Gday from New Zealand

[Damagecase]

Hey everyone,
I grew up with Amigas back in the UK and moved to NZ with my family when I was a teenager. Then tragically I had to sell my A1200 when I needed a PC to run "Office" and to run some other PC tools when I started uni.
I had been getting my Amiga fix through emulation until recently when my parents dug out our old A500 from their attic... Now I'm looking around at all the cool stuff that you can do with the old trooper.

I'm a pretty typical geek and am interested in most things computing/electronics/gaming related.

 

[CressGrezhead]

Hi there,

Yeah I have recently been getting back into the Amiga scene, and really understanding it fully for the first time as was pretty young in the 90s.
The A1200s in NZ seem as rare as hens teeth, I think I've seen maybe 3 or 4 on trademe in the past 3 years set at an affordable price - one of which I bought! I now have an A600 and A500 to go with it. The interesting thing about A500s is that the mod scene seems to be continuing improving atm, where as before it was all about the A1200.
I'm about to build two TF530 accelerator boards, for the A500 - these look awesome and allow you to upgrade the ram and install a flash card hardrive for the amiga 500 - hopefully my soldering skills are up to the challenge.

Mind you even though I said A1200's were rare, generally the prices for other Amigas and retro gaming hardware in NZ is less than in Europe etc. I'm from the UK and been living in NZ for about 8 years now.

Cheers

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Hi there,

Yeah I have recently been getting back into the Amiga scene, and really understanding it fully for the first time as was pretty young in the 90s.
The A1200s in NZ seem as rare as hens teeth, I think I've seen maybe 3 or 4 on trademe in the past 3 years set at an affordable price - one of which I bought! I now have an A600 and A500 to go with it. The interesting thing about A500s is that the mod scene seems to be continuing improving atm, where as before it was all about the A1200.
I'm about to build two TF530 accelerator boards, for the A500 - these look awesome and allow you to upgrade the ram and install a flash card hardrive for the amiga 500 - hopefully my soldering skills are up to the challenge.

Mind you even though I said A1200's were rare, generally the prices for other Amigas and retro gaming hardware in NZ is less than in Europe etc. I'm from the UK and been living in NZ for about 8 years now.

Cheers