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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Zorro on April 10, 2003, 11:51:40 AM
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I asked myself... how all begun for you ?
I had read of Amiga on the reviews of the gold age and had that cousin of a friend... :-)
He had the always mythical A1000... and we fall in love.
Then that friend bought an A500 when mother Commodore decided to let it out and I planted definitively a camping stretch to his house... ;-)
First thing that I have seen on his Amiga was Deluxe Paint... then it passed to the games: Marble Madness from Electronic Arts and Xenon from Bitmap Brothers... I did not resumed me for a looong time...
My world was not more the same one, at least until when I did succeed to take an Amiga 500.
Then it was the time of Kick Off... and the number of friends increased to excess...
I stop here otherwise I can bother you with all the history of my wonderful experience with Amiga...
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Hello Zorro,
(from Mexico? :-))
What's your story after your Amiga500?
For me:
Before my A500 I had a C64. With it I went monthly to my C64-club (everything in boxes and on the bike to the meeting, fun!!)
There I saw this A500 and not far afterwards I bought one for 2000 Dutch guilders, I think around 700 US dollars at that time.
Two games I was addicted to: Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder II.
After this I bought a A600 and A1200. Now I've got my A1200 and a Pegasos.
Spidey
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Well, I had an Atari 800XL first and then I bought a Sega Master System, and then I got a SNES. But SNES games were really expensive, so I could only afford a game every 3 months, and my friend had an Amiga 500 which he had hundreds of games for.
He told me all about the Amiga and how you could get games for free so I sold the SNES and I got an Amiga 600 with a Bart Simpson game. Then he let me copy his games too so soon I had over 2000 disks of games. I also started collecting demos and learning to code around this time, and wrote 4 or 5 intros.
I kept the A600 for two years, collecting more games, buying some originals too (about 10 a year), until the A1200 came out which I bought right away, selling the A600 to my brother's friend. Then I started hacking away at Workbench copperlists to see how AGA worked and wrote some small AGA demos, which was amazing at the time.
Soon I upgraded the A1200 with Fast RAM, hard drive and an FPU, and kept using it up to the end of my second year at University. At University, I had to code in Borland Turbo Pascal for some of my assignments. I had no PC so I bought "PCTask" and ran DOS 5.0 and Turbo Pascal on the Amiga, but it was so slow that eventually I had to give up and bought a "fast" 386 40Mhz PC with 1MB SVGA card and 120MB hard drive, SVGA monitor etc, which cost me less than it would have costed for a 030 board for the A1200.
Then I had 7 years of being a PC user, cursing Windows, until 2000 when a guy at work was talking about his Amigas (he had a couple of A4000's and an A1200) and it brought back memories so I bought an A600 with hard drive from the local paper. I got a PCMCIA CDROM drive for it too, and then bought an A1200T from ebay with 030-50 and hard drive/cdrom drive etc.
Then I upgraded to a Blizzard PPC board, then mediator and Voodoo3, TV card, etc, then finally I bought an A4000 and bought an Elbox Mirage case with Mediator 4000 and put all the PCI cards in it, and finally bought a CyberStormPPC. I sold this A4000 system back in August/September last year, when AmigaOne/OS4 was "just about to be released", and I had joined the "I am Amiga" club, as I needed the money to buy the A1. Of course, OS4 never materialized and I was very disillusioned by now so went back to using PCs.
Then I got more and more interested in MorphOS, talking to people on IRC about it, realising how comitted the developers were, and how talented, and seeing the way Genesi supported the community in a way AInc never had. So, now I'm a comitted MOS'er. If OS4 ever comes out I would buy it, because Hyperion deserves the support, but I'm not wasting any more time.
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I started with a Commodore Plus/4 in 1987 and taught myself basic on it. After what seemed like decades of begging my parents for an Amiga I got an A500 1.3 in 1989 and fell in love with the machine. I soon bought another 512K Fast RAM (So I could play Weird Dreams). Then I was introduced to the world of crack intros and wanted create these cool things myself. I got a copy of DevPac (I never paid for much software, much to my shame), and spent 2 years learning to code 68k. I joined a couple of crack/demo groups that had members in the northwest and eventually a couple of Polish groups too. As with Lando, I had to use TP5.5 at college, so I used an Amiga Pascal compiler, and made my code check which OS it was running on (Multiplatform source wooo!), by this point I had bought an A1200 the day they came out, added a 340MB HD (Which I still have!), and 4MB Fast RAM, Commodore Multisync monitor that could take VGA and PAL signals. Fond memories.
