I remember laughing at PC users like you for spending a hell of a lot more for no sound, no sprites or hardware scrolling, no multitasking, almost no colours, lower storage on floppy disks, no joystick ports, no games, no graphical OS. If you wanted improvements to that you had to spend even more on add-on cards. I was playing games on my 576i RGB display with excellent sound, thousands of colours, built in joystick ports, and getting it all for £400. Yes, I was doing the laughing.
I didn't get problems with it crashing much. You must be reading the internet written by PC users.
I'd say the Amiga was doing fine until the mid 90s, just as the PC was starting to get a graphical OS. I'd had a better one since 87, and the Amiga had been around since 85. I used mine every day until 2001.
Yes, I've never had one, too. I had a mobile phone forced on me several years ago (no internet, pay as you go, almost pointless camera, tiny screen - about 1 inch), but I only use it for incoming calls. I get maybe 1 a month. I have a phone at home and work, and the same with the Internet. If I'm not at either of those it means I'm doing something.
You've misunderstood what I meant by 'properly'. I meant as a computer and not just a games machine. Some people never did anything apart from put in a game, play it, then switch it off. They never used the graphical operating system with a hard drive.
I used mine for playing games, programming, video production, making music, graphics work, printing, video and audio digitising, word processing, spreadsheets, emails, internet access, 3D modelling, emulation, and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment. Pretty much anything I ever wanted to do. That's what I call using it properly. I had hard drives, a CD drive, a Zip drive, plus a printer. I actually still have it all now. Next to me.
You needed less special training to use an Amiga that you did to get a game running on a PC by setting IRQs and messing with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat, that's for sure.
It's say it was something like 10 years ahead of the PC. While the PC was making beeps and showing 16 hideous colours on a DOS screen, with no proper scrolling, hardware sprites, multi-tasking, etc. Oh, and paying about 3 times as much for it.
The Amiga is the best computer ever made, and I doubt anything else in the future will have such a massive leap forward from what's around at the time.
The people who used one properly (not just to play games), realise what an incredible machine it was, and still is.
I always have write caching turned off. Windows has the Quick Removal option, so why would it be there and be called that if it wasn't there to allow you to pull it out? I never ejected a flash drive in XP and never had a problem. In Win 7 I almost always do, as it doesn't seem to work properly, but at work we have a Win 10 laptop and 90% of the time it doesn't allow me to eject (warning message pops up), so I have to either reboot (yeah, right), or just pull it out and hope for the best.
Why don't flash drives work the same as floppy disks? We never had a problem ejecting those.
The one on my 1987 Amiga A500. It's astonishingly good. I loved using the IBM Model M, but the A500 one is better. It was made by HI-TEK and I think gets called the Space Invader keyboard because of the shape of the plastic parts under the keys.
I really wish I could buy one like that for the PC.
I suppose it depends were you live. Small villages in the middle of nowhere may still get them, but I can't remember in which decade we last had a power cut.
I set a PC up for someone at work a week or two ago, the next day it put an update on and reset the entire Start menu tile configuration I'd spent about 15 minutes sorting out, so I had to set it all up again.
A couple of days later my Dad said "I don't know what happened to this laptop. All my programs have gone and I have to manually search for everything now." Yes, it had deleted all his Start menu, too. What a total F#'#'*&$£ pile of $#!t3. This should be illegal. If I went into someone's house and re-arranged their rooms without asking I'd expect the police to be knocking on my door.
I only moved to Win 7 because of the end of life with XP, but I can't see me moving off Win 7, ever.
I was forced to create a gmail account for youtube and it would't work with dots. In fact my email address there mocks them for not having them, as my original choice would have made me look female (similar to my example). My Dad's also got rid of the dots and makes his name look foreign. My brother's strips out the dots and looks incredibly unprofessional. He tried several times to get the dots to stay. They didn't.
GMail is the worst email provider I've ever seen because they don't accept a dot in it, which is the most important thing in an email address apart from the @ sign. I still find it hard to believe I'm not seeing things when I see a gmail address without a dot. Not only does it look totally hideous having your name merge intoabigcontinuousunreadablemess, but it makes people's names become other names e.g. Paul Smith already exists, so Paul uses his middle initial and becomes paul.a.smith@domain in a proper email system. In gmail he/she becomes paulasmith. Is this Paul or Paula? The number of combinations of names is also massively reduced. I hate gmail with a passion because of this. You wouldn't actually believe how much I hate it. It's breaking email. I'm actually pounding my keyboard typing this as I'm so annoyed by it.
