Can't believe another year is... almost over? Wow.

Last week or so I've been down an obsessive rabbit hole (like, manically focused on one thing, as I often do) with AMIGA emulation. I grew up with Commodores -- mostly Vic20 and C64 -- and the whole Amiga era really
passed me by as I owned mostly MS-DOS/WIN PCs in the 90's. But I was
always envious of my cool, artsy Amiga friends. Def. seemed like a much
bigger thing over in the UK than the US, but maybe just me?

So I want to personally thank (blame?) Paulie420 for igniting my latest obsession - with just a mention of "Pimiga 2.0 is out!" - shit, I was a
goner.

I've built and config'd about 10 Amiga VMs--first with Pimiga (brilliant project), then with stock 3.1, 3.1.4, 3.2 Workbenches using WinUAE,
FS-UAE. It's like the easiest thing in the world, how did I not know it existed??

But I finally landed on a build I'll keep for a while -- I extracted
Pimiga's Amiberry guts and loaded them on WinUAE on my unused PC. Man, it SCREAMS, and no crashes from my beat-up Pi4! It's loaded with 1,000's of goodies -- games, music, videos, a terminal, etc. The maintainer of
Pimiga, Chris, is so amazing and deserves so much patronage.

Next step? The World of MiSTers... Maybe even some "real" 1200 hardware
if I can afford it. Probably not.

OH - so I'm trying to register CNET BBS, but not sure if the Future World
II Sysop is on holiday (probably) or if I did something wrong and he's
written me off :( Maybe someone knows the best way to contact? I've
registered on the BBS but jailed to the main menu, so I can't post on the support boards. But noworries.

Either, I look forward to joining the Amiga BBS scene and learning some
new tricks from that community.

In the meantime, AlphaComplex.us:2323 continues on!

Cheers,


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On 17 Dec 2021 at 02:17p, aLPHA pondered and said...

Can't believe another year is... almost over? Wow.

I know it's nutty eh?

I think here it's 7 days to Christmas as I type this and you won't be far behind me :)

Last week or so I've been down an obsessive rabbit hole (like, manically focused on one thing, as I often do) with AMIGA emulation. I grew up with

[snip]

I've built and config'd about 10 Amiga VMs--first with Pimiga (brilliant project), then with stock 3.1, 3.1.4, 3.2 Workbenches using WinUAE, FS-UAE. It's like the easiest thing in the world, how did I not know it existed??

[snip]

Next step? The World of MiSTers... Maybe even some "real" 1200 hardware
if I can afford it. Probably not.

OH - so I'm trying to register CNET BBS, but not sure if the Future World

This sounds remarkably like down the rabbit hole indeed :) But hey if it gives you fun, go for it I say! Glad you are having fun with this stuff and good luck in getting the CNET registered and all the fun stuff you are doing with the Amiga's.

Either, I look forward to joining the Amiga BBS scene and learning some new tricks from that community.

In the meantime, AlphaComplex.us:2323 continues on!
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Kudos for supporting Apam in the feedback and dev of Talisman. He's really benefited from your help and those other interested folk who are using his coding creations :)

have a good one for Xmas/New Year if we don't chat sooner!

Best, Paul

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Last week or so I've been down an obsessive rabbit hole (like, manically focused
on
one thing, as I often do) with AMIGA emulation. I grew up with Commodores --

I just settled down for a nice 2 weeks of vacation and spent some time setting up UAE for the first time.

Is there any Amiga software you'd recommend to someone who has no knowledge of the platform? Familiar with mods, and some of the people Amiga games in that decade but not on the platform itself. I was an Apple guy during that time.

Appreciate any SW or game recommendations.

Pat
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Last week or so I've been down an obsessive rabbit hole (like,
manically
focused on one thing, as I often do) with AMIGA emulation. I grew up

haha. I am currently doing the same. It started with BBC micros which I
missed, and is now just all sorts of crazy stuff.

I sold all my retro hardware years ago, but earlier this year during
months of unemployment, I fireed up a raspberry pi with an amiga emulator
and started messing around with assembly again..

Then that got put away but I should fire it up again.

But I totally know what you mean about the obsessive maniacal behaviour.
:) haha

it
SCREAMS, and no crashes from my beat-up Pi4! It's loaded with 1,000's

Must...resist...going...online...to...buy...pi4...
must...resist...
resist..
until payday...


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OH - so I'm trying to register CNET BBS, but not sure if the Future
World
II Sysop is on holiday (probably) or if I did something wrong and he's written me off :( Maybe someone knows the best way to contact? I've

I think anachronist at absinthe bbs uses cnet doesn't he? Reach out to
him and ask. He might have some insight.


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On 17 Dec 2021, aLPHA said the following...

