalgic hard although I only ever saw environments like that on tv when I was growing up

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

echinopsis posted:

what sizer disk can the amiga drive type go to

If you put anything bigger than a 4GB drive in it, the address pointer for the standard workbench file system will overflow and overwrite the partition table once you write past the 4GB limit

If you are willing to put a ton of effort into it, http://wiki.classicamiga.com/Installing_a_large_Harddrive_(4GB_or_larger)

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
so the standard file system could address 4gb? seems like a shitload. i guess theoretically the next power of two down was pathetic?

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

echinopsis posted:

so the standard file system could address 4gb? seems like a shitload. i guess theoretically the next power of two down was pathetic?
please think for two seconds about what you've typed here. hell, think about it for one.

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Jul 24, 2015

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
it had :hampants: mode

:hampants: mode is the greatest

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
oh and i have this







vvvv its me im the idiot

N.Z.'s Champion fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Jul 24, 2015

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

What idiot put the buttons on the wrong side of the joysticks? I'm a lefthanded freak and even I want buttons to be on the right side of arcade sticks

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




:nz:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Sham bam bamina! posted:

please think for two seconds about what you've typed here. hell, think about it for one.

well i mean like half the number, then the power of two

like 64->32 or 32->16 or 2->1

yes though, totally moron meaterial

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
The name "Amiga" was chosen because it is the Spanish word for (female) friend, and alphabetically it appears before Apple in lists of computer makers[1][2]

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker
so it was that close to being called amigo

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006


lol

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Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




lol holy poo poo

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