New member from Australia!

[tasmanian]

Hi,

I am an Australian, located in Tasmania (the island south of Australia).

I am 33 years old and started off with a Commodore 64 and tape drive.

In 1990 after saving heaps I bought my first Amiga 500, then got the extra 512k ram card for it, and bought a 2 meg ram expansion that fitted in the zorro slot on the side for a total of 3 megabytes of ram (which was handy for some of Eric Schartz cartoons he produced).

I used Vista Pro extensively with the Amiga, often leaving it running for days on end doing ray tracing and then recording the resulting animation to video.  I also had a stereo digitiser and a black and white frame grabber for the Amiga.  I also composed quite a few tracker music for the Amiga as well.

As most people here, I upgraded from the Amiga 500 to the Amiga 1200 upon release.  I then bought a 68030 and a 2 meg dimm (this was about the same time the big earth quake occurred and caused memory prices to shoot up through the roof), primary reason faster ray tracing and a little game called Elite Frontier!  I got a PCMCIA adaptor so I could hook up a CD rom to the Amiga to play those Amiga CD32 games such as Alien Breed Tower Assault! & Microcosm.

My favourite games on the Amiga would of had to of been Captive, Xenon 2, Speedball 2, Superstar Dust, Superfrog, & Alien Breed.

I was disappointed to learn when Commodore went into redundancy and turned my Amiga over to an IBM (especially to play X-Wing) however I learned that there was an Amiga Emulator called UAE and still run some Amiga games from time to time (especially the UAE-X for Xbox, nothing like sitting back on the lounge playing Alien Breed on my projector).

I even got back into owning a true Amiga, an Amiga 3000 computer when I did some work for Winning Post productions while I was working at Micro-Tech Tasmania, who gave me an Amiga 3000 for some after hours work.

Having sold all my Amiga software, I unfortunately didn't have much use for it, and sold it on ebay for around $400 or so (this was in 1999).

Just thought I'd let you guys know especially those in the 2o to 40 age group about a new web site that looks at the Amiga, C64, Atari 2600, Xbox Live arcade and arcade machines.

There is a for sale and wanted to buy section too.

Check out www.retrogameplay.com

The for sale and wanted to buy is free, for those that want to post their Amiga stuff for sale.

I thought I'd just let you guys know.

May the Amiga live on forever! :-)

[amigadave]

welcome! :-)

[koaftder]

welcome to a.org

man, the 360 isnt exactly retro but its a lot of fun. Have you tried the xna stuff yet?

[InTheSand]

Welcome to A.Org!

I can't believe those forums have neglected Sinclair's rubber-keyed wonder machine!

 - Ali

[tasmanian]

InTheSand wrote:
Welcome to A.Org!

I can't believe those forums have neglected Sinclair's rubber-keyed wonder machine!

 - Ali

Sorry to say it as admin of

www.retrogameplay.com

I have no experience with the sprectrum, I mean who would own one of those when you could have glorious colour on the Commodore 64 ;-)

[InTheSand]

Bah, games without colour clash? Who wants 'em!  :-)

 - Ali

[tasmanian]

InTheSand wrote:
Bah, games without colour clash? Who wants 'em!  :-)

 - Ali

touche ;-)

[whiteb]

Greetings from the Mainland (Melbourne).

Oh and for what its worth, I still have my ZX Spectrum 48k (Rubber keys) in the cupboard.

and how can you say its a site for retrogames/Classic games, when you have a pic of a 360 on the front page, 360 isnt Classic, its an abomination.

And in your forums, you quoted "Latest UAE for Windows", why not just say "New WinUae released, Version 1.3.4", WinUae is NOT Uae, WinUae is BASED on Uae.

And the game library link, God how i hate foreign language sites, just go to HOL, its all you will need.

http://Http://Hol.abime.net

And have you signed up to English Amiga Board ?
http://Http://eab.abime.net

Toni Wilen (Author of WinUae) is a moderator on there.

[Oliver]

Hi from Perth.

I'll have a look at your gaming site later.  Thanks for putting it up.  The more the merrier.

Hope you like the forum here.  It's mostly a really friendly and helpful place, and there's plenty of non-amigan stuff here too.

Cheers, and welcome  :pint:

Oli

[adz]

Another friendly hello and welcome to a.org from Melboure :-)

[tasmanian]

whiteb wrote:

and how can you say its a site for retrogames/Classic games, when you have a pic of a 360 on the front page, 360 isnt Classic, its an abomination.

And in your forums, you quoted "Latest UAE for Windows", why not just say "New WinUae released, Version 1.3.4", WinUae is NOT Uae, WinUae is BASED on Uae.

And the game library link, God how i hate foreign language sites, just go to HOL, its all you will need.

http://Http://Hol.abime.net

And have you signed up to English Amiga Board ?
http://Http://eab.abime.net

Toni Wilen (Author of WinUae) is a moderator on there.

Hi thanks for the feed back.  I'm only just starting out as you can probably tell.

First of all the Xbox 360 is included because it has available to it Xbox Live Arcade.  This is where you can download trial games of classic arcade games such as Galaga, Dig Dug, Street Fighter 2, Pacman, etc which are all classic arcade games that rely upon that retrogameplay.

Thanks for the feed back on the Win UAE and see what you're talking about there and have used your suggestion on the forum.

The game library is still relevant as it is the biggest listing on the Internet of Amiga games (fact).  Having said that I'll post the web site you gave me as well :-)

If anyone can recommend where I can advertise for free or in a two way partnership of Amiga sites please feel free to contact myself.

My Amiga is kept alive as a games machine in my Xbox with UAE-X and must say it is a great bit of software that still lets me enjoy playing the classic Amiga games that I grew up with.

[amigakit]

Welcome!

[A4000_Mad]

A big welcome from England too.

I'm new here myself and the people are helpful, friendly and really know there stuff. In fact, one has even driven 100 miles to meet me in person  :-)


This site makes the years and fortune I've spent supporting the Amiga feel a bit more worthwhile.

Long live the Amiga and this site   :cheers:


P.S. Coming here to read the amazing threads can become very addictive and get you hit with a rolling pin :-(


Anyone else experienced such strange sensations? :-?


A4000 Mad

[tasmanian]

Well I was over in England for a week in November 2006

What a great place it would of been to be, especially where the Amiga was concerned!

I did check out the National Science Museum and did the Game On! (even bought two books on the history of video games while I was there).

Can you please find out who from Heathrow Airport luggage handlers who stole my video tapes of my world trip out of my check in luggage and throttle them for me..thanking you in advance!
8-)

[Mucker]

Gday mate, welocome aboard, and basque in the warmth of amiga brother/sister hood.

the muckster  :-)