Amiga

Haddas · Thu 01/07/2004 23:15:57

Hi, this is me, again. I just got myself Amiga Forever, and life has not been this good for some time now.
Ever since my amiga 1500 broke down, I was sad. I never got a new one, and since I grew up with these wonderfull machines,
then I guess I've always had a facination for these things. Now, to my point. How many of you have had an Amiga, or have had any
earth-shattering experiences like I me.

Domino · Fri 02/07/2004 00:09:23

Back in the 80's my dad bought an Amiga for a hefty price. I loved that computer. It had great graphics and i had alot of fun with it.Ã,Â We didn't have alot of software for it, but i still enjoyed using it.Ã,Â I remember one program that would convert anything you typed into speech the computer would read back. It was so cool.Ã,Â After awhile we just got bored with it, and nobody used it and eventually i sold it to some computer store for only 60 dollars.

Yeah, i was once a proud owner (well my dad was) of the Amiga computer.

SK

BOYD1981 · Fri 02/07/2004 00:31:52

heh, that app was called Say!, it came with Workbench...
i remember my amiga fondly, i still have an A600 but i never use it

Kinoko · Fri 02/07/2004 02:45:47

Ahhh, I'm a big sexual lover of the Amiga. It was my first real computer and I played the majority of my all time favourite games on it. "Say" was great ^_^ I had a cousin who used to type "fuck off" on it and wait until his mother came in the room to press 'return'. Ahh, workbench. D Paint... using 15 disks to play Monkey Island. Having a supply of about 5 thousand games all traded between friends. Me and my dad even belonged to an Amiga users club back in my hometown.

Those were the freaking days, my friend. I have an Amiga emulator and some games now, but it's just not the same. I plan on buying another Amiga one day when I find one in decent condition (there are people out there looking after theirs).

Barbarian · Fri 02/07/2004 05:23:51

Yep, I went through most of the "Commodore" series... Started waaay back with a Vic=20, in fact, "Adventure Land" by Scott Adams was my very first adventure game. It was all text, and when I put the cartridge in and ran it, I didn't know what to do, so I started typing words like "Hello", "How are you", and the computer would give me back like "You talk to yourself" or "I don't understand" and other strange replies. And I thought "Wow, the computer knows how to talk to me!". Of course, after awhile I didn't know what the heck was going on, so finally read the game's instruction manual. Hey, I was just a young kid then, and reading a game's instruction manual first is not thought of. Heheh.

Ã,Â Ã,Â Anyways, I taught myself to program BASIC on the Vic, I made lots of kool little video games too. After a few years, I got the C=64 and thought it was like "the best computer ever".. heheh... And at the time, it was really kool.

Ã,Â Ã,Â And then, a few years later, I got myself an Amiga. Wow.. then I thought that was "the best computer ever". And at the time, it was probably ahead of a lot of the other systems out there for what it could do. I had lots of great games for it, but mostly I enjoyed Adventure type of games. Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky, Monkey Island I & II, that strange Elvria Horror/Adventure game, some of the CinemaWare games like Plan 9 from OuterSpace, and oh, what was that one about the giant ants? ANyways, you get the idea, I had most all adventure games you could probably get for the Amiga during the time it was out for the first few years. And so many other wonderful games and applications too. I got into using the internet on my Amiga actually with a 2400 baud modem.Ã,Â Ã,Â Well, first with my Vic=20 is was with a 300 baud modem and I connected to local BBS's (Bullentin Board Systems), then with my C=64 with a 1200 buad, I even ran a BBS based on Aventure and RPG's.

Ã,Â Ã,Â Anyways, yep, those days were exciting. I still have my Amiga computer, and kept it active for the longest time. I would occasionally turn it on and play some old games for fun and nostalgia.Ã,Â But for now, it's back "home" packed up in some boxes in Canada. Currently I've been residing in Hong Kong for the last year and looks like I'll be staying here for a while before I get a chance to go back home.Ã,Â So for now, I'm using a Pentium 4 based LapTop, and It's really nice.

Well, I may have gotten off track with my message a couple of times.. but.. ahhh, the old memories of the 'old 'puters.Ã,Â

LGM · Fri 02/07/2004 05:30:09

You people need to quit living in the past!!

Playstation 3, XBox 2, ATI Radeon 10000XL!!! That's where it's all at!!! C'mon people; Get with the program!

You're not having fun until your blowing someone's head off at 23234x12237 and 190 FPS in 64 bit color with Mega Dynamic Shadows, Quadruple Buffering and 300x Anti Aliasing!!!! With those specs you can literally feel the blood ooze down your body and into your boots! Yee haw! That's what I'm talkin' about, chumps!

You stupid ol' geezers with your Amigas and Commodores... Puh! I pity you!

Go on.. Play your 20 year old systems... We'll see who's skin is paler!

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Timosity · Fri 02/07/2004 08:47:08

a lot of my friends had Amiga's but I skipped from the C64 to the 8086

I only remember playing stuff like california games

Mr Jake · Fri 02/07/2004 08:53:15

Quote from: Dark-of-Night on Fri 02/07/2004 00:09:23
I remember one program that would convert anything you typed into speech the computer would read back.

My friends Amiga used to have that

It was great

MrColossal · Fri 02/07/2004 09:11:17

Quote from: Timosity on Fri 02/07/2004 08:47:08
a lot of my friends had Amiga's but I skipped from the C64 to the 8086

I only remember playing stuff like california games

I will TOTALLY rock your face at hackysack! Don't even try cause I will totally bring it! YOU'LL GET SERVED!

