Session Start: Sat Oct 07 20:49:01 2006 Session Ident: #c64friends [20:49] * Now talking in #c64friends [20:49] * Topic is 'We Adore Our C-64 and Q-Link!!' [20:49] hey snog [20:49] Howdy folks [20:49] chiptalk's output is good but it is not as good as the real thing. [20:49] Hi Snogpitch! [20:49] I was curious because I have trouble understanding it ;-\ [20:49] * JavaUser (~Javauser@225-8.9-67.tampabay.res.rr.com) has joined #c64friends [20:50] Howdy JavaUser [20:50] Hi Snog [20:50] * JavaUser is now known as Beeman [20:50] HI, All [20:51] Hi Beeman [20:51] Hi, Alan [20:51] hi beeman [20:51] Howdy AlanR, got you cc on an email to Roger [20:51] Did he respond to you yet? [20:51] Got a reply from Roger, Snog. [20:52] OK, was wondering... [20:52] He's going on vacation soon, but I'm not in a big hurry [20:52] Tommorrow I jet out to Washington DC so I'll won't be around until Thursday nite [20:52] dont get mugged [20:53] I didn't get mugged in Chicago [20:53] I should be ok [20:53] um, thats because we were in groups of 20 [20:53] not all the time... [20:55] I'd still take Chicago over DC, any day. [20:56] what's with these 2 cities ? [20:56] Oh yeah, and Hi all. [20:56] Well, it's for work rather than pleasure [20:58] Actually was thinking about looking up denard so we could talk about C= days :) [20:59] * Antares51 (~Rick@ip68-99-23-185.om.om.cox.net) has joined #c64friends [20:59] Howdy Antares51 [20:59] Evening Mr. Witmer, sir. [21:01] I did some reading concerning the future of the Amiga computer. [21:01] Maybe he found some C= gear he needs to get rid of.. :) [21:01] http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=62&pageid=1 [21:01] For the Amiganauts... [21:01] Amiga has a future? [21:02] Doesn't look like it to me. Promises, promises. [21:02] posted in 2004 [21:02] may as well have been [21:03] working on OS5 when OS4 isn't even out of beta? [21:03] I smell BS [21:04] Some have said that Linux is the successor to AmigaDOS. [21:04] I like Aros. [21:04] * destined (~flush@dialup-4.242.195.11.Dial1.Seattle1.Level3.net) has joined #c64friends [21:05] hahaha [21:05] amiga [21:05] ahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha [21:05] Evening Jeremy. [21:05] Howdy destined [21:05] is Lord ronin around? [21:05] hey anteres, snogpitch [21:05] hahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahaha [21:05] haven't seen him yet [21:05] alih-duck: what's up? [21:06] Amiga OS5 will be a JAVA APP FFS [21:06] A lot of people have been involved with Amigas. [21:06] Sounds kinky [21:06] AlanR: hehe [21:07] Amiga's were the best for a long time but that was a long time ago now [21:07] so much pleasure [21:07] Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, Amazing Stories and TV weather. [21:07] jones chronicles [21:08] I consider my A1000 my first "real" computer. [21:08] or was it The young indiana jones [21:08] I still have my severly hacked A1000 [21:08] My son destroyed mine. :-( [21:09] bastard, hope you disowned him [21:09] I need an amiga [21:09] ;-) [21:09] winuae will do? [21:09] Nope. Taught him a lesson. Got him a Mac! [21:09] Everyone needs an Amiga... [21:09] I miss my A3000-25 [21:10] I don't own any Amigas [21:10] WinUAE under Aros. [21:10] not these days, I couldn't do what I do now on any Amiga [21:10] I still have three A1000's [21:10] and anA1200 [21:10] I loved my Amiga A1000, had no emotional connection to my 2000 and loved my 3000. I guess it was an odd number thing. [21:11] I really wish I could get an A1200 [21:11] I always thought you were a little odd [21:11] Commodore did all they could to bury it. It's still my first love. [21:11] :-) [21:11] I want another one. Looking on Ebay. [21:11] Ahoy! all certified techie types!!!!!! [21:11] the Amiga was certainly inspirational. The only computer to give me that WOW factor [21:12] "baseless comment on the viability of a technology I know nothing about" [21:12] Made Steve Jobs cry. Made M$ tremble. [21:12] Nah, none of those Antares even though we would like to think that [21:13] "irrelevant fact noone cares about" [21:13] It's true. The Amiga changed computing forever. [21:13] * Bryan liked Ahoy! magazine.. [21:13] Same, same. [21:13] for you and me maybe, not the majority [21:13] "nostalgic look back at an era i barely understand" [21:14] just sit it out a-plus then [21:14] The Amiga is why I had windows