Then I bought a commodore 486 SX/25 and added a Gravis Ultrasound and took the RAM off my onboard Paradise VGA and shoved it in the GUS as I refused to use windows 3.1 so I didn't need the video memory. DOS only at this point, and joined the PC section of a famous Amiga group. I used to use Borland TASM, and it took a long time to stop hating the intel way of doing assembly. Eventually I stopped using the Amiga altogether in about 1996 and sold it so I could go to a rave on new years eve (Life @ Bowlers, Trafford Park. Money well spent!)
I used DOS only at home still coding ASM then I got a job coding on Oracle databases and had to get a P100 with 16MB RAM and install the dreaded windows nt 3.51 with the windows 95 GUI patch (remember that anyone?).
Then I discovered Linux, and it's been an on off love affair ever since.
I used UAE for years and years, and then Amithlon, to paraphrase Kylie Minogue "I can't Amiga out of my head". I am due a rather large amount of money to come my way shortly and will buy a Pegasos and an A1, so look out for my reviews.
I'm looking forward to learning PPC assembly, I haven't done any ASM since 1998 so it will be fun.
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Hi Zorro, if (you're from Mexico) then write (Hey compadre!!!) hehe.. I'm from Mexico :-)
Well, my still-on-going adventure with Amiga began with a Commodore64 my mom bought me when I was 13. I started programming in Basic and learned some C64 assembler but never went deep enough on it. I had the brown C64 and a datassete tape unit, it was fun. Then I was offered a C128 with a 1571 disk drive and tons of games and software so I sold the C64 and bought the 128, anyway most of the things I ran in the 128 were for C64 hehe. The 128 had some compatibility problems, the 1571 could not load games converted to "vorpal" and that annoyed me, so I sold it and bought a brand new C64-C with a white 1541 drive and all my compatibility problems were thing of the past. Then I met some friends at a computer store who also had C64, we became very good friends and shared programs, games, etc among us. One of them (Oscar) suddenly bought an Amiga 500, so he invited us one day to his house and we saw his A500 in action, I was amazed! The first game I saw on it was "Plutos", then "Xenon" and even the first game I played on my friend's A500 was "Test Drive".. gold old TD. My other C64 friends started to buy A500 too but I couldn't afford it immediately, so I had to wait about a yr. to sell my C64 and get my first A500. After that I got an A500 which could do PAL, then I sold the old A500 and my friend Oscar brought me an A1200 when he went to L.A. in the USA. That 1200 is now inside my Power Tower with a BlizzardPPC 603e+ (603/240, 060/50, 128 MB RAM, BVisionPPC, Plextor 40X SCSI cdrom, Yamaha8824S cdrw, ZIV busboard, HighwayUSB, Xsurf ethernet, Var I/O, scandex external scandoubler, external A4000 keyboard, PowerFlyer EIDE, 60 GB HD space (IDE), etc... it's a bit far from what it was when I bought it :-).
So, there's my story.. I haven't had any other computer than those listed above, no PC, no Mac, no anything else! :-)
Now I administer UNIX and Oracle databases to eat hehe
Best regards to all amigans outhere!!!
D
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That's simple: Walker on an Amiga 1200.
Then I knew I wanted to have one!
Before I had severall C-64. Well, still have actually.
At the moment I have 2 A1200 and 1 A600 with an AmigaOne on the way.
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ME? Oh I stumbled across the A Inc. website somehow, then managed to make my way over here. Then I decided to buy one of these machines, so I got an A2000HD yesterday. Its got workbench 1.3, which will be the first thing I upgrade. So I am working on it right now in fact.
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My brother got an A500 in 1990 or sometime and I was really impressed by the graphics. Later, I really wanted to get one of the new AGA machines, but never had the money. By the time I got my first computer (a 486 running Win95 - slow) I thought that the Amiga was dead. I did have an Amiga Emulator on another PC, though.
Fairly recently I came across a few sites, and was amazed to see that not only was the platform still going, but there were new machines coming out. I'm currently borrowing an A1200 (I've just found someone who can give me one for free - I'll probably upgrade and accelerate it) and I'm saving up for an A1.
