Thursday, February 24, 2005
Torn!
Greetings,
It may come as a surprise, but my mommy decide to give me a brand new, fully loaded, P.C.
A probable specification maybe P4 2GHz. My craving for something new kicks-in like a tiger on its prey! Even my wife thinks it likewise. My wife is also considering to get a cheaper PC for their family. Now I'm thinking, maybe giving-up my A500 would be nice, since all they have to do is only word processor. I have pro-write and final writer 2(installed in my A1200). I also have an old Epson LX800 printer which it badly needs a new ribbon. ATM the A500 is not with me right now, cause I pawned it to my good friend, Edwin. Now I was thinking to pay it soon as they need it. However, the disk drive needs a lot of maintenance. When you insert the disk, the switch that detects the presence of a floppy disk is not entirely 'clean'. Sometimes you have to re-insert it in order for it to be detected. That's the only problem. Now, getting a replacement is another problem. That's where my friend Ross steps in to replace it. I don't mind a Double density drive. Anyone who needs to begin learning Amiga should start here. Since the people my wife's brother would have it.
Besides, Giving my Amiga500 would be a good start. I just hope they take good care of my baby. They'll just need a new T.V. monitor for it. This could really get expensive. I don't have a monitor for it and I'm not ready to go out and invest into one. Now a multi-system T.V. is affordable. . The other problem is my A1200. I still need the baby. At least in programming and audio editing, that's all, but with a new PC, it can be a video editing monster, much powerful than my measly A1200. 10 folds even. My plans of getting a new A1 or micro A1 system is torn between an X86 machine which can do more than my present system right now. That's what's been hapenning in the Amiga community right now. Torn between a new system and a classic one. The only hope is that KMOS would do some marketing scheme to, at least, promote a new Amiga. I doubt it for now. Even if they do right now, it would be too expensive. Maybe as expensive to an IMac. The IMac can do a lot than a PC I could think of. In terms of functionality or tyhe works, in general.
I'm just torn personally on what to do with my Amiga and it's not pretty good. I can't maintain this much longer. Although, I can still use it. I just don't want to use the PC much than it. I have winuae, I can run it there too. Just that, It's not the real mccoy! The Amiga feel is what I will miss. It's rather different when you're using a PC or Amiga or Emulated Amiga on a PC. Emulation relies on the hardware too. But I like a real pure breed Amiga. Getting torn here is not my ideal PC based amiga in mind. This is ggetting too sad for me to continue on. So I'll just stop for now.
On the other hand, I've been on my site lately, and boy, I tried everything to get people to visit it. I'm still wondering how deal with getting more hits and getting more members registered. It's just plain tough after all. I'd rather moderate the site than playing the waiting game. I envy the other forum sites that had hundreds of members. I wish I have it too., Well life has to go on I guess.
Till next blog!
Regards,
GiZz72
It may come as a surprise, but my mommy decide to give me a brand new, fully loaded, P.C.
A probable specification maybe P4 2GHz. My craving for something new kicks-in like a tiger on its prey! Even my wife thinks it likewise. My wife is also considering to get a cheaper PC for their family. Now I'm thinking, maybe giving-up my A500 would be nice, since all they have to do is only word processor. I have pro-write and final writer 2(installed in my A1200). I also have an old Epson LX800 printer which it badly needs a new ribbon. ATM the A500 is not with me right now, cause I pawned it to my good friend, Edwin. Now I was thinking to pay it soon as they need it. However, the disk drive needs a lot of maintenance. When you insert the disk, the switch that detects the presence of a floppy disk is not entirely 'clean'. Sometimes you have to re-insert it in order for it to be detected. That's the only problem. Now, getting a replacement is another problem. That's where my friend Ross steps in to replace it. I don't mind a Double density drive. Anyone who needs to begin learning Amiga should start here. Since the people my wife's brother would have it.Besides, Giving my Amiga500 would be a good start. I just hope they take good care of my baby.
They'll just need a new T.V. monitor for it. This could really get expensive. I don't have a monitor for it and I'm not ready to go out and invest into one. Now a multi-system T.V. is affordable. . The other problem is my A1200. I still need the baby. At least in programming and audio editing, that's all, but with a new PC, it can be a video editing monster, much powerful than my measly A1200. 10 folds even. My plans of getting a new A1 or micro A1 system is torn between an X86 machine which can do more than my present system right now. That's what's been hapenning in the Amiga community right now. Torn between a new system and a classic one. The only hope is that KMOS would do some marketing scheme to, at least, promote a new Amiga. I doubt it for now. Even if they do right now, it would be too expensive. Maybe as expensive to an IMac. The IMac can do a lot than a PC I could think of. In terms of functionality or tyhe works, in general.I'm just torn personally on what to do with my Amiga and it's not pretty good. I can't maintain this much longer. Although, I can still use it. I just don't want to use the PC much than it. I have winuae, I can run it there too. Just that, It's not the real mccoy! The Amiga feel is what I will miss. It's rather different when you're using a PC or Amiga or Emulated Amiga on a PC. Emulation relies on the hardware too. But I like a real pure breed Amiga. Getting torn here is not my ideal PC based amiga in mind.
This is ggetting too sad for me to continue on. So I'll just stop for now.On the other hand, I've been on my site lately, and boy, I tried everything to get people to visit it. I'm still wondering how deal with getting more hits and getting more members registered. It's just plain tough after all. I'd rather moderate the site than playing the waiting game. I envy the other forum sites that had hundreds of members. I wish I have it too.
, Well life has to go on I guess. Till next blog!
Regards,
GiZz72
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