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PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 21:14 
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Also... How come you're selling it?

Because it's worth £250

Fuuuck.

How much is a bare 1200 worth with a mouse?

In all honesty, around £100. The 1200 is easily upgraded, so quite sought after


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I sold my fully working A1200 with 80Mb hard disc for about... £20? With a stack of boxed games (admittedly few still worked). That was in 2003. Regret it now, even though I hadn't used it since 1996, well, apart from a week in June 2001.


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The accelerator card is a big chunk of the value, as it lets you play all the WHDLoad games from a hard drive.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 22:12 
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Sell all your Amigas to me. I need more plastic wedges.

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Sell all your Amigas to me. I need more plastic wedges.

Deal. £250 it is


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Not to hijack the thread or anything, but last night I downloaded a handy compilation including Rainbow Islands, Bubble Bobble and Parasol Stars for my CD32.

These games are brilliant. I love my CD32.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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Poor cd32. Released at least a year too late and marketed by morons. How was it ever going to compete with the PlayStation?


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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I sold my A1200T with '060 accelerator and Mediator PCI interface (+Voodoo3) for £400 in 2003.

Get the impression I should have kept it, probably worth more than my house these days.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 13:58 
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Sell all your Amigas to me. I need more plastic wedges.

Deal. £250 it is

Eek! Abort, abort! It was joke... I don't even know what £250 looks like.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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Have you used Amibay? I sold off my amiga stuff on there, all very easy.


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Have you used Amibay? I sold off my amiga stuff on there, all very easy.

No, but I'm not getting any bites on Facebook so I might give it a go


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 0:34 
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Anyone remember Granny's Garden from primary school on the old BBC Micro? Well, there's an Amiga version. Y'know, for the kids...


I sat at a BBC emulator until I finished Granny's Garden, probably six years or so ago now.

The end is bastardly unfair. No wonder very few people bothered.

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That's not very nice is it?


Should have trusted those first instincts really.

Wish I'd spent that time typing swearwords into PODD instead.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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A live Amiga Power reunion(!), 21 April 2016, London N1. Cam Winstanley has already confirmed on Twitter that he is attending.

https://membership.theguardian.com/even ... 2226993536


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Whuut.

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Some other dude also going...


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Pretty sure that was an opportunity for a link, there

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Can't remember it.

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Sorry, SAVY.

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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75p and a packet of Rolos. An unopened packet.

They're really rare! Most of them are opened with just one left.


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:37 
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A live Amiga Power reunion(!), 21 April 2016, London N1. Cam Winstanley has already confirmed on Twitter that he is attending.

https://membership.theguardian.com/even ... 2226993536


Did anyone go to this?


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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
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Oh yeah. No. I would have liked to, though.

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Did you get a J Nash photo?

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 Post subject: Re: Amiga!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:47 
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*boink*

I did. It was pretty fun. :attitude: was genuinely funny and excellently snarky about various things, most of the rest of the panel were great and did their best.


Do you know if anyone was filming it? Even just a smartphone video uploaded to YouTube would be worth a watch.

I enjoy watching Stu in action, even if it's just him blatantly pretending on the telly that a PC DIMM holds fruit machine programs.


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mrak wrote:
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*boink*

I did. It was pretty fun. :attitude: was genuinely funny and excellently snarky about various things, most of the rest of the panel were great and did their best.


Do you know if anyone was filming it? Even just a smartphone video uploaded to YouTube would be worth a watch.

I enjoy watching Stu in action, even if it's just him blatantly pretending on the telly that a PC DIMM holds fruit machine programs.


Not that I've yet seen. There are some photos on Twitter but they're all pretty sterile.


Knew I should have gone!

Kind of glad there're still no photos of Jonathan Nash. He was my favourite writer in my teens, and I greatly enjoyed taking at surface the cartoon image he crafted of himself. There's too little whimsy in this hard, cynical world, and I honour him for it. Let me keep my little joyful mysteries.

Glad it was a good time for all as well. Ahh, I miss AP.

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https://soundcloud.com/romaudio/the-amiga-power-reunion

Here's a recording of the evening. Not quite a video, but it'll do.


