Good day from Canada

[Mangar]

Hey all,

I'm a long time amiga user from Belleville, Canada. I've still have my A2000 all setup and still working from 1988. I also have my A1200 I bought from the WOC in 1992 or was it 1993? I can't remember. Thought I'd introduce myself and I would like to ask the following Question:

Are there any Amiga Dealers left in Canada? How am I supposed to get my hands on one of these machines running OS4. I'm chomping at the bit.

Also would like to know if there are any amiga nuts left in Canada. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in these parts.

[alext]

Hay Mangar I'm from Gravenhurst and still into Amiga
I don't know of any one selling new stuff in Canada so I hope this thread attracts someone's attention

[glitch]

Hi,

     There are lots of us Canadians on this site - eh!  Can't think of any Canadian dealers at the moment.  I was going to suggest LiveWireSystems.ca but they're no longer around.

     Can anyone else help out?

-G

[ManRaven]

There's a whole bunch of us here in Edmonton. Check out www.amicue.org for our clubs activities and pictures.
In the picture gallery, I'm the bearded guy with the "I Adore My 64" badge.
At this time I have one C64, three C-128's, five Amiga 500's (one with an '030), one Amiga 2000 (with '040), two Amiga 1200's (one with '030), an A4000 (with 060/PPC and CVPPC), a 600 Mhz. Pentium (running Mandrake Linux, Windoze and Amiga 3.9). I guess that makes me an Amigaiod.

[amiwalker]

We are here on the east coast as well!!

Welcome aboard.

SoftHut is my source for the Amiga.

I have an A1 micro on back order.

[Mangar]

Thanks for the information. The AMICUE looks to be a fairly active user group. I'll have to checkout Softhut.

Livewire seems to have been the only dealer left in Canada but now they are closed.

Hopefully there is one out there, somewhere, but somehow I doubt it. I wish Hyperion wrote AOS4 to work on any PPC system. Since they don't have an easy way in North America to get these machines.

Wonder if this AMY05 machine will be more easily available?

[mpiva]

   Hi there.  I'm also part of the AmiCUE group and a very active Amiga user.  I've got an A4000T, A1200T, three A500s, three A2000s, and my very first A1000 (I also have an A4000D currently but it's on eBay so I won't have it for long.)

   Like you, I'm chomping at the bit for OS4 but even if I could find a place to buy an new Amiga I'm going to have a VERY hard time convincing my wife it's worth the high pricetag.  Maybe Amy'05 will be better but even still it's going to have to be a "Christmas/Birthday" present spread over several years (it would be worth it though) :-D

[Cyberus]

Mangar wrote:
Hey all,

I'm a long time amiga user from Belleville, Canada. I've still have my A2000 all setup and still working from 1988. I also have my A1200 I bought from the WOC in 1992 or was it 1993? I can't remember. Thought I'd introduce myself and I would like to ask the following Question:

Are there any Amiga Dealers left in Canada? How am I supposed to get my hands on one of these machines running OS4. I'm chomping at the bit.

Also would like to know if there are any amiga nuts left in Canada. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in these parts.

Hello, and welcome to Amiga.org, as I'm not Canadian, I feel as if I'm almost gatecrashing the party ;-), but check out http://www.frappr.com/amigaworld  to see that there are quite a few Amigans in your country...

[Argus]

Try the States, there are 'at least' three Amiga dealers still left: Software Hut, Mr. Hardware Computers and CompuQuick Media Center in Ohio.  All still sell new and used Amiga hardware.

[Twin]

G'day

Welcome to Amiga.org

I'm not from Canada but I have come across this site before: http://www.amiga.ca/ which seems to be an Amiga supplier in Canada.

[KThunder]

hey how ya doin
im not from canada but i was up north just acouple weeks ago it was pretty cool. i live in ny state so we see people from canada all the time esp ontario.
my amiga purchases havce actually been split between here at amiga.org and ebay.

[mr_a500]

Hi there!

I think the last Amiga dealers in Ontario finally died around 2002. That's when National Amiga in Ottawa disappeared, Oshawa Amiga closed and Randomize converted to Apple products. Softhut is probably your best chance, but they're damn expensive. And if you order from the US, watch out for Canada Customs - they'll rob you blind. Softhut did an exchange for me (already paid customs for the thing) and Canada Customs opened it up and charged me again!

I've driven through Belleville a few times. That's only about 100km from me. So technically I'm an "Amiga nut" and "in these parts". :-)

[Merc]

Hi Mangar, and welcome!

 I'm on the east coast too (hi amiwalker) but I lived in Kingston Ont. for 5 years back between 1989 and 1994.  Aroun 1993 there were not many Amiga stores if any left in Kingston, but I did drive with my Dad to Belleville once or twice to check out a store there.  

I forget now what the name of it was, but they had a display in their front window of computers through the ages that I remember, mostly because each computer had some storage media with it, from CD ROM (which was the newest at the time) all the way down through to punched cards, and a pile of rocks in front of some ancient home PC from the early days
 :-D

I don't know of anyone left in my area as far as dealers go, there is a place in Quebec that I think sells Pegasos boards, but I can't remember (or find with Google) them right now.

I'd love to get my hands on an A1 too, even just to try, but I don't know if I could drop almost $1000 on something like that.   :cry:

Anyway, welcome to the group!

[leirbag28]

There is also eBay......a main source for Amigas stuff.

If you want new Stuff, I would go with Software Hut.......Great People! it is thanks to them that I still have my SX32 pro

Also Try AmigaKit in the UK?

[alext]

Randomize still sells Amiga on ebay