I played the crap out of the * Games games and I still have no idea how to really win Sumo Wrestling... But man, cliff diving was awesome..

Anyway, I never had an Amiga and I never really knew what one was until a few years ago. I went from Commodore to a PC.

I just remember looking on the back of game boxes and seeing screenshots for games and how awesome they looked on the Amiga as compared to my craptacular PC [and commodore]

Haddas · Fri 02/07/2004 09:45:58

http://os.amiga.com/

I thought Amiga was stopped several years ago.
Well, Amiga is ALL but dead. The newest OS, OS 4 will be released shortly
and here's what you can get for amigas http://www.eyetech.co.uk/

I mean, AmigaOne-XE 750Fx@800MHz G3 power system, Debian PPC Linux, Radeon 7000 VE AGP 32mb DDR/DVI TVout, Creative Labs PCI soundcard for AmigaOne... for AMIGA?!? This was never the image I had about amiga. It seems the whole Amiga community is alive. ALIVE!!! So, PCs have gone past amiga with technology, but it's there. Never in my wildest dreams...

BOYD1981 · Fri 02/07/2004 10:41:54

if i remember rightly, Amiga PowerPCs aren't in anyway whatsoever compatible with Amiga software, i think it was gateway or hewlett packard or maybe even escom that made them, i think the last amiga commodore made before going into liquidation was the Amiga 4000, of one which trying am to hold of get i...

Timosity · Fri 02/07/2004 10:46:58

Quote from: MrColossal on Fri 02/07/2004 09:11:17
I will TOTALLY rock your face at hackysack! Don't even try cause I will totally bring it! YOU'LL GET SERVED!

I played the crap out of the * Games games and I still have no idea how to really win Sumo Wrestling... But man, cliff diving was awesome..

I'd give you a challenge at hackysack, but you'd never beat me at surfing

Wreck · Fri 02/07/2004 12:16:39

Oh yeah, had 2 Amigas (having moved up from the Spectrum 48k before that). Even did my degree on one

First one was an a500 which ended up with a replaced kickstart chip (1.2 -> 1.3 for HD boot support), 2 floppy drives with syncro express hardware, a GVP quantum 52Mb scsi drive and 1mb of memory.

Later added an a1200 which was somewhat transformed with a 68030 processor upgrade (to 50 Mhz), memory upped to 6Mb, a 60Mb 2.5" HDD internal drive, a 220Mb pci external HDD and it rawked.

The two were linked together with a home made serial cable so I could transfer files.

Did various projects on them, and a few years back I salvaged some of the artwork of my 1200 (both comps still works, as does the a500) and stuck it on my website:

http://www.wrecksjoint.co.uk/galleries/amiga/amiga.cfm

Cheers

Wreck

mätzyboy · Sat 03/07/2004 16:17:08

My family started off with an ABC80, a computer from the swedish computer manufacturer Luxor. From there we went, via a Commodore PC-20, to Amiga heaven! We started with an A500 and advanced to an A1200, with a turbo card and an A-CD32 used as a CD-ROM. Sadly my parents bought a Pentium around 1994 and the glorious days of Amiga was over for me...

Favourite games:
MI 1 & 2
Elite II Frontier
Civilization
Utopia
Raliroad Tycoon
The Settlers
... I could go on forever!

Hopfully y'all own a copy of at least one of the two following emulators, otherwise go get one!
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
http://fellow.sourceforge.net/

Skio · Sat 03/07/2004 21:37:36

I had been an owner of an A500 and later a A1200. I'm from Greece and things got really tough here after Commodore shut down. Amiga stopped being supported. It seemed things would get fixed when E**** (what was the name?) and then Viscorp came into possession of the firm. But nothing changed.
I finally had to turn to these damn PCs.

There is no Amiga in Greece presently.

viktor · Sat 03/07/2004 22:02:05

Although I never had an amiga I shure enough enjouyed it when I could go to my cousins house and play with the damn thing. But then sadly he broke it (stupid cousin) and bought a comodore which he gave to me when he bought a PC. I had a whole box full of disketes with games. I played it every day. Man I hated it when I was in a midle of a game and my dad wanted to watch TV.

Haddas · Wed 13/04/2005 16:49:32

Great news everyone! I found an old A500 on the attic some days ago. I'm currently taking it apart and cleaning it. It looks mint inside but slightly yellow on the outside. But then again, it's been up there for over 10 years. I remember it was placed up there because it was broken or something. I'll see if something looks wrong inside it, but my limited experience makes it highly unlikely that I find out what's wrong. I can't wait to see it boot up. Oh how I'm gonna IRC with it <3

Einoo · Thu 14/04/2005 22:09:56

I wasn't around during the era of these computers and video game systems, but my dad has an old Macintosh SE around that I use. It's pretty awesome; it has Crystal Quest, Dark Castle, Sim City and even Zork on it. When I was about 6, I also managed to buy an SNES right before they stopped making games for it.

Miez · Thu 14/04/2005 22:16:15

A friend of mine has an Amiga 600 that he's been using for over 8 years straight - every day, 10+ hours per day ... and it's still working fine ... try that with a Dell!

I looove the Amiga.

magintz · Fri 15/04/2005 13:38:58

I bought a copy of Retro Gamer Magazine about 2 months ago, it was an Amiga special and came with tons of stuff on it and also a CD with the Amiga Forever emulator. It even makes the sounds of the floppy disks being read.

must go play lemmings now...