NT rather than DOS on my first PC in 1995. [21:14] "attempted witty replay followed by more irrelevant crap" [21:15] hahaha [21:15] mmm.. I went from OS/2 to Windows to BEOS.. [21:15] I had both Amigas and PC's at the same time so I did the DOS-XP and OS1.2-3.1 thing [21:16] I first went to Win95. Then to 98. Then I found Linux. Guess which one I like the most? [21:16] win95 sucked in so many ways, but I really did like 98SE [21:16] OS/2=> true multitasking... Windows=> NOT.. BEOS=> yep [21:16] os/2 > GAY Windos > not BEOS > yep [21:17] XP is an excellent multitasker as were the NT versions [21:17] Yeah, I run 98SE (currently), 2000 and XP. Prefer Linux. [21:17] BEOS was novel but not very useful [21:17] But OS/2 could multitask DOS games at full speed in a window... [21:17] I used Linux and went back to XP [21:17] "reply about a dead os, thats not being patched anymore" [21:17] Liked OS/2 but couldn't afford it. [21:18] yeah, os/2 warp was almost $20 [21:18] OS/2 was like windows 3.1, only with less support [21:18] "Security thru attrition". [21:18] That's why there were user groups!! Remember them? [21:18] "idiocy through genetics" [21:18] * PJimAFK is now known as PhotoJim [21:19] is a-plus a bot? [21:19] Hi all. [21:19] nope, just someone who cuts through the bs [21:19] My first user group was Amiga oriented. My last was C=64. [21:19] hey PhotoJim! [21:19] Does "bot" mean "dumb"? [21:19] hey Bryan [21:19] in this instance, yes [21:19] whatever [21:19] Hello PJ. [21:20] why are you here if you have no interest in retro computers a-plus? [21:20] nice nick [21:20] doofus [21:20] my user group went from C= to Amiga... [21:20] I use Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenVMS, AmigaOS, and Windows XP. :) [21:20] i love commodores, just not commodorks [21:20] too bad the computers can't love you back :) [21:20] I use all I need, I don't have time to mess about with different OS's anymore [21:20] NT was always a better multitasker than any windows 9X ... [21:21] better leave then a-plus [21:21] Agreed. [21:21] Linux, OpenBSD and NetBSD are all broadly similar. it's not that hard to move from one to the other [21:21] cool, whick c= machine did nt run on again? [21:21] well poopface, not happening [21:21] english? [21:21] * RobertB (IceChat7@69-19-136-89.nocal.dialup.o1.com) has joined #c64friends [21:21] * ChanServ sets mode: +o RobertB [21:21] Hey Robert [21:21] Hi all [21:21] Howdy RobertB [21:21] Commodore 486 PC. [21:21] Hi, Jeremy. [21:21] Welcome back from C= chicago [21:21] heya robert, saw you were in the atari channel the other night [21:21] ok all just ignore a-plus' [21:22] Evening Mr. Bernardo, sir. [21:22] why? hes the funniest one here [21:22] * Eddie sets mode: +v FungusN0S [21:22] Hi, Mark and Snog and Dane. [21:22] OMG Robert, sacralige! [21:22] Hi Robert! [21:22] Robert! Cheerts! [21:22] umm. Cheers! [21:22] Fungus! [21:22] Cheers, Bryan. [21:22] laugh at him, not with him [21:22] Hello R. B. [21:22] * CincyJim (~sock@cpe-69-133-197-46.cinci.res.rr.com) has joined #c64friends [21:22] Evening CJ. [21:22] Fungus is not here [21:23] He's at work [21:23] Hi, the other Robert and CincyJim. [21:23] hey jim [21:23] Hi all [21:23] Oh well... [21:23] hiya Robert [21:23] Hi Roberto! [21:23] Hi, Francois. [21:23] * Eddie sets mode: +v destined [21:23] Howdy CincyJim [21:23] you still not talking to me Robert? [21:23] Mark, yes, I was at #atari just to check it out. [21:23] Anyone needs old commodore bricks ? [21:24] join us [21:24] you're worse then a scorned woman :-) [21:24] (power supplies) [21:24] You bet I need a brick. [21:24] eslapion: :-) Of course we all do. [21:24] Hand them to clockmiester [21:24] build a house [21:24] upside the head you do! [21:24] is that a power brick? [21:24] eslapion: hand them to wscatface [21:24] Snog -> Yes, I have 2 of them for sale... [21:24] One C=64 missing a P/S. [21:25] i need a c64 and brick [21:25] Eddie did you get the package in the mail [21:25] not yet Bud [21:25] * PhotoJim_ (~jim@canberra.photojim.ca) has joined #c64friends [21:25] Oops, my niece ended my irssi session. [21:25] Hi, Jim. [21:25] Howdy PhotoJim_ [21:25] * PhotoJim (~jim@canberra.photojim.ca) Quit (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) [21:25] hey jim [21:25] * PhotoJim_ is now known as PhotoJim [21:26] I'm coming to the Vegas Commvex next year