Hi all,
It seems only polite to introduce myself to the community here
I was a reformed Amiga addict, but booting the A4000 for the first time in 5 years has caused me to lapse again. There's something simply wonderful about an OS that I know pretty much what every file does on it... Its simple elegance really is appealing.
Like a lot of people on here, I have History when it comes to Amigas: from the Very First on an A500 with 512KB which got expanded with 512KB memory for around £150... Then added a disk drive... Then added a Spirit HDA-506 10MB hard drive to it. I dare not think how much that cost, or the size of the thing!
Then the Amiga 2000. Added a Mega Midget Racer to it...
Then the 3000. A brilliant bit of kit, truly brilliant.
Then the 4000D, adding a Warp Engine 040 and a Piccolo SD64.
And that's where it ended
when I graduated and was pretty much forced into the PC world. I resisted for as long as I could, but ultimately I had to move. Shame really, as nothing quite recreates the feeling of enthusiasm that the Amiga had - we made the Linux crowd look a bit apathetic
I used to write for magazines to boost my student income, and wrote a few articles for CU Amiga and Amiga Computing, the most involved of which was a round up of Imagine, Real 3D and Lightwave. This all fitted nicely with my degree, as my final year project ended up being based on constructive solid geometry raytracing.
I also wrote the Amiga driver for the Tabby graphics tablet, and a fair few install disks for hardware from Diamond computers (before they went bust) or First Computer Centre (before they went bust!)
Of course, there were a few exceptionally poor demos too
But I've recently rediscovered the 4000, and it is a cracking piece of kit. And I've recently rediscovered the on-line community: it appears vibrant and, most of all, friendly and relaxed.
Thanks for the resource here, it's excellent!
Nick.
