Back after several years

[Reptile]

Hi all!

I'm back on Amiga.Org, after some years ago. My main machine of course these days, is not an Amiga, like I'm guessing many people here.... BUT I have my Amiga 500 Plus set up again for some classic gaming / fun. It is expanded to 6Mb memory and 2 external floppy drives and runs through my LCD TV via a SCART connection, that it shares with my PS3.

I removed the battery shortly after acquiring it twelve months ago, the warranty seal was still intact since 1992!!

Miraculously there was little leakage, and still appeared to be in the early stages but I took it out to be safe.

I have had many Amigas in the past, including several A1200s [which I still have in various states of repair], A500s, an A600 [in pieces] and my personal favourite the 500 Plus which is running the likes of Ultimate Soccer Manager daily at the moment, my custom Workbench.

I am after a copy of Jaguar XJ 220 and some of my favourite games eventually, the games bundled with it were pirated - I am salvaging this by buying the proper boxed versions, and will use the disks as blanks [most of the games were crap anyway].

Anyway it is good to be back! I will be using the Amiga mostly for classic gaming, I'm nowhere near mad enough to try and make the Amiga a day to day main machine - I think those days, at least for one as old as the 500 Plus, are long, long gone!

Looking forward to some good discussions on here, and as ever I am always interested in current/future developments relating to the Amiga.

I am afraid I am a traitor and use an Apple Mac for serious computing these days, I hope you will forgive me! :laughing:

[Tension]

put the amiga back in d box and leave while u still can!

[AmiBoy]

welcome back!

[Cammy]

Welcome back to the world of Amigas, Reptile! Congratulations on getting the A500+ working again, I hope over time you'll bring out those old, broken Amigas and try to revive them also, or at least sell the parts to someone who will build working systems from them, they're just too unique to let go to waste and you could make a bit of money back on them.

Maybe you'll get hooked, and then you'll want the upcoming ACA520 accelerator for you A500+, giving it IDE/CF/Ethernet/020/28Mhz+8MB/Clockport (for USB or sound card) and a further expansion port. It basically makes your A500(+) more capable than an A1200, just without AGA. It should be out by the end of the year if you're interested anyway.

There are still more hardware expansions being made, as well as software and a couple of newer games for you to try on the A500+. I'd suggest MEMO but it needs a 020 or faster to run. At least you can look forward to the ECS version of Tracker Hero coming soon.

[MaximvsPayne]

Welcome back, you should try aros as your next generation amiga experience. its a free and open source amigaos which runs on standardcomputers. a good start is icaros desktop, a good and free distribution. broadway is also worth a look.

[dreamcast270mhz]

Reptile,

Congrats on the A500+. If the broken Amigas seem too much, we have members skilled in repairing and replacing, as well as people who will gladly buy them.

If you have a P4 era PC lying around, migth I suggest Amithlon? Great for older PCs, and it runs real Amiga applications at very good speeds.

If you have about 150-200 bucks, you should check out MorphOS, for PPC Macs. Very good, mature AmigaOS successor.

There are vast resources and helpful members here, let them know what you need anytime.

[Tomas]

I believe Jaguar was released for free on back2roots. It should be entirely legal to download that one.
But I guess you are more out after original?

[fishy_fiz]

I am afraid I am a traitor and use an Apple Mac for serious computing these days, I hope you will forgive me! :laughing:

Id hope no-one gives you grief about this. It's a serious illness that warps your mind and makes you think its ok to have your computer usage dictated. Also seems to make people very succeptible to mind washing and marketting.

Our prayers are with you    (well those of us who havent also caught such an horrific ailment).

[desiv]

I am afraid I am a traitor and use an Apple Mac for serious computing these days, I hope you will forgive me! :laughing:

New Mac?  
Sure..  That's just an Intel box, and we Amiga users never really hated Intel boxes.
(We felt sorry for them, but not hated..)

Now, if you were running a decked out Quadra 840AV or an Atari Falcon as your main machine, there might be issues..  :griping:

:lol:

Welcome...

As we like to say here to all our new members, "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!"

desiv

[Reptile]

Welcome back to the world of Amigas, Reptile! Congratulations on getting the A500+ working again, I hope over time you'll bring out those old, broken Amigas and try to revive them also, or at least sell the parts to someone who will build working systems from them, they're just too unique to let go to waste and you could make a bit of money back on them.

Hi Cammy great to see you are still around.
The aim is to get them sold as spares or repair, I will get around to doing this one day.

Maybe you'll get hooked, and then you'll want the upcoming ACA520 accelerator for you A500+, giving it IDE/CF/Ethernet/020/28Mhz+8MB/Clockport (for USB or sound card) and a further expansion port. It basically makes your A500(+) more capable than an A1200, just without AGA. It should be out by the end of the year if you're interested anyway.

That sounds quite interesting but I think I'm happy just using the Amiga for gaming now. I have gone mad upgrading Amigas in the past, but I think my Mac satisfies me for the serious stuff... and the Amiga is brilliant purely as a games machine.

[Reptile]

I believe Jaguar was released for free on back2roots. It should be entirely legal to download that one.
But I guess you are more out after original?

Well.. for the ease of it yeah..
Apple Macs haven't had floppy drives since 1998 and I wouldn't know where to start on getting the files from the Internet to the Amiga... particularly as it's a 500 Plus model with no IDE...

I'd imagine it's cheaper to buy the original game than the equipment needed to do this.

[Reptile]

Welcome back, you should try aros as your next generation amiga experience. its a free and open source amigaos which runs on standardcomputers. a good start is icaros desktop, a good and free distribution. broadway is also worth a look.

This sounds interesting even if it is just for curiosity/novelty.
But I use an Apple Mac, and I'm guessing it is PeeCee only?

[nicholas]

This sounds interesting even if it is just for curiosity/novelty.
But I use an Apple Mac, and I'm guessing it is PeeCee only?

Macs are just PC's with a bigger price tag. AROS will boot fine on your Mac.

Unless it's an old PPC Mac, but you can run MorphOS on many of them.

[ncafferkey]

Macs are just PC's with a bigger price tag. AROS will boot fine on your Mac.

Not quite. EFI and lack of PS/2 ports (or at least chips), for example, have caused AROS trouble with Macs in the past, but some of these issues are fixed now. AROS runs very well in the Mac version of VirtualBox however.

[nicholas]

Not quite. EFI and lack of PS/2 ports (or at least chips), for example, have caused AROS trouble with Macs in the past, but some of these issues are fixed now. AROS runs very well in the Mac version of VirtualBox however.

Last time I tried it booted on my 2008 Macbook Pro and my wife's Macbook.

Not tried it on the older iMac though.