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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: tobiaspb on September 12, 2005, 07:12:58 PM

Title: New and happy again! :-D
Post by: tobiaspb on September 12, 2005, 07:12:58 PM
Hi all.

It started some weeks ago, an old friend called me and asked if I wanted his old Amiga 500. He was going to throw it away!!!! It's a A500 with 1MB chip (rev 6 mainboard) 4MB fast cortesy of the A590 SCSI controller, AND IT RULEZ! The old disk was a goner, but I had a 8GB SCSI disk and it works flawlessly.

Because of this I started to search for a flicker fixer, but I found a A1200 in a Elbox E/Box with a Blizzard 1230/50/6882 with 32MB ram and OS3.9. So I bought it, much to my wifes dispair, and love it.

I have set up TCP/IP (genesis) and samba so that I can share files with my Linux server and it works. I have even registered WHDLoad. :-D

Can't remember having this much fun with computers in ages. Now I can't wait to get the Dragon coldfire card and a AGP graphic card, I hope the will start shipping in october. That way I canm use it for more internet tasks to (Using Ubuntu now).

Conclusion: Amiga RULEZ!


- Tobias B.
Title: Re: New and happy again! :-D
Post by: Tomas on September 12, 2005, 07:28:34 PM
congrats and welcome to amiga.org  :-)

I guess you have also been involved with amiga in the past?
Title: Re: New and happy again! :-D
Post by: tobiaspb on September 13, 2005, 10:47:12 AM
Yes.

I bought my first Amiga 500 in 1987. I still remember the excitement, the smell and the WOW factor.

I later bought a A1200 and a A4000. I switched to PC around 1995-6 and haven't used a Amiga since, apart from emulation.