Countraven
Member
Through this this thread I want to thank a particular person here in Amibay, Stefano "Vibros" from Italy. A single feedback is not enough and you would understand the reason why if you going to spend some seconds and read the little Amiga story that follow bellow.
Moreover I want to express my happiness cause for one more time I can confirm that the Amiga community and in general the retro community is a place when you can meet all the enthusiasm and the good vibe of all the world. We simply start as simple nicknames in forums sharing common interests and of course the passion for our favorite computers but as the years go by there are cases of true friendship, trust, honor, enthusiasm and happiness that are getting a great expansion around the members of this community. I may add the ultra positive background of support and help that is built around the users in case of a problem and I end up noticing facts and situations that slowly begin to fade in the real world but exist so big and wonderful in our microcosm of the retro / Amiga.
Amibay is correct place to post all these for two reasons: First of all because the whole story that I will share was started, expanded and finished here in Amibay. And secondly because Amibay is the place that reflects to me the most all those things that I described in the previous paragraph. Amibay is my ultimate place for Amiga and stuff where I would visit not only to grab some coll goodies but to meet some good friends as well.
I first came in touch with Stefano "Vibros" from Italy when I bought his Amiga 1200 Desktop PPC here in Amibay.
https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=3218&highlight=vibros
From the very first PM we exchanged he was very polite and helpful to me n an ultra positive mode. He offered me the time I asked to gather the money needed for the desktop and he sent to me a wonderful machine. He was there to help and support me when I erased by mistake a hard isk partition on this Amiga -after the sale of course- sending me back and for free CDs with software and a backup copy of the partition to put things back in order.
We kept in touch discussing various Amiga stuff through PMs here on Amibay and through emails. Stefano is an excellent Amiga technician and knows a million of stuff about the computer of all computers.
Somewhere in the fall of 2009 I decided that I want to build a second 1200 PPC Amiga with some spare hardware I owned. The first Blizzard PPC card I have got back in 2007 -which was meant to be include in a 1200T project that never reached an end-, was there waiting. I have managed to gather some more hardware including a BVision, an IndiVision MKI, a FastATA and a USB SubWay. The main idea was to build a new desktop machine. As I discussed it with Stefano I politely asked him if he could proceed with the task of building the machine for me, he got all te knowledge and talent for something like this. I am not that good at hardware stuff and I would not risk all this expensive equipment. so I thought of my good friend Stefano.
With tons of enthusiasm he accepted the project. A painted Black Amiga 1200 desktop was bought -again form Ambay forums- and together with the rest of the hardware everything was sent to Italy!
Time was passing and a lot of things changed on the process of the project to the better. A lot of ideas were added and some more hardware was gathered piece by piece. The idea of the upgrading of the BlizzardPPC made the whole project even more interesting.
Meanwhile real life was running fast, Stefano changed living town for job reasons and the same happened to me, there were hard times when there was not time, enthusiasm and money for Amiga stuff but we kept in strong contact with Stefano. He was replying politely to every email of mine answering to all my questions.
We reached the beginning of 2012, my precious Amiga Hardware was still in the hands of mighty Vibros who have returned to Italy and got back to the project for good. To our bad luck something went wrong with the upgrade process of the Blizzard PPC. More details about this can be read on some early posts of this topic:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=511059#post511059 -take a look on the 08-12-2011- post.
Stefano moving faster than the speed of light, got a new Blizzard PPC for me -again for Amibay-, simply as that. I left speechless by this move ! Stefano showed he best way how responsible he felt about this project. He paid for everything and he did not let me to sya a single word, fast and simply.
He went on doing the best and EVEN MUCH MORE for this project. bliz was upgraded to 060 -68k side- while the PPC side was upgraded and over clocked to 300Mhz. You can see all the hard work he ahs done in the topic that I already posted:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=511059#post511059
He sent the finalized computer to the best package I have seen in my whole life! It could have pass even through a battlefield and then the Amiga would be perfectly ok!
so how much feedback is enough for this man that expressed all his enthusiasm, his good vibe and his passion for Amiga in a single project acting in a perfect, responsible and professional way that honors both him and me?
The point is not the result of the finalized Amiga 1200. The point of this thread is to express my kindest and deepest thanks to stefano and to underline his behaviour. Such behavior brings to front the fact that in our microcosm of the Amiga there is still a tree that offers the fruits of trust, of friendship, of honor, of support, of responsibility. How often do we meed all these to the real world?
Isn't that great that all this started on Amibay, the ideal place with the ideal background for such things to happen? A friendly place where we can talk and act about our passion: Amiga and retro computer stuff!
thank you Stefano!
Thank you Amibay!
