Hello, I'm Morax, but my real name is Elmer, and I'm almost 24 years young.
I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, for all my life, and I got my first encounter with a real Amiga in 1990, while on holiday with my parents to some friends in Denmark (Aarhus). It was an Amiga 1000 without a Commodore logo on it, and the first game I played on it was Shadow of the Beast, so that particular game still has some secret spot within me, how crappy it was :-D :-P
The second game was Lemmings on the same machine, also my first mouse-experience :-) .
I used to have a ZX Spectrum 48K (with tapes, but later with a Opus Discovery 1 added, BIG improvement
), and a Commodore 64 (with 1541 ofcourse). But somehow the Spectrum got fried, probably by misabuse of the Edge Connector, since Speccies were very sensitive for that. And the C64 somehow got the SID-chip damaged (maybe it was left on to long), wich resulted in only using 2 of the 3 sound channels, and that sucked, so it got stuffed away somewere, and still is :-p .
A few years later I got my own first Amiga, an A600, with the standard 1 MB chip mem expansion, and a 30MB 2.5" harddisk. I used it for a long time, for a lot of games, but also for just making music with Protracker 2 and Octamed. But after some time began to have problems with the keyboard, the problems being a part of the keyboard not working, so I had to open it often to clean the membrane (all those tiny screws!! :-o) and it worked again for a while. But in the end, because I never was a "careful person" the ribbon was mutilated beyond repair :cry: . So it became partially useless and got stocked away also...
My (little) brother had an Amiga 2000 though, for free, which my dad took away from his office. It was a rather vanilla A2000, which the only expansions were a second disk drive and a cheap-ass Krupke SCSI controller with a 40MB harddisk connected. So the machine was OCS, with KS 1.3, 512KB Chip and 512KB Slow mem. Later he bought An A2630 accelerator board, primarily for the 2 MB onboard memory, in the hopes that more games became playable from harddrive. But that didn't really work. However, since my A600 was rather useless anyway, I took out it's KS 2.05 chip and placed in in the A2000, to finally be rid of that blue/orange-palette. But after a while we both got a 486-PC and the 2000 also got stocked away. Until a few years ago, when I finally got my own internet, and started with Amiga emulation. So I connected it with a serial cable to my PC and send a lot of adf-files between the two, until I got fed up with the half MB Chip (I did installed a 200MB SCSI disk, though), and bought an Amiga 1200 on marktplaats, with a 1084-clone monitor, and a Blizzard 1220 4MB turboboard. Later on I bought a Squirrel SCSI with an external CD-ROM-drive, for CD32-emulation and mass-transferring adf-files to the Amiga (a lot quicker than by serial-cable, which half of the time didn't even work). But a little later I lost my interest again, until recently. Since a few weeks, I've upgraded the 1200 with a 4MB M-Tec 1230 card (25MHz/40MHz 68882), and at the same time I decided to "hack" the 2000 for 1 MB Chip mem, and ordered the necessary Agnus (and also an ECS-Denise) at Vesalia.de, who are quite cheap. The ECS-upgrade turned out quite well, so I'm now able to play The Settlers from harddisk with full music, and I can also use WHDload games on it now :-D . Next step when I have money is the 3.1 kickstart for both machines.
A well... the story turned out quite long :-o
