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Offline The_BardTopic starter

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Another Scotland user says hi.
« on: June 03, 2007, 02:45:05 AM »
First Post!

I've been a member of the forum for a wee while so feeling "brave enough" to introduce myself.

I'm from the far North of Scotland and own a few Amiga 1200s and an A500.

My enjoyment of using the Amiga nowadays comes mainly through emulation using Windows, Linux and GP2X. I also follow the progress of AROS and such like.

Before Amiga, the ZX Spectrum was my passion, a favourite memory is using my A500 (with soundsampler) to load ARCADIA from Spectrum directly into my Amiga - that was a looooooong time ago, what a feeling of power it was!

Anyway I still love the Amiga and thats my wee introduction.

Cheers everyone!
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2007, 07:48:42 AM »
Welcome to Amiga Org  :-D
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2007, 08:13:01 AM »
Welcome friend and I hope you keep your passion for the Amiga going for a loooong time.
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2007, 11:55:02 AM »
Welcome!
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2007, 12:28:04 AM »
Welcome to A.Org!

I also went the ZX Spectrum to Amiga route (with a brief hiccup for a year with the Atari ST before I came to my senses!  :-) ) so you're not alone!

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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2007, 12:43:26 AM »
I went from ZX Spectrum to Amiga Via the Sam Coupe.
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2007, 01:12:46 AM »
Hi,

I was curious about the SAM Coupe, but not curious enough to buy one at the time! I got my ST in very late 1988, finally lured in by all those Silica Shop adverts shown in "Crash" magazine! By that time, I'm not sure if the first SAMs had been produced, even though the machine had been mentioned/launched/rumoured about!

Wouldn't mind one now though, but they seem to go for high prices on the likes of eBay, and stuff-all chance of finding one in New Zealand anyway!

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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2007, 01:41:26 AM »
Hi again all.

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I was curious about the SAM Coupe, but not curious enough to buy one at the time! I got my ST in very late 1988, finally lured in by all those Silica Shop adverts


Yes me too. SAM seemed the obvious option or it seemed at least that was the magazines play on it.

So rather than get stung there, I ordered an Amiga 500 pack from Digicom - the Bart Simpson one and it had a 10 game pack and Kick-Off 2 chucked in for good measure.

And they promptly took my money and went bust!

So my first Amiga ended up costing me £1000+ lol.

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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2007, 01:53:41 AM »
The Sam was released towards the end 1989 about the same time my brother and I got a Spectrum+2A.  I didn't get my Sam until some time in early 1991.  Just after Christmas 1992 my brother and I put all our money together to get an A500+.

You could always try emulating the Sam.
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Re: Another Scotland user says hi.
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2007, 08:43:17 AM »
@TB: ouch! That would have been one expensive Amiga, even now, but especially considering what £1000 would have bought back then!!!

@Rob: I'll have a look for a SAM emulator (any you recommend for either Linux or Windows?) but generally stick to emulating things I've either owned or used extensively. I might make an exception in this case though, due to its closeness to the good old Speccy!

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