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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: EdFlux on September 18, 2008, 03:02:32 AM
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I'm 24 and remember hearing about all these machines growing up, played with a couple, but could never afford them. I first got into retrocomputing when I picked up an old IBM XT clone with an 8088 and Hercules graphics back in 1994. (curbside special). I had to learn DOS, but it got me through till about 1998!
Anyways, I first picked up an Atari 1040st with bad ram just to fool around ~1yr ago, and that really got me into wanting an Amiga to compare. I picked up an A2000 and never looked back. (That Atari never did get completely fixed :-D )
About me, i'm married, a nursing student with about 6 years of experience in psychiatry. Ive got a growing collection of old equipment (A Kaypro, IIgs, 8 Bit Ataris, C128, C64, Tandy CoCo to name a few) and enjoy restoring them. Also enjoy Urban Infiltratration/Photography, any other Infiltrators out there?
I'm glad to be a new member of the community.
I'm slowly, but surely building up my new Amiga, i've learned upgrades are expensive!
Rev 6.2 A2000
GVP Combo 030 33mhz PLCC version w/ 4mb OC to 36mhz
8UP! DIP w/ 2mb
Commodore Mem. expansion w/ 2mb
Buddha IDE controller w/ CDRW and 4gb HD
Workbench 3.9
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Welcome!!!!
This is a great place to learn from and be part of.
ENJOY your Stay...... Becuase you will never leave!!!
Just Kidding...... :laughing:
Then again maybe not.... :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
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Hello and welcome along.
Looks got a nice little system there.
I don't know if you're intested in games or not, but if you do, WHDLoad (http://www.whdload.de/) allows you to install old floppy based games to hard drive.
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I tried WHDload, but i'm not that great at the CLI yet. I just figured out how scripts work, so i'll give it a shot. (typing EXECUTE always makes me grin a little)
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Hi Ed,
your background is impressive or rather intriguing (in the sense that you're coming from a completely different scene, technically but also not, and yet already loving it :-)). I bid you the sincerest welcome and with that a word of advice: check your A2000 for a leaking NiCd battery. They kill Amigas :-( Damn Zerglings...
Cheers!
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Hi Ed and welcome
Whdload is easy to install. Just click install, no cli. Register it for faster acces.
@da9000
When you said " welcome and that a word of advice" I though you were going into flame mode again. :lol: :lol:
@Ed
You are betting on the right horse. Amiga is the best computer in the world. :-D
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@cicero790:
Hahaha :-D I left it on purpose because initially that's what the reader would think. And not flame, but "hard earned wisdom" is what I'd think I'd call it. But come on! I don't do it so often! (if ever - only Doomy or Eslapion have gotten charred). Only when it's well deserved. And as for that last guy I "welcomed", I wasn't trying to flame him or anything, just not understanding based on his OWN words why he wanted to spend money on something that he didn't seem so into! I probably saved him a lot of cash and anguish and disappointment (I bet his girlfriend must be greatful! A cookie would suffice for me :-))
Anyways, not to veer from the topic on hand, I'd be interested to know in detail about Ed's experience, since it's unique as he's (or was) and outsider. His experiences on how the Amiga seems to him, what he likes or doesn't, etc. would be invaluable feedback to us because we're all jaded or too knee deep in it! (and we're loving it! hahaha)
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Yes I agree. Ed's perspective will be very intresting.
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@ EdFlux
Welcome :-) Glad to see other new users coming on board - doesn't feel quite so lonely :-) Anyway, I recently got all my Amiga stuff out of the loft, (something I had been meaning to do for many years!) upgraded my A1200 to OS3.5.
@ da9000
Quote: "And as for that last guy I "welcomed", I wasn't trying to flame him or anything, just not understanding based on his OWN words why he wanted to spend money on something that he didn't seem so into! I probably saved him a lot of cash and anguish and disappointment (I bet his girlfriend must be greatful! A cookie would suffice for me )"
I'm still here :-D
So I guess either I am really dumb and didn't take your "hard earned wisdom" or you were wrong - but I guess someone like you is never wrong, right? You need to check your attitude, because its people like you who push people away from pursuing their interests, rather than drawing them in - but hey whatever turns you on! :lol:
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Welcome to EdFlux, and belated welcome to Impactor too.
@EdFlux
Kaypro... wow that brings back some memories. I sold my last one around 1989. Probably to buy my first Amiga accelerator. :-)
Plaz
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Hi Ed,
We're glad to have you as a member. Welcome. Your 2000 has good add-ons.
Fester
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welcome to the 'nuthouse'
your psychiatric skills could well come in useful!
for a start, I keep getting these wierd dreams that Amiga inc. actually want to see a successful Amiga community along with a thriving OS4xx........
what is your prognosis?
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impactor wrote:
I'm still here :-D
That's good! Definitely not what one would have expected having read your initial post...
impactor wrote:
So I guess either I am really dumb and didn't take your "hard earned wisdom" or you were wrong -
... or your original writ didn't convey your Amiga desires clearly.
impactor wrote:
but I guess someone like you is never wrong, right?