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I started out with an Apple IIgs back in '87 but had been using Apple II's (of various models) prior to that in school and with friends who had one. I absolutely loved my IIgs (I still have it today). Anyway, after Apple dumped the Apple II, I moved into the Wintel world in the early 90's (can't remember exactly). But I had heard about this thing called Amiga that intrigued me.
So after becoming rather disenchanted with my 486DX/33 running Windows 3.1 I started investigating the Amiga thing I had heard about. I asked around a few BBS's and got little bits of information here and there, but nothing to make me run out an buy one. About this time I upgraded to a 486DX2/66, which had made Windows bearable. So I stopped pursuing the Amiga...
About a year or so later, my disenchantment with the 'PC' grew (again). So one day, while perusing the magazine section of a book store, I came across a couple Amiga mags (AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing I think) and started reading up on what I had been missing.
It was then that I realized this Amiga computer was much more akin to my beloved IIgs (which I still used, more often) than my PC. At the time I couldn't afford an Amiga, I had spent too much on my Wintel machine and I had my heart set on an A4000T. I wanted to learn more, so I looked around for a local BBS'es or users groups.
Luckily I found a couple BBS'es after a few misses (something like 70% of area Amiga BBS'es had gone down). But I learned that the Amiga Community (in the form of the largest users group) in my area was slowly dying... In a way, it foreshadows the state of the present 'global' community. There was a big battle between two factions in the group, vying for control over it's name and control of the group sponsored BBS. And no wonder, it was about '93 at the time.
So I was left with hanging out at tow or three of the BBS'es still worth visiting in the area. And as luck would have it, a user at one of these BBS'es was looking to find a home for an A2000 he was retiring. He'd let me have it for free, as long as I picked it up. Which I did, and luckily for me, it came with quite a bit of stuff to get me started. Unfortunately, I had the 2000 no more than nine months before Commodore 'officially' went bust.
Still I loved my A2000. I bought all kinds of upgrades (incl, Tekmagic accelerator, Spectrum 28/24 graphics card, 2MB chip RAM, Catweasel ZII Mk2, an Emplant Deluxe, and more) Although I didn't use it as much as my 'PC' (school/work reasons), it superseded the IIgs in my heart. So much so that I bought another A2000 and later traded both in to get an A4000D which inherited much of the hardware I had for the A2000...
Sadly, my A4000 seems to be dead. And I fear repairing it will not be worth the expense. So I'll have to wait for AOS4 to be released. At which point I plan to get an A1. In the interim, I'll use UAE and keep my eye out for a 'cheap' Amiga.
I should mention I also had a VIC-20 some two or three years before the IIgs, but I used it more as a game console than anything else. Mostly because while learning BASIC, I could never save and then retrieve anything from tape! Otherwise I probably would have been hooked on Commodore and got a C-64 or C-128 and later an Amiga.
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My first contact with any kind of computers was with the Vic 20. I got one for christmas way back in time. I moved on to the C64 where I really was hooked. "Everyone" had C64's back then and there were this great community feeling. During that time I started to read the (now since long dead) Swedish computer magazine Datormagazin (DMz :-)), wich targeted commodore computer users with a rather laid back and hobby kind of approach. Creativity and fun was more important than anything else, as the opposite to many of todays "professional" magazines on full color glossy paper wich mostly contains boring reviews.
Anyway, it was in that magazine I first spotted the Amiga. A year or so later I made the first live encounter with an Amiga 500. It belonged to a friend of mine. If it hadn't been so darn expensive I would have bought one the same day. But I had to way for a much longer time before I got ahold of my first Amiga. I still have an A1200, but it's not really 100% functional so lives in a closet now :-(.
BTW, any Swedes remembering the DMz? I know you do! :-) That was an institution back then, and now it's a legend!
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Hi Zorro,
my first experience with programming was a pocket calculator TexasInstruments Ti 57 in 1977?
My next computer was C= 128D in 1983.
In 1986 I bought an Amiga 1000 and in 1989 I switched to an Amiga 2000. I use this A2000 already til today. The A1000 waits in its original package for its "rebirth" ;-)
ciao...
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A friend in school had two big brothers who owned a Spectrum 48k, which we used to play games on. Then they upgraded to an A500 and of course we played games on that one too. This was about 1987 or 1988 when I was 7 years old.
When I was 11, I had saved up enough money to buy my own all-new A500 Plus (complete with an original version of Deluxe Paint IV!). Around 1993 I got interested in Desktop Publishing and now my Amiga had 2 disk drives, 2MB chipmem and an inkjet printer.
