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Offline lymangTopic starter

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Greetings
« on: November 03, 2005, 03:03:48 PM »
Hello everyone.. I am both an old school and new Amiga user.  My Amiga roots start with the Amiga 1000, back when it was new and the 2MB of RAM expansion we bought was the biggest thing around! I remember the first time I played a game on it, I thought I had finally discovered the ultimate computer for games and graphics!  Anyway, rather than bore you all with my nostalgic meanderings I'll bring you to the present.  I would like to relive some of my misspent youth (spent in front of the screen of a monitor playing games on that Amiga 1000) and in part this is because I have recently been given an Amiga 2000.  Thus my journey here.  I will post to the other forums with more questions and details about what I am hoping to accomplish, but I wanted to say hi!
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 03:10:10 PM »
Welcome aboard. There are a ton of very smart people here that can help you on your journeys.

Starting out with a 2000, oy, Mr fancy pants, I had to start with an old 1000 ;-)
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2005, 03:41:54 PM »
Thanks for your kind reply!  I hope to get some of those smart people to help me. :-)

Hey, I've been the 1000 route.  I am not entirely sorry I don't have to do it again!  I remember when we would get the GURU messages we would get so angry (my father, brother and myself were the primary users).  My father thought that the messages were very unprofessional and if they wanted to sell Amigas as a serious computer for the professional they should have better error messages.  I just didn't like it when it crashed my games.  Hey, what can I say, I was a self-preoccupied teenager.  Anything that messed with that was bad.

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Re: Greetings
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2005, 07:38:01 PM »
Welcome to one of the friendliest fora on the internet. Enjoy your stay!
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2005, 09:09:34 PM »
Hello Lymang.

Amigas have come a long way since the 16-bit versions you're familiar with.  If you have a PC then I'd suggest buying Amiga Forever so you can run emulate every Amiga that ever existed (except the PowerPC-based models) and run lots of software from Back to the Roots.

And welcome to Amiga.org!   :-D
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2005, 10:55:06 PM »
Welcome dude!
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 11:30:07 PM »
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Hey, I've been the 1000 route.  I am not entirely sorry I don't have to do it again!  I remember when we would get the GURU messages we would get so angry (my father, brother and myself were the primary users).  My father thought that the messages were very unprofessional and if they wanted to sell Amigas as a serious computer for the professional they should have better error messages.  I just didn't like it when it crashed my games.  Hey, what can I say, I was a self-preoccupied teenager.  Anything that messed with that was bad.



   I always like the GURU message (not that I liked it when my computer crashed but at least it crashed with character)  When OS2.x came out I remember the excitement about there being "no more GURU MEDITATION ALERTS!"  "Great!" I thought until I got my A3000 and found it that they were still there, they had just been renamed. :getmad:  I liked the old name.  It was a conversation starter, it gave me a chance to "explain the name" to people unfamiliar with the Amiga and Amiga history.  I found that once people understood the origin of the name most people thought it was quite neat and wanted to find out more about this "weird" little known computer.

   The real problem with GURU was not the name it was the obscure number code that came after and the name change didn't help with that.  They should have kept the GURU name and changed the code to something a little more understandable to the normal user.
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2005, 08:28:14 PM »
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Hello Lymang.

Amigas have come a long way since the 16-bit versions you're familiar with.  If you have a PC then I'd suggest buying Amiga Forever so you can run emulate every Amiga that ever existed (except the PowerPC-based models) and run lots of software from Back to the Roots.

And welcome to Amiga.org!   :-D


Thanks!  I did in fact end up buying Amiga Forever so I would have the Amiga Explorer software.

So far I've not had a chance to get everything running but soon!

Lyman
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2005, 09:39:00 PM »
welcome to a.org

good luck on your a2000.
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2005, 11:31:46 PM »
Lo!
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Re: Greetings
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2005, 12:27:34 AM »
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