if all goes well [21:26] well, if nobody wants them I'll just sell them on EvilBay. [21:26] me too [21:26] hi eslap [21:26] meeting up with friends in Vegas for an overseas holiday [21:27] * Bryan got a SFD-1001 for $10 today.. :) [21:27] Wow! [21:27] Hi Eddie [21:27] Good price! [21:27] btw, dragos, did I mention what I found out about the MSD-Dual I picked up? [21:27] good score [21:27] cheap cheap [21:27] nope, what was it? [21:27] I have an MSD dual for sale here too... [21:27] has a bad mech [21:28] hmm [21:28] other mech works fine [21:28] Snog, that's bad. [21:28] eslapion: how much? [21:28] mechs are usually fixable [21:28] Well, the other mech is good. [21:28] yo dudes [21:28] But it doesn't work... Supposedly something wrong with the 5V... [21:28] Fungus [21:28] Hi, Scott. [21:28] fugnos! [21:28] I thought you ran off to work? [21:28] the problem appears to be the motor that moves the read head [21:28] Fungus is among us! [21:28] * destined asks Fungus [21:28] 5v supply? [21:29] i would have taken it, but i saw no reason, i have 3 working ones [21:29] it's not jammed is it? you should be able to move the head by hand [21:29] the rails need cleaned, and new zinc grease [21:29] stepper motors dont break ... roo often [21:29] too [21:29] So, the question then becomes, do I canibalize the single drive that works, so I have a dual drive that works... [21:29] dust loves zinc grease [21:29] hehe [21:29] At VCF 9.0 we may have a MSD dual-drive for sale. [21:30] snog: i would! [21:30] I have a MSD dual drive here 2... It has a plastic box that has a button and switch on it attached to it.. [21:30] yep, I use a little machine oil [21:30] very little [21:30] I oiled the rails, that wasn't the problem [21:30] the mechs in an msd, are identical to apple 1/2 height [21:30] :D [21:30] when the drive is powered on, you can barely move the head. [21:30] so, pillage a crapple [21:30] can you move the heads by hand? [21:30] when it is powered off, the head moves easily [21:30] and off you can? [21:30] that shows the stepper motor works [21:31] fungus, which apple drive exactly? [21:31] ok, could be the controller too [21:31] The person thinks the prob is somewhere between the supply and where it is going.. maybe a trace somewhere [21:31] I'd bet the controller or the connections [21:31] have you tried swapping mechs [21:31] check the earth return [21:31] I swapped mechs with my single drive...same issue appeared in the single drive, but the dual worked :) [21:32] nice! [21:32] i am interested in your single if you keep the dual working [21:32] take an msd mech out, and look [21:32] its marked [21:32] Almost got one at an auction. [21:32] search google for that part # [21:32] nah, I put the working single back in the single drive [21:32] Snogpitch> single drive... u mean like an Excelerator? [21:32] i lknow exactly what mech is on the mds [21:32] er msd [21:32] youll find em [21:33] tec-501 [21:33] Yup. [21:33] I threw my excelerator out in a cleanup a few years ago... slaps himself [21:33] * groepaz pokes FungusN0S with a stick [21:33] groepaz: what? [21:33] * Eddie slaps FungusN0S around a bit with a large trout [21:34] I'll hang on to both MSD's for now :) [21:34] * Antares51 blocks groepaz' stick the a garbage can lid. [21:34] I would [21:34] FungusN0S: nothing.....thought you like beeing tickled every now and then? o_O [21:34] at the least, I'll have a spare drive if my single goes bad [21:35] Why doesn't someone sock ME with a frozen trout? [21:35] groepaz: hit him with a clue-by-four.. [21:35] because you smell funny [21:36] who likes the bloodhound gang hee? [21:36] here? [21:36] scatface: not here [21:36] who likes Tankard? [21:36] reminds me of the "kiss me where it smells funny" video all this fish talk [21:37] Tankard: is that a new 3d game? [21:37] FungusN0S: "like" would be an understatement =D [21:37] yeah, what is it? [21:37] I've been playing manhunt [21:37] who LOVES tankard? [21:37] :D [21:37] \m/ [21:38] FungusN0S: what is this game? [21:38] tankard is no game :D [21:38] Tankard is a night with Leo? [21:38] Music group. Alcoholic rock. [21:38] Going out to a bar? [21:38] * FungusN0S listend to tankard relly loud with groepaz [21:39] * groepaz plays for FungusN0S: Tankard-08-Farewell to a Slut [21:39] ohh [21:39] :-) [21:39] anteres: thanks [21:39] \o/ [21:39] Anytime. [21:39] sounds