I'm sure Franko will be happy that I'm blogging again. OK Franko, my last year's predictions were not too good, but the US Dollar has died, 48% of the world's population just dumped the US Dollar when trading between themselves and the push by China for Yuan/Renminbi to replace the US Dollar as the world's reserve is picking up steam. Smell of the US Dollar rotting will become noticeable around end of 2013 or beginning 2014. US Dollar as the "Petro Dollar" died in Sept of 2012 when China allowed CNY to be used for purchases and sales of oil via their SWIFT clone.

Cypress banking disaster is blueprint for more countries. Banks in Cayman and Dubai are next in line. Even Canada has executed a "bail in" option in their 2013 (pages 144-145) budget preparing to remove wealth from bank customer's account if the bank fails.
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/pla...et2013-eng.pdf

Japan, New Zealand and Australia are possible new targets for the destruction of wealth, may not happen, might it could happen. US probably wont' see this happen because there is no wealth kept in US banks. What they are planning for US is nationalization of all pension plans, 401s and IRAs. That way the US Government will get it's mitts on $19T in assets overnight to spend.

I've started preparing for very bad times (massive inflation and confiscation/destruction of paper/electronic wealth). If Syria is ever conquered by the Muslim Brotherhood, it's only matter of months before the Muslim Brotherhood heads to Jordan and then to the Gulf Kingdoms and really screw up oil production and shipping. EURO will be the first to implode, followed within couple of weeks or even days by the US Dollar. If you lose your bank account (or money becomes worthless, same difference), what are you and your family going to do to survive? Depend on your government? Like they have money that will buy anything, let alone being overwhelmed by exploding numbers of hungry citizen's need for food and shelter?

Name of the game is, "control." If your family is hungry enough and you can not buy/steal food for them, will you be getting on your knees and begging anyone to feed your family, regardless of what they demand of you? They are betting you will.

Franko spam on Moo in 4..3..2..

Trying to sort out all my old magazines, may as well do the lot while I have them all out. In the midst of this I'm testing a lot of old Commodore 64 games before they go on ebay. Spending too much time playing them. :) It's amazing how quickly a night can disappear.

Wish I had room to keep all this stuff set up and ready to use and not have to sell it. I'll be keeping my 030 1200 and an Amiga 500 though. Undecided what to do about my A1500.

I have still got 5 x Atari 2600's, 3 x C64, 2 x ZX81's, a C128 and a TI99/4a to test and sell. Too much to do.

Just found a faulty A1200 motherboard as well. I had the Squirrel PCMCIA SCSi and a Aiwa CD-Rom for my A1200. The Squirrel fried itself and this board. CD-Rom survived and I still have it in its original box.

Oh well back to testing and sorting.

Been trying to sort out all my AUI magazines and it's taking a while. Admittedly I can't help looking through the ones I'm finding.

My biggest distraction is Home Computing Weekly and Popular Computing weekly.
I could spend days reading these again. Need to get them all sorted though.

Found some more Amiga CD's and AUI disks and added them to the ebay auction.

Trying to organise all my coverdisks and will sell in batches on ebay shortly. Should maybe help anyone filling gaps in their collection.

Tried a few of the disks and they worked no problems. I'll test any disk by request except for the ones that are still sealed.

All disks are single unless it says otherwise.

This is what I've found so far.

CU AMIGA

10,34,38,40,42,43,44,48,50,51,52
54 (2 copies)
55,58,60,64,66,70,72,74,76,78,79,80,83
86,88,90,96,98,100,102,104,105
106 to 118
121,122,123b,125,127,128,129,132,133
134 - still sealed
135,137
138 and 139 - still sealed
140,141
142 and 143 - still sealed
176,177,178

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AMIGA COMPUTING

1992 - Jun,Oct
1993 - Nov (2 disks)
1994 - Feb,Apr, Jun(2 disks), Aug(2 disks), Sep(2 disks), Oct(2 disks),Nov, Dec(2 disks)
1995 - Jan(2 disks), Feb(2 disks)

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AMIGA POWER

24,26,27,32(2 disks),34
37(2 disks and 2 copies)
38(2 disks),39, 40(2 disks), 41(2 disks), 46(disk 2 only), 47(2 disks)
48(disk 1 only), 49(disk 1 only), 51(disk 1 only)

