Amiga, my lost toy

[Ilwrath]

For me, everthing startet with the C64. I owned the C64G i believe, which looked like a C128D.

Nope.  That was a C64c - the C64G didn't have a keyboard and was strictly a cartridge-based game system.  For obvious reasons, it failed miserably.

My first Amiga was the A500 for which i bought (1990)an accoustic coppler

egads, man!  Accoustic Coupler?  1990 or 1970?  ;-)  Around 1990 you should have been upgrading to 9600 baud.  (The BBS were starting to boot the 1200 and 2400 baud users!)

My favorite application was this nice editor called CygnusEd. I really wished it would be available on pc.

Well, it's not, but if you're on Windows, check out Ultra Edit.  It's not related to CygnusEd, nor does it even look that much like it, but it gives that same feeling of "Thank freakin' God, it's a text editor that works!"  It also has nice syntax highlighting, hex edit mode, various text encoding conversions, etc...

[Ilwrath]

egads, man! Accoustic Coupler? 1990 or 1970?  Around 1990 you should have been upgrading to 9600 baud. (The BBS were starting to boot the 1200 and 2400 baud users!)

No, you will laugh, but yes i really startet with a coppler because it was so cheap. A modem was freaking expensive at that time and i was only 19 (not enough money).

Heh... Thinking about it, this may depend on what country you lived in at the time.  I was actually a couple years younger than 19 in 1990, but picked up the 9600 baud in early '91 from money I got from my lawn care and snow removal services for neighbors.  ;-)  I sold the old 2400 baud modem I had been using to a friend for $20, plus I made him order pizza that night, while I hooked him up with some BBS accounts on the locals. :lol: