Financial pressures have caused me to have to sell a lot of my Amiga stuff. The latest casualty is my Amiga 2000. I'm trying to put together a nice A2000 system to bring in a decent amount of money, so I got the Amiga out of the loft, found my AmigaNET zorro network card, and the floppy drive i'd borrowed for a different machine and started putting it all back together.

Upon firing it up, I realise that the hard disk is broken, and my only other SCSI hard disk is in my A1200. Oh well, I can always get another disk for the A1200 in the future, and theres nothing on there that isn't replacable, so I grabbed the HD out of there and put it in the 2000. Of course, its only after I repartition and format the thing before it dawns on me that the A1200 was the only way for me to download stuff from the internet and get it on a floppy disk; none of my modern machines even have floppy drives! I don't have the drivers for the AmigaNET card, or the GVP IOExtender in the A2000 and I was going to download them off the internet. Oh, and I can't find the AUI transceiver that lets you hook the network card up to modern networking equipment either. I must have seen that thing about a zillion times when I didn't need it... :-/

So now I can't even test half the stuff in the A2000.

Oh and my laptop decided to die too. I have no money for a replacement. What a crappy day.

Just a quick note to let you know that this perl script:

http://unixwiz.net/tools/ftpput.html

works perfectly out of the box on OS4.1 if you have the SDK installed (the SDK comes with Perl). Simply download it somewhere as ftpput.pl, and do something like:

1.Workbench> perl ftpput.pl --server=ftp.example.com --verbose --user=username --pass=password --dir=/whatever file1 file2

Which could come in handy for DOS scripts etc. I've just used it from a C program via IDOS->SystemTags().

It occurred to me today that in December i'll have been an OS4 user for six years, since I signed up as a betatester in 2003.

It still seems like OS4.x is a "new era" of Amiga computing in my head, but since I got my first Amiga 15 years ago, i've actually spent 1/3rd of my total time as an Amigan with OS4 as my primary OS at home.

I've been pretty lucky, since my trusty AmigaOne has been rock solid stable all through this time, but I really do use it almost every day (although I probably should change the CPU fan, its still the original one!). I haven't fired up a Commodore Amiga since I sold my CyberstormPPC a couple of months ago (and to be honest I hardly used it by that point).

Although I still own an A500, A500+, A600, A1500 and A2000 (as well as a now CPU card-less A4000), I don't really use "classic" AmigaOS in any shape or form any more, and I don't miss it. OS4.x is giving me as much enjoyment as my 68k Amigas used to, and more.

So, thanks Hyperion and the OS4 team for 6 years of great computing, heres to many more!

I've decided to completely remake my website from scratch, and now that we have OWB and Netsurf, I'm finally free of table hell and tag soup! Thats it, i'm dragging my website kicking and screaming into 1999 and using CSS!

Actually, i'm technically dragging it into 2009 by using HTML5, but I doubt i'll actually use many HTML5 features.

Well, this is handy. I already planned to completely overhaul petergordon.org.uk, and I think I'll move the blog section here. I might even update it more than once a decade.