juvenile... I like it [21:39] Now 'bout that trout? [21:39] trout? [21:39] Hit me! [21:39] not the trout thing... [21:39] hehe [21:39] rainbow or steelhead? [21:40] * destined springs Windows on Anteres Rom chip [21:40] Up to you. [21:40] steelhead [21:40] search for bloodhound gang and kiss me where it smells funny on youtube or google vid [21:40] :D [21:40] can,t [21:40] why? [21:41] joe fish [21:41] becoz can,t [21:41] haha [21:41] Moloch! [21:41] * redrumloa (~lucifer@72.146.53.82) has joined #c64friends [21:41] boo [21:41] Hiya [21:41] Howdy redrumloa [21:41] You Stink but I Love You/Mucky Pup [21:41] Heya snog:-) [21:41] Hi, Redrum. [21:41] Hello redrum. [21:41] Hi Robert [21:41] Anatares [21:41] geez.. I hope a friend I invited today doesn't join this chat tonight.. :( :( [21:42] haven't heard thAT one fungus [21:42] Dude, Don't call me Dude/Scatterbrain [21:42] yep that was a good one [21:42] that's AOLMurder backwards... [21:42] I haven't been here for a while, so I forget-- when does this chat get interesting? [21:42] What I miss, anything good? [21:42] eslapion: Yes sir [21:42] AlanR: just start a convo, someone will jump in [21:42] about.... now [21:42] do we have a schedule for getting interesting? :) [21:42] say something random [21:42] I haven't had my C128 on in months. I should really play with it this weekend a bit. [21:43] my eggs are on the boil, who likes eggs? [21:43] It's MYY Ice cream bar!!! [21:43] WScatface: Thirteen large blue towels strut on the runway. [21:43] I've been playing a bit with my new Pwr/Link cart [21:43] :-) jim [21:43] I'm impersonating myself. [21:43] Redrumloa, how's it working out? [21:43] PhotoJim, when I'm home, I turn on my C128DCR every day. [21:43] I,ve been playing with something [21:43] There is this model agency here called Runway One, and everytime I see their sign on their building I think "a one-way run on Runway One". [21:43] I'm impersonating a bot [21:43] Im impersonating a human [21:43] Alan: Pretty good:-) Starting to get the hang of it.. Still more to learn [21:43] RobertB: do you use it as your daily-use computer? [21:44] Moloch is a statue [21:44] I haven't yet worked enough with the Pwr/Link cart. [21:44] I'm a human impersonating a bot impersonating a human. [21:44] You and me are so similar Jim [21:44] it's weird [21:44] none of you are like me [21:44] FungusN0S: no, moloch is molecules of dust and air.. [21:44] WScatface: oh? [21:44] thank god [21:44] I found out the Pwr/Link and Retroreplay/SilverSurfer can't coexist together in a Aerospand :-( [21:44] well, it's like running WINUAE in windows to use a commodore 64 emulator in it... [21:44] BRB. [21:44] FungusN0S: HEHE ;-) Right [21:44] you are speshial fungus :-) [21:44] ...or the deity of the day. [21:45] groepaz is sorta like me, but not totally [21:45] all bow to the leper messiah [21:45] I am wat I am... [21:45] no [21:45] I can disable it though and just use as an XE-1541 cable [21:45] oh, whose arm is this? [21:45] FungusN0S: indeed, i lack the poor hygiene!!!! =D [21:45] gropeazz and funanus ?? [21:45] send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet, make a contribution and you'll get the better seat [21:46] holy smoke [21:46] groepaz: I shower daily [21:46] iron maiden [21:46] Metallica [21:46] duh [21:46] Leper Messiah [21:46] John Denver. [21:46] New 'lica suxks, sorry [21:46] madonna [21:46] lyrics almost identical to holy smoke! [21:46] I'm back. [21:46] dslman2 -> you forgot... ***-lap-ion [21:47] ur momma [21:47] FungusN0S: shower != rub poo all over you!!!!! [21:47] it's not new metallica [21:47] Napalm Death \m/ [21:47] groepaz: if yur canuckian [21:47] new metallica = ?EXTRA IGNORED [21:47] :-D [21:47] Vicki Sue Robinson. [21:47] indeed [21:47] sux [21:47] * groepaz plays for FungusN0S: Tankard - Hair Of The Dog - 09 - **** Faced [21:47] Strapping Young Lad \m/ [21:47] Bobroillica [21:47] lol [21:47] dslman2-> or ***-Slap-you-on [21:48] Some KInd of Monster = Days of our Lives [21:48] * Bryan has been very happy with WarpCopy + RR-Net... [21:48] Need to walk the dog, brb [21:48] Need to drain the lizard, brb [21:48] * FungusN0S plays for groepaz M.O.D. - Arent you hungry [21:48] * groepaz is eating =) [21:48] need to drop cosby's kids off at the pool, brb [21:48] * FungusN0S plays for groepaz M.O.D. - Get a real job [21:48] I'm with stupid. [21:48]