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- 10-Lists of different things + stuff
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- 10 things which REALLLY piss me off in life.
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- 1. Being skint.
- 2. Sitting on a bus next to an old person who does not shut up
- waffling on about the bingo, or about a relative.
- 3. Discovering an old schoolchum on a bus, and you get into a
- conversation about computers, and chudders on about the same thing
- over and over again for the duration of the trip.
- 4. PC users !!
- 5. Out of the entire 2,000 floppy disks you have scattered around
- the bedroom floor, the one your girlfriend puts a high-heel
- straight through happens to be the current project you are working
- on, and has taken you weeks to complete.
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- 6. You are stood in a computer shop asking about Amiga accsessories
- and some slick-haired git starts chuddering on about the latest
- bench test for the PC, and Mhz speeds which try and make PC's look
- better than Amiga's. You just wish you had a wichester and shoot
- the twat.
- 7. People who join in computer conversations half way through, and
- think they know everything about a particular program, when
- actually, they have never even seen it in their lives.
- 8. People who wear anoraks and sit in train stations.
- 9. Homeless people who stuff copys of 'Big Issue' down yer fackin
- throat and demand a quid.
- 10. You wake up in the morning, absolutely dying for that very first
- cup of tea, and there's no sodding milk or sugar.
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- 10 absolutely pointless things we do on the computer at least once a
- week. Come on, be honest now !!!
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- 1. Discover a new command in the C: drawer, such as a new DELETE
- command, and accidentally delete half of your HD because you
- misplaced a wildcard.
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- 2. Spend an entire day so-called tidying up your hard disk drive, and
- after several hours of flicking through drawers, you have actually
- done jack shit !!
- 3. Formatted over a disk that you know you want, and only realize it
- just as you click on the final OK gadget !!
- 4. Spend ages trying to work out why the disk you just inserted won't
- appear on workbench, only to find that instead of saving the icon
- as a DISK icon, you saved it as a DRAWER.
- 5. Spend ages looking for a program on the HD, and discover you need
- the external drive to run it. You insert the disk, nothing
- happens, and your eyeball cunningly spots you have not wired it
- into the back of the Amiga. Time to re-boot the system.
- 6. Posted jiffy bags and forgetting to put the stamps on !!
- 7. Send someone a program you have been working on, and they
- desperately need it, and you use a LOAD command in the program to
- the banks that you ain't sent.
- 8. When using the Dir Opus format list, you accidentaly click of DF0:
- instead of DF1: causing you to lose a precious disk.
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- 9. Delete a library that you think is un-needed, and discover that a
- cruncher you used for every file in your partition wants it, and
- because it is not there, causes nasty Suspend/Reboot errors !!
- 10. Forget the password to un-lock your hard drive !!
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- 10 Shitty thing that most AMOS coders tend to do, but won't actually
- admit it in public as they are too embarassed, or simply just don't
- want people to know of it, as it was so stupid.
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- 1. Forget to save your masterpiece before quitting, so that Auto
- Resume loads in the old, bugged version.
- 2. Spend days perfecting a screen fade effect, only to discover that
- someone else has done a version, and to make it look like your
- code, you change the variable names around and add a couple of
- useless lines.
- 3. Spend a few days working on a project, only to find when you open
- up AUI that there is a version on the coverdisk far more superior
- than yours.
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- 4. Spend hours perfecting an AMOS procedure, and without saving it,
- run the program to test it, find it works after all the pissing
- around you did, and forgot to remove the BREAK OFF command, and
- because there is no quit button, you have to reset the system !
- 5. Forget to turn multi-tasking back on when in editor mode, and
- before you save the program, click the right button causing
- everything to crash.
- 6. Try and clean up your coding by cutting all of the rubbish out of
- your listings, and when it comes to re-running, you have totally
- shagged up the program.
- 7. Put together a really complicated procedure, and when it comes to
- testing, out of the thousands of IF...END IF... routines you used,
- you are one END IF command short. After hours of searching, it
- turns out to be in a totally different part of the program.
- 8. Use a screen with 32 colours, when in fact, your game only
- requires 8.
- 9. Know that you have made a picture/music module so important to
- your current game, and can't remember where the hell you put it.
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- 10. You have spent days working on your new masterpeice, only to find
- that one little bug keeps niggling it's way onto the screen,
- causing everything to crash. After coutless days of searching, you
- discover that the bug is so obvious, that even a blind person can
- see it !!
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- 10 things which really piss me off about Word Processors, and other
- Workbench-executables.
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- 1. A file selector that resets to a default path every time you come
- to use it, meaning you spend more time in the selector than
- working on the actual files.
- 2. A Diskcopy program which you cannot abort from.
- 3. A shareware program such as AGW that leaves all files imported
- "Open", meaning when it comes to editing a spelling mistake you
- made, you have to reset the system in order to save it under that
- filename again.
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- 4. File requesters that take eons to appear on-screen due to the
- version of ReqTools.Library you have in LIBS:
- 5. Shareware programs that have register icons pop up every time you
- tap something on the keyboard.