I HATE the HR term, and I always say pretty much what you said there, a resource is something you use up and discard when you've finished with it. I find it offensive. I still call it the Personnel Department whenever I write or speak about it. I called the room 'Personnel' on our system at work.
Certainly anything that uses electricity (I've been asked to fix a kettle once). Anything related to anything that uses electricity (moving desks, because they have computers on them). Etc.
I started with A Vic-20 as we used PETs at school and the computer teacher had a Vic-20 (all the same BASIC). Then I got a C64, Amiga A500, A1200, then sadly in 2001 I changed to PCs:-(
I worked at a place where someone went on maternity leave and had an Out of Office set up that somehow ended up causing an infinite loop as soon as someone sent her an email. I forget how it happened, but it was fun watching hundreds and thousands of emails appearing in everyone's inbox for a few minutes until they pulled the plug on it.
I have a 2013 Fiesta, and the only part of the car that doesn't work is Sync. Almost every time I start the car, my USB has to re-index, then I spend a minute getting back to where I was (as it's lost the song you were up to) trying not to crash in the process. It did it twice yesterday.
I used to go to the cinema maybe every month or two, but then the price went from the 'Early Bird' cheap ticket that was about £4, to a ludicrous £11. The adverts went from about 12 minutes to about half an hour.
What possible incentive does this give me to go? None. None incentive. Incentive to the value of none.
I only go these days when something like a Terminator, Alien, or Star Wars film is released.
I went to the US on holiday in 1997 and one of the memories from that trip was how I was treated at customs. Nothing major, but I felt like I was a criminal, with all the questioning. Since then they have added fingerprints and eye scans. I've never been back.
My own government doesn't have my fingerprints or eye scans, so there is no way in hell, I'm giving stuff like that to a foreign country.
If they want to keep tourists out, then they are doing a good job.
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I wasn't meaning to dismiss the games. I played thousands of Amiga games. I was just highlighting the other things that some people missed out on.
I wrote my A level project on my Amiga 500. I got the top score in the class for the programming part of the course :-)
I remember laughing at PC users like you for spending a hell of a lot more for no sound, no sprites or hardware scrolling, no multitasking, almost no colours, lower storage on floppy disks, no joystick ports, no games, no graphical OS. If you wanted improvements to that you had to spend even more on add-on cards. I was playing games on my 576i RGB display with excellent sound, thousands of colours, built in joystick ports, and getting it all for £400. Yes, I was doing the laughing.
I didn't get problems with it crashing much. You must be reading the internet written by PC users.
I'd say the Amiga was doing fine until the mid 90s, just as the PC was starting to get a graphical OS. I'd had a better one since 87, and the Amiga had been around since 85. I used mine every day until 2001.
I don't think the jump from an Amiga to an Arc was bigger than from a C64/DOS PC to an Amiga, so I still think it was the biggest jump we've seen.
Yes, I've never had one, too. I had a mobile phone forced on me several years ago (no internet, pay as you go, almost pointless camera, tiny screen - about 1 inch), but I only use it for incoming calls. I get maybe 1 a month. I have a phone at home and work, and the same with the Internet. If I'm not at either of those it means I'm doing something.
You've misunderstood what I meant by 'properly'. I meant as a computer and not just a games machine. Some people never did anything apart from put in a game, play it, then switch it off. They never used the graphical operating system with a hard drive.
I used mine for playing games, programming, video production, making music, graphics work, printing, video and audio digitising, word processing, spreadsheets, emails, internet access, 3D modelling, emulation, and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment. Pretty much anything I ever wanted to do. That's what I call using it properly. I had hard drives, a CD drive, a Zip drive, plus a printer. I actually still have it all now. Next to me.
You needed less special training to use an Amiga that you did to get a game running on a PC by setting IRQs and messing with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat, that's for sure.
It's say it was something like 10 years ahead of the PC. While the PC was making beeps and showing 16 hideous colours on a DOS screen, with no proper scrolling, hardware sprites, multi-tasking, etc. Oh, and paying about 3 times as much for it.
Because Commodore management messed it up.
The Amiga is the best computer ever made, and I doubt anything else in the future will have such a massive leap forward from what's around at the time.
The people who used one properly (not just to play games), realise what an incredible machine it was, and still is.
I always have write caching turned off. Windows has the Quick Removal option, so why would it be there and be called that if it wasn't there to allow you to pull it out?
I never ejected a flash drive in XP and never had a problem. In Win 7 I almost always do, as it doesn't seem to work properly, but at work we have a Win 10 laptop and 90% of the time it doesn't allow me to eject (warning message pops up), so I have to either reboot (yeah, right), or just pull it out and hope for the best.
