Hi from the biggest Newbie ever

[kiniki]

Hi all.

I have just bought my first Amiga. A 1200 that arrived yesterday. I have never owned one in the past but now being 23 and looking back to my younger days I remember how badly I wanted one.

With a fairly well paid job, I am now in a position to have an amiga thats better than all my friends used to have. Shame im a good few years late.

I will probably be asking a lot of questions, although I will search for the answers first.

I look forward to being a part of this community

[kiniki]

Wow... I didn't expect replies! Fantastic start!

I really will need to ask questions as I know nothing about Amiga's at all.

To be honest I have been reading from this site for a fair while but am still a little confused.

I'm on a mission to have a hard drive in my 1200 and then load my games onto it. But I have been reading that I need to know what my kickroms are and also to move some abandonware games from the PC I need crossdos.. but it might not be on my version of workbench....  :-o

So much to learn already!

[kiniki]

Thanks so much of all the info guys. I'm really excited about this. My friend found well over 100 old amiga disks in his attic a few months back when he moved into his new house. There looks to be some great stuff on there and he has no use for them so he is letting me have them.

There is something very satisifying about looking through old disks to see whats there.

Regarding the HD.. if I get a laptop one, will I need to make internal modifications to the case to get it to fit? Or is there a cradle for it already inside the 1200?

[kiniki]

Superb. This is going to be great.

Managed to get Wing Commander and Elite 2 running last night.

So excited being at the beginning of a new (yet old) adventure.

[kiniki]

Is it a case of unscrewing it to get at all the insides? Or is there something that pops open.

I had a look at it last night an opened a door at the bottom, but it revealed an empty space

[kiniki]

I will have to look for one on ebay I guess... or Amigakit!  ;-)

I ran Lemmings last night and it said something about "Using expansion" just before the game went to the menu screen.

Any idea what this could be?

[kiniki]

It sounds like a Memory expansion is a good plan.

What other expansions can I fit to make the machine run better?

[kiniki]

Hi Oliver,

To be fair I know very little about the Amiga apart from the games. But I really would like to find out more about what it can do.

I have heard of people using them for the internet and all sorts. Sounds interesting...

As for Lemmings, I played it a lot on the PC but want to play it again on the Amiga.

However I have a problem with the mouse that came with the machine. I have to press stupidly hard to get the buttons to work. So until I have sorted that out I might not be playing it too much!

[kiniki]

I was looking at the mouse adapter. Especially as I have about 7 pc mice at home!

As for the 060 CPU is that part of the Blizzard 1260 or something that plugs into it?



Is this it? If so its pretty expensive! But maybe something for the future.

I think I have paint on one of the disks... will have to have a look at it.

Can I tell which Kickroms I have just by opening it up?

[kiniki]

To be honest, I want to upgrade as much as I can without having to make case modifications or move it to a tower.

I want to keep it looking normal.  :-)

[kiniki]

Hi Xeron..

I'm actually not that far from you.

I'm in not so sunny Bristol!

[kiniki]

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As for Lemmings, I played it a lot on the PC but want to play it again on the Amiga.


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better isnt it !

I've played loads of versions, the oddest was probably the ZX Spectrum version, and the worst was the Mac version...

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nearly forgot - welcome !

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The C64 version was pretty weird also, with the deformed heads  

Oh yeah, and a welcome to the topicposter!


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The only thing about the amiga Lemmings is that it seems to be sitting up the screen... everything else fills the screen, but the play area on lemmings seems to start a quarter up..

Odd

[kiniki]

amigakit wrote:
Does it go into NTSC mode (about a 1/5th smaller screen)

Ah that could be it!

[kiniki]

xeron wrote:
Lemmings never did fill the screen on PAL systems... it left the lower 56 lines blank. Same for quite a few games, like Weird Dreams for example.

Its not too much of a problem, I guess I am just used to slightly bigger sprites.

It will add to the challenge!

[kiniki]

Wow... I live in Whitchurch.... seriously not that far away!