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Title: 'lo
Post by: bignate on January 27, 2005, 01:41:46 PM

I just picked up an Amiga 2000HD last night (late) and I haven't had a chance to set it all up yet, but I am chompping at the bit to get going with it.  There were a ton of floppies included (who knows if they still work) but I am curious as to what all I can do with my new rig.  I am a Linux/x86 nut, so I am looking forward to this new OS/hardware that I don't know anything about!  Should be fun, hopefully I'll see you round the forums.

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: Karlos on January 27, 2005, 01:50:30 PM

Hi :-)

Enjoy your stay... The place is so addictive, you'll never leave ;-)

Seriously, if you have questions about anything amiga related (and plenty that isn't), this (along with amigaworld (http://www.amigaworld.net/)) is the place to be.

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: whabang on January 27, 2005, 01:55:27 PM

Welcome! Enjoy your stay! :-)

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: the_leander on January 27, 2005, 02:10:17 PM

Quote

Karlos wrote:

Enjoy your stay... The place is so addictive, you'll never leave ;-)

Ha! Now he tells me, I only came here because I was drunk! That was 3 years ago!!!!  :-o

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on January 27, 2005, 03:16:29 PM

Welcome to Aorg and the Amiga community!

Take a look on Aminet for cool utils, back2roots for cool (legally downloadable commercial/pd) games
there are a few transfer tools from pc->amiga (via com-port), if you're lucky you got a basic compiler on the Miggy and you can compile yourself a free transfer program called 'wartrans' iirc, otherwise there's Cloanto's AmigaExplorer, wich works great. To use hd disks with a dd diskdrive you can simply put tape on the left hole of the disk.
Also, with some soldering around, you can solder yourself a joystick-mouse switch (soldering scheme can be found on Aminet, visible with for instance the program AHAview under Windows, dunno a viewer on Linux wich can view this kind of files)
just some of my hobby practices

happy computing :-)

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: Failure on January 27, 2005, 03:21:52 PM

Well now that the 1k+ posters have bid you welcome, hello from the miniscule Amiga UNIX side of the house ;-)  Amiga.org is a lot of fun, so I think you will enjoy yourself whatever route you take with your new-to-you Amiga.

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: bignate on January 27, 2005, 07:49:42 PM

Wow, thanks for the warm welcome...only 1 hour and 40 minutes remain till I get off work and get it set up /me drools :)

Title: Re: 'lo
Post by: Linchpin on January 27, 2005, 08:07:43 PM

Welcome to a.org :-)

:pint: