i can't believe that there's not a user here from Buffalo. i'm in Rochester, but that's not too much help. i'm also pretty new to the Amiga myself and would be mostly learning the lower level stuff as i go (i *did* find formatting a floppy pretty intuitive though ;-)). i've seen a C64 user or two from Buffalo, not sure if they're familiar with Amiga though.
you should probably make a new post asking for help in the Buffalo, NY area.
