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Title: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: cojones on September 24, 2006, 11:34:01 PM: Hi,

I've been away from the Amiga scene for ... ooh, a decade and a half. About a year ago, I felt the urge to get back again, so I picked up an aging a1200 from e-bay.

Great fun for a week or so until the hard drive died, at which point the Amiga went into storage.

Until now. I went and got myself a new old hard drive, so let's see if I can get this thing going again... not sure what I'll use it for, but I'm sure I'll think of something...
Title: Re: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: amigagr on September 25, 2006, 12:10:27 AM: welcome aboard :-)
Title: Re: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: r-tea on September 25, 2006, 12:22:33 AM: @ cojones
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I went and got myself a new old hard drive, so let's see if I can get this thing going again...[/uote]

Welcome and wish you luck.

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not sure what I'll use it for, but I'm sure I'll think of something...

Hope you was a coder and you'll continue to do that. There's lack of developers within our small community.
:-)
Title: Re: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: sdyates on September 25, 2006, 02:17:36 AM: Welcoem back... from someone who was away for 10 years, I am so happy to be back. I find computers to be fun again!
Title: Re: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: cojones on September 25, 2006, 02:23:08 AM: Thanks for the replies, all of you.

I wasn't much of a developer back then, but these days I spec & program for a living. If I manage to get the a1200 installed & stable again, you better believe I'll start hunting for dev tools & docs! No better way to rediscover the Amiga, I reckon...
Title: Re: ...getting back in the game...
Post by: darcyb on September 25, 2006, 05:56:47 PM: I used an A1200 from 1993 to 2000 and eventually tossed it (along with an A1000 and A2000 I picked up at yard sales) during a move. I then got A4Ever and ran it on an IBM Aptiva, but the performance was dismal and I ended up using Macs.

I just bought the new version of A4Ever and am having a blast (running on a Mac dual core 2GHz G5 Tower). I sure did miss watching those Spaceballs demos! I can't figure out how to make E-UAE actually use the cpu power though. The emulator won't gobble up the cpu cycles to emulate quickly, and the cpu usage graphs sit at 25%. Meanwhile, sound is choppy, graphics are twitchy etc.

I created a team of characters on Eye of the Beholder this morning and gave my face a cramp at grinning from the fun of that game. This was all just so awesome when I was a teen in the 90s, and now in my 30s, it doesn't seem to have lost its appeal!

So I hear rumblings of an OS 4 release, and a new PPC driven platform? I laughed at first, having been burned by "cry wolf" syndrome throughout the 90s. I'm hoping it happens this time. Retro gaming/computing is heavily desired now. Look at what Nintendo is doing with their upcoming Wii.

If I want to get native hardware to use Amiga stuff, should I wait until the PPC+OS4 marriage is officially released and marketed?