"Sabrina Online: Toy Stories, Too" - Page 45
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I avoid windows 11 like the plague after the update bricked my g/f's laptop so I feel the room.
Logansryche
2022-10-22 18:20:34 +0000 UTCAny console she wants. So……Skyrim for the Amiga when?
Alx Porrini
2022-10-17 13:03:55 +0000 UTCI've used Windows for so long that I was just not comfortable when I had to use a Mac for my former job. I knew how to do things under Windows but not under MacOS. For Linux, I am fine under the command line but have yet to find a desktop that I like and won't go out of support in six months (if I could upgrade the OS version and leave the desktop as-is, I would be very happy. But the choice is to do both or neither).
Wild Card
2022-10-17 00:59:17 +0000 UTCMicrosoft does have a habit of "decent OS" -> "mediocre (at best) OS" -> "decent OS", etc. I personally ise a Mac, but I'm IT at work, so have to use Windows to do my job, and 10 is fine, but we're going to have to move to 11 eventually for InfoSec reasons...
Kevin Wright
2022-10-16 21:24:34 +0000 UTCFor years I've been using Macs to run a proprietary software package (Lightwave 3D) that won't run on Linux. I have to say that the Mac GUI is even less friendly than Windows'. I'm looking for a motherboard/CPU/GPU combo that will allow me to run a guest (Mac or Windows) OS where I can isolate the GPU to the guest OS just for that single application, because 1) Mac hardware is waaay to expensive and 2) I won't have to deal with the sucky GUI of either of those two OSs. I really miss the old Video Toaster days of the Amiga...
Cyllarus
2022-10-16 18:10:56 +0000 UTCEpic!
Jonathan
2022-10-16 13:07:55 +0000 UTCMy personal hope is that it would be a voice similar to the one heard in https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Sabrina_Online_Radio_Play - in this case, someone known as "Azure". On that note, I think the perfect voice for R.C. would be Ian Hanlin using a voice very similar to his voice for Sunburst from MLPFiM. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/My-Little-Pony-Friendship-is-Magic/Sunburst/ Or someone doing a voice similar to Ian Hanlin's Sunburst voice. Not exactly like, obviously. But inspired by - if I was directing.
Dogman15
2022-10-16 08:59:38 +0000 UTCOh yeah, the Amiga 500 actually supports the Vampire expansion card, so you should be able to upgrade it to a 68080 with 128mb of ram. If you wanted to spend the 400 euros for it at least, and could find one in stock.
Kaz Redclaw
2022-10-16 06:11:59 +0000 UTCI imagine Sabrina's pretty good with a soldering iron to keep that A1200 up and running. Probably has purchased replacement parts like power supplies from third parties as well. There's still plenty of places where you can get replacement A1200 parts. As far as what you can still do on an Amiga, I imagine all of the artwork related stuff works great. If someone's used to using an Amiga for all their daily tasks, it should work as long as none of them required upstream support to run. Youtube's probably out of the range of possibility though, so you'd have to do that on a phone or a secondary computer, but you could probably rig up something to do web browsing on it. There was the case of that person who was running a campsite, had written his own reservation system on an Atari ST system, and was still running it 25 years later. Because he wrote the software, he could just fix anything that broke. At one point in the history of the comic Sabrina had a Pegasos PowerPC based Amiga system as well. The A1200 had some pretty large expansions that could be installed, I'm pretty sure you could get 68060 level stuff as well which was the fastest 68k Amiga up until the Vampire. Without an accelerator card, you can get 10mb of total ram on the 1200. With an accelerator card, hundreds of megs were possible.
Kaz Redclaw
2022-10-16 06:06:22 +0000 UTCCould also get a Raspberry Pi 400, and install Pimiga on it along with RetroPi on a different card. Pimiga doesn't measure up to the Vampire standalone though as far as being an excellent Amiga system, but it gives you a modern system that feels like Amiga. Of course, as far as the expense goes, a Vampire + a Pi would be cheaper than a single Windows video card, and *take up less space than just the video card*. ;)
Kaz Redclaw
2022-10-16 05:42:30 +0000 UTCA question that has just come to mind. Eric, when writing for Sabrina, who do you imagine voicing her?
Thwaitesy
2022-10-16 05:25:11 +0000 UTCYeah, that's why I'm saying I'd be surprised if an Amiga was someone's daily work machine and had been for 30+ years. Unless they were a competent electrical engineer and a fast draw with a soldering iron.
Dave Barrack
2022-10-16 05:09:41 +0000 UTC" At some point I'd think brand loyalty would get worn down by fatigue. " At some point the capacitors on the logic boards are so old and out of spec you're lucky if the thing turns on, or (worse) risk frying some other non-replaceable part due to incorrect voltages.
Chris Kalin
2022-10-16 05:03:07 +0000 UTCI have trouble imagining an Amiga would 1) still run if it had been in constant use for the last... 30 some odd years, 2) it would be able to interact with most of what modern computers need to do these days. I don't mean encoding 4K videos and running God of War, I mean, viewing a youtube video. I'm not dumping on Amigas, don't get me wrong. I was a proud owner of an Amiga 500 with the 2, count 'em 2 MEGA Byte expansion doo-hickey that plugged into the side. I guess I have no idea of the extent to which the Amiga 1000 can be expanded to.... Okay, a quick googling indicates it maxes out at a whopping 8.5 megabytes. Of course Amiga OS isn't the same sort of memory hog as windows, but the average youtube video is something like 500MB. I guess it might be possible to still interact with the modern world with a machine that old, but I'd also guess that maintaining a machine like that and working around its limitations would occupy an ever increasing percentage of your screen time. At some point I'd think brand loyalty would get worn down by fatigue.
Dave Barrack
2022-10-16 04:52:13 +0000 UTCSomeone should tell Sabrina about Macs. :) Hey Eric, I'm curious, how much do you still use Amigas day-to-day? I find it fascinating when people use retro hardware for daily computing, instead of just as a nostalgic thing. I can't say I do that myself; I use a modern Mac and a Windows machine for gaming, but I do admire when people can make older systems useful for decades.
Zorin the Lynx
2022-10-16 04:43:10 +0000 UTCI've been a Mac user since Vista. XP was OK, but after upgrading to Vista, my PC became so buggy that I shifted to a mac laptop just to get by. Microsoft has improved since Vista, but at this point I prefer MacOSX. (MacOSX is built on BSD, so it's sort of a middle ground between Linux and Windows for those of us who alternate between a command-line interface and consumer-level GUI apps. Cygwin is OK, but Mac does it better.)
Dan Merget
2022-10-16 04:32:22 +0000 UTCI don’t blame her in the least lol
Timmainsson
2022-10-16 04:31:14 +0000 UTCGosh, I really don't want to go to Windows 11. I really like enterprise Windows 10, but detest the consumer version. I can't imagine 11 will be any better in that regard. MacOS, goooo.
Wtcher
2022-10-16 04:09:22 +0000 UTClol yes, avoiding Windows is good :p
LillyTheOmegaWolf
2022-10-16 04:05:47 +0000 UTC
