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Offline NovaCoderTopic starter

New Amiga user
« on: May 05, 2008, 07:30:29 AM »
Yep never had an Amiga ‘back in the day’ for some strange reason, anyway I’m here now and that’s the main thing :-D

Just brought myself a ‘new’ 1200 from those nice people at Amigakit and I’m also in the process of building another one out of spare parts.  

I’ve been trying to get a semi-decent accelerator card (030) but they’re too friggin expensive at the moment  :pissed:

The basic plan is to play some games, do some modding and try my hand at some coding.
 
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2008, 08:01:52 AM »
Welcome and Good luck  :-D
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2008, 09:31:48 AM »
Welcome!

Just out of interest, what led you to buy an Amiga?
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2008, 10:38:09 AM »
Welcome!

I hope you can get hold of the 030 you want
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Offline NovaCoderTopic starter

Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2008, 12:08:13 PM »
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Marcb wrote:
Welcome!

Just out of interest, what led you to buy an Amiga?


Not sure really, I was always impressed with them but never ended up getting one.  As I'm into retro gaming I started doing some research and was pleased to see that you could still buy the HW and SW (used/new).  

I've done a bit of games and 3D coding on the PC over the years so it should be fun to hack something together on and for my new toy :-D

I've also got years of gaming to catch up on  :-P

I'm not really interested in emulation, for me half the fun is mucking about with the HW.

I've updated my profile so you can see where I'm coming from.
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2008, 01:43:45 PM »
Another Aussie!

Amazing how after all this time the Amiga can still draw us in... Happy coding!
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2008, 02:11:59 PM »
Welcome.
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2008, 05:44:36 PM »
welcome to a.org :cheers:
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2008, 11:22:28 PM »
Welcome!

I would love to see a map of the world with each country filled in with the number of Amiga users still remaining.

A similar one for the States would cool too.

 

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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2008, 11:26:23 PM »
Welcome to the board dude. Amigas are a lot of fun.
 

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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2008, 12:05:35 AM »
@NovaCoder

Welcome aboard.  I wish you all the best with your new Amiga.

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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2008, 12:22:12 AM »
Welcome !!!!!
Yep our numbers in Australia keep on getting bigger  :-D
Enjoy your new hobby it's great fun.
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2008, 12:49:48 AM »
A fellow Aussie. Nice. Welcome aboard. :-)
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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2008, 01:00:04 AM »
Welcome. Yes we need 3D coders. That is something which is missing I think. Someone that could port newer versions of Armagetron, BZflag and other cool games out there.

Also you should note that Amigaworld is a splitting loving community. Many have jumped to AmigaOS4 or MorphOS etc. But both of these systems meets at AmigaOS 68k emulation. Though, you cant play standard Amiga games without a emulator like UAE on these systems.

So here you have them:

Classic Amigas: Amiga 500 -> 4000T + CDTV and CD32
Nextgen Amigas/Clones: AmigaONE + Pegasos.
Out of this world but still counting: AROS :- )

Classic Amigas runs AmigaOS upto 3.9 but can also run AmigaOS4 or MorphOS if PPC cards are added to A1200, A3000 or A4000 systems.

Nextgen Amigas/Cones are PPC computers that runs nextgen versions of AmigaOS. AmigaONE runs AmigaOS4, while Pegasos runs MorphOS.

Out of this world as in AROS :-) is a open source amigaos project. Runs on mostly x86 and later on also PPC hardware. At the moment, I dont think that AROS can run AmigaOS 68k software.


Well, welcome anyway. As you can see, you have several options. Just dont fall into the gap by getting an Classic Amiga thinking it will run Quake III etc in great speeds.  


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Re: New Amiga user
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2008, 01:14:56 AM »
Some day I would like to visit Australia.