My Old Friend the Amiga

[antonye]

HI Everyone,

After many moons away from the Amiga Scene, I am finally getting back into the Amiga. After Battling the Woes of Wintel, I decided enough was enough.

I used to own a Stock A1200 back in 1994/95 and was rather annoyed when it was stolen. After some significant time and searching, I began obtaining the parts for my replacement A1200. Now that She is Built, I am contempt and happy once again with my Towered Amiga, she cost me a bomb to build but worth her weight in Gold.

It never ceases to amaze me to this day how amazing the Amiga and the Amiga scene really is, After C=, things were looking grim and most computer users were not bothered. The Amiga is a Beautiful and Unique piece of Engineering and hopefully will continue to live on. If it wasn't for the Dedicated Amiga users (a.org included) The Amiga would have completely died off years ago.

So In short, I would like to take this opportunity to say cheers to the Amiga Community and that I am proud to be a C= Amiga User ) Amiga: 1 Wintel: 0

System Specs:

Amiga: A1200 , Towered
Workbench: OS3.5
Processor: 68060
Board: Phase 5 - Blizzard
FastRam: 128+ Mb
Blizzard PPC 603e @ 240MHz
Blizzard Bvision 8mb Graphics card
3.5inch 2 port IDE splitter
AT Keyboard controller
Fast PCMCIA Serial port
Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI 2 controller
TechnoSound turbo sampler
Vidi Amiga 24RT
SCSI-2 external CDrom caddy
2x Cumana 3.5 inch - External Floppy drives
Unbranded MIDI Amiga Tower
2x 350 Watt Redundant PSU's
1x 5.1 Gb SCSI HDD
1x 4.3 Gb IDE HDD
Iomega Zip 100 Internal Zip Drive

 

[antonye]

Cheers man,

It good to be a C= User again ) Back when I had My 1st A1200, I could only Dream of the Hardware that I currently own...This is now a reality.....and a cool one at that )

[antonye]

Thank You,

The Redundant PSU's were spare from a Wintel Server, the thought of using a salvaged AT PSU was chilling as I have had issues. The PSU's Give the Amiga all the Kuice it could ever want, Also the PSU's 5 and 12 volt rails are fused for protection. I intend to keep the Amiga until it dies  :-D

[antonye]

If you think about it, The Amiga has Features that Even now Wintel PC's can only dream of. WB is amazing...as far as I can remember, it was one of of the First "True
" Multi-tasking OS.....The people at C= Had their heads screwed on..shame it was all ruined....

I am not surprised that people were annoyed at C= going bust, the fact that all of the games designers back then abandoned the Amiga Platform like a shot at the first sign of trouble at C=. That as far as I see it is so wrong. The way I see the Amiga....It's like a Blank Canvas, It's a piece of Computing Art, it is capable of so much yet a lot of people were glad to see the back of them.

The Amiga is not dead, no matter what is said, it's going strong, It's heart beating strong and true
 :-D  

[antonye]

Thank you very much....I was a little reserved at first at postin`. The Amiga will always hold a place in my records....If it wasn't for C= we'd all be robotic wintel users :evil: where as the Amiga offers a difference........ :-D

[antonye]

I totally Agree, The engineers and programmers were passionate....If only it was still like that  :boohoo:

[antonye]

Cheers people. I have always had a soft spot for the Amiga...Especially when it comes to music....The PPC really comes in handy for graphics work as well.  I Dunno what it is About the Amiga....Hell it was years ahead if itself.

As I mentioned earlier going from a stock A1200 to my current setup was a little daunting. The main tower case for my miggy is in need to some cosmetic work at the moment as the tower was in a real poor state, there were some other pressing issues with it...Being good at electronic repair, I had to clean the Amiga Mobo real careful as the Previous owner of the miggy nearly ruined it.

After 2 days non-stop work, I had cleaned and restored the Mobo, Re-soldered the IDE header, re-seated the ROM's and carefully inspected the Blizzard PPC. This was the most painstaking task as the PPC was covered (literally) covered in dust, the fan had seen better days and was replaced. The PPC clip-on cooler needed adjusting for better contact with the PPC, After £350 Later, all was well and I am well Chuffed. :lol: