A small hello...

[McVenco]

After some 5 years of absence an Amiga has managed to find a way into my house again.

I previously owned an A500 (1989-1997), A2000 (1994-1999) and A3000 (1997-2001), all with little expansion, just harddrives, WB3.1 and such. My most precious add-on was a 14k4 modem though, with which I made my first steps on the WWW back in 1995 (I already had E-mail in 1993). But the most important use was for the countless BBSes in Holland.

Two weeks ago I found an A1000 for a pretty reasonable price, so I decided to pick it up again at the place where it all started in '85.

I did a thorough cleanup, completely disassembling the A1000, so I got to see the famous autographs for the first time in my life (I got a little shiver when I saw the name Jay Miner there...) and now it's almost like new (only the keyboard got a little attack from the yellow virus).

When I have enough space in my room (or a house with a spare room for all computer stuff), and some spare money of course I will expand my collection again. I want at least an A500 and A1200. If I can get my hands on it I would love to own an A3000T but they're just too rare over here.

Anyway, just wanted to say "Hello World!" :-)

Greets,
Eric

[tonyvdb]

Hi Eric, and welcome to AO

Once you use an Amiga you just cant stay away for long :-D

[McVenco]

Once you use an Amiga you just cant stay away for long :-D

That's just too true :-)

[amigakit]

Welcome back!

[Narayan]

Welcome aboard the a.org!

[InTheSand]

Welcome to A.org!

Does your A1000 have any expansions inside it, or is it a stock model?

And are you running the "latest" (!) Kickstart 1.3 on it or did it come with earlier disks? Just curious!

 - Ali

[drewz21]

A very big Welcome back!

Where do you reside?

I'm in beautiful Birmingham, AL.

[McVenco]

The only expansion it has is the neccessary mem expansion, so it's pretty much bog standard. It came with Kick/WB 1.1 and 1.2 (however the 1.2 Kickstart disk seems to be broken). So no 1.3 there (it's a real oldie...)

Oh yeah, I live in Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands.

[McVenco]

Where I come from, double posting is a crime, but I think of this as an extended introduction of myself:

I've been lucky enough to buy 3 Amiga's 1200 for 85 Euro (something like $100 I guess), 2 of them with harddrive (don't know the size yet)! They came with 1 black 1084S Monitor, and some joysticks, a modem and a lot of disks.
I have no exact specs yet, since I'm only picking them up next sunday, but I think I will keep the best one (both technical and in case colour) and ditch the 2 others.
There probably won't be any turboboards in them, maybe (if I'm lucky some memboards).

So watch this space cause there might be 2 Amiga 1200's on sale in the near future for those interested :-D


Or is €85 too much for three 1200s?

[InTheSand]

Hi,

€85 sounds like a great price for three A1200s! I'm glad you clarified what you meant by "ditching" the ones you don't want! Personally, I'd keep one spare and sell off one of them - you never know when you might need parts!

Obviously, the A1200 is far more expandable than the A1000, but then again the A1000 is the grand master of all Amigas that followed!

It's easy enough to write out a Kickstart 1.3 boot disk if you want to "upgrade" your A1000 from 1.1!!! All you need is a working 1.3 image and a small program to convert this into a bootable KS disk.

 - Ali

[Doppie1200]

too much? Well we shouldn't discuss that here. We might make some australian people angry. The thing is an A1200 is much more rare there and are thus more expensive. Since the word is out we might aswell carry on. :roll:

So you paid €28,34 for an amiga 1200. Lets say this; If I was to come across one for that price on a flea-market I would buy it regardless of expansions or yellowing. It is always good to have a working motherboard and diskdrive. So if you are selling PM me ;-)

[McVenco]

Doppie1200 wrote:
So if you are selling PM me ;-)

I'll let you know as soon as I got them.

Also: I spotted an A1000 with Sidecar on sale today. I've heard of this beast, but never even seen a picture of it (though I admit I never searched for it either).

For those interested: Link (in dutch, but with pictures)

[InTheSand]

Ooh! Another Sidecar... There was on one the Canadian eBay quite recently. Unfortunately, it was quickly out of my price range and the shipping to NZ would have been a nightmare (it's a very heavy metal box!)...

 - Ali

[McVenco]

InTheSand wrote:

It's easy enough to write out a Kickstart 1.3 boot disk if you want to "upgrade" your A1000 from 1.1!!! All you need is a working 1.3 image and a small program to convert this into a bootable KS disk.

I've been looking, but probably in the wrong places or with the wrong search terms. What program do I need to make a Kickstart disk out of a 1.3 ROM file?

EDIT: Yes, apparently I didn't look good enough. I found WriteKickDisk on Aminet. Should do the trick I hope.

[swift240]

Hi Eric, and welcome to the scene, nice to see another uses with an Amiga.

Mike.