Realizing the Plus' shortcomings, I bought a used A1200 with a 120MB HDD in 1994. I started expanding it more and more.
In 2001 (err, I think) I bought an all-new A1200T with some fancy expansion cards.
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My cousin just got a brand new a500, my parents got impressed by what they saw and one month later they went out to buy one :-)
Only computer i had before that was a c64..
Had a damn great time with that computer... I miss those times so much. Those where the times when it was a joy to turn on the computer, instant bootup.... RARELY any crashes... Todays pcs are a pain, i never turn of my pcs anymore, cause i feel sick every damn time i boot windoze...
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This is going to make me feel old...
My first encounter with a computer was in primary school. I went to a club after school on I think Thursdays and the teacher who took it brought in her Apple 2. This must have been around 1980. Later on my Dad got a ZX81 which he later gave to me, couldn't do much with it as was 1K RAM! so we got huge the 16K RAM pack - complete with the infamous RAM Pack wobble (touched it and it crashed).
My Dad then got a Spectrum Plus (with the weird keyboard) and we upgraded this later with microdrives (no more loading from tape!) and a thermal printer (remember those?).
It was a round 87 when I'd seen a friends C128 and was going to buy it because of the music stuff he had with it. He was asking a lot of money but then I seen a ad for an Atari ST which blew the C128 away and decided I would get it instead.
Then one day I was up in Belfast and happened to walk past a computer shop who were showing an Amiga with the NewTek demo. This was showing pictures in 4096 colours and as soon as I lifited my jaw from the ground I decided the ST wasn't me after all, I wanted an Amiga!
Unfortunately they were too expensive but it turned out a company was selling French A1000s cheap so I got one of these - complete with stickers on the keyboard to make it QUERTY instead of AZERTY which is of course evil.
Of course when I got it it didn't have a TV modulator so I had to go a day without using it. I went through all the first "demos", Boing, Juggler, The artificial heart etc. I couldn't afford any software so but I managed to get a PD copy of Space Invaders which was my only application for quite a while. Later I upgraded it with an A590HD / RAM combo (which went in backwards).
Later sold the A1000 and moved up to an A500+ and then an A1200 which got a 50MHz 030. After this I wanderd off to PC land to enjoy the "joys" of Windows 95 and then (rather more sensibly) BeOS and even Linux.
I "came home" last year when I got an A1000 at a show complete with Juggler etc. when I was meeting the MOS guys for the first time :-)
I later discovered the A1000 is an NTSC model and as such possibly from the very first batch :-D
Right now I'm typing this on a Mac iBook complete with AZERTY keyboard...
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BTW anyone know how to change an NTSC A1000 to PAL?
I'd like to find out to confirm it's age.
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Hey everyone,
Well for me, I think something bizzare happened to me in the early 1990s, kind of a biological clock thing. The two coolest things of the early nineties were the Amiga and (the best band ever) Nirvana. They both made some kind of impression on me that I wouldn't fully realise until 1998, when I got 'Nevermind' second hand, and sold my bike for an old 1.3 A500.
As far as I knew at this point, no-one cared about the Amiga. Then I happened across a newsagents which stocked CU Amiga (remember when they used to do that? Now it's even hard to find Mac magazines), it was the issue with the first Doom port on the coverdisks.
I bought it despite the fact that my A500 couldn't possibly run Doom and I was amazed by what I saw - Amigas in towers, with nice big hard disk drives, the big-box Amigas (I had no idea they existed!).
Well I bought an old temperamental GVP HD8+ from some lovable psycho down the road who happened to have one in the loft, but eventually my dad bought me my A1200 from an old friend in Scarborough (who interestingly enough also liked Nirvana... oooh it's spooookeeeeee *cough*), for which I bought a 750MB HDD, Power Typhoon (right after they changed the specs and made it crap :-( ), nabbed a spare 8mb simm from work and.....
uh, that's it. My Amiga is sadly tucked away in the dresser drawer (try fitting a PC in there :-)) 'cause this PC takes up all the deskspace. It was a simple matter of economics - and so I have to put up with Wintel until I can afford to invest in something PPC based :-)
I'm actually pretty fond of my PC. I think it's the brilliantly designed case more than the OS somehow though, since I keep running back to UAE now and then with my tail between my legs. But how I hark after those days of Hi-Res Interlace :-D
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I am about to trump most of you:
When did I start on computers? it was 1979, and my uncle had just bought the brand-new TI-99/A. I was 3-4 years old, and my Uncle thought it would be neat to freak out my grandparents by teaching me how to program the TI/99-A to say "Hello" all over the screen. I remembered how, and eventually taught myself how to program that thing quite well before I entered kindergarden.
