New member from Australia here. A bit about my Amiga history:
The first time I saw an Amiga was sometime in the late 80s, when I was seven or eight. I remember playing Nebulus on it, and being blown away by the graphics and sound.
Apart from seeing an Amiga 1200 in Brash's (a long-defunct chain of record stores here in Oz) a few years later, I didn't have much to do with Amigas in the 90s - mainly C64 and then PC.
Things picked up a bit around ten years ago, when I bought a second-hand Amiga 1000 at a garage sale. I played a lot of games - SWIV, Xenon 2, Stunt Car Racer - but didn't really delve into Workbench proper. It got packed up, and mostly forgotten.
And then, a couple of months ago, I bought an Amiga 1200 on a whim. And caught the Amiga bug, good and proper
Since then, I've installed an ACA1232 with RTC, an Indivision AGA, a kipper2k internal CF card adapter with ClassicWB installed, and an EasyNet package. I've also replaced the caps on the audio outputs, as one of my channels had no sound.
I've also bought an AmiTek Fusion genlock (not working, but hoping to fix it), and a Vidi Amiga 12 digitiser. I also designed and built a parallel port sampler around the AD7819 8-bit ADC, and even got some nice-looking PCBs manufactured for it!
Software-wise, I've been playing around with all sorts of stuff. I installed ShapeShifter and was kinda disappointed it took 15mins to start System 7, so I ended up converting its partition from FFS to PFS3. Now, it only takes a minute to start
In short, AmigaOS has been a steep, but very enjoyable learning curve. My A1200 has been the best random purchase I could imagine - and an iBook G4 is about to join it so I can have a MorphOS machine too
Oh, and I completed Lotus 2 for the first time last night
TURBO!!!
