Hi from Slovakia/Australia
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:56 pm
Miro Kropáček, also known as MiKRO / Mystic Bytes or just mikro. You may remember me from such financially successful projects like "Why nobody has ever ported a TBL demo to the Falcon", "I can't stand the look at this zView makefile anymore" or "Is everybody so blind so they don't see how easy is to make mxPlay play all the possible audio formats on the Earth?". And I had been coding Falcon/DSP demos and intros, too. Twelve years ago. I've been hoping switch to demoscene stuff since then.
Since some time (while being in Australia) I've been playing with my (de)soldering station, managed to change my Falcon's NVRAM, fix monitor, upgrade XEGS to the limits, ... stuff like that. I have to say, still hate it. Electronics is so unpredictable. Thousands of reasons why something can fail, you can have the best theoretical knowledge and yet blow up the device only with overheating something.
Frankly, I wasn't exactly thrilled to have another AF-clone to visit/check/post to but seeing how much effort and information Exxos has put into all this, perhaps I can see his point. Having so much to share, you certainly don't want to fight/convince/make compromises with other admins only because they don't share the same opinion.
I have a suggestion bulk purchases in the store; it's happened to me so many times that it makes me feel like an idiot. Basically I'm always missing stuff which becomes available. What about allowing, now you have your own store and payment, bulk/prepaid purchases? I'm totally OK to pay all upfront, wait unknown amount of time and when everything is available, just ship it. It's good for your too -- you would know how much stuff is pending and how much to order/buy/build, so a win-win situation.
Also, is it allowed to cross-reference posts from AF? For instance about HW projects announced / maintained only there.
Since some time (while being in Australia) I've been playing with my (de)soldering station, managed to change my Falcon's NVRAM, fix monitor, upgrade XEGS to the limits, ... stuff like that. I have to say, still hate it. Electronics is so unpredictable. Thousands of reasons why something can fail, you can have the best theoretical knowledge and yet blow up the device only with overheating something.
Frankly, I wasn't exactly thrilled to have another AF-clone to visit/check/post to but seeing how much effort and information Exxos has put into all this, perhaps I can see his point. Having so much to share, you certainly don't want to fight/convince/make compromises with other admins only because they don't share the same opinion.
I have a suggestion bulk purchases in the store; it's happened to me so many times that it makes me feel like an idiot. Basically I'm always missing stuff which becomes available. What about allowing, now you have your own store and payment, bulk/prepaid purchases? I'm totally OK to pay all upfront, wait unknown amount of time and when everything is available, just ship it. It's good for your too -- you would know how much stuff is pending and how much to order/buy/build, so a win-win situation.
Also, is it allowed to cross-reference posts from AF? For instance about HW projects announced / maintained only there.