- 6. A cool text-editor, or graphics program that you know could really
- help you out, and after hours of creating a project on it,
- discover that the SAVE function is disabled due to it being
- Shareware.
- 7. AGA Emulators which don't actually work, yet ask for a shareware
- fee of around 50 quid, and still claim to work.
- 8. AMOS Disk magazine engines which always guru as soon as they
- begin. Ring any bells Paul?
- 9. A graphics converter, when activated, requires about 1K extra RAM
- than the amount that you have been able to free safetly.
- 10. File crunchers that won't unpack the files you have crunched with
- them.
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- Here are the 10 things which really piss me off about the AMOS
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- 1. You cannot run 2 AMOS programs at the same time.
- 2. Classic AMOS is faster than AMOSPro.
- 3. Classic AMOS compiles without multi-tasking, yet AMOSPro does not
- even when it is turned off.
- 4. The Turbo extension crashes on an A600/500 when compiled, yet it
- doesn't when compiled in Classic AMOS.
- 5. It is not very easy to program successful CLI window programs.
- 6. You cannot convert .Abk music modules back into tracker modules.
- 7. You cannot change the volume of a Tracker module, and you cannot
- work out the TEMPO speed of a module once loaded in.
- 8. Almost every extension available has some kind of command for
- drawing stars.
- 9. The DRAW command is nowhere near as fast as what it could be.
- 10. Dialogue boxes always end up crashing the system if used
- regulary.
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- 10 things which make the Amiga far more superior than any other type
- of home computer.
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- 1. With the Amiga, you can acquire games for just the price of a
- blank disk, where as on the Sega and Nintendo machines, you have
- to pay 50-quid, and then see what you get. If you don't like it,
- you can't get your money back.
- 2. The Amiga comes in a nice computer-shape which is easy to carry
- around, unlike the PC's who have shitty little boxes.
- 3. You can plug an Amiga into any TV set, unlike the PC's. You can
- even use a speccy TV lead, which the Sega Megadrive 2 can't do.
- 4. You don't need any game or sound cards to be able to play your
- favourite games.
- 5. AMIGA'S CAN MULTI-TASK UNLIKE THE PC'S CAN !!!
- 6. With an Amiga, you don't require 8Mb of RAM just to load up
- workbench.
- 7. Even the most inexperienced of computer user can load a game on an
- Amiga, instead of having to perform loads of keyboard actions on a
- PC, or spend hours un-zipping files to a hard disk.
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- 8. The Amiga has AMOS Basic. The PC's have Jack Sh., the same as the
- Megadrive and Nintendo.
- 9. Some of the best graphics in the world are drawn on the Amiga
- using the Video Toaster system, and even has it's drawings put on
- the TV every week.
- 10. The Amiga has much more a variety of software than any other
- computer on the market.
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- 10 things which really cheer me up in life.
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- 1. Receiving a rather large cheque through the post for some of your
- programs.
- 2. Getting bladdered every weekend.
- 3. Reading an article which once again prove that the Amiga is far
- more superior than the PC.
- 4. Finding a quid under the settee cushion.
- 5. Managing to score with a really beautifull woman.
- 6. The bank manager not having slappeda massive overdraw bill on you.
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- 7. Winning a tenner on the lottery.
- 8. Being with the people that you love.
- 9. Watching John Major fail in his attempts to try and get the people
- of Britain to vote for him.
- 10. Nathan.
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- 10 of the things in life which you would have died if no-one had
- invented them.
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- 1. Craft cheese slices.
- 2. Self-Sealing envelopes.
- 3. The Ren and Stimpy Show.
- 4. AMOS compiler.
- 5. Sticky-back plastic
- 6. Cartoon Network.
- 7. The TV remote control.
- 8. Saturday nights.
- 9. A donner kebab with extra chilli sauce.
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- 10. Jelly shoes.
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- 10 Things I hate about going to the loo. By Ingrid Hoyles.
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- 1. Finding out after a large crap, that there is no bog roll paper
- left on the roll, or the airing cupboard.
- 2. Having to go just after someone has made the loo smell terrible.
- 3. Discovering that it is time to clean the loo, you try to get up
- and your arse sticks the the seat.
- 4. People telling you to hurry up when you are busy.
- 5. Having a toddler who thinks the loo is a toy bucket.
- 6. Having to que in public areas when you are desperate.
- 7. Finding a floater in there that will not flush through.
- 8. A loo that is always occupied.
- 9. Men always leaving the seat up !
- 10. As soon as you settle yourself on the seat, someone comes into the
- bathroom to have a bath.
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- Well, that just about covers it for this issue. If you have an
- interesting 10-list suggestion then why not send it in to me, as I
- would love to see just what kind of suggestions you can come up with.
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- You should know the address by now. If not, then just look around
- some of the other articles, as it is scattered around.
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- [Andrew "Mushroom" Kellett]
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