X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,85e195e442509704,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-29 19:52:29 PST Path: swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: jittlov@erehwon.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Line: Wizardess Saves Wizard's Amiga! Date: 29 Jan 1995 21:50:48 -0600 Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 107 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <3ghnmo$5h7@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Summary: {^_-} Keywords: Jittlov,Amiga,Dow,Wiztany,Wilton,victory AFMJ HEROINE/HEROES of the MONTH: JOANNE DOW * LOREN WILTON * DAVE WITZANY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ January 1995 ushered in a mandatory New Year's Resolution: Make.More.RAM! Due to the demands of my NewsGroup's 70,000 subscribers, 1467 email messages -in-holding and obsessive saving/collecting/sorting of every article, joke, and ascii gem on the Infobahn, my 1989 Amiga 2000 CrashMaster was just .02% away from attaining Critical Storage. _________________ Reading my incessant posting-complaints on the | _______________ | afm-j newsgroup, *DAVID WITZANY* (Wiz-Watcher & | ||=|====|wp|=|| | AI/Graphics-Grad at the University of Illinois), | ||L| ,|==|=|| | went out and _bought_ an Amiga DOS 2.1 (with the | | _ __/||__|=|| | Norse language option:) and RAM Upgrade Kit, and | | \`O.o' |_|| | sent them to Wiz-World as a surprise gift! Dave | | =(_ _)=.....| | also email-collaborated with MERIDAY BETH KOMOR, | | U :core:| | arranging for a local Wizardess of the West to | |=======:dump:| | perform the transplant of the Amiga-Brain -- as | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | I'd cashed in another set of rare comics to buy | COM-1084GigaRad | a $280 Quantum 540-meg SCSI Hard Drive at Fry's. L_________________j [___________] It was a dark and stormy night when Wizardess _____[___________]____ *JOANNE DOW* and her faithful assistant/main- T ___ ___ T squeeze *LOREN WILTON* welcomed me into their | AMIGA [===]_[===]|=[] ocean-side complex. We lifted the patient up |CrashMaster ______ | || to the Operating Room (filled with banks of | 2000+ [______] | || equipment, huge monitors with incredibly fine L______________________j (]=O displays -- I had no idea Amigas were capable [______________[M_[J_] of such flicker-free brilliance and clarity). ____________________ /o ooooo ooooo == \ Lightning flashed!! Sparks and ozone filled /Ooooooooooooooo OOoooo\ the air! Joanne had seen enough, unplugging //_)OOOOOOOOOOOOO o oooo\ my CrashMaster to commence surgery. The //Z][___________][] OO oooO\ new drive was formatted -- then 5 years & (____________________________) a billion bytes made the leap to lightspeed and a new home. The Witzany chips and disks were added, plus more things Joanne kept bringing from all her "boxes of goodies". Meanwhile, Loren kept copying programs from their master files, handing floppies to Joanne for installation. With Amiga parts getting rare as producer-ethics, Loren even repaired the Commodore connector-cable ripped by the last earthquake. Total time for the ROM-ectomy: 6pm Sunday to 3am Monday morning. This is what you call a Truly Dedicated Friendship. (Especially when Joanne knows full well I'll be calling for _weeks_, asking her to explain what the h**k all of these things DO!?! ;) But enough to aver: mi Amiga LIVES! With new colors, finer details, the li'l screen-buttons have shadings...and she doesn't even ~smoke~ anymore!! I can now COLUMNAR-CUT & PASTE!! I also have an AURORA-like Screen-Saver scintillating across my high-rad monitor! *POWER* is at my fingertips!! Yea Verily -- let those Hollywood Computer Wizards TREMBLE -- for *I* am truly _bounding_back_from_the_grave_ and NOTHING c%segmentation error core dump core dump % % 1042 % remodem^redial^reconnect^relogin^repasswd^retrn^renetgroup^reposting: -- WOO! We're BACK!! And do I _like_ that Instant ReLink Feature!!!!! %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! TTTTTT TT TT ,T, T, TT TT TT TT TT ,TTT, TT TT YY !!!!! !!!!! HH HH HH ,H H, HH,HH HH,HH `HhnH' HH HH HH HH AA !!!!! !!!!! AA AAAAA AA AA AAAAA AAA; `AA' AA AA AA AA !! !!!!! !!!!! NN NN NN NNNNN NN NN NN`NN NN NN NN NN NN `' !!!!! !!!!! QQ QQ QQ QQ QQ QQ `Q QQ QQ QQ `QQQ' `QQQ' :D !!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!! -*- DAVID WITZANY -*- JOANNE {^_^} DOW -*- LOREN WILTON -*- !!!! !!! !!! !! :::::' The InterNet will never forget you for this!! `::::: !! ! :::: :::: ! .::: ***** * ***** :::. ::.: JJJJ JJJ JJJJ :.:: :::: OOOO OOOOO , OOOO :::: :::: AAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAA , AAAA :::: :::: NNNN NNNN NNNN NNNNNNNNNN NNNN :::: ..: NNNN NNNN NNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNN' NNNN :.. :::: EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE :::: :::: DDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDD :::: :::: OOOO OOOOOOOOOOO OOOO :::: :::.: WWWW WWWWWWW WWWW :.:: :.:::: ***** ***** :::.: ::::::: __________________________________________________ :::::: :::::.:: | __ | ::.:::: ::::.::: | __ ___________ ___________ AMIGA 2000 == | :::.::: :::.::.: |[_j L_I_I_I_I_j L_I_I_I_I_j CrashMaster | :.::.:: ::.::::: |________________________________ _______ _________| :::::.: :.:::.:: |[__I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_] [__I__] [_I_I_I_]| ::.:::. .::::::: |[___I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_] | _ [_I_I_I_]| ::::::: ::::.::: |[__I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_L___| _[_]_ [_I_I_I_]| :::.::: :::::::: |[_____I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I_I____] [_I_I_] [_I_I_T || ::::::: :::.:::: | [__I__I_________________I__L_] ________ [___I_I_j| :::::.: :::::::: | | Row/mjj ::.::::: l__________________________________________________j ::::::: ========================================================= e _ ', . PROGRAM {PRO-gram} [n] A magic spell cast over a computer |\/M_ ,/+ _ which allows it to turn one's input into error messages; \`,_P~*;.[_) [v] to engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head /_\ ~`\ _H| against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. // \\ d__] =========================================================`-===-'====[X] Wizard Mike Jittlov alt.fan.mike-jittlov