Hi everyone! Around a month ago I dug out my old A500, hooked it up to the TV with some slightly dodgy wiring and played a bit of Swiv with an old friend from uni. Now here I am with an A600 and an A1200, a Gotek floppy emulator, compact flash HDDs on the way and about a million tabs open about Amiga stuff, posting on Amibay.
What is it about this machine? I never even owned one in in the early 90's - I grew up on Acorns and PCs. My friend's mum once brought home an A500 from work and I remember playing Risky Woods and listening to the title screen music of a Zool demo (we didn't have a joystick so couldn't actually start it) and being sort of awestruck by the thing. Several years later I got an A500 of my own from a car-boot sale, I'd been a fan of the PC demoscene for a while so picked it up to run some of the old Amiga demos by Sanity and Spaceballs, but since it only had 512k chip it wasn't up to much.
So after ten years I'm finally getting back around to it. I bought a 512k trapdoor expansion for the A500 and got some games going. I have a gotek so I can back-up some of my old floppies to ADF and run some demos. The keyboard membrane has all corroded so I've ordered another one of those from rwap who's apparently banned from Amibay for some reason, hope he's legit. I already had a GBS-8200 for use with other retro machines that used TTL RGB levels (BBC Micro) and it seems to work great for scandoubling amigas, however the 60hz output isn't the best. A friend at work said that the A1200 is the way forward so I bought one of those and got an A600 thrown in, which I might sell on unless someone tells me the A600 is actually the greatest Amiga.
The ethos behind Amiga and people's obvious love for the platform is infectious, upgrading one of these machines seems like fun and this looks like the place to do it.
Cheers!
What is it about this machine? I never even owned one in in the early 90's - I grew up on Acorns and PCs. My friend's mum once brought home an A500 from work and I remember playing Risky Woods and listening to the title screen music of a Zool demo (we didn't have a joystick so couldn't actually start it) and being sort of awestruck by the thing. Several years later I got an A500 of my own from a car-boot sale, I'd been a fan of the PC demoscene for a while so picked it up to run some of the old Amiga demos by Sanity and Spaceballs, but since it only had 512k chip it wasn't up to much.
So after ten years I'm finally getting back around to it. I bought a 512k trapdoor expansion for the A500 and got some games going. I have a gotek so I can back-up some of my old floppies to ADF and run some demos. The keyboard membrane has all corroded so I've ordered another one of those from rwap who's apparently banned from Amibay for some reason, hope he's legit. I already had a GBS-8200 for use with other retro machines that used TTL RGB levels (BBC Micro) and it seems to work great for scandoubling amigas, however the 60hz output isn't the best. A friend at work said that the A1200 is the way forward so I bought one of those and got an A600 thrown in, which I might sell on unless someone tells me the A600 is actually the greatest Amiga.
The ethos behind Amiga and people's obvious love for the platform is infectious, upgrading one of these machines seems like fun and this looks like the place to do it.
Cheers!
