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Re: Amiga Forever

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Post by unwind »

Meta: perhaps this should have the new version number ("10") added to the title.

According to Wikipedia [1] release 10 is five days old which would seem to make it news-worthy.

I think Cloanto could work a little bit on their webpage's look, and add release history (or at least release date) so it's easier to figure out if it's really NEW as they state in their headline.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Forever

Re: Amiga Forever

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Post by mrwh »

I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200, and whether any of the games I wrote for myself way back when, in Amos and then Amiga E, are still recoverable. Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory. I'll try though.

Re: Amiga Forever

#6

Post by TheChaplain »

mrwh wrote: post #4

I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200, and whether any of the games I wrote for myself way back when, in Amos and then Amiga E, are still recoverable. Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory. I'll try though.

Do try. I'm certain the Amiga community would love to see it.

Re: Amiga Forever

#7

Post by xd »

mrwh wrote: post #4

I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200, and whether any of the games I wrote for myself way back when, in Amos and then Amiga E, are still recoverable. Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory. I'll try though.

Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory.

I came across an old box of 3.5 discs a few years back that I had stored away since the early 90's. I recovered them using ddrescue to create images using a cheap USB floppy drive.. was great fun.

Re: Amiga Forever

#8

Post by ultrablack »

Daviey wrote: post #3

I'm always touched seeing Amiga content, it really changed my view on technology and drove me into my career. I did think to myself, wouldn't it be funny if they had a Guru Meditation error on 404 page errors, and of course they do: https://www.amigaforever.com/some_page_that_doesnt_exist/

Good times :)

When I want some time to myself at work, I book meetings with the title "Guru meditation". Obviously. :)

Re: Amiga Forever

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Post by zozbot234 »

mrwh wrote: post #4

I'm returning to my childhood home in a couple of days after many years away, and now I'm wondering about searching the attic for my A1200, and whether any of the games I wrote for myself way back when, in Amos and then Amiga E, are still recoverable. Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory. I'll try though.

Please recap your old hardware before powering it on, and use a newly made power supply - way too much stuff gets fried when people neglect these things. Also if your Amiga has a working RTC, that's powered by a battery that will often leak and ruin your motherboard. So you'd need to replace that as well.
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