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=580&mode=view
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=579&mode=view
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=578&mode=view
ps. forgive the photos I have not got a camera here, more and better quality to follow soon!
Moreover I want to express my happiness cause for one more time I can confirm that the Amiga community and in general the retro community is a place when you can meet all the enthusiasm and the good vibe of all the world. We simply start as simple nicknames in forums sharing common interests and of course the passion for our favorite computers but as the years go by there are cases of true friendship, trust, honor, enthusiasm and happiness that are getting a great expansion around the members of this community. I may add the ultra positive background of support and help that is built around the users in case of a problem and I end up noticing facts and situations that slowly begin to fade in the real world but exist so big and wonderful in our microcosm of the retro / Amiga.
Amibay is correct place to post all these for two reasons: First of all because the whole story that I will share was started, expanded and finished here in Amibay. And secondly because Amibay is the place that reflects to me the most all those things that I described in the previous paragraph. Amibay is my ultimate place for Amiga and stuff where I would visit not only to grab some coll goodies but to meet some good friends as well.
I first came in touch with Stefano "Vibros" from Italy when I bought his Amiga 1200 Desktop PPC here in Amibay.
https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=3218&highlight=vibros
From the very first PM we exchanged he was very polite and helpful to me n an ultra positive mode. He offered me the time I asked to gather the money needed for the desktop and he sent to me a wonderful machine. He was there to help and support me when I erased by mistake a hard isk partition on this Amiga -after the sale of course- sending me back and for free CDs with software and a backup copy of the partition to put things back in order.
We kept in touch discussing various Amiga stuff through PMs here on Amibay and through emails. Stefano is an excellent Amiga technician and knows a million of stuff about the computer of all computers.
Somewhere in the fall of 2009 I decided that I want to build a second 1200 PPC Amiga with some spare hardware I owned. The first Blizzard PPC card I have got back in 2007 -which was meant to be include in a 1200T project that never reached an end-, was there waiting. I have managed to gather some more hardware including a BVision, an IndiVision MKI, a FastATA and a USB SubWay. The main idea was to build a new desktop machine. As I discussed it with Stefano I politely asked him if he could proceed with the task of building the machine for me, he got all te knowledge and talent for something like this. I am not that good at hardware stuff and I would not risk all this expensive equipment. so I thought of my good friend Stefano.
With tons of enthusiasm he accepted the project. A painted Black Amiga 1200 desktop was bought -again form Ambay forums- and together with the rest of the hardware everything was sent to Italy!
Time was passing and a lot of things changed on the process of the project to the better. A lot of ideas were added and some more hardware was gathered piece by piece. The idea of the upgrading of the BlizzardPPC made the whole project even more interesting.
Meanwhile real life was running fast, Stefano changed living town for job reasons and the same happened to me, there were hard times when there was not time, enthusiasm and money for Amiga stuff but we kept in strong contact with Stefano. He was replying politely to every email of mine answering to all my questions.
We reached the beginning of 2012, my precious Amiga Hardware was still in the hands of mighty Vibros who have returned to Italy and got back to the project for good. To our bad luck something went wrong with the upgrade process of the Blizzard PPC. More details about this can be read on some early posts of this topic:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=511059#post511059 -take a look on the 08-12-2011- post.
Stefano moving faster than the speed of light, got a new Blizzard PPC for me -again for Amibay-, simply as that. I left speechless by this move ! Stefano showed he best way how responsible he felt about this project. He paid for everything and he did not let me to sya a single word, fast and simply.
He went on doing the best and EVEN MUCH MORE for this project. bliz was upgraded to 060 -68k side- while the PPC side was upgraded and over clocked to 300Mhz. You can see all the hard work he ahs done in the topic that I already posted:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=511059#post511059
He sent the finalized computer to the best package I have seen in my whole life! It could have pass even through a battlefield and then the Amiga would be perfectly ok!
so how much feedback is enough for this man that expressed all his enthusiasm, his good vibe and his passion for Amiga in a single project acting in a perfect, responsible and professional way that honors both him and me?
The point is not the result of the finalized Amiga 1200. The point of this thread is to express my kindest and deepest thanks to stefano and to underline his behaviour. Such behavior brings to front the fact that in our microcosm of the Amiga there is still a tree that offers the fruits of trust, of friendship, of honor, of support, of responsibility. How often do we meed all these to the real world?
Isn't that great that all this started on Amibay, the ideal place with the ideal background for such things to happen? A friendly place where we can talk and act about our passion: Amiga and retro computer stuff!
thank you Stefano!
Thank you Amibay!
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=580&mode=view
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=579&mode=view
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/down...=578&mode=view
ps. forgive the photos I have not got a camera here, more and better quality to follow soon!
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