New Amiga user

[NovaCoder]

Yep never had an Amiga ‘back in the day’ for some strange reason, anyway I’m here now and that’s the main thing :-D

Just brought myself a ‘new’ 1200 from those nice people at Amigakit and I’m also in the process of building another one out of spare parts.  

I’ve been trying to get a semi-decent accelerator card (030) but they’re too friggin expensive at the moment  :pissed:

The basic plan is to play some games, do some modding and try my hand at some coding.
 

[NovaCoder]

Marcb wrote:
Welcome!

Just out of interest, what led you to buy an Amiga?

Not sure really, I was always impressed with them but never ended up getting one.  As I'm into retro gaming I started doing some research and was pleased to see that you could still buy the HW and SW (used/new).  

I've done a bit of games and 3D coding on the PC over the years so it should be fun to hack something together on and for my new toy :-D

I've also got years of gaming to catch up on  :-P

I'm not really interested in emulation, for me half the fun is mucking about with the HW.

I've updated my profile so you can see where I'm coming from.

[NovaCoder]

AmiDelf wrote:

So here you have them:

Classic Amigas: Amiga 500 -> 4000T + CDTV and CD32
Nextgen Amigas/Clones: AmigaONE + Pegasos.
Out of this world but still counting: AROS :- )

Classic Amigas runs AmigaOS upto 3.9 but can also run AmigaOS4 or MorphOS if PPC cards are added to A1200, A3000 or A4000 systems.

Nextgen Amigas/Cones are PPC computers that runs nextgen versions of AmigaOS. AmigaONE runs AmigaOS4, while Pegasos runs MorphOS.


Well, welcome anyway. As you can see, you have several options. Just dont fall into the gap by getting an Classic Amiga thinking it will run Quake III etc in great speeds.  

Thanks for the info.

When I get my hands on a nice 030/50 with 128mb ram I'll be running OS3.9 in the standard 1200 case.  After that I'll prob build a 1200 tower with a PPC and run OS4.0 classic.

Not into running Quake 3, more interested in working (and playing) AGA games at the moment. :-D

Yep, loads of us Aussies seem to be buying Amiga's at the moment...very strange  :-P