Warm and fuzzies...

[Harlbro]

Gives me warm and fuzzies just hearing my 11yo A1200 purring away quietly next to my (very much sounds like an air-conditioner) AthlonXP PC. I've been made officially "between jobs" so I've had lots of time to tinker recently. I guess it all started in 1990 with two (that's me and me bro) gangly teenagers finally convincing a naive and extremely budget-conscious mum into purchasing a spanky A500 and 14" 1084S. Oh for those carefree days of running home after school to eagerly load up Speedball, Silkworm or Railroad Tycoon

Of course 4 years later I wisely used my Austudy (assistance from govt for students) back pay on a sparkling A1200 with 200Mb HDD and Final Writer. After, I found myself working with PCs. The A1200 was never forgotten, a 030/40 accelerator was tried but didn't work due to the A1200's underpowered 40W PSU (doh!). Well, there it still is. In the original case but with the help of a (giant-sized) converted XT PSU. The A1200 rests propped up above the desk so the bulging trapdoor slot can accommodate a hefty 64Mb SIMM and a warm-your-hands-over-it 68040/25 accelerator. A Hitachi 4Gb 2.5" HDD salvaged from an old Toshiba replaced the antique Westan Digital 200Mb. Together with the 040, this drive gives me a cheery 1.5Mb/s verses the old 600Kb/s. A ScanDoubler allows bloated not-meant-for-a-19" imagery whilst a 3com Etherlink III protrudes importantly from the cardslot allowing connection to my Netgear WGT624 and Alcatel ADSL modem. I never thought browsing the interest with 16 colours was so much fun But seriously, what other computer makes it so cool to take screenshots of your desktop for show-and-tell?? Enough of me rambling on. I hope you got some of that warm and fuzziness too

Now, where was I… oh yes trying to get that blasted megedemo working. My PC buddies want a retro games night and I want some cool 90s Euro "scene" demos running

[Peter_s]

awwww what a lovely heart felt story, almost brings a tear to this old eye LOL. there must be a retro thing in the air 8-) And welcome to amiga.org :-D

[gizz72]

Greetings HalBro,

Welcome to the warm and fuzzy site that is Amiga.Org. Glad to see your buddies playing retro games! :-D

:pint:

Regards,

GiZz72

[Darklight]

Hey Harlbro, welcome to Amiga.org!

Great to see another Sydney-sider on the forums  :-D There's a few guys from Melbourne that I've seen on here, but very few from Sydney.  I'm out west, towards Penrith, so drop me a line if you're after anything, I might have it (got a 500, 600, 1200 and recently acquired a 2000 with 1084S, spare motherboard and 2 HD's with over 1000 disks for $100  :lol: )

Anyway, have fun  :-)

[Harlbro]

I'm definitely in the right company it seems

The bug has got me again I must say. I won't be satisfied until I've a) got my hands on an A4000 to tinker with, and b) started to build something specially for OS4.0 (or OS3.9 until 4.0 comes out). Both will hopefully be an outlet for my thirty-something male cluckiness i.e. combination of collector-come-Ebay addiction and the evil urge to pull more PCs apart...

[adz]

Argh, another Sydney-sider :-o ;-)

Welcome to A.org :-)

[Darklight]

Yep, another Sydney-sider  :-D It's great, isn't it adz  :lol:

[adz]

Darklight wrote:
Yep, another Sydney-sider  :-D It's great, isn't it adz  :lol:

What next, an influx of Tasmanians :lol: Hang on, is Tasmania even part of Australia :-P

[Darklight]

 :lol: No, Tasmania isn't a part of Australia, anyone could miss Tasmania, all tucked away up there (lol, I love the Simpsons).  Come to think of it though, I haven't seen anyone from Tassie on here.  Getting Amiga stuff down there must be a pain in the neck  :-o  Almost as bad as New Zealand  :-D

[adz]

Darklight wrote:
 :lol: No, Tasmania isn't a part of Australia, anyone could miss Tasmania, all tucked away up there (lol, I love the Simpsons).  Come to think of it though, I haven't seen anyone from Tassie on here.  Getting Amiga stuff down there must be a pain in the neck  :-o  Almost as bad as New Zealand  :-D

There was one Tasmanian floating around here, can't remember his name though, he was real touchy. I can remember a guy from Tasmania trying to sell me a bog standard A1200 for $900, I almost dropped the phone in a fit of laughter :roflmao: Ahhh, great now I'm laughing again :roflmao:

[lorddef]

I must admit I get a similar feeling when I boot up my a1200t; it purrs away quietly whilst my Athlon 1.4 sounds like a diesel engine. I think I'm in need of a more modern PC.

[Generale]

retro/oldskool (depending on how old you are) is good.

hey, uh darklight (hope I got your nick right. wasnt paying full attn), I have an amiga fanatic friend from emu plains. He's in the UK right now at sony tho.

I love seeing my cranky yellow a500 chugging along. To be honest though, recently I've been getting c64 cravings. Might connect one up next week and have a bash.

The amiga dealer in bathurst was selling, if i remember correctly, an a2000 for $1300. Great place to buy unused parts if you have a very fat wallet.

I got my mitts on my old apple ][e again today. That should be fun. cruddy graphics, awful sound. But theres just something about them.

[adz]

Generale wrote:

I got my mitts on my old apple ][e again today. That should be fun. cruddy graphics, awful sound. But theres just something about them.

Picked one of those up recently too, works great, too bad I don't have room to set it up, she's just sitting in the bottom of my computer wardrobe.

[Darklight]

 :lol: An A1200 for $900 and an A2000 for $1300?   :roflmao: That's hilarious.  It's like when people advertise on eBay - "AMIGA A500 1MB RAM RARE!!!!!! L@@K!!!!" and put a $200 starting bid :roflmao:

@ Generale

That's cool, Emu Plains is about 10 minutes from me.  I always wondered whether there were many Amiga fans out here    :-)
Whereabouts in Oz are you from?  Bathurst? Or you were just visiting when you went to buy that $1300 A2000?  :lol:

[Generale]

the apple ][e is the first computer I ever used. my school had one. pretty rare for a rural primary school at the time to have one. By an odd coincidence, the ][e I used to use is the one I own. Except it has a few cards I borrowed from an apple 2 I have.

I lived in bathurst for a while to go to tafe (dip.IT)and uni (b.compSci Unfinished :-(  ). grew up in the general area. I know other amiga fans too.

The guy at the shop proudly displays his official amiga dealership certificate. He has a wall dedicated to ami software. He has x86 stuff too, to stay in business I imagine.
He also has 'new' ie unpurchased ram expansions at new prices etc etc. Talk about a zealous defender of the faith!