A small hello...

[McVenco]

After some 5 years of absence an Amiga has managed to find a way into my house again.

I previously owned an A500 (1989-1997), A2000 (1994-1999) and A3000 (1997-2001), all with little expansion, just harddrives, WB3.1 and such. My most precious add-on was a 14k4 modem though, with which I made my first steps on the WWW back in 1995 (I already had E-mail in 1993). But the most important use was for the countless BBSes in Holland.

Two weeks ago I found an A1000 for a pretty reasonable price, so I decided to pick it up again at the place where it all started in '85.

I did a thorough cleanup, completely disassembling the A1000, so I got to see the famous autographs for the first time in my life (I got a little shiver when I saw the name Jay Miner there...) and now it's almost like new (only the keyboard got a little attack from the yellow virus).

When I have enough space in my room (or a house with a spare room for all computer stuff), and some spare money of course I will expand my collection again. I want at least an A500 and A1200. If I can get my hands on it I would love to own an A3000T but they're just too rare over here.

Anyway, just wanted to say "Hello World!" :-)

Greets,
Eric

[McVenco]

Once you use an Amiga you just cant stay away for long :-D

That's just too true :-)

[McVenco]

The only expansion it has is the neccessary mem expansion, so it's pretty much bog standard. It came with Kick/WB 1.1 and 1.2 (however the 1.2 Kickstart disk seems to be broken). So no 1.3 there (it's a real oldie...)

Oh yeah, I live in Nijmegen, the oldest city in the Netherlands.

[McVenco]

Where I come from, double posting is a crime, but I think of this as an extended introduction of myself:

I've been lucky enough to buy 3 Amiga's 1200 for 85 Euro (something like $100 I guess), 2 of them with harddrive (don't know the size yet)! They came with 1 black 1084S Monitor, and some joysticks, a modem and a lot of disks.
I have no exact specs yet, since I'm only picking them up next sunday, but I think I will keep the best one (both technical and in case colour) and ditch the 2 others.
There probably won't be any turboboards in them, maybe (if I'm lucky some memboards).

So watch this space cause there might be 2 Amiga 1200's on sale in the near future for those interested :-D


Or is €85 too much for three 1200s?

[McVenco]

Doppie1200 wrote:
So if you are selling PM me ;-)

I'll let you know as soon as I got them.

Also: I spotted an A1000 with Sidecar on sale today. I've heard of this beast, but never even seen a picture of it (though I admit I never searched for it either).

For those interested: Link (in dutch, but with pictures)

[McVenco]

InTheSand wrote:

It's easy enough to write out a Kickstart 1.3 boot disk if you want to "upgrade" your A1000 from 1.1!!! All you need is a working 1.3 image and a small program to convert this into a bootable KS disk.

I've been looking, but probably in the wrong places or with the wrong search terms. What program do I need to make a Kickstart disk out of a 1.3 ROM file?

EDIT: Yes, apparently I didn't look good enough. I found WriteKickDisk on Aminet. Should do the trick I hope.

[McVenco]

Well, here they are. I just came home from buying 3 A1200's. Yay!

A quick view:

Machine 1:
- 2MB Chip
- 120 MB harddrive
- Kickstart v39.106

Machine 2:
- 2MB Chip
- 4MB Fast
- Kickstart v39.106
- 250MB harddrive

Machine 3 seems not to be working at this moment. It has been modified since there's a strange looking cable with a round 5-pins connector. I'll operate this one later.

Additional hardware (not tested yet:
- Blizzard 1220/4 (28MHz 020 + 68882)
- CD-Rom drive with connection thru PCMCIA slot
- 28.8 modem

Plus the obvious disks, books and joysticks.

I guess at least one of them is one sale directly as of this moment so PM me when interested (located in the Netherlands).

[McVenco]

Machine 3 works as well. There is a harddrive in there as well, but without powercable, so the computer didn't boot. The extra cable that comes out of it is soldered to the power-input and seems to be an extra power-through cable for a midi-interface of some kind.

I examined all the extra hardware and found out there are also a sampler and midi-interface, although I have no idea yet how and if they work.

Well, all these pieces of hardware combined I think I made a good deal for 80 Euro (the guy gave me 5 Euro discount because I helped him set up WINUAE so he could play his hundreds of BouldDash games on PC :-D )

EDIT: I just realised my guitar amplifier has a MIDI-output as well. This is getting more fun by the minute!  :lol: