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[edit] Macintosh Plus

Hi Raffaele Megabyte,

Over at the Macintosh Plus article, Grahamuk is right; the usage of Amiga computers in one of the Star Trek movies is completely unrelated to an encyclopedia article about the Macintosh Plus, and the material should remain deleted. If you were to write an article titled "Computers shown or used in the movie Star Trek IV" then your text would be relevant over at that article. If you strongly feel that the information belongs in Wikipedia, then perhaps you should write that article, and include a link to it in the Star Trek IV article. (Though I happen to agree with Grahamuk that such an article would be cruft.) Regards - Tempshill 18:49, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

You should issue a Request For Comments regarding your disagreement with GRAHAMUK over the Amiga info, rather than requesting formal mediation. This can bring additional viewpoints to a discussion and help settle disagreements like this. And I'm pretty sure you would discover that most people would agree with him and with Tempshill's comments above that the material doesn't belong on that page. Tverbeek 11:07, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please give it a rest. The reason that material was left there for so long is that no one cared enough about it to remove it. It's trivial. It's silly. Really, it is. I'm just glad that someone finally got around to getting rid of it. And please stop trying to convince me otherwise; I'm not buying it. Regardless, here's something you need to understand: Wikipedia is not the place to seek "justice" for some insult from two decades ago. That's promoting an agenda, that's not what Wikipedia is for, and it's not welcomed here. The page should stay as it is now, with no pointers to anyone's "cry for justice" over an unrelated topic. Tverbeek 02:27, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Wikipedia:Deletion review#Amiga Virtual Machine

Allow me please to caution you about the tactic you are choosing in the discussion on the Deletion Review page. Attempting to respond to every comment is generally viewed with skepticism. At best, it is perceived as a very defensive action - one that may indicate that you do not yet understand the principle of non-ownership of articles. At worst, it can be perceived by some as outright hostility.

You made your case and presented your evidence. I recommend sitting back and letting other discussion participants have a say. Allow the group to develop a discussion rather than attempting to hold serial discussions with each participant. Good luck. Rossami (talk) 04:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amiga IRC users

Pardon if I'm unaware of current Amiga machines, but are they not old and outdated? I would be tempted to believe that the subset of Amiga IRC users is not a notable one. Otherwise, we would be expected to list IRC clients for all outdated systems that are updated by abandonware enthusiasts, no? I will not remove your additions for now, but you should try to find references to demonstrate the notability of these clients. (Just being the only Amiga IRC client, or the biggest, for example is not necessarily notable.) - BalthCat 16:14, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:AmigaOS4.png)

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[edit] "Completely wrong"

I take offense at your comment that my version of WHDLoad was "completely wrong". Of course it was far less technically detailed than your version and used more vague wording. But still it was not completely wrong, it still conveyed the same idea: WHDLoad is a program to run non-AmigaOS-compatible Amiga games and demos from within AmigaOS. You even used one or two of my paragraphs verbatim in your version. You wouldn't have done that if it was "completely wrong", would you? JIP | Talk 18:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amiga at OS article

I undid this material from the Operating Systems article:

Notheworthy to mention the fact that AmigaOS generated an entire family of clone descendant OSs: AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS (both proprietary), and one that is Open Source AROS. All these three child OSs derive from version 3.1 of classic AmigaOS which itself stopped at version 3.9.

This looks like good material for the Amiga OS article, and not the general OS one. Also you'll want to fix up the grammar and spelling a bit ("Notheworthy [sic] to mention...").

The Amiga, and Atari ST, were fun game machines in their day. Good luck. Pete St.John (talk) 19:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I answered a couple of your points at my Talk. The use of "sic" above is as in Sic. Pete St.John (talk) 17:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)