Today - I am organised. My wife is 8 monthes pregnant and is nesting so the house is immaculate.
I on the other hand was out in the garden on a fine summers day mowing the lawns and tidying the shed. Deep beneath the piles of old toolboxes and decaying timber I found an old box - "Cartoon Classic" it had written on the box.
Now I was planning on selling alot of old Amiga games on ebay and out of curiosity I thought I would take out the Amiga A500plus that was inside the box. The power supply was in good nick. The A520 was in good nick AND had the little manual with it. The Workbench disks were still in their un-opened plastic envelopes. Workbench, Extra's & Fonts.
Out of curiosity I thought I would connect it all together. Never in a million years did I expect it to work but when I flipped the power switch it worked a treat. The floppy drive was a little stiff but atleast it worked.
Workbench loaded fine once it had the keymaps from the Extra's disk and I was in heaven. This was the first time I had booted a "real" Amiga in at least 6 years. This had not been booted for a minimum of 10 years. I was amazed.
Now. The crunch came when my six year old son came home from school and saw this big bulky machine underneath the TV and wanted to have a go. "It's better than my "Gameboy" [Advance]. I have spent the past two hours getting him away from the computer. I have everything in my house, from Xboxes to Playstation II's all the way down to Spectrum' (which will be on ebay this week hopefully) and I think he has just discovered the Amiga.
This is why I have posted this mail on the new user forum.
Daniel Harding
Widnes
UK
Will join Amiga.org when he has learned how to spell a little better.
