Ahoy,
My name is Charles J. Cliffe, I'm 30 years old from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I'm a software developer, musician and 3D artist and long-time Amiga owner and enthusiast.
You may recognise my name as the developer of the CubicVR 3D Engine that runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, Dreamcast, PSP, iOS and now via web browser in WebGL. I've also done several popular projects in the past such as Winamp3DGL and more recently involved with 3D demo and game engine development for Mozilla (creators of Firefox). I started writing code when I was at the wee age of 5-6 on our family Commodore 64 and have been hooked ever since.
My first Amiga systems I got in the early to mid 90's -- an A1200 and A4000. I was lucky enough my parents were able to get an A4000 system with Lightwave 3.5, Scala and a Digital Creations SuperGen for me to learn 3D modelling and basic video production work. My early work on 3D in Lightwave is what inspired me to start creating my own 3D engines.
Fast forward to today and my Amiga collection has grown significantly, I now have the following (all fully functional) systems; some my original childhood machines and others collected along the way:
Amiga 1000 - 256k expansion in front port, 1300 Genlock installed in back and the DigiView video digitizer. If you can believe I bought this system from a local guy in my high-school days (minus the Genlock and Digiview) for $10 Canadian. Might possibly upgrade this machine to not need the 256k Kickstart board by getting a ROM socket adapter. Also on the lookout for a 68010 upgrade for this and the A500.
Amiga 500 - Stock machine with 2.05 ROMs, purchased recently at 2011 - World of Commodore event in Toronto, Ontario. Hoping to do some fun upgrades to this unit, possibly an HxC floppy, internal IDE controller, Indivision ECS and a Mini-Megi chip ram upgrade.
Amiga 600 - Acquired from the UK where they were first produced; stock unit with 2.0 (37.300) ROMs. Looking forward to finding a decent price on an accelerator for this machine as it's been difficult to locate one. I plan to at least add the A604 Ram/Clockport expansion, an Indivision ECS and a pair of Compact Flash HDD's as in my A1200.
A1200 - I've had this one since early high-school; it's primary usage is for playing games and demos and it has had a few more recent upgrades installed. Running 3.1 ROMs and Workbench 3.9 (with 3.1 boot-able partition as well). Two compact flash drives installed in a Master/Slave CF adapter that mounts in the HDD tray for a total of 6GB space. Also installed is an MBX1200z card with 8MB Ram and a 33Mhz 68882 FPU /w crystal -- a switch has been installed to change between 4mb/8mb memory to allow operation of the PCMCIA port. I would like to someday replace the MBX1200z with a PCMCIA memory-compatible accelerator card and add an Indivision AGA.
A4000 - Also another I've had since high-school; this was my video production / 3D modelling workstation which I used for many years titling and adding 3D graphics to videos and doing school presentations. The A/V department heads at my school were very jealous of this machine when I brought it in for doing final edit work and tape transfers as they had lobbied for Amiga machines but were forced to settle with Macs
It's currently running OS 3.9 with a 4GB CF HDD, DVD-RW Drive, 16MB Ram and an X-Surf network card. This is unfortunately the 68030 model but I am hoping to find a reasonably priced standard 040 board or an 060 upgrade and an Indivision AGA.
Accessories:
SuperGen Genlock - from Digital Creations, mostly used in the past on the A1200 and A4000 for doing video work.
External scan-doubler - Custom made unit exclusively for Amiga ordered from the UK. Connects directly to the RGB port and lets me hook up any of my systems to an LCD monitor or TV.
1084s - My original A4000 monitor, still in good condition except for the speakers which stopped working at some point.
Other:
C128 - I have a Commodore 128 (also picked up recently at World of Commodore 2011) I've modified with installation of an internal uIEC/SD drive -- pretty much every C64/C128 software title in existence fits on a single SD
Going to add a pair of JiffyDOS Roms to this machine soon for faster loading.
C64 - Still back at my parents place stored in a glass cabinet, original configuration with minimal sunlight exposure.
Atari 800XL - Picked up in grade school second hand, fun collection of game carts, cassettes and the Pilot programming language which I found pretty fun.
Game consoles - Far too many units and accessories to list here, everything from the two paddle "video sports" (pong), Atari 2600, Intellivision, NES, Genesis, Turbo Grafx, Gameboys, SNES, PS, PS2, GC, DC ... up to the latest PS3 and Wii. Some units I have duplicates and triplicates of with a wide range of accessories.
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Thanks for reading my introduction; I'm looking forward to getting to know some folks around here and growing and improving my collection!
- Charles J.
