cannontrodder
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Hello!
The timeline is a bit fuzzy but I think I got my first A500 in 1989 after a spending a few months playing the long-game with my Dad, getting him on board with buying an Atari ST in the hope he would opt to spend the extra £100 to get the machine I really wanted. Upgraded to a 500 Plus mainly to get access to Kickstart 2.04 and then later sold that to upgrade to a 1200.
I was obsessed with coding but didn’t know a single other person who used their Amiga for anything other than gaming, so I learnt what I could from various magazines and the odd book. I managed to get a copy of the Hardware Reference Manual which blew my mind and later discovered that our local branch library would attempt to order *any* book in and in the event that they couldn’t get it within a few weeks would actually buy a copy. Thus, I was able to spend the next few months repeatedly renewing the loan of the ROM Kernel Reference Manuals from them. It felt like I had unlocked forbidden knowledge!!
Sadly, have to confess that around 2000 the Amiga 1200 was given away along with various disks that contained programs I had written in assembler. I feel like I need to make up for that so I have a second-hand 1200 sitting on the dining room table, looking a bit tired and the plan is to restore it to a decent condition, re-cap it and preserve it for the future. I’m not even sure it works at all, but I’ve had a BenQ BL702A delivered and and the DB23 to VGA adapter just popped through the letter-box so looks like today might be the first full day I get to play with it.
The timeline is a bit fuzzy but I think I got my first A500 in 1989 after a spending a few months playing the long-game with my Dad, getting him on board with buying an Atari ST in the hope he would opt to spend the extra £100 to get the machine I really wanted. Upgraded to a 500 Plus mainly to get access to Kickstart 2.04 and then later sold that to upgrade to a 1200.
I was obsessed with coding but didn’t know a single other person who used their Amiga for anything other than gaming, so I learnt what I could from various magazines and the odd book. I managed to get a copy of the Hardware Reference Manual which blew my mind and later discovered that our local branch library would attempt to order *any* book in and in the event that they couldn’t get it within a few weeks would actually buy a copy. Thus, I was able to spend the next few months repeatedly renewing the loan of the ROM Kernel Reference Manuals from them. It felt like I had unlocked forbidden knowledge!!
Sadly, have to confess that around 2000 the Amiga 1200 was given away along with various disks that contained programs I had written in assembler. I feel like I need to make up for that so I have a second-hand 1200 sitting on the dining room table, looking a bit tired and the plan is to restore it to a decent condition, re-cap it and preserve it for the future. I’m not even sure it works at all, but I’ve had a BenQ BL702A delivered and and the DB23 to VGA adapter just popped through the letter-box so looks like today might be the first full day I get to play with it.
