Perhaps I should have introduced myself earlier...

[The_Power_of_the_Ginger]

Greetings all! I am an Amiga user since 1991, when I got my first game, F-19 Stealth Fighter- free with a Philips monitor. Great, except I was 6 at the time.

Yes, I'm not the oldest forum member (but then again, 19 maybe isn't the youngest either). I have had many years of Amiga gaming joy, first with the 500+ (the plus stood for...er, more fun?), moving onwards to an Amiga 1200/'030 running at 50Mhz, getting 32MB extra memory just at the time when the world seemed to run out of memory SIMMs and the price of them doubled. Darn.

Well, I must say this site here is rather splendid, and provides the main source of any Amiga-related news today. The forum provides a few heated debates (say that 'ooh, the people who own Amiga aren't all that bad, i'm sure I'll receive my t-shirt soon...' and see how many raised eyebrows you get in return), but can also be a home of rational discussion.

I look forward to providing more sparkling observations and arguments that are bound to fail...:-D

Cheerio for now...

[SlimJim]

Welcome! :-D
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SlimJim

[SilvrDrgn]

Welcome to Amiga.org!  Enjoy your stay!!  :-)

[HopperJF]

 :elvis:

Welcome :-)

[TjLaZer]

Welcome!  This is a great place to meet and chat about Amigas.  I have been a Amigan since 1987

[leirbag28]

Welcome, The_Power_of_The_Ginger

I had not discovered this site till about 2 years ago I think..............I wish I had discovered it earlier. Where else will you meet other Amigans to talk to?  Well there is also IRC (AmIRC) which is the first place I ever talked to an Amiga user online............I was using BlackIRC for the Amiga............man was I excited when I first spoke with a German dude and realized. he sees me! I think he then told me I should get AmIRC and I did..........my world changed and I was hooked.

Anyways..what does your name mean? you eat lots of Ginger? or drink it? seriously, I want to know

[MAD]

Hoya!

Aaaahhh BlackIRC, my first IRC client, too...
Then I became a man and regged AmIRC ;-)

/me loves ginger!

Welcome aboard mate!

Be funky

M A D

[Acill]

Welcom to the fun! Most of us here have been long time Amiga users
like myself. I got my first, an A1000 way back in 1986.

I am now a Pegasos/MorphOS user, but its still got the soul of an
amiga in it an dI run lots of the good old Amiga apps on it!

[jeffimix]

Greetings oh yea of faith?

[seer]

Yes, I'm not the oldest forum member (but then again, 19 maybe isn't the youngest either).

Still wet behind the ears, huh ?

 :lol:

Have fun with the oldtimers here..

[shIva]

Welcome :-)

just at the time when the world seemed to run out of memory SIMMs and the price of them doubled. Darn.

remembering that time, bought a 16mb simm for "cheap" 800DM (~$400), which was about $100 cheaper than the normal price at that time.

[CaptainHIT]

My first Amiga was the A1000 also, but in 1992 :-(

I am Amigan since 1988 though, only played on it at friends and neighbours always. :-D

When i got my A1200 in 1995, i never could leave it, and still using it :-)

Welcome btw :-)

[The_Power_of_the_Ginger]

Yes, my username is The Power of the ginger, named after the Backbone-created PD game I did. It's....colourful, and contains Joseph Stalin, of all people. It was funny at the time, I guess...thankfully now I'm much more sophisticated, and daily watch episodes of Knightmare on Challenge in an effort to recapture my youth.

T-POT_G, as I christened the game (pronounced 'teapot g'- the g stood for nothing, nor did the teapot. It just sounded good), sold 0 copies, fittingly. Well, 4 pounds for something that was available free in the form of Emilio Perez's Charly the Mercenary was a bit expensive.

I'll release the game on Aminet soon, when I can fit it onto floppy disks somehow...and when I've polished it a bit.