Last week or so I've been down an obsessive rabbit hole (like, manically focused on one thing, as I often do) with AMIGA emulation. I grew up with Commodores -- mostly Vic20 and C64 -- and the whole Amiga era really passed me by as I owned mostly MS-DOS/WIN PCs in the 90's. But I was always envious of my cool, artsy Amiga friends. Def. seemed like a much bigger thing over in the UK than the US, but maybe just me?

LOL we sound alike with this, I grew up in the Telecom world on a C64/C128 then went Amiga for a short time.. Currently I run a Image 3.0 (Had a hand in the writing of it) and a CNet Amiga board both in Emulation.. Check out Vice, for the emulation of the Commodores.. My Image BBS runs on a CMD SuperCPU 20mhz card, a CMD HD 4.1 gigs, CMD RamLink (though not being used), 38.4k Swiftlink, and of course the C64 all emulated.. It's just as fast as my PC board! Everything I wanted back in the day but didn't want to spend the money on!! In addition to all that, they also emulate the Lt Kernal which I run my NISSANet HUBS on.. The CNet Amiga board is also emulated on WinUAE with AOS 3.2.. It also runs fast, when I move my attention back to that board, I will emulate a PPC computer to run it to make it even faster..

I've built and config'd about 10 Amiga VMs--first with Pimiga (brilliant project), then with stock 3.1, 3.1.4, 3.2 Workbenches using WinUAE, FS-UAE. It's like the easiest thing in the world, how did I not know it existed??

LOL I have a "VM" of every AOS Operating system set up in a WinUAE on one of my computers. It's nice every once in a while to go back to Workbench 1.2 to see how far things have come from that to the new 3.2.. 4.1 is nice and fast but unlike 3.2 if you want to do anything you really need to buy the software. BUT PPC Emulation for 4.1 is outstanding!

But I finally landed on a build I'll keep for a while -- I extracted Pimiga's Amiberry guts and loaded them on WinUAE on my unused PC. Man, it SCREAMS, and no crashes from my beat-up Pi4! It's loaded with 1,000's of goodies -- games, music, videos, a terminal, etc. The maintainer of Pimiga, Chris, is so amazing and deserves so much patronage.

Fill me in on this, I would love to do the same and move my CNet Amiga off of a PC and move it to the Pi...

OH - so I'm trying to register CNET BBS, but not sure if the Future World II Sysop is on holiday (probably) or if I did something wrong and he's written me off :( Maybe someone knows the best way to contact? I've registered on the BBS but jailed to the main menu, so I can't post on the support boards. But noworries.

K-Guide is sometimes hard to get a hold of, his business keeps him from his BBS for weeks at a time.. Go to the website, www.cnetbbs.net I believe there is an email address and email him.. If that doesn't work hit up Anach at Absinthe BBS, he will know how to get in touch with K-Guide easily.. :)\\

Either, I look forward to joining the Amiga BBS scene and learning some new tricks from that community.

There is a lot of tricks from the Amiga BBS Scene! My board is very basic but Absinthe is for from basic!!!

Al

... There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!

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Is there any Amiga software you'd recommend to someone who has no
knowledge of the platform? Familiar with mods, and some of the people
Amiga games in that decade but not on the platform itself. I was an
Apple guy during that time.

You might want to check out what's in the PiMiga build. Tones of cool
stuff. I'm mostly in the "basics" mode -- setting up Term, CNET, etc.
Probably some fokls on here have good recos too!


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I think anachronist at absinthe bbs uses cnet doesn't he? Reach out to
him and ask. He might have some insight.

Thank you!

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Fill me in on this, I would love to do the same and move my CNet Amiga
off of a PC and move it to the Pi...

Your retro collection sounds awesome! Thanks for the info...

This is the link to the PiMiga project--
https://bit.ly/3mg5jwn

Check out this YouTube vid on how to run on WinUAE--
https://bit.ly/3GY7tID

Cheers!


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On 18 Dec 2021, aLPHA said the following...

Your retro collection sounds awesome! Thanks for the info...

This is the link to the PiMiga project--
https://bit.ly/3mg5jwn

I'll check it out!! Thanks to you also for the info...

... My tagline could eat your tagline for breakfast

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This is the link to the PiMiga project--
https://bit.ly/3mg5jwn

Hm, I've heard of PiMiga, but never looked into it.. Gonna have to check
this out. :)


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On 03 Jan 2022 at 03:33p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

The meal went well, the flight to Hawaii non-eventful. The weather? Horrendous. Rain most of every day we were there. At least it was a warm rain, but all of our water-based plans were cancelled - can't snorkel
when you can't see through all of the run-off. :(

Bummer hummer on the weather... here we got a few good days but on the whole it's not felt overly hot or sunny here. I think further up the country and especially in the North Island they are getting better weather albeit somewhat slammed by too hotter temps. I guess I should be grateful I am not melting.

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