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AMIGA SHOPPER

21,25, 47(disk 2 only), 48(2 disks), 49(2 disks), 50(disk 1 only)
51(disk 1 only), 58(disk 1 and 2), 59(disk 1 and 2), 60(disk 2 only)
61(disk 1 and 2 and still sealed), 63(disk 1 only),64,65

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AMIGA USER INTERNATIONAL

14,18(2 disks),20,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,41,42,43,4 4,45
47,48,49,50,51,52
54 to 66
68,69,70,73,74
79 and 80 - still sealed
81 to 88
89 and 90 - still sealed
95,96
101 and 102 - still sealed
103 and 104 - still sealed
105,106

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AMIGA FORMAT

Amiga Format Collection

1,2, 4(2copies), 5(2 copies), 6(2 copies),7, 9(2 copies),10,11

Coverdisks

9,10,16,18,27,28,29,39,41,42,45,46,50,51b, 52a(2 copies),52b,53a
54a,54b,56a,57a,59a,59b,60a,61a,64a,65a,65b,67a,70 b,71a,73a
74a,74b,75a,75b,76a,77a
78a - still sealed
78b,79a
80a - still sealed
80b
81a and 81b - still sealed
82b,83b,84a,84b
85a and 85b - still sealed

8 other AF disks.
Interphase, Sequencer One, OctaMed, PD-DIY
Crazy Cars 3, 3D construction kit 2, International sports challenge
Total Carnage (disk 50something, there is a small tear obscuring the number)

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THE ONE

May 1993 C
june 1993 B
November 1993 C
March 1994 A
April 1994 A and B
May 1994 C
August 1994 A

My Amiga 1500 with a GVP A2000-HC+8 Series II Rev II card with 8MB Ram and a 1GB SCSI Hard Drive on board sold for £80.

Is it me or was this a bargain.

I have a similar machine left but I think I'll be keeping it.

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Sci-Fi Sensation CD for the Amiga/PC didn't even get a bid. Re-listed it this week.

How come ? Iam not sure if this is a Blog or a moan lol and before i go any further i am truly grateful that there are folk out there who still create software for the Amiga ,
My How come Title refers to ,why when a super program like Roadshow is put out which is paid for is only aiming at the amigans that already know enought to install this software anyway and not enought is put out to help those who are only just begining ther journey and could do with a little more imformation ,i bought the Roadshow had a dammed good try at manualy installing it because i am on a static ip address with not much luck and very little help from the writers of the software up till now ,so would i as a novice Amiga user be keen to buy any more new Amiga based software ,no i dont think so ,really no good for encouraging new Amiga members ,just my thoughts Bye.

Yeah, don't really clean the ball. The rollers, as lurch said, are the bit that need cleaning. They will be covered in gunk.

Hi Cammy,

Late post but here goes.

Robert17 and myself have been running an unregistered version of Grapevine on an A600 1 Meg Chip and 4 Meg Fast RAM board internally installed.

We use a 3.1 ROM with Classic Workbench, Gadtools Miami (Registered and no MUI).

At times we can get into Amiga.Org chat but mostly get an error saying

"Nicknames starting with a ~ cannot connect".


Any hints please ?


Kind Regards, Michael and Robert17


Founder Members of LAG aka http://lincsamiga.org.uk/

hope you enjoy my new BOH mission entitled 3min-33sec

you can download it from BOH's home page under the miscellaneous section & just copy it into your 'missions' folder

thanks to saimo (Simone) for making BOH and giving me a few minutes of stress relief during a hectic day or hours of exploration:pint:

Karlos your prometheus rant broke the server lol.

But in all seriousness. It's annoying because now I have to remember what the buttons are ;)

No it will be very slow, even my 56mhz ACA could only run it 'ok'
Maybe when I add chunky support you could give it a spin.

There should be an error log file, might help you

i start MSX 2 videos, but for some time i don't work on them.
i have to fisnish may PC-DOS Demo database with many screenshot.

Wow! That's quite a bit!!!! :-p

QUOTE=amiga1084;710621]Hello All,

I can't believe how much an old 1084 monitor is going for on Ebay Australia at the moment. If you came to MAUG Meeting on Thursday we couldn't give the things away for free!

Check it out!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Commodore...item3a7a5869b1

Thanks in advance,
Merv Stent[/QUOTE]