My Old Friend the Amiga

[antonye]

HI Everyone,

After many moons away from the Amiga Scene, I am finally getting back into the Amiga. After Battling the Woes of Wintel, I decided enough was enough.

I used to own a Stock A1200 back in 1994/95 and was rather annoyed when it was stolen. After some significant time and searching, I began obtaining the parts for my replacement A1200. Now that She is Built, I am contempt and happy once again with my Towered Amiga, she cost me a bomb to build but worth her weight in Gold.

It never ceases to amaze me to this day how amazing the Amiga and the Amiga scene really is, After C=, things were looking grim and most computer users were not bothered. The Amiga is a Beautiful and Unique piece of Engineering and hopefully will continue to live on. If it wasn't for the Dedicated Amiga users (a.org included) The Amiga would have completely died off years ago.

So In short, I would like to take this opportunity to say cheers to the Amiga Community and that I am proud to be a C= Amiga User ) Amiga: 1 Wintel: 0

System Specs:

Amiga: A1200 , Towered
Workbench: OS3.5
Processor: 68060
Board: Phase 5 - Blizzard
FastRam: 128+ Mb
Blizzard PPC 603e @ 240MHz
Blizzard Bvision 8mb Graphics card
3.5inch 2 port IDE splitter
AT Keyboard controller
Fast PCMCIA Serial port
Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI 2 controller
TechnoSound turbo sampler
Vidi Amiga 24RT
SCSI-2 external CDrom caddy
2x Cumana 3.5 inch - External Floppy drives
Unbranded MIDI Amiga Tower
2x 350 Watt Redundant PSU's
1x 5.1 Gb SCSI HDD
1x 4.3 Gb IDE HDD
Iomega Zip 100 Internal Zip Drive

 

[Gav]

Welcome to A.org and thats a nice A1200 you have there....

[antonye]

Cheers man,

It good to be a C= User again ) Back when I had My 1st A1200, I could only Dream of the Hardware that I currently own...This is now a reality.....and a cool one at that )

[InTheSand]

I'd also like to say a big welcome!

And.... redundant PSUs? Is your Amiga mission-critical?!  :-D

 - Ali

[antonye]

Thank You,

The Redundant PSU's were spare from a Wintel Server, the thought of using a salvaged AT PSU was chilling as I have had issues. The PSU's Give the Amiga all the Kuice it could ever want, Also the PSU's 5 and 12 volt rails are fused for protection. I intend to keep the Amiga until it dies  :-D

[tonyvdb]

Yes, Welcome to Amiga.org and the Amiga world again.

I agree with you that the Amiga is just amazing and in my opinon still WAY ahead of its time. Running what I do on my A4000 just blows me away what you need to make a PC do the same thing. Even with the stock Machine without the Cyberstorm it is just great how it manages memory and how small the OS is.

[antonye]

If you think about it, The Amiga has Features that Even now Wintel PC's can only dream of. WB is amazing...as far as I can remember, it was one of of the First "True
" Multi-tasking OS.....The people at C= Had their heads screwed on..shame it was all ruined....

I am not surprised that people were annoyed at C= going bust, the fact that all of the games designers back then abandoned the Amiga Platform like a shot at the first sign of trouble at C=. That as far as I see it is so wrong. The way I see the Amiga....It's like a Blank Canvas, It's a piece of Computing Art, it is capable of so much yet a lot of people were glad to see the back of them.

The Amiga is not dead, no matter what is said, it's going strong, It's heart beating strong and true
 :-D  

[amigagr]

it's nice to see these days new people and older users to involve with the amiga once again. welcome back my friend :-)

[antonye]

Thank you very much....I was a little reserved at first at postin`. The Amiga will always hold a place in my records....If it wasn't for C= we'd all be robotic wintel users :evil: where as the Amiga offers a difference........ :-D

[InTheSand]

antonye wrote:
If it wasn't for C= we'd all be robotic wintel users

Although, and I'll probably be laughed off A.Org for this, I wonder what could have happened if Sinclair had got it right with the QL? E.g. finished machine, readily available at launch time, and with a 3.5" disk drive?

Or, as an alternative fate, if there was no C=, I guess we'd be using Atari Amigas and the ST would never have existed... There's a thought!

 - Ali

[Hyperspeed]

What made the Amiga work for me?

Proprietary hardware + genius shareware programmers + creative users.

[antonye]

I totally Agree, The engineers and programmers were passionate....If only it was still like that  :boohoo:

[amigakit]

@antonye

Welcome back to the Amiga/Amiga.org

[Oliver]

Hi antonye.  It's lucky you live on the other side of the planet, or I might just be tempted to steal your 'new' 1200.  Hmmmm, jealous indeed. :-P It's a very nice machine you have.  I'm sure it will be fun to use.

-Oli

[swift240]

Nice to see you have a good setup there.
Welcome back to the Amiga scene.

Mike.