Hi all.
Well, I'm not sure what exactly I should write here for an introduction, but I'll give it a little try.
I'm a guy in my 30's from Norway. I basically only had strange computers in my childhood before the Amiga 500. That was my first "real" multitasking computer, I got it in 1987 or maybe 1988. The first few years with just 512 KB memory, then expanded to 1 MB. Then I got an A600 in 1992, with a 20 MB Harddrive! A harddrive! Yup, that was the dream.. to get rid of all those disk-swapping. Amazing what went into those 20 MB too! Also amazing what they made that 7.14 MHz thing (the Amiga) do! Oh, and I also had that 1084S monitor with the A600. (hm, where did that name come from? memory is a strange thing:p)
I still kind of have that harddrive, but now as a "hardfile" on my real harddrive, for WinUAE. Not that I use it very often anymore, but I enjoy a little nostalgia now and then.
Turrican 2 comes to mind as one of the few games I actually finished, and more than once. (By the way, on the winUAE it seems to freeze after 3 or 4 maps? I havent tried it in a while since getting a new computer though.. probably some settings somewhere)
Other things that come to mind is Testdrive, F-18, flighsimulator something and Elite II. And Another World! And Stunt car racer. And Psygnosis. And Rock'nRoll, Starglider, Lotus, Marble Madness...Well I better stop
I sold (unfortunately) The A600 sometime in..1996 I guess, sometime after I got my first PC.
I was and am always a dabbler with computers, never made anything worthwhile and still havent :p A bit of everything except music.. I'm not musical. I usually used some kind of BASIC.. AMIGABASIC, then AMOS basic. just made some small and completely useless things. Actually I did dabble in assembler at one time, I even made a morse-code decoder once, and some other unfinished stuff.. The morse-decoder actually worked (mostly), via a sampler I built. An 8-bit sampler built from instructions from AMIGA format or a similar publication. That was cool! I put it in a shampoo-casing
(yes, a used shampoo bottle plugged into the back of the Amiga, haha). There was a Star Wars game I had once, I changed all the samples for. Don't remember the name, but it was fun! I also enjoyed many of the demos and mod-tunes that came out, but I was never a part of the scene. But like many I played / dabbled with the various trackers (even though I'm not musically inclined:p). They often came on floppy disks named "ST:00" or something
Good times.
Well, that was a little(?) about me computer-wise. Main reason for me registering on this and another Amiga-site, is because I can't get a demo I saw years ago, out of my head! (Schweinstein demo, I think..read my other post about it).
