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|General Moans.
The man who's where it's AT!
Attention!! General Moans here, Right then you orrible lot lets hear
all your gripes and groans now and then you can get on with enjoying
your Amiga with it all off of your chest. Any more moans can be sent in
to The mag via the normal out(in?)lets.
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Magazine Moans.
I'm sick and tired of reading a review of a game/util or piece of
hardware and then finding out when I've bought it that its crap even
though it got a massive raved about review. Is there any way you can
help me.
Yours faithfully
Bin AD from Behind.
General Moans replys:-
Well binny maybe you should look more carfully, If a magazine was to
advertise say... A Viper 28 ram expansion made By power computing, Look
for a magazine where There are no adverts for this companys stuff, okay
you have found Amiga Shopper (say). Now read the review and you will
see that Power computing from Leeds did not supply a viper 28 for
review, only a viper 40. This means that the viper 40 is good and that
the viper 28 is a pile of shite. To confirm this goto another mag Amiga
Format (say) and after powers two page advert you will find the review
for a viper 28 saying how kewl it is. You now know for sure that The
viper 28 is shite cos power computing had to pay 2000 quid for the
advert. This is known in most jobs as a back-hander...
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Cd Rom Trouble.
I need your help, I have an Amiga 4000 and would like to fit a cd rom to
it internally. I know I can buy a Brilliant GVP scsi card and a
Brilliant Mitsumi triple speed rom but I have no money left. I sent my
money to a company in Leeds and they have not sent me the goods. This
means I have no cd rom and no money can you help or advise me in any
way.
yours faithfully
I.B.Shafted from allways.
General Moans Reply is:-
Well there are some precautions you can take, Make sure that the company
advertising the product has developed it fully. Telephone Leeds and ask
to speak to the sales team. When you are put through ask them if you
can order a cd rom to fit internally into an Amiga 4000. You will then
be told "yes sir we certainly do, can I have your credit card number".
Ask again if they have the item in stock. The answer will be "YES".
okay now say to the woman "okay ill drive up to Leeds and pick it up now
then and pay cash when I get there". "OH just a moment sir" will be the
reply, "We seem to be out of stock at the moment". Now you know they
dont have the product or the POWER to produce it.
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Ram Board Failure.
I recently bought a Viper 28 ram expansion, After making it work hard
for a few hours it got very hot and the computor crashed. I rang The
company in Leeds and I was told to fit a fan to the CPU. I went to our
local computor shop and was told "any modifications to the board will
invalidate your warrenty" I explained to the shop that the board was
getting hot and failing after a couple of hours hard work. Ummm was the
reply. The company in Leeds admitted that there was a major problem
with the ram board and that it was frying up, Yet the local shop was not
interested. They offered to put it into a machine for a few hours to
test it and if it failed they would give me my cash back. Bo*&LcS was
my reply. It might be all right if its going to save them giving me
back my dosh. The company admitted the board was failing, They admitted
it needed a fan. They admitted it was CRAP!!!! What can I do?
yours faithfully
Rob Ed Blind from Leeds.
General Moans reply is:-
Well Robb ed I too had a similar experiance but managed to get the POWER
to get my cash back. I went straight to trading standards and straight
to the consumer advice centre and straight to the citizens advice centre
who imeadiately started legal proceedings. There were three of us by
this time with the dodgy batch of viper 28's. Within a week we had our
money back. Mind you we were told that we were the lucky ones because I
taped the telephone conversations with the company in Leeds and during
the conversation they admitted the viper 28 was a problem.
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Internal Drive Problems.
I own an Amiga 4000. I decided to have two high density disk drive
fitted internally when I purchased the machine. the trouble is that the
drives operate with the lights on all the time, If I format a disk in
df0 the lights on df1 stay on until the disk operation in df0 is
finnished. It does not effect the disk in df1 but it is annoying. The
Drives I had fitted are power computing high densitys and they were 150
pounds for both. Can you help me out!!. Also I have to run a software
patch that make the drive read high density disks!!
your faithfully
Isac Hunt from Leic.
General Moans Reply is:
Well the company you bought your drives from informed me that there is a
bug on the 4000 motherboard that in turn creates the need for a software
patch. I am pleased to inform you this is not true, There is not a bug
on the motherboard. You should however have fitted a pair of Cumana
internal high density drives for 120 pounds. These drives need no
software patch. As to the problem of the drive lights Power Computing
are developing a special ribbon cable to eradicate this annoying
problem, If however you wish to eradicate it yourself you will need a
pair of pliers to cut one of the tracks on the cable supplied. The best
thing I can recommend is that you only buy quality goods in the future.
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Well Thats it for this issue of The Word, Maybe you could help some of
the readers with problems I cant answer.....
1/ What happened to the scsi interface for the viper board, It made me
buy one. I would have bought the GVP if it had got a scsi at the time.
2/ How come crap companies can rip people off and the magazines still
except there 2000 quid adverts? (you just answered that yourself ED)
3/ I can go on and on about a company in Leeds but I have at last learnt
my lesson. How can I warn other people about them.....
Deck The Ripper Of NFA