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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: Mangar on November 05, 2005, 02:16:22 AM
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Hey all,
I'm a long time amiga user from Belleville, Canada. I've still have my A2000 all setup and still working from 1988. I also have my A1200 I bought from the WOC in 1992 or was it 1993? I can't remember. Thought I'd introduce myself and I would like to ask the following Question:
Are there any Amiga Dealers left in Canada? How am I supposed to get my hands on one of these machines running OS4. I'm chomping at the bit.
Also would like to know if there are any amiga nuts left in Canada. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in these parts.
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Hay Mangar I'm from Gravenhurst and still into Amiga
I don't know of any one selling new stuff in Canada so I hope this thread attracts someone's attention
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Hi,
There are lots of us Canadians on this site - eh! Can't think of any Canadian dealers at the moment. I was going to suggest LiveWireSystems.ca but they're no longer around.
Can anyone else help out?
-G
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There's a whole bunch of us here in Edmonton. Check out www.amicue.org for our clubs activities and pictures.
In the picture gallery, I'm the bearded guy with the "I Adore My 64" badge.
At this time I have one C64, three C-128's, five Amiga 500's (one with an '030), one Amiga 2000 (with '040), two Amiga 1200's (one with '030), an A4000 (with 060/PPC and CVPPC), a 600 Mhz. Pentium (running Mandrake Linux, Windoze and Amiga 3.9). I guess that makes me an Amigaiod.
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We are here on the east coast as well!!
Welcome aboard.
SoftHut is my source for the Amiga.
I have an A1 micro on back order.
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Thanks for the information. The AMICUE looks to be a fairly active user group. I'll have to checkout Softhut.
Livewire seems to have been the only dealer left in Canada but now they are closed.
Hopefully there is one out there, somewhere, but somehow I doubt it. I wish Hyperion wrote AOS4 to work on any PPC system. Since they don't have an easy way in North America to get these machines.
Wonder if this AMY05 machine will be more easily available?
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Hi there. I'm also part of the AmiCUE group and a very active Amiga user. I've got an A4000T, A1200T, three A500s, three A2000s, and my very first A1000 (I also have an A4000D currently but it's on eBay so I won't have it for long.)
Like you, I'm chomping at the bit for OS4 but even if I could find a place to buy an new Amiga I'm going to have a VERY hard time convincing my wife it's worth the high pricetag. Maybe Amy'05 will be better but even still it's going to have to be a "Christmas/Birthday" present spread over several years (it would be worth it though) :-D
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Mangar wrote:
Hey all,
I'm a long time amiga user from Belleville, Canada. I've still have my A2000 all setup and still working from 1988. I also have my A1200 I bought from the WOC in 1992 or was it 1993? I can't remember. Thought I'd introduce myself and I would like to ask the following Question:
Are there any Amiga Dealers left in Canada? How am I supposed to get my hands on one of these machines running OS4. I'm chomping at the bit.
Also would like to know if there are any amiga nuts left in Canada. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in these parts.
Hello, and welcome to Amiga.org, as I'm not Canadian, I feel as if I'm almost gatecrashing the party ;-), but check out http://www.frappr.com/amigaworld (http://www.frappr.com/amigaworld) to see that there are quite a few Amigans in your country...
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Try the States, there are 'at least' three Amiga dealers still left: Software Hut, Mr. Hardware Computers and CompuQuick Media Center in Ohio. All still sell new and used Amiga hardware.
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G'day
Welcome to Amiga.org
I'm not from Canada but I have come across this site before: http://www.amiga.ca/ which seems to be an Amiga supplier in Canada.
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hey how ya doin
im not from canada but i was up north just acouple weeks ago it was pretty cool. i live in ny state so we see people from canada all the time esp ontario.
my amiga purchases havce actually been split between here at amiga.org and ebay.
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Hi there!
I think the last Amiga dealers in Ontario finally died around 2002. That's when National Amiga in Ottawa disappeared, Oshawa Amiga closed and Randomize converted to Apple products. Softhut is probably your best chance, but they're damn expensive. And if you order from the US, watch out for Canada Customs - they'll rob you blind. Softhut did an exchange for me (already paid customs for the thing) and Canada Customs opened it up and charged me again!
I've driven through Belleville a few times. That's only about 100km from me. So technically I'm an "Amiga nut" and "in these parts". :-)
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Hi Mangar, and welcome! :)
I'm on the east coast too (hi amiwalker) but I lived in Kingston Ont. for 5 years back between 1989 and 1994. Aroun 1993 there were not many Amiga stores if any left in Kingston, but I did drive with my Dad to Belleville once or twice to check out a store there.
I forget now what the name of it was, but they had a display in their front window of computers through the ages that I remember, mostly because each computer had some storage media with it, from CD ROM (which was the newest at the time) all the way down through to punched cards, and a pile of rocks in front of some ancient home PC from the early days
:-D
I don't know of anyone left in my area as far as dealers go, there is a place in Quebec that I think sells Pegasos boards, but I can't remember (or find with Google) them right now.
