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Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
« on: September 19, 2010, 12:04:30 PM »
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Hi, What were you doing on your Amiga in the year 1994?


In 1994? Let's see.

Well, I had my OS3.0 A1200 by then and IIRC. Other than a parallel port sampler and a MIDI interface it was pretty bare. I relied on various hand-rolled bootable floppies for applications. For example, I had a single bootable disk containing OctaMED, ProTracker and the software that came with my sampler.

A lot of time was spent playing games like syndicate, that's for sure :)

By the end of that year, I got a slimline 3.5 inch HD for it and my productivity increased accordingly.

By summer the following year I got my first accelerator board, the then fresh-out-of-the-stable Apollo 1240 turbo. You simply can't imagine the speed increase that gave. And, just when I thought it was fast enough, I discovered remapollo ;)
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Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2010, 10:21:13 PM »
If I recall correctly, I got my A1200 for the xmas 1993. I'd only just got my first Amiga, an A600 earlier that same year, a birthday present from my mum who'd noticed I'd suddenly gotten interested in computing again when I'd started trying to resurrect my old spectrum as an abortive electronics project (though I succeeded eventually!). I had sort of lost interest after my speccy died and all the cool new computers friends at school had (Amigas, ST's and Archimedes) were entirely out of our price range during those years.

When I got the machine, I was really surprised, especially after getting my first few magazine cover disks. The rest is history. So, many thanks to my mum, sadly departed, but fondly remembered and entirely to blame for my amiga addiction :)
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Re: What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2010, 05:38:12 PM »
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... and I had a CSPPC Scala A400t with all the fixin's..

Eh? In 1994? I'm pretty sure I was an early PowerUP adopter, and I didn't get my BlizzardPPC until late 1998...

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Never mind, you're talking about iFx...
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