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Re: How did the Amiga fare in Australia?
« on: November 05, 2010, 11:42:15 PM »
@Cammy

Hah my brother used to jig school to play "Walker" on the demo A1200's at Myer/Grace brothers!
 

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Re: How did the Amiga fare in Australia?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2016, 08:53:16 AM »
Quote from: Iggy;817036
K-Mart has a presence in AU , eh?
I'm fond of the A2000 myself.
Sturdy enough to be used as a weapon when you tire of using it as a computer. :laugh1:

@Iggy K-Mart is a fantastic chain here, some are even open 24 hours! They sell pretty much everything

I loved A2000s. My father bought me my first A2000 from a garage sale for $80 in 1996 (I was using an A500 prior to that).

I only ever really used Wordworth, DPaint and Protracker on it from disk... Until I accidentally reboot it twice on years' eve, and it suddenly auto-boot into Workbench 2.0 (which I'd never seen before) - I was absolutely gobsmacked. I didn't realise it contained a hard disk, or how much ram (6MB) it had in it. The hard disk required two reboots as it was slow to spin up

...Christ, I was forced to attend new years celebrations that night. I just wanted to go home and play with the workbench preferences on the A2000, I couldn't believe I could set background patterns in Workbench 2.0... In 16 colors no less!

Good times. I'm now 32, and I haven't had anything excite me to that extent since.