Greetings from Texas

[rgkovach]

Hello fellow Amiga enthusiasts!
I've been doing computer graphics since my dad brought home Windows 1.0 with MS Paint and introduced me to a mouse. Soon I began filling his precious disk space with bitmap images and he eventually bought me an Amiga 2000 with Deluxe Paint when I was in high school ('88 ). I eventually got a Video Toaster and became a Lightwave fanatic. I loved showing off Amiga Games to my friends, especially Psygnosis games. When eBay launched, I scoured the site looking for Psygnosis games mostly for the Box art to display in my office.

By the time I moved onto PCs, my Amiga 2000 had a 100MB harddrive, 12MB of RAM, a 50MB SyQuest internal drive, a Video Toaster 2.0, and a DCTV. Those were great days! I still have my A2000, but I have not taken the best of care of it, I don't think it will boot up anymore.

I didn't know it at that time, but that Amiga charted a course for my future. I am currently a Video Game Developer in Austin Texas.

-Rob

 

[GigerPunk]

Hello! Seem like there's no-one about, maybe there's a bell to ring for service?

Sounds like your Dad set you up well for your career early on, pretty sweet
(My dad bought us our C64 in about '83, tried to get me to learn basic for a bit but too many cool games always distracted me. That said, I'm in IT now and I put me being used to troubleshooting/using computers in general to having it from an early age)

 

[rgkovach]

My Dad was an early adopter of all things PC-related. We had an Apple II, all forms of early DOS-based PCs (Space War is one of my earliest computer games). My first computer was a VIC 20 with a cassette drive and paint program you could control with a joystick. I would copy code from magazines only to realize there was a syntax error and give up...

I took a class on BASIC at a community college, but ended up playing Colossal Cave instead...

 

[SkydivinGirl]

Well, we may not be very chatty in the introduction forums but the rest of the site is quite busy.

Welcome to AmiBay!

Heather

 

[Merlin]

Welcome to your new addiction...

 

[AmigaNow]

Greetings. Never had an Amiga 2000, but had most of the other Amiga's. I remember spending hours inputting code for games and utilities for the C64 from Compute Gazette. Learned programming from having to correct them when they had printed typos lol.