I'd love to get my hands on an A1 too, even just to try, but I don't know if I could drop almost $1000 on something like that. :cry:
Anyway, welcome to the group!
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There is also eBay......a main source for Amigas stuff.
If you want new Stuff, I would go with Software Hut.......Great People! it is thanks to them that I still have my SX32 pro
Also Try AmigaKit in the UK?
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Randomize still sells Amiga on ebay
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@Manager
Welcome to amiga.org :-D
I'm from Edmonton, Alberta. Not a member of a club (yet).
I've got an Amiga 2000HD, a Micro AmigaOne (µA1-C), three PCs and two Z80 systems.
I purchased the Amiga 2000HD in Edmonton in approx 1988-89. Currently running Amiga OS 3.1.
I purchased the Micro AmigaOne (µA1-C) from Livewire Systems at the end of November 2004. Currently running Amiga OS 4 prerelease update #3.
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redfox
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mr_a500 wrote:
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And if you order from the US, watch out for Canada Customs - they'll rob you blind. Softhut did an exchange for me (already paid customs for the thing) and Canada Customs opened it up and charged me again!
Too right. I ordered a 4 mb PCMCIA memory card I wanted to use with my Amiga from the US and paid $5 for it. Not only I was charged $12.50 for import duties by Canada Customs, but it turns out that the card isn't PCMCIA at all... :-(
Looks like one but it's basically useless. But that's not what makes me angry as I was prepared to take that risk, it's the import fee I had to pay. :pissed:
I already requested a refund but I don't think I will get it.
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Thanks for the welcome guys.
I'm Originally from Nova Scotia, lived in Toronto for 26 years and lived in Belleville the past 4. Everyone I knew back in the early 90's owned an Amiga. I knew of 5-6 Amiga dealers in my part of Toronto alone. Then everything disappeared around 1996.
It's good to see there are still Canadians kicking around on their Amiga. Great to hear that some of you have OS4. The Amiga has been a hobby of mine for so many years I'd pay 1000 bucks for an A1. However, I have trouble bringing myself to pay for customs charges. On an A1, if there are still any available, I can just imagine them nailing me for a few hundred bucks.
I think its a sign of the strong community that the Amiga is still around even though noone but us really notices. These people are developing software for OS4 not for commercial success but for their love of the computer.
I have a few PC's and even an old C-64 but nothing draws me like an Amiga. I have fun just looking through my directories using DiskMaster. I never did like DirOpus but last time I tried it was in 93. It's not that I'm crazy but the Amiga was a fun computer to use. I don't get the same from Windows, Linux or MacOS. Maybe its just the Nostalgia factor. Yet, maybe its something more.
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While we have Canadian's here doe's any one have an A2200 or maybe seen one?
Got any pics of one?
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Hi guys, I'm from Vancouver Island, BC. I have a C64, A500, CDTV, A1200 tower, and a Pegasos1. Anyone else here have Pegasos or interested in them? :-D
I think there's huge potential in hardware like the Pegasos that can run multiple operating systems, like MorphOS, Linux, BeOS (being ported), QNX (already ported but not released), and unOS. Hopefully one day we will see OS4.
I'd also like to see a new Atari OS, it would be great to see an atari community emerge. I wonder what Atari would think of this? :-D
There are are probably lots of independant computer stores across Canada that build their own PCs, are familar with linux, and possibly also sell new or used Macs. This is the type of company to promote alternative platforms besides PCs that they can also get into selling if there's little or preferably no upfront cost for them.
I see the potential for these stores to service niche markets like the hobbyist communities (like MorphOS and OS4) if they are not already doing this, because in some cases the hobbyists don't mind paying more for hardware if they can get better service than the chain stores.
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alext wrote:
While we have Canadian's here doe's any one have an A2200 or maybe seen one?
Got any pics of one?
Look here: http://amiga.emugaming.com/prototypes/a2200.html (http://amiga.emugaming.com/prototypes/a2200.html)
I always thought the A2200 was an A1200 motherboard in an A4000 case.. it turns out to be something different :-D
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_If_ you had it sent through Canada Post, there is a $5 handling fee. (If the item is worth over $20) There is no duty on Computer Parts in Canada, only goods and services tax (7%), which applies to pretty much everything (or 15% if you live in the Maritime Provinces). Now if you had it sent UPS, well it's bend over, I think I know Ya! Their brokerage and other charges are obscene. That's not to say if there was no invoice included, they couldn't make their own determination of value. I've had stupid fudgers send me an item I bought for $15 and put an insurance value of $100 US and then I got charged $10 for GST (with exchange) and the $5 handling charge. I just got a 600X Thinkpad off of ebay for $299 US including 2 docking stations and a Wireless USB adapter. They opened it up and thought it was worth $1000 CDN, so I got a bill for $75, but I should get most of it back if I apply for it with documentation proving how much I actually did pay. The guy actually insured it for $350 which included the shipping, but I guess they thought it was too good a deal to be true :-) Well they were $3500 CDN three years ago. :-D
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It's hard to know what's true about the 2200
http://www.thecryptmag.com/Online/29/TheForgottenAmiga.html
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=19
It would be nice to find someone with one