@ccliffe on twitter
My name is Charles J. Cliffe, I'm 30 years old from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I'm a software developer, musician and 3D artist and long-time Amiga owner and enthusiast.
You may recognise my name as the developer of the CubicVR 3D Engine that runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, Dreamcast, PSP, iOS and now via web browser in WebGL. I've also done several popular projects in the past such as Winamp3DGL and more recently involved with 3D demo and game engine development for Mozilla (creators of Firefox). I started writing code when I was at the wee age of 5-6 on our family Commodore 64 and have been hooked ever since.
My first Amiga systems I got in the early to mid 90's -- an A1200 and A4000. I was lucky enough my parents were able to get an A4000 system with Lightwave 3.5, Scala and a Digital Creations SuperGen for me to learn 3D modelling and basic video production work. My early work on 3D in Lightwave is what inspired me to start creating my own 3D engines.
Fast forward to today and my Amiga collection has grown significantly, I now have the following (all fully functional) systems; some my original childhood machines and others collected along the way:
Amiga 1000 - 256k expansion in front port, 1300 Genlock installed in back and the DigiView video digitizer. If you can believe I bought this system from a local guy in my high-school days (minus the Genlock and Digiview) for $10 Canadian. Might possibly upgrade this machine to not need the 256k Kickstart board by getting a ROM socket adapter. Also on the lookout for a 68010 upgrade for this and the A500.
Amiga 500 - Stock machine with 2.05 ROMs, purchased recently at 2011 - World of Commodore event in Toronto, Ontario. Hoping to do some fun upgrades to this unit, possibly an HxC floppy, internal IDE controller, Indivision ECS and a Mini-Megi chip ram upgrade.
Amiga 600 - Acquired from the UK where they were first produced; stock unit with 2.0 (37.300) ROMs. Looking forward to finding a decent price on an accelerator for this machine as it's been difficult to locate one. I plan to at least add the A604 Ram/Clockport expansion, an Indivision ECS and a pair of Compact Flash HDD's as in my A1200.
A1200 - I've had this one since early high-school; it's primary usage is for playing games and demos and it has had a few more recent upgrades installed. Running 3.1 ROMs and Workbench 3.9 (with 3.1 boot-able partition as well). Two compact flash drives installed in a Master/Slave CF adapter that mounts in the HDD tray for a total of 6GB space. Also installed is an MBX1200z card with 8MB Ram and a 33Mhz 68882 FPU /w crystal -- a switch has been installed to change between 4mb/8mb memory to allow operation of the PCMCIA port. I would like to someday replace the MBX1200z with a PCMCIA memory-compatible accelerator card and add an Indivision AGA.
A4000 - Also another I've had since high-school; this was my video production / 3D modelling workstation which I used for many years titling and adding 3D graphics to videos and doing school presentations. The A/V department heads at my school were very jealous of this machine when I brought it in for doing final edit work and tape transfers as they had lobbied for Amiga machines but were forced to settle with Macs
It's currently running OS 3.9 with a 4GB CF HDD, DVD-RW Drive, 16MB Ram and an X-Surf network card. This is unfortunately the 68030 model but I am hoping to find a reasonably priced standard 040 board or an 060 upgrade and an Indivision AGA.Accessories:
SuperGen Genlock - from Digital Creations, mostly used in the past on the A1200 and A4000 for doing video work.
External scan-doubler - Custom made unit exclusively for Amiga ordered from the UK. Connects directly to the RGB port and lets me hook up any of my systems to an LCD monitor or TV.
1084s - My original A4000 monitor, still in good condition except for the speakers which stopped working at some point.
Other:
C128 - I have a Commodore 128 (also picked up recently at World of Commodore 2011) I've modified with installation of an internal uIEC/SD drive -- pretty much every C64/C128 software title in existence fits on a single SD
Going to add a pair of JiffyDOS Roms to this machine soon for faster loading.C64 - Still back at my parents place stored in a glass cabinet, original configuration with minimal sunlight exposure.
Atari 800XL - Picked up in grade school second hand, fun collection of game carts, cassettes and the Pilot programming language which I found pretty fun.
Game consoles - Far too many units and accessories to list here, everything from the two paddle "video sports" (pong), Atari 2600, Intellivision, NES, Genesis, Turbo Grafx, Gameboys, SNES, PS, PS2, GC, DC ... up to the latest PS3 and Wii. Some units I have duplicates and triplicates of with a wide range of accessories.
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Thanks for reading my introduction; I'm looking forward to getting to know some folks around here and growing and improving my collection!
- Charles J.
@ccliffe on twitter
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