Then my grandfather bought the always-fun C64. I loved that computer. (Still have it *and* the TI)
Then he bought his first PC, an XT. From there on, i was an Intel man... 8088 to 386 to 486DX2-50....
Then came the remiere of Star Trek: generations. I'd taken the opportunity of it's opening to see Interview with the Vampire, but friends of mine were in Generations. After the movie got out, the parking lot was a mess, so we'd hung out in the back of my truck chatting up a storm. Discussing how to summon demontic entities, that kind of thing. At one point I mentioned my brand-new computer I'd bought a month before, a Compaq Presario w/ a 486DX2-50. He went "you think that's hot? I gotta machine that will blow you away." So the bet was on. He took me to his house, and showed me his...
Amiga 1500
In short order, I was blown away. While my 486DX2-50 was capable of only 16-color in full Windows 3.1 GUI, this thing was doing 32. When I got 256-color under DOS, this was getting 12-bit HAM6 mode displays. The mouse didn't hang, and the games were fun. I was won over....
Of course this was just before Commodore went under.
I couldn't find an Amiga for sale anywhere, so the "wow" faded in memory until '97, when a guy mentioned having an A1000 for $30. I jumped on it.
I still run that lovable machine.
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Hello Zorro,
My first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo with 16k ram back in '83. I learned basic on this. A friend of my brothers had a C=64 and I fell in love with it.
In '85 when I got my first job I bought a C=64 and proceeded to collect tonnes of games for it. One fateful day I was at a software store and I saw an A1000 with Defender of the Crown running on it. I was hooked and immediatly bought one just for that game.
In the early '90s I upgraded to an A500 and got such games as Monkey Island, Loom, Kings Quest 5, and Eye of the Beholder.
After Commodores bankruptcy I slipped away from the Amiga community until the Gateway aquisition of Amiga and since then I have followed along with great hope and interest.
It is one of my dreams that people will one day wake up and find out that Microsoft was really not that good and the Amiga is better and make the switch. :-D
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@ Downix - trump not lest ye be trumped :-)
1977 - Ohio Scientific Superboard II (Challenger 1P series) -- massive 4k of memory. A 'Father and Son' project when I was 10. I pretty much inherited it after we built it, as my Father was a great hobbyist with electronics - he was no programmer.
When my Mother had a windfall in the early 80's (she won a fair bit on Lotto -- not by todays standards but enough for her to retire) She bought me a Vic20.
I later saved and bought a C64 - I upgraded this with old PET IEEEE devices to run a BBS in the mid 80's
In 85 I saw the display of the A1000 at the Australian PC Show and immediately ordered one. From there, 89 I bought a 2000 - which I kept (and upgraded) till 97 when I moved to the U.S.
My work keeps me slaved to the PC atm - but luckily I have a 2000 with toaster that helps me get some of my work done -- a clunker box runs UAE on Linux and Amithlon when I need a 'quick fix'
Unfortunately as switching equipment comes down in price, it's getting harder and harder to justify keeping the 2000 in good repair -- eventually it will go out to pasture.
Barring the emergence of a toaster like video product for switching, or something that can compete with Premier/Vegas Video/Avid DV Xpress -- I currently don't have any plans to migrate to the PPC platform.
Siggy.
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My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.
Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)
andy
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andyf wrote:
My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.
Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)
andy
You lucky bastard! You must of worked with the man himself, Jay Miner. Man! that must of been a blast. The whole Lorraine prototype thing. Flying by the seat of your pants to get this legendary system in before the 1984 launch deadline.
Dude I would have given anything for that. Too bad I was probably only 7 at the time. My first look at Amiga was in 87, and seeing Marble Madness and Bobble Bubble really rocked my world. Never had I seen anything like that. And having only seen Atari 2600s and the occasional c64, you can imagine my enthusiasm.
Anyway my experience with Amigas were always positive. Best years of my life. I can confidently say that no other system will ever have the same effect on me, and captivate me for over a decade.
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Well I started back in 92 or was it 93.. can't remember.
Anyway I started of with a plain a500, then later upgraded to 512 extra fastram.
