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Offline doghouseTopic starter

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Hello from Oxford, UK.
« on: September 20, 2007, 11:22:28 AM »
I'm glad happy to see that there are still some Amiga users around!
Back in 2001 I treated myself to a brand new A1200 and an Apollo 1230/40 68030 Board as a treat for finishing University. Last night, I dug them out again!
Luckily, it still works!

So.. what do people do with their non PPC Amiga Classics?
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2007, 11:28:02 AM »
Hello doghouse. \o/
....Welcome to the madhouse.  :lol:
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2007, 11:35:01 AM »
Hi, Welcome!

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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2007, 11:41:34 AM »
Welcome!
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2007, 11:56:22 AM »
Welcome :D

What do people do with non-ppc classic amigas? Well, there is of course the whole "Play Classic Games" :D

With that accelerator you should be able to get WHDLoad working on there nicely (www.WHDLoad.de)

What else to do with an 030? A good game of doom can be played.. Also using OctaMED is still fun :D

Also, get Kickstart 3.1, OS 3.9 and a PCMCIA network card and get that beast online :) That's always good fun :)

I'm sure I'll think of more stuff throughout the day so I'll post more later as they come to mind :)
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2007, 01:22:58 PM »
Lo from Staffordshire, UK. :)

What do I do with my classic miggies, play games.
Settlers, Theme Park, Cannon fodder, there are loads and loads of great games which just fly on an 030 miggy.

If you pop into a.org's IRC chat room you will often see Rockape chatting on his 030 A1200 which is hooked up to broadband, he surfs the net, chats, does e-mails all on an 030 Miggy.

As for OS3.9.. I wouldnt tbh, it slows an 030 down a lot, an A1200 with an 030 card and os3.1 is very fast but running 3.9 it does seem rather slow imho.
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2007, 04:59:20 PM »
Welcome.

So what do people with their Amigas?  

Everything!
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2007, 05:18:32 PM »
Hello from Didcot, UK (13 miles south from you).
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2007, 06:25:39 PM »
Hello from also Didcot!

P.S. Before you ask, despite rumours to the contrary, I am not BuZz's gay lover :-o
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2007, 08:22:25 PM »
I thought of something else you could do!

You could set it up as a webserver... (I've been meaning to do that with my 030 A2000 for ages.. I'm gunna see if I have the time this weekend.)

Or use it for torrents (I think)
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2007, 08:36:28 PM »
Hi from Warwick (just up the M40).

I love experimenting, just to see what my A1200 with Blizzard 1230MKIV (32MB) can do. The last major achievement was getting it hooked up to my Virgin Media Broadband.

I have a load of classic games which I get out every now and again (Lotus II, AB3D 1 and 2), play mods, mess around in Workbench (sorry, OS 3.x) to try and get faster framrates on MPeg videos etc.

As much as you may dislike it, Windows just makes things too easy. With the Amiga, you can get right into the workings.
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2007, 08:53:42 PM »
I never knew there were so many people still using these machines!
Back during my school days, the Amiga 500 was the computer I was bought up on. I remember the days of messing around with the Workbench and using pploadseg / PowerPacker to cram as much onto a boot disc as possible!
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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2007, 10:13:34 AM »
...and its a big Eyup from here !

how mich RAM have you got, and do you have a Hard disk ?

you should be able to get online with a setup like that - I used a 25MHz 030 equipped A1200 with 8MB fast RAM, on a Mikrovitek M1438S multisync monitor to surf / mail with for many years 'til the A1 came along.
IBrowse, and YAM were the preferred choices - it got a little bit cramped at times, but the more RAM the merrier !
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Offline Gryfon

Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2007, 12:52:09 PM »
Hi from Banbury!

My A1200 is languishing in the attic, but lives on in the form of the superb Amikit : http://amikit.amiga.sk/


Must get around to digging the old girl out and seeing if she still works...

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Re: Hello from Oxford, UK.
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2007, 01:40:40 PM »
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P.S. Before you ask, despite rumours to the contrary, I am not BuZz's gay lover :-o


Darling! Are you telling me those nights together meant nothing!!

No one is going to believe you anyway, after i post this happy image of you in my kitchen!

http://www.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/alexh.jpg

hehehe
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