IF they manage to get something SPECIAL, MIGHTY and IMPRESSIVE done, Ill will be very likely to buy it - and would it be just to remember the good old days. Back in 1987 my first amiga cost me quite a lot, but then I had to pay it by working after school and pocketmoney.
"Never had sex" is already sad, but "Never had an amiga" really sucks:-)
Sure you can upgrade an Amiga with Voodoo, Permedia2, PPC604e, 256MB RAM, UW-SCSI, 16Bit-Sound and so on but it costs a terrible-amount of money - expect for a uptodate-amiga something around $8000 as a minimum. I know better ways to get rid of that awfull number of bucks (most are illegal in religious nations:-)
But you can also upgrade a CBM-64 to a 65416-66Mhz, 16MB RAM, 2GB Harddisk and CDROM but again I don`t think its worth it.
I simply put my good old miggy (hey, the mighty Amiga3000 with 18MB-RAM, 1,4GB Harddrive, SVGA, Ethernet, MultiIO and so on in the slickest case mankind has seen until today:-) in a dry position and use it where I need it, but don`t invest anything into it.
I`ll better buy more RAM for my server or a RivaTNT for Quake:-)
>Sorry, but you've completely mis-remembered George >Miller's research. He was researching memory span, >not simultaneous tasking -- the two are quite >different. Miller found that after a single >presentation people could remember, on average, >seven separate items, be they numbers, words, etc.
That wouldn`t be something new, I learned that ten years ago in school:-)
The brain is using tokens for it`s short- and midterm-memories. Most humans feature between four and eight, most have six tokens. Therefore human concisness basicly comes down to the number of his tokens and their individual level of abstraction - sometimes people need two tokens for one thing where others only need one.
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About the QL... it was a COOL beast!
Back in 1983 it features a MC68008 8/32Bit-CPU, with full 32Bit internal support and gfx up to 512x256 for a price of today 1000Euro. Really, it could have rocked...
But Sir Sinclair, despite beeing Founder of my origin, misserably failed at marketing.
Initially he announced the QL for the german market "very soon". It took him two years to figure out how to adapt it to the german market, one other year to finally deliver it. At least he charged the same price... also 1000Euro, while the UK-version was somewhere around 400Euro. Oh, did I mention, that he didn`t sell any UK-versions in germany meanwhile?
So I finally bought an Amiga, which was cheaper an more powerfull.
It has 1k RAM, inkluding videoram. The whole Mainboard of the ZX81 consisted of about four ICs and we rebuild it for less than $20 in 1982. To be honest, I wasn`t impressed, my first CBM3032 at 1980 was much more powerfull and sophisticated - but also 50x more expensive (damnit, twenty years ago... I am getting old and I also feal like that:-)
I am a fan of linuxgames.com since the very early days and visit it at least once a week.
Without doubt linuxgames.com brought a bigger audience towards linux and it could be the foothold to get linux onto desktops.
Btw, linuxgames was already shown on nation-wide german/european television at several occasions (at least once at wdr3 and twice on giga-nbc and not, don`t flame me, I never watch giga-nbc:-).
Now about the new layout. Not bad, but... I liked the old more. The new one is using tiny fonts, needs a huge and wide window (850 pixels at least) and I don`t like the yellow background. imho of course.
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Your last point is a good one,
:-)
IF they manage to get something SPECIAL, MIGHTY and IMPRESSIVE done, Ill will be very likely to buy it - and would it be just to remember the good old days. Back in 1987 my first amiga cost me quite a lot, but then I had to pay it by working after school and pocketmoney.
"Never had sex" is already sad, but "Never had an amiga" really sucks
Sure you can upgrade an Amiga with Voodoo, Permedia2, PPC604e, 256MB RAM, UW-SCSI, 16Bit-Sound and so on but it costs a terrible-amount of money - expect for a uptodate-amiga something around $8000 as a minimum. :-)
:-) in a dry position and use it where I need it, but don`t invest anything into it.
:-)
I know better ways to get rid of that awfull number of bucks (most are illegal in religious nations
But you can also upgrade a CBM-64 to a 65416-66Mhz, 16MB RAM, 2GB Harddisk and CDROM but again I don`t think its worth it.
I simply put my good old miggy (hey, the mighty Amiga3000 with 18MB-RAM, 1,4GB Harddrive, SVGA, Ethernet, MultiIO and so on in the slickest case mankind has seen until today
I`ll better buy more RAM for my server or a RivaTNT for Quake
In 1984 memory-protection actually did slow down systems. The PMMU of an MC68000 ate $30 and could slow systems down by 10-30%.
:-)
And up to today memory-protection is a feature, not a neccecarity. Hey, Windows doesn`t have it until now and Bill can`t be wrong, can he?
Until 1994 not even one important massplatform OS featured memory-protection, why should have AmigaOS back in early 1984?
>Sorry, but you've completely mis-remembered George
:-)
>Miller's research. He was researching memory span,
>not simultaneous tasking -- the two are quite
>different. Miller found that after a single
>presentation people could remember, on average,
>seven separate items, be they numbers, words, etc.
That wouldn`t be something new, I learned that ten years ago in school
The brain is using tokens for it`s short- and midterm-memories. Most humans feature between four and eight, most have six tokens.
Therefore human concisness basicly comes down to the number of his tokens and their individual level of abstraction - sometimes people need two tokens for one thing where others only need one.
About the QL... it was a COOL beast!
Back in 1983 it features a MC68008 8/32Bit-CPU, with full 32Bit internal support and gfx up to 512x256 for a price of today 1000Euro. Really, it could have rocked...
But Sir Sinclair, despite beeing Founder of my origin, misserably failed at marketing.
Initially he announced the QL for the german market "very soon". It took him two years to figure out how to adapt it to the german market, one other year to finally deliver it. At least he charged the same price... also 1000Euro, while the UK-version was somewhere around 400Euro. Oh, did I mention, that he didn`t sell any UK-versions in germany meanwhile?
So I finally bought an Amiga, which was cheaper an more powerfull.
Boy, that was a dead cat.
It has 1k RAM, inkluding videoram. The whole Mainboard of the ZX81 consisted of about four ICs and we rebuild it for less than $20 in 1982. To be honest, I wasn`t impressed, my first CBM3032 at 1980 was much more powerfull and sophisticated - but also 50x more expensive (damnit, twenty years ago... I am getting old and I also feal like that :-)
Press Ctrl Alt + or Ctrl Alt - to change resolution.
Voila!
I am a fan of linuxgames.com since the very early days and visit it at least once a week.
:-).
Without doubt linuxgames.com brought a bigger audience towards linux and it could be the foothold to get linux onto desktops.
Btw, linuxgames was already shown on nation-wide german/european television at several occasions (at least once at wdr3 and twice on giga-nbc and not, don`t flame me, I never watch giga-nbc
Now about the new layout. Not bad, but... I liked the old more. The new one is using tiny fonts, needs a huge and wide window (850 pixels at least) and I don`t like the yellow background. imho of course.