New to Amiga

[Waterland]

Hello, I am new to the world of Amiga.  Just over this past weekend I purchased an A2000 at a garage sale for a grand total of $15.  I have been doing extensive research and it looks as if I can get quite a bit out of this machine.  Any information about upgrading would be greatly appreciated.  I don't know much about my 2000, I've turned it on and played around with it some, but I'm not really familiar with everything yet.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Welcome to the world of Amiga and to A.Org!

You'll be able to use the A2000 for retro gaming, tracker-style music and bitmap graphics stuff, amongst other things.

Did you get much with it? Many disks? Did it come with a hard drive?

 - Ali

[amigagr]

welcome aboard Waterland :-)

[oddmario]

Welcome
You came to the right place.
Need a bit more info to give advice though.
If you don't know what is what,take pictures.

[Waterland]

Did you get much with it? Many disks? Did it come with a hard drive?  

Yeah, it came with 2 huge boxes of games and disks, probably 50+ games and 100+ disks with who knows what on them.  And yes, it does have a hard drive.  It was a hell of a deal for 15 bucks, the lady that sold it to me was just happy to get rid of it......

oddmario wrote:
Welcome
You came to the right place.
Need a bit more info to give advice though.
If you don't know what is what,take pictures.

What kind of info do you need?  Let me know what you need to  know, and I'll see if I can tell what I've got.

[tonyvdb]

Welcome aboard Waterland, Like others have already posted feel free to ask questions and we will do the best we can to answer them.

The A2000 for $15 is a steal of a deal. You will get lots of use out of it. Its a great clasic games machine. Does it have a hard drive and what OS is it running?

EDIT: Ok thats great  :-D  Now with the original boxed games (not copies) you can install a program called  whdload this alows you to install your games directly to the HD and thus not dammaging the original disks.

[oddmario]

Try info from the menu first.
Accelerator,cards,memory and so forth.
First of all use the search function on this site,then the Aminet link to the left.

[amigakit]

Welcome to Amiga.org!

[irishmike]

An A2000 plus goodies for $15.  WOW, you got a great deal.

Welcome to the party.

[darksun9210]

Nice find there Waterland!

Welcome to Amiga.org!

this might be usefull for a guide to expansions for your A2000 Amiga Resource.CX

[neuroflip]

Hi Waterland!

Stay Awhile... Stay Forever!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[RobinGodd]

Hello, I have played games on the amiga for years(and other types of retro machines). I have recently become interested in making my own games on the amiga.

I tryed to dive into machine code but I couldn't get very far, so ill leave that for later.

If you want to try programming on the ammiga get amos or Blitz basic or somthing. They are really cool.

Anyway im going to stop rambling on and say "Hello to a newer member than me!"

 :-D

[SamuraiCrow]

Welcome!

[Gav]

Yeah welcome to the party,this is the best amiga forum so you defo came to the right place.

[Waterland]

Wow, thanks for all the advice and welcomes, I plan to stay for awhile.  This is one of those rare forums where people actually help new comers rather than tell them they don't know anything....

I haven't had access to my A2000 for a couple days and haven't had a chance to look it over any more, but I'll be back tomorrow so I can give you more info then.

EDIT:  SamuraiCrow, I noticed you're from Minnesota, do you know of any places around the Twin Cities where I can get Amiga stuff, or if there are any Amiga groups or clubs or anything?  I'd love to meet up with some other Amiga users.