Hi there,
Thanks for the welcome
The Amiga was not very popular in SA for several reasons.
There was no Commodore subsidiary in the country. The C64 had previusly been distributed here by a company called Tedelex, but they didnt seem to support the Amiga much. SO there was no advertising or real awareness of the Amiga except among a small group of computer enthusiasts.
during the 80's and early 90's, South Africa was still under the Apartheid regime, and was under international sanctions. It was therefore not easy to get hi-tech stuff, and usually at a high price - a secondhand A500 with monitor would sell for around R4500 - this was quite a bit whne you consider at the time, R4500 a month would be considered an exceptionally good salary| Also, non white people would earn significantly less than that...and it was almost unheard of to see a computer at a non-white school at all.
On the otherhand, PC clones thrived. There was a huge influx of them from Taiwan, you couls get them as cheap as R1000 for a full system if you shopped around. They sucked, biut they were fairly common
Whoa...sorry looks like I'm going off on a tangent there
The A2000 ame with a GVP Series II HC+8 with 2Mb onboard, and the Agnus upgraded to an ECS 1MB model along with 2.04 roms.
It also came with a Magni 4005 Internal genlock - apparently one of the best PAL genlocks at the time. Apparently its been hacked to support YUV ... will have to find a manual and a pinout diagram so i can build the breakout cable for it.
All in all, its been a lot of fun getting it back up abd running...waiting for the 3.1 roms and os i ordered to arrive, and the super denise...now if i could just find a decent RTG card and accellerator, I'll be all set to use it as my primary box