Why don't flash drives work the same as floppy disks? We never had a problem ejecting those.
The one on my 1987 Amiga A500. It's astonishingly good. I loved using the IBM Model M, but the A500 one is better. It was made by HI-TEK and I think gets called the Space Invader keyboard because of the shape of the plastic parts under the keys.
I really wish I could buy one like that for the PC.
This "Aliens" themed one was released yesterday:
https://psytronik.itch.io/orga...
I suppose it depends were you live. Small villages in the middle of nowhere may still get them, but I can't remember in which decade we last had a power cut.
Same here. I used Directory Opus for about 10 years on the Amiga and now I use it on the PC. It's too expensive, but I got it when they had a sale.
Before that I used Cubic Explorer, which I use at work. That one's free.
I set a PC up for someone at work a week or two ago, the next day it put an update on and reset the entire Start menu tile configuration I'd spent about 15 minutes sorting out, so I had to set it all up again.
A couple of days later my Dad said "I don't know what happened to this laptop. All my programs have gone and I have to manually search for everything now." Yes, it had deleted all his Start menu, too. What a total F#'#'*&$£ pile of $#!t3. This should be illegal. If I went into someone's house and re-arranged their rooms without asking I'd expect the police to be knocking on my door.
I only moved to Win 7 because of the end of life with XP, but I can't see me moving off Win 7, ever.
I was forced to create a gmail account for youtube and it would't work with dots. In fact my email address there mocks them for not having them, as my original choice would have made me look female (similar to my example).
My Dad's also got rid of the dots and makes his name look foreign.
My brother's strips out the dots and looks incredibly unprofessional. He tried several times to get the dots to stay. They didn't.
GMail is the worst email provider I've ever seen because they don't accept a dot in it, which is the most important thing in an email address apart from the @ sign. I still find it hard to believe I'm not seeing things when I see a gmail address without a dot. Not only does it look totally hideous having your name merge intoabigcontinuousunreadablemess, but it makes people's names become other names e.g. Paul Smith already exists, so Paul uses his middle initial and becomes paul.a.smith@domain in a proper email system. In gmail he/she becomes paulasmith. Is this Paul or Paula? The number of combinations of names is also massively reduced. I hate gmail with a passion because of this. You wouldn't actually believe how much I hate it. It's breaking email. I'm actually pounding my keyboard typing this as I'm so annoyed by it.
I'll stop now. And calm down.
The Personnel Department, as I mentioned above.
I'm not the only one!
I HATE the HR term, and I always say pretty much what you said there, a resource is something you use up and discard when you've finished with it. I find it offensive. I still call it the Personnel Department whenever I write or speak about it. I called the room 'Personnel' on our system at work.
I'm not a resource, I'm a person.
Certainly anything that uses electricity (I've been asked to fix a kettle once).
Anything related to anything that uses electricity (moving desks, because they have computers on them).
Etc.
Similar to me.
I started with A Vic-20 as we used PETs at school and the computer teacher had a Vic-20 (all the same BASIC). Then I got a C64, Amiga A500, A1200, then sadly in 2001 I changed to PCs :-(
Yep, I listen to those, too. And "The Retro Hour".
I was hoping for Uridium to get in there. Didn't these scientists have C64s?
I worked at a place where someone went on maternity leave and had an Out of Office set up that somehow ended up causing an infinite loop as soon as someone sent her an email. I forget how it happened, but it was fun watching hundreds and thousands of emails appearing in everyone's inbox for a few minutes until they pulled the plug on it.
I have a 2013 Fiesta, and the only part of the car that doesn't work is Sync. Almost every time I start the car, my USB has to re-index, then I spend a minute getting back to where I was (as it's lost the song you were up to) trying not to crash in the process. It did it twice yesterday.
I used to go to the cinema maybe every month or two, but then the price went from the 'Early Bird' cheap ticket that was about £4, to a ludicrous £11. The adverts went from about 12 minutes to about half an hour.
What possible incentive does this give me to go? None. None incentive. Incentive to the value of none.
I only go these days when something like a Terminator, Alien, or Star Wars film is released.
I went to the US on holiday in 1997 and one of the memories from that trip was how I was treated at customs. Nothing major, but I felt like I was a criminal, with all the questioning. Since then they have added fingerprints and eye scans. I've never been back.
My own government doesn't have my fingerprints or eye scans, so there is no way in hell, I'm giving stuff like that to a foreign country.
If they want to keep tourists out, then they are doing a good job.
England. And I'm male.
One of the girls upstairs was wearing a coat on Friday, which I found amusing.
A month ago it was ludicrously hot at work, as the chiller wasn't working. It got to 30 at one point.