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Hello Amigians !!
« on: April 03, 2010, 05:50:54 AM »
Hello my name is Brian, I live in a small town in Virginia, im a big  computer geek, have been since I was able to type hah :)

Lets  see where to start... My 1st contact experiance with an Amiga compuer  was when I was around 13 I think it was, its been many moons ago hah My  dad had a friend named Dale, who was in college at the time at Virginia  Tech, and and at this time Tech required all the computer related majors  to own and use an AMIGA computer.  Dale owned a Amiga 2000, and at this  time my computer was a commosore 64 and dad had a IBM PC with EGA 16  colors wooo hoooo hah,  Dale on break brought his Amiga over and stayed a  few days with us, I remember when he 1st ran a game on it how mine and  dad's jaws both hit the floor in awe at the graphics and sounds, and  ever since ive wanted an Amiga but couldn't really afford one due to  there price. I could have got an Amiga later but by then i had already  became a PC 386 owner I think it was. I still felt the Amiga had much  better sound and games for the most part. :)


Fast  Forward to now, I recently finally got an Amiga 2500HD off e-bay with a  bunch of games with there manuals for $200 shipped :),  not a bad deal I don't guess?? Some of the games were, Pirates!,  Civilization, I also snagged a copy of Falcon CIB off ebay for cheap, I  can't wait to play that one cause I had it for the PC and played it alot  but the Amiga version blew away the PC version.

I know the 1st  thing I need to do is look to see remove its battery if still there and  clean up any corrosion if its leaked.

  I also went ahead and  ordered an Indivision ESC Scan doubler / Flicker Fixer for it, im  assuming it will work ok since an Amiga 2500 is nothing but an Amiga  2000 with a CPU accelerator card already installed??  Ive got a spare 17  inch LCD monitor that im gonna use with Indivision, I also plan on  getting a Buddha IDE card for it, my plan for that is to hook up a  CD-ROM to it so I can transfer ADF's and the utilities to write those to  real disks, can you brun CD's if you had  an IDE burnner? Im guessing  you could but im not sure, maybe not due to the speed of the CPU.
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 06:45:00 AM »
greetings from scotland brian, Enjoyyyyy your stay!

Justin.
Commodore Amiga 600 -Standard
Commodore Amiga 1200 - 2MB Chip RAM, 4MB FastRAM, 4GB Flash HD.
 

Offline trekiej

Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 06:53:35 AM »
Welcome.
Amiga 2000 Forever :)
Welcome to the Planar System.
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 08:11:11 AM »
Hey CommodoreMan, First of all, welcome!
As for ADF's, and CD burners.... OK, first of all, I speak from my experience only, your mileage may vary, some assembly required, etc. , ad nauseum.....
I use 'Image2Disk' , for .adf's (find it on Aminet) As for CD burners, I have an LG CD burner in my A1200T, works quite well... I've found that it's difficult to find the correct combination of CDR drive and software. At least I've had trouble finding a comp. CDR drive for my 2 A4000's. Others on this fine forum can give you more info :)
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A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 08:45:34 AM »
Welcome.  You will love your 2500 HD.  I personally never had one (i had 2000 whichis basically same comp), but man did i ever love Falcon what an outstanding game.  Currently I have a 500, 2000, 3000, 1000 and an A4000 (currently not working anymore though).I hope you have a fantastic time here on A.ORG.
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 09:36:53 AM »
Hello, enjoy your stay here at amiga.org :hat:
A1200, Blizzard 1260 + 64mb, Indivision AGA, Subway USB, 8GB CF-HD, PCMCIA network card, OS 3.9.
And a couple of A600\'s :).
 

Offline scuzzb494

Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2010, 09:40:30 AM »
OK... So already you have a computer that I don't have... [ deep sigh ]. Well done. Anyway enjoy your Amiga and LOOK AFTER IT.

Good to have you onboard.

scuzz
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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2010, 10:54:41 AM »
im jealous of your gear, and welcome to the land of Amiga.
I am a negative, rude, prick.  


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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2010, 02:30:30 PM »
Welcome To Amiga.org, it is a very active site with very fast replys, I to was blown away by the amigas, and could not afford one. I to just went to IBM/windows and make my living with these tools, but my heart belongs to the Amiga. So I went to e bay and have a 2500 and 2 A2000's with GVP040 card in one alot of time looking for things to do with them, so I settled on toaster stuff. I would love to learn how to get files from the internet amd make real disk, if you get a thread started on this subject I would love to learn how. PS waht part of VA, I live in MD, any body want to start a east coast retro group to meet in the middle to show each other stuff like this?
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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2010, 03:26:07 PM »
Quote from: CommodoreMan;550989
Hello my name is Brian

I'm Brian, and so's my wife...
int p; // A
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2010, 05:57:54 PM »
@marcfrick2112

Are you a rush fan by any chance?
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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2010, 06:24:03 PM »
Hello C=man

Burning CD's is somewhat tricky. I recently picked up an old surplus SCSI CD burner for my A3000, which worked using the program makeCD so you shouldn't have much of a problem with your A2000.

http://www.estamos.de/makecd/

There's a tutorial on how to use it in that section here on the site.
Amiga 3000D UP and running! Hear that clicking. 8)
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Offline motrucker

Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2010, 06:35:24 PM »
Welcome.
The A2000 in any form is an excellent machine. I still use one with an '040 accelerator. Writing CDs is do-able on an Amiga - though not as easy as with windows. I use MakeCD. It worked on my old A1200 and on this A2000.
A2000 GVP 40MHz \'030, 21Mb RAM SD/FF, 2 floppies, internal CD-ROM drive, micromys v3 w/laser mouse
A1000 Microbotics Starboard II w/2Mb 1080, & external floppy (AIRdrive)
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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2010, 09:12:31 PM »
Welcome :)
 

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Re: Hello Amigians !!
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2010, 10:05:51 AM »
Quote from: bawsack;551111
@marcfrick2112

Are you a rush fan by any chance?

there ok, funny you ask though, I get asked if im an Iron Maiden fan due to my last name Maiden  LOL