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AMIGA MISTAKES
The following is a humourous look at
some of the Commodore mistakes or
improvements that we think they
should have made. It is in no way
intended to offend Commodore or
discredit there products. Commodore
products are among the best in the
world (Ha Ha Ha Ha!), ok now for some
fun...
[A note from Effead, this file is not
intended to slag off at the Amiga,
after all Atari has done some hum
dingers itself - mouse/joystick port
for one. But it does give you an
opportunity to prepare your self for
the next "My computer is better than
your compuer" type arguments that
seem to abound in the computer
scene.]
[THE DRIVE LIGHTS
On the Amiga 500 the drive access
light is green, on the 1020 drive
they are both red. Why does the 1010
only have one red light. What
happened to the green light on the
1020. What happened to the Green
light on the 1010, it only has one
red light. Maybe there was a sale on
red lights, and there was a shortage
of green lights?
DF0: DH0:
Why is the drive called DF1, it's a
FLOPPY DRIVE, not a DRIVE FLOPPY,
maybe they did it because D and F are
beside each other on the keyboard. If
that's the reason then why is a Hard
Drive DH, its a HARD DRIVE, not a
DRIVE HARD. I only DRIVE HARD in my
CAR!.
[INSERT WORKBENCH SCREEN
Why is the picture of the hand
inserting the workbench straight up
when on the 500 you insert it from
the side. On the Amiga 1000, its
straight ahead. Have you tried
inserting it while keeping your hand
in the same position that they ask
you to.
[COMMODORE AND AMIGA
Why do some 500's have one COMMODORE
KEY and one AMIGA KEY, and other
500's have two AMIGA KEYS. Maybe
there was a sale on those too?.
[POWER SUPPLY SWITCH
Why is the power supply switch on the
power supply, I guess its ok if you
happen to be very agile with your big
toe, or if you leave it on 24hrs a
day.
[COMPUTER PORTS
Why are some ports on the 500 the
opposite gender of the ports on the
AMIGA 1000. What happened... another
sale?.
[CHECKMARK
//
Why is there the Amiga Logo \X/ on
every piece of Amiga hardware except
the Amiga 500?
[THE DRIVE CABLE
Why is the 1010 and 1020 drive cable
so short, maybe they wanted us to buy
those small, cheap, commodore desks.
The cable isn't long enough to put it
anywhere else.
[THE 1080 MODEM
Why doesn't the 1080 Modem have a
Volume Control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[THE MONITORS
Why are ther so many different
Commodore monitors available for the
Amiga, why don't they just build a
good one instead!.
[THE 1010 DRIVE
Why is it that most 1010 drives
cannot find a 1020 plugged into it,
they say in the books that you can
hook up more than one drive. If
that's true then why can't the 1010
find a 1020?.
[THE MOUSE
Why aren't there ball bearings under
my mouse, I have them on my IBM
mouse,
and it's alot better.
[INTERLACE
Why does interlace have to shake all
the time..., were they drinking too
much coffee at the time they worked
on that part of the system?
[THE INSERT WORKBENCH SCREEN
With the graphic capabilities of the
Amiga being so good, why did they put
such a bad screen at powerup.
[60 COLUMS
Why did they put the default width of
the screen at 60 columns when the
rest of the world is in 80 columns!
AMIGA ERRORS/COMMANDS AND REQUESTORS
NOT A DOS DISK:
This is supposed to mean that the
disk in the drive is not formatted,
what it really means is that the
drive SCREWED UP and you have now
lost all the information that you had
saved onto that disk!.
[SOFTWARE TASK HELD
This is the stupidest of all
requestors on the AMIGA, no matter
where you click the computer is going
to reset, and you loose everything in
RAM, if that's the case then why have
a RETRY or CANCEL option, they should
just put a message on the screen
saying "HA HA HA YOU LOOSE
EVERYTHING!".
[KEY 880 ERROR VALIDATING DISK
This is the phrase that the drive
uses when it screws up, it blames its
error on the disk validator, after
all, how are you going to know
anyway. I Think the guy who wrote
DiskDoctor invented this bug just so
we would use his program.
[NO DISK IN DRIVE
A polite way for the computer to say
to you, "LOOK AT THE DRIVE STUPID, DO
YOU SEE A DISK, I DON'T"
[NO DISK IN DRIVE (part2)
There is a disk, but the computer
wants you to look at the drive
because while you do that, it takes a
break.
[CAN'T OPEN RE-DIRECTION FILE
This means the computer is just as
lost as you are, you don't know
what's happening, and neither does
it!.
[CAN'T OPEN SERIAL DEVICE
This is the computers way of telling
you it doesn't feel like talking to
another computer.
[PLEASE INSERT WORKBENCH 1.2 IN ANY
[DRIVE
This is just a test to see if you
still happen to own the workbench 1.2
disk, and make you search through
hundreds of game disks.
[VOLUME RAM: IS FULL
This is the computers way of telling
you that its time to buy a ram
expansion module or start deleting
the garbage you have in there at the
moment.
[FILE IS NOT AN OBJECT MODULE
This is the computers way of telling
you, Stop fooling arround in the CLI
and load the workbench.
[INSERT VOLUME L IN ANY DRIVE
How many disks do you have named "L"?
[DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED
This is the computers way of telling
you that it can't write the VIRUS on
the disk until you remove the write
protect tab!.
[UNKNOWN COMMAND
The computer is telling you that you
have assigned your C directory to
some forgotten place, or you typed
wrong again.
[FAILED RETURN CODE 20
The computer displays this error just
so you will have to go through 50
pages of the AMIGA book to try and
find out what it means. Meanwhile the
CPU goes for a coffee.
[DISKCHANGE
This is used on the 1020 because the
drive is too stupid to know when a
disk has been removed or inserted. To
see how stupid the 1020 really is,
remove the disk and do a diskchange
without having one in the drive. You
will see that the drive doesn't even
do anything or display anything.
Stupid eh.
[DISKCOPY
This tells the computer to copy the
same errors onto the other disk!.
[WHY
Gives you an unexplainable detailed
uncomprihensible explanation of a
situation you already don't
understand.
[VOLUME DF0: IS FULL
The computer tell you that there is
no more room on disk, it doesn't tell
you that this is due to all the
garbage you have to have on disk just
to make the computer run.. ex. LIBS,
DEVS,L,C,S, directorys.