In this case you're wrong: I am wrong many a times, and glad to be so, because it's a good way to learn.
impactor wrote:
You need to check your attitude, because its people like you who push people away from pursuing their interests, rather than drawing them in
And you probably need to check your far-sweeping, baseless statements. I've only given that "advise" to you, and once again, even though you still don't get it, only because of how your wrote what you wrote on your first post.
I actually evangelize the Amiga to far more people than I should (they might think I'm an Amiga zealot - more on that below), and help folks of all ages and sorts by fixing their Amigas so that they're running to this day and hopefully the next millennium. Actually, when was the last time you helped someone get their Amiga gear sales in order (ask Rkauer about how I located and hunted down and pressured a seller that had "forgotten" all about Rkaeur's A1200 or Apollo card - I forget the item in question), or fixed a black* grandpa's A2k and recovered his database files so he could keep on organizing family reunions to this day? Or a white* grandma's A500s which she still uses for doing subtitling of kids skating videos? Or a famous** biochemist's A4k's capacitors so he could continue his pursues of saving us from deadly mushrooms***? Or when did you battle with famous pissed off Amiga book authors to try to get valuable Amiga related books back into print?
I'm sorry to announce to you that the only attack you can make on me is that when people talk about Amiga zealots, they might be thinking of me! (which unfortunately for you, or them, isn't true either, because I know quite well, better than most I'd dare say, the faults and short comings of the Amigas and Commodore - technical or otherwise).
* Just to show I ain't racist when it comes to Amigas (although I think I must be in P.C. terms, as I can't help but NOTICE difference - not that it makes a difference to me once I notice it and I know the person), so you don't take any Brit vs Yankee stance or something stupid like that.
** OK, not that famous outside the Amiga community
*** OK, OK, I overstated his goals and the deadliness of the fungi.
impactor wrote:
- but hey whatever turns you on! :lol:
Wrong again. But if you'd really like to know, Amigas turn me on!
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Swisso wrote:
welcome to the 'nuthouse'
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Agree :-D
Anyway, welcome :-)
Most of us are quite nice people ;-)
I like your A2000 setup, I don't have any of this for my A2000 :-o
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@ Swisso
Delusions of grandeur. :banana:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/delusions%20of%20grandeur
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Welcome, Ed!
I'm rather new here, too... I just bought an A2500 with a very similar setup a couple of weeks ago to catch up on old times! The users here are great and a big help. It's been a lot of fun in the short time I've been here, .... and you'll never leave! :-D
Chris
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Retro_71 wrote:
you will never leave!!!
Beast96GT wrote:
you'll never leave!
And once again, I will draw your attention to this (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1704).
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
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moto
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Welcome to the Amiga crew! It is such a great feeling to get back to the Amiga if haven`t used it for a long time or a new to it. Great set up you have, sadly I can`t afford a nice big box Amiga so I am already envious, look after that lovely machine cause the Amiga really is the best computer ever made! Enjoy!
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Welcome EdFlux!!!
It's always a pleasure to see how Amiga could interest people again and again.
Forgive my ignorance but.. what is "urban infiltration"?!?
An then: how is your parcel?!? I really need a psychiatrist (as my girlfriend says)... I've just bought a new credit card to purchase Amiga stuffs :lol:
I hope.. NO, I'm sure you will enjoy! :-)
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Forgive my ignorance but.. what is "urban infiltration"?!?
It's a combination of art, lifestyle, history, philosophy, and evading the authorities.
Example, this guy does it for a living:
www.opacity.us (http://www.opacity.us)
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@EdFlux
Welcome to Amiga.org and the Amiga community. I tried to convince my dad to buy me an A2000 back in 1989 (or so), but he bought me a GW2000 386/DX33 instead. The excitement of the 386 quickly left, so I bought an A1200 my second year in college. A few years later Commodore went bust. Then a few years after that I learned some of why they went bust, then I was *quite* upset at the management. Anyhow...
There are some vendors still, although most seem to be out of Europe but ship to the US. Amigakit.com is a US vendor where you can still buy an A1200 if you wish (it's listed on their site as available anyways).
I think you'll be surprised to learn what your A2000 can still do along with what hardware and software is still available. AmigaWriter 2.2 is a word processor that is still commercially available for your school papers. Papyrus Office at one time was available for Amiga, but Vesalia.de indicates it's no longer available for the Amiga, but the developer, titan-computer.com, could tell you for sure. Papyrus Office is an integrated office suite developed around 2003 that is similar to iWorks by Apple or MS-Works by MS.
There is a magazine still being printed about the Amiga. It's published in Europe but are shipped to the US. Amikit.com sells the magazine, too. Amiga always seemed to be more popular in Europe than here in the States. I guess because they're smarter than us.
AmiWest is still going as well: http://sacc.org/amiwest/. You can also upgrade your OS to AmigaOS 3.9, but you'll probably need the Kickstart 3.1 ROM chip. *If* you can find a PowerPC card, you could get the new AmigaOS4.
And I don't work for Amigakit.com, but they're the only Amiga related distributor which is still active in the US that I am aware of, so that's why I've mentioned them.