| From: | Donovan Reeve |
| Date: | 13 Sep 99 at 02:14:40 |
| Subject: | dead. (Well mine certainly is...) |
On 13-Sep-99, Mikkel L�kke flashed:
>Here's my two cents worth on this topic.
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>1 month ago, my AMiGA went haywire. It began with small things, like the
>keyboard not functioning properly, then the clock went dead, then the
>harddrive died, and 14 days ago, the motherboard finally refused to work
>anymore. Great, now what ? I go buy a cheap PC, because I KNOW there's
>gonna be an AMiGA out in 5 months, so using a PC for five months isn't that
>bad right ? (Boy was I ever wrong.)
>My story isn't unique either, I know at least 4 other people that have had
>the same experiences, and it's not really that surprising considering that
>the NEWEST AMiGA motherboards are a good 5 years old. Shit the one I had in
>my A4000 was from '92.
I'm in pretty much the same boat except my motherboard still limps along
(without sound and without the daughterboard/Zorro slots) so I didn't have
to resort to a cheap wintel. I still have hope that NG Amigas will still
be made by someone, but I can't wait that long. My cheapy solution is
going to be to buy an Iwin if they indeed materialise. That will actually
be a pretty good solution if they are as advertised. We'll know soon as
they claim to be planning availibility for the end of this month.
With that and Amiga OS3.5 I would be in good shape for a while.
The nece thing about the Iwins is that Blitz should continue to work on
them just fine, and of course Pure Basic will too, right Fred?
cacha later,
Donovan Reeve (bubby.lnk@ispi.net)
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