Truly Kings among Men, You get that old girl up and running.

UOUOUUUOU KITTYYYY
she is chargin hur eye lazars

When's Ditto getting a spot in Sabrina?

Did the cat shoot it's lazers at you right after?

Nah, I've got the deactivation code.


... and the cat food.

Just don't deactivate the cat food.

Or loose the code IN the cat food. o.O

Wow that looks like my computer laboratory (ie my room) except you actually have Amiga computers! Hehe, good luck with your project man =).

For a second there I thought the entire rig would be useless unless the cat was hooked too it. Cats are a vital part of any jerry-rigged system. :3

'Least your cat guards...Mine piddled on my old Commodore 64 keyboard Y.Y

Before the restoration, Ditto puked on the poor A1200.

Was it in bad taste or bad form?

old keyboards are gross

You actually had a spare outlet to plug the cat in?

So, is Ditto battery powered or plug-in?

Uh, er, question: Why would someone bring these computers back to life?

Because they're AWETHUMB!

Because Amiga is pwn.

Amen brutha!

An addendum to my last post. I used to use my 1200 for video editing. I didn't have a genlock to hook up to it but I did use it to display full page graphics. That would have been cool to do overlay graphics with it.

As for my 500, gaming and prank calls because it had a voice synthesizer with it.

Old school clacky keyboard?

An IBM Model M you mean?

where do you find disks to run that thing? I highly doubt the originals still work! (all my old floppies have suffered data rot woo)

You'd be surprised how long floppies last if you keep them away from heat and moisture. Almost all the originals I have still work fine -- aggressive copy protection and all.

Oh, a meow! I like those.

I love old computers- I used to have that monitor stand with the power switches on it. That was a popular accessory back in the day.

I see an Atari 2600 joystick in there too. Back from when game consoles had useable controllers. :)

Good Lord... now THAT is a yellowed keyboard. My A1200 is as pearly white as the day I bought it (*I hugs my miggy*)

Too bad the keyboards were spongy as hell. If they had made, say, a 1300 model as a pizza box, with a seperate keyboard, I would've gotten that.

wow..... for some odd reason, all that old hardware facinates me! but that cat scares me... I dont wanna be LAZORED! does pluggin in de cat require the use of any adaptors?

I got an A1200, with a stuffed in 1.2gig HD sadly have to use it with the lid off, it was too big for the A1200 to make it internal :OO ha! I see theres an atari joystick peeking in from the left :OO

A1200s can support 2 1/2" drives internally, just buy a laptop drive to toss in there and you can close up the case again.

I remember that over 10 years ago my ol' Commodore 64 lasted just until I'd transferred the majority of my text files to my IBM PC - her ol' 6502 CPU must have died of a broken heart 'cause she never started again!

damn..seeing that stuff makes me want to drag out the old atari 800 ;p

eew atari..
lol ;3

I still have my Apple IIGS with Woznaick's signature on it..... Go WOZ

I still remember having tons of fun with my Amiga 500 :)

You're obviously committed to your computer systems. I didn't even know there was such a thing as "Amiga" computer anything until I came across your Sabrina comic.

The horrible incompetence of Commodore's management sank the computer like a stone fifteen years ago. For their day, they were surprisingly powerful machines, and they can still be fine for your basic web-browsing, word-processing desktop, but they can't begin to compare to modern machines with multi-core gigahertz processors and graphic cards that can render in real-time as well as an A4000 could render in a day. And while their OS was better than 98 or OS 9, XP and OS X both surpassed it, in my opinion.

/Sold my A1200 on eBay a few years ago.
//Kinda sad about it, but needed the cash.

Sounds like they were a spiffy computer product for their time.

I AM ON YUR DESK,
FIRIN' MY EYEBEEMS!

;3

Interesting I see you modded the mouse with a cat. ;)

My A-2000 salutes you

so that's what an amega computer looks like, there in pretty good shape.

Gonna run this: http://aros.sourceforge.net/ on them once you get them up and going? :P

Man, I have an old Pentium processor that is just BEGGING to have that put in it.

I think it's time for me to build me a new computer

if her eye beams dont kill me her uber cuteness will! ^^

wow. Definately old but sweet looking machines. Definately have a well trained guard there.

Oh my gosh, vintage, dude! XD Don't see any of those anymore! XD

OMG! You've found a way to integrate cats into the system!! This will be the new face of the Amiga from now on!! :)

At least until he buys a dog. Commodore Fluffypants will be the new name.

As long as it doesn't decide to take a nap in the middle of doing something.

Heh, I saw a neat thing to do with an old system like that from an aquantance. He found an entire Apple IIe or something in a dumpster and found it even still worked. he cleaned it up and built a nice display case/ shadowbox and neatly arranged everything inside the case (except the monitor) and attached it all to the base including an engraved nameplate with all the info on it. He has it hanging on his office wall.

You could take it up a notch and get a cheap digital photo frame and put in screen shots and advertisements etc. It would be quite the conversation starter.

The more Amiga stuff I see, the more I want to try one for myself.

On a related note: are you, per chance, familiar with the name of François Lionet? He wrote AMOS BASIC for the Amiga platform, but now works for a company called "Clickteam" I've been using their software to design games. I guess it's kind of like "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", only with computer systems. Still, it's neat trivia

dude cool ps2 and the joystick and all that cool junk

I liked to see the Atari 2600 joystick. Just an icon of a generation.

*ENVY*

I wish I could find old computers XD

the oldest I currently have is a custom tower-style computer with a 80486 cpu and 23mb ram XD

by the way, I have an old Macintosh (forgets the model at the time being) that I'm trying to either find a monitor for, or some sort of cable converter for pc monitor to it... if I give you the model, do you think you'd be able to help me find a place where I could get either?

I wouldn't know the answer any better than you could find out by Google or whetever. What model Mac is it? (one with a seperate monitor, apparently)

According to the casing, it's a Macintosh IIci, if that helps any. Just been asking around a lot, and nobody seems to know where to get what I'm looking for. I think mostly because it's an old computer, but it has a floppy drive which would be grand to use... if I could see what I was doing, lol.

I used to have a Mac LC (one) back in the early nineties while I was doing some work for a Mac software company. best I was able to come up with for your situation after looking around a tiny bit is this page: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herb......html#vgaadapt

Say, what happend to the old Mac. is it still working?

It was returned to the company that loaned it to me.

GAH!! I can see the desktop!! Dude, you're loosing your touch! There needs to be floppies and pens and ...well, STUFF all OVER the desk!

That's because this area was cleared and restarted.

Ah, me. I could pass regarding your Amigas...
Your Transformers? Yeah, well, y'know...
Your high end artwork? Well...
but now...
You've got a KITTY!? ^-^
Taking notice!
YAY!

the picture somehow makes me sad.... look at the 1200.... she missing the F4... this is ultimate sad

i never had the 1200 but i remember having the 600 back in the day, i still love my amiga COMMODORE RULES!!!

May you be happily chasing squeaky mice in the here after Ditto.
Best wishes to you Eric.

now this, is a computer set up