Greetings from an odd person in the USA

[RepoOne]

I'm probably a bit of an odd case. I'm only 17 years old, from Indiana, USA, and had never used an Amiga in my life until a few months ago.

I used my first computer at age 3 (in 1996), a 33Mhz 486 with 8MB of RAM. I was instantly hooked, and used that computer up until 1999, when my family moved to a new HP Pavilion with a 500Mhz AMD K6-2. So, I've been into computers my entire life.

Some of the things that really stuck with me were chiptunes, 2D games, and some awesome productions of the demoscene. After looking into it, I found that many of these things were strongest in the Amiga scene. This made me interested in the Amiga, and perhaps getting a hold of one.

I've always had a strong feeling that I should have been alive (i.e. born ten years earlier) and active during the days where computing still had the "magic" that it did in the late 80s and early 90s. Because I can't teleport to 1990, I have to live the fantasy by collecting old computers.

So I've started a nice collection, I have a Commodore 128, eMac (not that old, but is PowerPC and can run OS Classic), and a variety of 90s PCs. However, the newest addition is the one that I am the most proud of. It is the cornerstone of my collection.

Behold, my Amiga 1000. Got it for $20 after posting a Craigslist ad looking for Commodore stuff. I promised to take of it, and I shall.

[RepoOne]

I already looked into MorphOS. My eMac is NVidia based, so it won't work.

[RepoOne]

Welcome...

I hate you..

And I mean that in the nicest way.. :-)

I paid a "bit" more for my A1000 and you're looks cosmetically much nicer!!!

Congrats!!!

I remember 17... I think..  Good times..
When I'd sit around playing games and writing code and drinking too much soda and..
hmm..  er...

Not much has changed actually...  ;-)

If you have any questions, just ask..  Lots of great help around here...

desiv

Haha. You'll really hate this: I got a lot more than just the Amiga for $20.

I got the complete set, pretty much, and in the original Amiga box, too.

Loads of disks:



External floppy drive:


A 2400 baud modem:


I have no idea what this is:


And a dot-matrix printer:


Also, I already have Amiga Explorer set up and on a backup Workbench diskette, and there is a null-modem cable connecting my main PC to my Amiga.