Kim Dot Com Documentary Shows a Amiga 500

[Pyromania]

I was watching the Kim Dot Com Documentary today on Amazon Prime and guess what I spotted, an Amiga 500! It was his first computer.

https://www.amazon.com/Kim-Dotcom-Caught-Julian-Assange/dp/B073Z7M8BB/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1526256327&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=kim+dotcom+caught+in+the+web

It's an interesting documentary to watch and now it's even better with an Amiga 500. I have watched the Kim Dot Com story develop over the years but didn't know he was a fellow Amiga user until today. Screenshot is taken directly from from the documentary.

[stefcep2]

Software piracy owes a lot to the amiga.

And the amiga owes a lot to software piracy.  I only bought an A500 because I couldn't afford the expensive SNES carts, and the seller gave a me a box 80 floppies of games.

Later there was the local dude with the 68040 Warp Engine A4000 and scsi box full of drives and CD Burners with an unbelievably complex-looking DOpus screen doing I-don't-how many copies/downloads/Arexxing some database.  Very ahem professional.

It was a natural progression that amiga pirates moved on to bigger and better endeavours.

[BozzerBigD]

@stefcep2

What you really mean is that you preferred to pay nothing to game developers than pay too much. It is misleading to say you couldn't afford £50+ consoles cartridges as you (and many others) weren't prepared to pay even £20 to £29.99 for AAA Amiga games. You fleeced ALL valuable Amiga game developers by stealing and hence helped contribute to the demise of the Amiga platform.

I once saw someone had hand drawn all the symbols from The Settlers game manual in order to defeat the copy protection. It must have taken them hours if not a couple of days. The game was available at Electronic Boutique at the time for £9.99. The same with the black reflective Team17 code booklets! Rather than go and work at a shop for a couple of days to earn the money to buy a game the Amiga Piracy Morons would prefer to 'waste' that time copying code books by hand to photocopy for their mates. Sad times and a disgrace to the platform.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Rather than go and work at a shop for a couple of days to earn the money to buy a game the Amiga Piracy Morons would prefer to 'waste' that time copying code books by hand to photocopy for their mates. Sad times and a disgrace to the platform.

Most states have laws against 12 year olds working.

Now if it's a full grown adult doing it, that's another thing.

[BozzerBigD]

@Oldsmobile_Mike

Ever heard of a paper round? I remember saving up £2 a week to buy a Goliath 200W power supply from a gate takings type job I used to do to help my mum every week. It took a while but it was possible. Also, I got Xtreme Racing off Amiga Computing magazine cover disks on the cheap (but still legal) and then bought the additional data disks no problem as they were only £14.99. These weren't SNES prices and kids could afford them. PD games were even cheaper and loads were really good!

[vince_6]

[stefcep2]

1.  In 1995, an Amiga game new was $70 AUD.  A new PS4 game today is selling for less.  That was if you could actually find someone selling them.  I did buy Slam Tilt.  Kids today seem to get money given to them to buy-we didn't

2. A £199 A1200 Magic pack was $1400 AUD.  2 MB no hard drive.  Ridiculous

3. I realized amiga games were not that interesting.  Most of those discs didn't get played.  Instead I bought CU Amiga and got into DPaint/mage FX and Real 3d.

4.  A1200 followed, new Apollo 68040 followed, tower case followed, Art Effect followed, Cinema 4D followed, Wordworth Office followed, Photogenics followed, Brilliance followed all new.

I neither helped nor hindered the amiga games market.  It was dead by the time I got there.

[Pyromania]

Back on topic, watch this cool documentary, can you spot the Amiga 500?