| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 22 Aug 2000 at 12:44:00 |
| Subject: | Re: The Alien Saga |
>> Can I use 'normal' PC DVD drives in the Amiga?
>
> Yes! Of course you can!
Cool. I'm a bit short of cash at the moment (I had £850 in my bank account
four weeks ago, now I've got £1.27 :-) but I'll get one as soon as I get
enough cash to do that and get my PPC repaired.
> Well if you get a real DVD player (£150 or so) and disable macrovision,
> you can copy the DVD to VHS tape ;)
:-) Not quite the same as having the proper boxes etc. though, is it? :-)
>> I could just get the Alien Saga box set on VHS from Amazon, but I'd
>> prefer to get them separately, and hten get the box set too :-) Mad or
>> what?
>
> Incredibly. But we've always thought that of you ... ;)
Ahahahahahaha... thanks :-) Mighty fine complement!
> It does - otherwise I'd be using it now on my A4000 (I have it on my A1200
> with the £20 IDE interface I have in there. I don't fancy paying £80
> though for a soddin' dongle! And I'm short on zorro slots anyway :/ )
Anyone remember the dongle for Robocop 3? The one that crackers apparently
got around about a day after release? :-)
>> Also, are there any other ways of adding a replacement serial port to my
>> Amiga that DON'T require a clockport, given that I don't have one? ;-(
>
> Yes. Tower up your A1200, get a zorro bus-board, get a zorro serial card.
Done the first bit. Z4 busboards are about £100 ain't they? And Zorro serial
cards? How much is they?
Cheers,
GazChap.
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