New amigan

[thedaemon]

Greetings. I am pretty much completely new to Amiga. I was born in 83, so I didn't really have a choice nor an opinion when we got our first computer. We picked up an old pc 486/33 with 4mb ram. I remember trying to get windows 3.1 to display 256color with no luck at all. From that day forward I have always strived to get more color and resolution from my computers. (1920x1200 32bit now ) But, as of lately I have been diving into programming and have had an inclination to get an old computer, when things were much simpler and fun. A few years ago I heard about amiga's and didn't think much of it besides the lovely 0s4 screenshots. I decided a few weeks ago to research them. Now I think I am going to be addicted. Why did no one ever tell me about these lovely machines? I have been racking my brain over which model to get. I assume a 1200 will do me fine. I am not sure what kind of monitor though, as this stuff is perplexing. I am planning on mainly doing graphic work (2d/3d) and programming games and apps. I purchased amiga forever because I am eagerly awaiting getting an amiga, and wanted to try to learn how to use it. Needless to say its a bit confusing on how to install apps on it. I assume it will be easier once I get a real amiga. Anyways, I will try not to bother you guys with silly beginner questions(I will use the search function), and I hope to learn many things from you. Maybe I will convert off of my pc system. Thanks for being a great crowd to join.

BTW Any usergroups close to Alabama? It seems the Atlanta user group's site is down.

[thedaemon]

Wow, thanks alot for all the encouragement. I wasn't expecting so much so fast. Such a wonderful community here. I think I have figured out how to install things by using DOpus and copying stuff to folders created in my Work drive. I hope this is the right way. DOpus seems really powerful. At first it looked overly complicated, but in fact it seems overly easy. Well, I will ask will a 1080 suffice? Or should I try to find a multiscan? I am not sure what resolution I will be running. Perhaps 640 or so? Thanks guys for being so kind to me. Also is a 2000 as expandable as the 1200? It seems 1200,3000(rare?), or 4000 would be the way to go.

haha I found this!
Big 29" monitor

[thedaemon]

Again, thanks so much for the encouragement! I will probably stay up all night messing with emulated amiga and browsing ebay for amiga 1200. I see amigakit has base 1200's for a decent price. Perhaps I will order one from them and add on to it when I get more experience and the actual need for one. I am stuck on what kind of monitor I should use.

1)Should I use a VGA monitor and get an adapter, or an old 1840 or whatever they are called

2)Also, do I need to buy the Developer CD to begin C programming?

3)I ordered a copy of Brillance 2.0 and I don't have an amiga yet. I also ordered a lot of programming books on ebay. Cheers guys and thanks for having me.

Brandon

[thedaemon]

Messing around in DPIV. I miss pixel art. Well guys it looks like I will pick up a 1200 within the next week. I can't wait!

[thedaemon]

I live in the USA, and I seriously doubt I could find a 4000 for $160Euros. Ok, guys I picked up a amiga 4000d video toaster with highflyer and monitor. its a 40 processor. I think it's pretty much stock. I will be waiting for it to arrive for me to tell you more.
Here is it on ebay

[thedaemon]

 :banana: it will be peanut butter jelly time soon enough. I also scored a few programming books off of ebay to get my started. Reading now.

[thedaemon]

I will be upgrading after I learn how to actually use the system. You have to remember, I am new to Amigas in general. But yes, I will be upgrading to 3.1 rom and video card. They will probably be my first upgrade. Thanks for the suggestion. BTW, any idea on hooking up my wacom to my amiga? I have a usb one, which I doubt will work, but my roommate has a bit older serial model. I could trade him if it would work. Thanks

[thedaemon]

Well I am now the proud owner of an Amiga 4000D Highflyer. It came with : Highflyer case, Video Toaster, DPaint 4.5, adpro, propixelXL, quarterback, vga monitor with sync strainer, keyboard, wizard 3 button mouse, all manuals and software. dataflyer scsi board(which is NOT working) 2 scsi drives, ide harddrive, scsi cdrom. it has 16mb fast ram I think. Playing with DPaint . Now I need to I guess get another scsi controller, or get an ide cdrom.

Board:
Rev C, 40cpu rev 3.0 rom 3.0 ks 39.106 wb 39.29

I need help with a few things. main thing, it has a startup script that "i think" looks for the scsi drives which are not hooked up. How do I edit this script?

I am glad to join the club!