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I was meaning to ask this the other day.

Many years ago now I procured an Amiga very late into its life. I would say, ooo, 1995? something like that. Any way, somewhere within the bog standard boot up there was an app that allowed you to type things and it would speak, much like Currah speech on the spectrum only miles better. In my boredom one day I decided to plug the Amiga into my tape recorder and type in "computer cusses" mainly about people's mothers and so on. The other night I was really laughing about it and was wondering if an emulator would do this? if so, what app is it that makes the Amiga do this? I'd love to recreate the sound files (I still remember what cusses they were and how they sounded, I'm so god damned mature).

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I was meaning to ask this the other day.

Many years ago now I procured an Amiga very late into its life. I would say, ooo, 1995? something like that. Any way, somewhere within the bog standard boot up there was an app that allowed you to type things and it would speak, much like Currah speech on the spectrum only miles better. In my boredom one day I decided to plug the Amiga into my tape recorder and type in "computer cusses" mainly about people's mothers and so on. The other night I was really laughing about it and was wondering if an emulator would do this? if so, what app is it that makes the Amiga do this? I'd love to recreate the sound files (I still remember what cusses they were and how they sounded, I'm so god damned mature).

It's strange that you say it was a very late Amiga, because this feature was actually removed in Workbench 3 and onwards (possibly even 2.1), probably to save on license fees.

Anyway, just boot up an unmodified Workbench disk, version 1.3 or 2.0, and there should be a program called Say in the Utilities drawer. The 2.0 version was improved quite a bit, so they don't sound the same.


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The Amiga in a browser that someone linked to was workbench 2 I believe


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I was meaning to ask this the other day.

Many years ago now I procured an Amiga very late into its life. I would say, ooo, 1995? something like that. Any way, somewhere within the bog standard boot up there was an app that allowed you to type things and it would speak, much like Currah speech on the spectrum only miles better. In my boredom one day I decided to plug the Amiga into my tape recorder and type in "computer cusses" mainly about people's mothers and so on. The other night I was really laughing about it and was wondering if an emulator would do this? if so, what app is it that makes the Amiga do this? I'd love to recreate the sound files (I still remember what cusses they were and how they sounded, I'm so god damned mature).

It's strange that you say it was a very late Amiga, because this feature was actually removed in Workbench 3 and onwards (possibly even 2.1), probably to save on license fees.

Anyway, just boot up an unmodified Workbench disk, version 1.3 or 2.0, and there should be a program called Say in the Utilities drawer. The 2.0 version was improved quite a bit, so they don't sound the same.


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A naffo-o Android box that emulates the Amiga, yuck... (and only the Amiga 500??)

With an Amiga-compatible floppy drive BUILT IN? Woah. Now that's a start.

£95 for the Armiga, £135 for the floppy Armiga. Not really an impulse buy.

How much for JUST the floppy drive bit? :)

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In my boredom one day I decided to plug the Amiga into my tape recorder and type in "computer cusses" mainly about people's mothers and so on.


Ha ha ha, I did that too - I was copying (tape to tape on my 'ghetto blaster') the Foo Fighters first album* for my friend Brendan. Every now and then, I'd stop the tape and connect the stereo to the Amiga and have it say rude things like 'Brendan is a tramp' before going back to the music.

It came as a big surprise, it was very funny and everyone appreciated the joke, even trampy Brendan.

(* I think the other side was 'All Boro Kings' by Dog Eat Dog..... I'm not proud of buying that album, it was pants)

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I must have had loads of time on my hands years ago as I took a song that my old band had recorded on my multi track, muted the vocals and replaced them with the Amiga talking.

I still have it somewhere... If there's any interest, I'll upload it.


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I must have had loads of time on my hands years ago as I took a song that my old band had recorded on my multi track, muted the vocals and replaced them with the Amiga talking.

I still have it somewhere... If there's any interest, I'll upload it.

Yup


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Here you go, the quality is pretty poor as it was taped from a C90 but you get the idea... All done in my bedroom that!

*edit* I've also uploaded the original with proper lyrics so you can see what it's all about.


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