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Atari takes the leek

HAHAHA!!111 At last!

Oh wait, I am an Amiga guy. AMIGA RUULEZ

well, while there certainly were some notable amiga releases in the last few years it seems the atari scene has found the afterburner switch. so much good quality releases with fresh ideas on old hardware while the amiga guys are still digging that oldshool style...

It's not that recent Atari demos are the most original ones in the world either...

this demo kind of marks a turning point for me (<3 D-bug) but I only started to follow the Atari scene around 2010 so I might be under false impressions...

Christ, please refrain from trolling. It was a obviously a major party - merely judging from the releases, basically it's a month that goes to the non-lazy coders. A month without major parties for other platforms perhaps, but still a credit to the coders' efforts, doing a lot with little.

Are we talking about the ST or the Falcon?

Pointless waste of time if it's the ST.

Paula >>> AY

68000 >> 6502, and yet...

I fail to see your point. Amiga >>> C64, whatever the prod.

and yet this is coming from the guy who states removable disc media are still superior, among other things.

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DAMN straight. Heck, I've recently transferred all my stuff from DVD+Rs to CD-Rs as they make things easier for me still. Got a problem with that?

I wish to elaborate:

If you all use HDDs or Flash memory and yet have less than 15Gb of data, wouldn't you worry that one day the Flash drives would be unreadable, or the HDDs would fail? More importantly, how would you back up the data, and would you alternate between devices or update them all at once?

I use Robocopy's Mirror function, which can be extremely useful and simplifies things. But I've found that if I type in the wrong drive letter by accident, I can wipe out hundreds of files just like that.

I would use the plain Robocopy Copy function, but that would leave a lot of redundant files lying around, files I no longer want and so would have to hunt through all the copies and delete them manually.

So, since I mirror all the copies and so forth from the one drive, I have to be careful that all the files are still there. When I burn data onto CD-R, I at least have a copy which, whilst I have to store it away carefully and make sure the physical media is clean, is not so easily erased as an incorrect Robocopy command or a computer virus targetting Flash drives. And I don't have that much data as it is, so it's not as if there's dozens and dozens of CD-Rs lying around, just (at the moment) 10 at most.

I see your point when theres many many Gigabytes of data, but I really don't have that much. Don't you see now why I use removable disc media? I apologise for calling it superior, but I meant that it's my own choice under my own circumstances.

Hope that clears things up now. Thank you.

Foebane72: i remember when computers were like that, but you know, that was quite a long time ago :D

1. get a big HDD attached to your network somewhere
2. set all your computers to do regular, automatic backups
3. forget about it. You don't need to worry about where you're saving stuff, what happens if there's a virus, and you don't have to bother with removable disks any more.

(Also, you're using these removable disks for music? Isn't your music in a nice, managed library so you don't have to fuck about with crap like this? I don't give a shit what my mp3s are called or where they are, i just pick an album or whatever and press play..)

@foebane: Demos are not only about machines, they are also about peoples' skills...

I rarely buy albums and leave them untouched, as it happens. Although recently I've built up quite a nice classical music collection from Amazon downloads and put them on their own DVD, only altering the filenames to get rid of underscores, because I... can't... stand... them!

No, I've personally made every single other MP3 I've got, using Audacity, WinLAME and MP3Tag. It's taken me hours and hours and hours of trimming and amplifying sound waves, making sure I encode them all at the same specs and then tagging them carefully with MP3Tag. Most of the stuff I've got on MP3 they don't sell as albums.

Thanks for the reminder :) I was quite dickish last night. Sorry.

1. Is it really worth it? 500Gb (smallest capacity I can find), for just ~12Gb of data? And I don't have a network.
2. I only have the one computer I'm currently using.
3. See 1 and 2 ;)

I wish to elaborate further, because it was late when I posted last night and I was tired and irritable:

The CD-Rs I am using are NOT the primary storage media, but emergency backups

I am actually already using an HDD to store multiple copies (mirrors) of all my files in different partitions (yes, will get another HDD one day possibly), as well as a couple of Flash drives and the MicroSD cards in my two MP3 players.

All the contents are identical to each other, seeing as they're all mirrors.

I am unlikely to lose the data in all of them simultaneously, but if I do, the CD-Rs serve as the emergency backup.

Reason being that it's best to use different types of media for storage, not settle on just one.

See now?

A man with two backups...

here you have your two backups...

Blame AMcBain, he brought up the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrA4Kp9ASn4

That's settled.
;-)


Oldschool computing ftw.

No it's certainly NOT. How can it be, when I consider the Atari 8-bits to be great?

9/10 by now :)