Then a few years later I borrowed an A1200, and then I got an 1230, and a HD :-) yeah...
I bought an A4000, upgraded it to PPC w. 060 and Cybervision PPC.
Any sold it, I needed money.
Now I only own 2 a1200, one with 1230 and one with 1260, I use those mostly for testing the SW I develop on UAE.
I hope to buy an A1, so my amiga dream can live on.
Atm. all I really do on UAE and my amigas is developing SW for Flying Paper.
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Me ? Well, somewhere around 1989 when I was at secondary school I met a person with an Amiga 500. I got to try it and instantly fell for its charms. I bought my very first own Amiga (a second-hand A500) with the gift money when I graduated in (IIRC) spring 1989. Later I part-exchanged it with an Amiga 500+ and hard disk and again later I bought a brand-new A1200 (an AT-model). Currently I am running A1200T with Mediator, Voodoo3 and B1260 (64 MB fast). So that's about 14 years with Amiga for me...
J.
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Had a C64 and a friend just had bought an A500, i was stunned,amazed.... i knew i just had to get one!
so finally in 1991 i bought my A500+512K mem expansion+20 MB(!) HDD,external FDD and a sampler.
Worked with that system until 1998 and only then i bought my first A1200 wich I Ugraded over the years with a blizz PPC,128 MB ram,Bvision,Zorro IV busboard,mediator ZIV,x-surf,buddha ide,35GB HD space,VarIO,cd writer,17" IBM monitor,M1538s.
All put together nicely in an elbox power tower.
And last year i bought an A4000 with a CSPPC+128 MB ram, mediator PCI,voodoo 3 3000,Tv card,7200 RPM scsi 3 UW 18GB HD in an elbox mirage pro tower.
And now it is time for a next gen Amiga® hope i can buy one soon :-D
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by Spidey on 2003/4/10 13:00:27
(from Mexico? )
No... from Amiga classic slot :-)
... and from Italy.
What's your story after your Amiga500?
After the A500,
i owned A500+, A1200+Blizzard 1220 and then an A4000...
Now i have an A600 and an A500 in my house for nostalgical immersion and I will have an AmigaOne with OS4, I think... or a Peggy/Mos, at least.
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My first Amiga was a plain A1200. I bought this because some of my friends owned A500s and A1200s, and I really liked those computers. After a while I decided to put a Harddrive into it, and later A Blizzard1230 with 8MB RAM.
Later I bought a tower for this setup.
And of course, I added a BlizzardPPC and a BVision gfx card when they became available :-)
Currently I own an A4000 with CSPPC and CVPPC. This is put into a modded PC tower, and is in use every day !
I also have a nice tower sitting under my desk just waiting for the AmigaONE-XE motherboard to arrive...
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Dragster wrote:
Hi Zorro, if (you're from Mexico) then write (Hey compadre!!!) hehe.. I'm from Mexico
Sorry, I'm from Italy but... who cares... : Hey compadre !!! :-)
And we share also the same flag color ! :-D
Bye,
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I got my Vic-20 at K-mart when I was 8 (1983). I still have the thing, and it works. I cost me $97 US, which I earned by doing chores and such for my grandmother. My cousin had a C64, but he didn't have many games for it, so I preferred my VIC because I had the modem, the tape drive and lots of games. Actually, I was just on the damn thing a few weeks ago playing "Omega Race" :-D
That was the last computer I owned for quite some time. I bought a A1200 in 93 (love that old bugger) but I spent most of my money on a 486 PC for college.
Having both computers is what turned me. I can't stand windows anymore. If the A1 and OS4 sees the light of day, I'll never own a MS OS ever again. I coughed up the $100 US for Xandros linux and no longer need MS OS's. I know linux is supposed to be free but.. hell. I'll gladly pay for a product that replaces MS OS's and can run Office (need it for work).
As soon as OS4 ships, its off to buy an A1 and a mouse/keyboard/monitor switch, so I can switch between the 2 machines. Go Hyperion! ;-)
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1983 - Vic 20
1985 - C64
1987 - Amiga 500
1991 - Amiga 3000
2000 - Amiga 1200
I remember waiting in my front yard in 1987, looking down the street for that brown UPS truck to pull up and deliver my brand spanking new Amiga 500. I had received a small sum of money from my uncle, and I had a choice of taking a trip to Europe with one of my High School classes or buying the Amiga. I choose the Amiga...
