Well.....I guess the first time I saw a miggy was somewhere in 87. At a friend of my big brother. Playing some flight sim. In my memory reconstruction I later deduced that it prolly was F/A-18 Interceptor :-).
It wasn't untill 91 that I wanted a computer (I had an Atari 2600 I inherited from my brothers before that :-)). I looked at C64's and nearly bought a second hand one cos it had F15 Strike Eagle. But I decided no to, so with the coming of Sinterklaas to The Netherlands in 91 I bought a Kick 1.3 A500 at Byte computerstore in Groningen and a 1084s at Tandy.
Had some neat games with it, Days of Thunder, SotB II, Nightbreed Action Game (gawd that was scary, hey I only was 11 ;-)) and something else.
I managed to destroy my SotB II disks by pulling them about or switching of while it was booting. Still have those disks up to this day.
Then I discovered the workbench disks and c:Say...aaaaaaaah the fun I had with that. Soon ofcourse I grew bored with the games and started copying stuff. The most notable games back then for me must've been Birds of Prey and Wolfpack (AWOOOOOOOOOGA AWOOOOOOOOOOOOGA).
In september 92 I bought The One magazine for the first time and kept buying that mag till it was deceased in 95(?). Great humour for adolescent brats like me :-). And I learned quite a lot of English from reading Amiga mags I think.
Early 93 I sold my A500 and bought an A1200 (bought that one in Dokkum).
Got a modem in 94 due to a big article about datacomms in the only Dutch Amiga Magazine. Great times I had chatting with sysops and leeching warez (*cough*).
Eventually I started using the modem for internet access (guess that must've been ~96) and slowly but surely my Fidonetting and BBS'ing declined.
Then I discovered IRC. Oh dear. That cost my parents a sweet load of money. Not to mention the complaints about keeping the phone line busy.
Bought PPC/Bvis in 99 or thereabouts which I kept using until I got my first PC in 2001. Still have the A1200, with which I had a hate/love relation with eversince I got that damned PPC.
Don't use my Amiga for much else than IRC and email these days really. Holding on to it hoping OS4 will run on it
-edit- Deja-vu?
I think I've already seen a thread like this
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