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The Amiga 1000 Parceiro

134 points by jdkee 6y ago

watermelon59 6y ago
I'm gonna be a pedantic Portuguese speaker and point out that they should've named it Parceira. Amigo parceiro. Amiga parceira. To be clear, I mean to this lightheartedly. Great work!
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Unless they meant it to be the Amiga's partner, which in any case isn't grammatically correct. :)
  - watermelon59 6y ago
    Crap, that didn’t occur to me at all! And now I realize that that’s what they probably meant facepalms
- dguaraglia 6y ago
  Hehe, had the same reaction to the name, but when I think about the word for 'computer' in Brazilian Portuguese (which is the one I'm fluent in), it makes more sense: 'computador parceiro'. Still weird phrasing, but... less grammatically challenging :P
  - BitwiseFool 6y ago
    I've studied romance languages and I've always wondered... how jarring is it for a native speaker when grammatical gender is incorrect? In other words, how "wrong" does it sound when someone swaps the o/a on a word? Do you have to stop and think for a split second to make sense of what is being said, or does it still make sense without extra thought?
    - fernandotakai 6y ago
      REALLY wrong. it's like when people say "an university" -- it sounds so so so wrong! you can 100% understand what the person said, but you know it's not right.
    - watermelon59 6y ago
      I get what the person means immediately, but it is quite jarring.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  Interestingly enough, HP had a computer named "Amigo". It was a stack-based architecture and many of its features moved on to the HP-3000 line. It had the same widescreen monochrome CRT that went in their intelligent terminals, with function keys on the right of the screen. I think it could do graphics at resolutions higher than the Amigas, but no sound.
spiritplumber 6y ago
12 year old me is jumping up and down with joy. <3
snvzz 6y ago
A decently thought out expansion. Too bad about not being OSHW.
rbanffy 6y ago
Love the names on the silk screen.
walski 6y ago
Does HN combine threads? If so, there's been a submission a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585201
- ghusbands 6y ago
  There's no thread there to combine.
- rasz 6y ago
  dont you mean this one [The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683151
vhodges 6y ago
If my 1000 was in a runnable condition, I'd be seriously interested in this.
- bogantech 6y ago
  Now is as good a time as any to dig in and get it going :)
  - vhodges 6y ago
    I have the motherboard and power supply (and the 256K front memory card is around somewhere) but can't seem to find the case or keyboard or the floppy, I even think I still have my boing optical mouse around somwhere. I no longer have a monitor for it. I attempted a PC case mod a bunch of years ago that went wrong so I keep hoping one of those retro case projects (like the one for the 500 and 1200) will target the 1000 but alas I think the addressable market is too small for the effort.
    - mattowen_uk 6y ago
      Personally, I'd sell what you have (there's plenty of dead/sick A1000s looking for donor parts), and put the money towards a working A500 (if you still want an OCS Amiga). The A1000 is a lovely museum piece (I have one also), but for actual use, an A500 is much more accessible and expandable.
      - vhodges 6y ago
        Yeah, I've thought about it. A replica 500 is doable (new cases, FPGA that fits inside etc) and I've realized it would be mostly about playing old games and was just looking at the A1500 Mini case this afternoon. But... I will most likely just put together a Mister system at some point.
lukeitup 6y ago
Oh my, brings back memories :)
iuguy 6y ago
Blake Patterson has a beautiful tribute to No Man's Sky[1] done on an Amiga 1000 if anyone wants to see one in action. I really love his more recent Amiga retrospective[2] and he has a great Amiga 1000 photo album[3] too. [1] - https://bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no-mans-sky-beautifully-rendered-on-the-amiga-1000/ https://bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no... [2] - https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/ https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-a... [3] - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72157621596272210 https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7215762159627...
- hollimolli 6y ago
  great

134 points by jdkee 6y ago

I'm gonna be a pedantic Portuguese speaker and point out that they should've named it Parceira. Amigo parceiro. Amiga parceira. To be clear, I mean to this lightheartedly. Great work!

pjmlp 6y ago
Unless they meant it to be the Amiga's partner, which in any case isn't grammatically correct. :)
- watermelon59 6y ago
  Crap, that didn’t occur to me at all! And now I realize that that’s what they probably meant facepalms
dguaraglia 6y ago
Hehe, had the same reaction to the name, but when I think about the word for 'computer' in Brazilian Portuguese (which is the one I'm fluent in), it makes more sense: 'computador parceiro'. Still weird phrasing, but... less grammatically challenging :P
- BitwiseFool 6y ago
  I've studied romance languages and I've always wondered... how jarring is it for a native speaker when grammatical gender is incorrect? In other words, how "wrong" does it sound when someone swaps the o/a on a word? Do you have to stop and think for a split second to make sense of what is being said, or does it still make sense without extra thought?
  - fernandotakai 6y ago
    REALLY wrong. it's like when people say "an university" -- it sounds so so so wrong! you can 100% understand what the person said, but you know it's not right.
  - watermelon59 6y ago
    I get what the person means immediately, but it is quite jarring.
rbanffy 6y ago
Interestingly enough, HP had a computer named "Amigo". It was a stack-based architecture and many of its features moved on to the HP-3000 line. It had the same widescreen monochrome CRT that went in their intelligent terminals, with function keys on the right of the screen. I think it could do graphics at resolutions higher than the Amigas, but no sound.

spiritplumber 6y ago

12 year old me is jumping up and down with joy. <3

snvzz 6y ago

A decently thought out expansion. Too bad about not being OSHW.

rbanffy 6y ago

Love the names on the silk screen.

walski 6y ago

Does HN combine threads? If so, there's been a submission a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585201

ghusbands 6y ago
There's no thread there to combine.
rasz 6y ago
dont you mean this one [The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683151

vhodges 6y ago

If my 1000 was in a runnable condition, I'd be seriously interested in this.

bogantech 6y ago
Now is as good a time as any to dig in and get it going :)
- vhodges 6y ago
  I have the motherboard and power supply (and the 256K front memory card is around somewhere) but can't seem to find the case or keyboard or the floppy, I even think I still have my boing optical mouse around somwhere. I no longer have a monitor for it. I attempted a PC case mod a bunch of years ago that went wrong so I keep hoping one of those retro case projects (like the one for the 500 and 1200) will target the 1000 but alas I think the addressable market is too small for the effort.
  - mattowen_uk 6y ago
    Personally, I'd sell what you have (there's plenty of dead/sick A1000s looking for donor parts), and put the money towards a working A500 (if you still want an OCS Amiga). The A1000 is a lovely museum piece (I have one also), but for actual use, an A500 is much more accessible and expandable.
    - vhodges 6y ago
      Yeah, I've thought about it. A replica 500 is doable (new cases, FPGA that fits inside etc) and I've realized it would be mostly about playing old games and was just looking at the A1500 Mini case this afternoon. But... I will most likely just put together a Mister system at some point.

lukeitup 6y ago

Oh my, brings back memories :)

iuguy 6y ago

Blake Patterson has a beautiful tribute to No Man's Sky[1] done on an Amiga 1000 if anyone wants to see one in action. I really love his more recent Amiga retrospective[2] and he has a great Amiga 1000 photo album[3] too. [1] - https://bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no-mans-sky-beautifully-rendered-on-the-amiga-1000/ https://bytecellar.com/2018/03/14/a-planetary-anachronism-no... [2] - https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-as-an-amiga-user/ https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-a... [3] - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72157621596272210 https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7215762159627...

hollimolli 6y ago
great