I still remember staying up until 3:00 in the morning playing Dungeon Master. After playing it for 8 hours strait, those "Couatl" snake thingies really started to freak me out with the noises they made!
I know make my living selling PC's (www.tdscomputer.com), but I have at least 3 complete Amiga's in my shop right now, and 3 more at home. I really don't have time to use them much, but I will always have a soft spot for those great machines...
Doug
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TDS_Computer wrote:
1983 - Vic 20
1985 - C64
1987 - Amiga 500
1991 - Amiga 3000
2000 - Amiga 1200
I remember waiting in my front yard in 1987, looking down the street for that brown UPS truck to pull up and deliver my brand spanking new Amiga 500. I had received a small sum of money from my uncle, and I had a choice of taking a trip to Europe with one of my High School classes or buying the Amiga. I choose the Amiga...
Great choice... :-D
Ok ! Time for a little update... ;-)
0 - Reel video game (pong like games :-P)
1 - Mattel Intellivision
2 - Vic 20
3 - Commodore 128
4 - Amiga 500 :pint:
5 - Amiga 500+ with 512k expansion :pint:
6 - Sega Genesis/Megadrive
7 - PC Engine
8 - Atari Lynx
9 - Amiga 1200/Phase 5 Blizzard 1220 :pint:
10 - Nintendo Super Nes
11 - Nintendo Gameboy
12 - Sony PSX
13 - Amiga 4000 :pint:
14 - Sega Dreamcast
Later recoveries : Atari VCS, Amiga 600 :pint: , Nes
Wish list:
1 - Amiga One / OS4 :pint:
2 - Pegasos / MOS ? :pint:
3 - Nintendo Gamecube
4 - Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
5 - Sony PS2 ?
:-D :-D :-D 8-)
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Wow! This brings back memories. I had read about the Amiga in Electronic Games ( I loved that mag, but my mom threw them all out :-( ) So I called around and found out were the closest dealer was. It was in a little town called Cocoa. I road my 10 speed bike 68 miles to see it. It was in the back of a book store. Commodore sure didnt know what they had. It was an Amiga 1000 and I saw the demo disk with pics of Marble Madness and it had this little mouse and talked about multi-tasking. No computer has ever captivated me like that. I knew I had to have 1. Because of financial situations I didnt get mine till 3 years later, but I will never forget the 1st time I saw it. The 4 1/2 hours bike ride was worth it.
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chipper701 wrote:
The 4 1/2 hours bike ride was worth it.
Yes, for sure...
8-)
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andyf wrote:
My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.
Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)
andy
Are you the famous Andy Finkel?
Nice to see you here :-)
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I bought my first A500 in 1989. I was a U.S. Army private stationed in Wildflecken,Germany.
I wanted to replace the C-64 I left behind when I
joined, and that massive $600 a month was burning a hole in my pocket.
i decided on the Amiga- it was 2 more months before I could afford the 1084 to use it. I borrowed
a Tandy 1000 CGA monitor and made it work in 16
color mode with aligator clips and straight pins.
Ahh the memories of all the alcohol consumed while
playing Police Quest or writing awful programs in
AmigaBasic.
"You MUST insert Volume Extras 1.3 NOW!!!"
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I wanted a C64 but I got an Amstrad CPC6128 for christmas when I was 9. It used discs!! None of those tape things plus it was way better than my mates Speccy.
Then I saw an Amiga running Gods and I knew what had to be done. Soon after I was the proud owner of an A500+ with the Cartoon Classics pack.
At first I was happy but I soon realised that an extra disc drive would be handy. Then a bit more memory, a hard drive and why not stick a CD drive on that IDE chain - it can take it. Its now got a 28Mhz 020 and as much memory as it can handle. A flicker fixer/scan doubler enabled me to ditch the old Amstrad colour monitor and use a PC monitor.
It doesnt get used much any more but it recently got set up on the floor and it was good.
I now use Amiga Forever for my Workbench fix, its faster than a very fast thing and runs 90% of my old software.
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Lando wrote:
andyf wrote:
My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.
Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)
andy
Are you the famous Andy Finkel?
Nice to see you here :-)
Andy Finkel ?!!?! :-o
For Sure ??? :crazy:
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Well when I was 9 years old my dad bougth me an used A1200 and that was 1994.
And since then I have loved amiga.
That was my first real experience with a computer, if you don't count the C64.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAaaaaaaaaaaaaa.............., sorry for that, I got a flashback ;-) :-P