Hi folks
Computers have had a significant place in my life ever since I got my Amstrad CPC 464 at the age of 7. I still have it, by the way
After playing games, programming and stuff on the Amstrad for years, I finally got my Amiga 500 at my confirmation. Playing "Rainbow Islands" was, to my love-struck eyes, exactly like having an arcade machine at home, and I really enjoyed doing graphics and animations in Deluxe Paint and creating music in ProTracker.
The years went by and my RAM expansion began to act up more and more, making my Amiga 500 unstable. I think there was broken pin, if I remember correctly.
My dad sold it off to one of his buddies' son for at decent price, and I decided to move on to Amiga 1200.
My Amiga 1200 was bought through mail order (I think) and came preinstalled with a 3.5" harddisk, and a lot of demos and stuff. It was originally a "Desktop Dynamite" pack, so it came with Wordworth 2.0 AGA, Deluxe Paint 4 AGA, Print Manager, Dennis and Oscar games.
Some of the keys looked strange and the print started to peel of after some time, and I later realized that the keyboard was a "converted" german version. They had simply sandpapered some of the keys and printed the danish letters on them afterwards.
After a short period of time, I got a Disk Validation error, and not knowing what to do about it, I finally formated the harddisk, sadly losing all the installed demos. As I really enjoyed watching demos, I contacted the seller to ask if they would transfer the demos and stuff for me, but they wanted too much money for it and I decided to cut my losses.
I bought a sound sampler for making my own samples for music, mostly ending up in replacing drums with fart sounds
and a Blizzard 1230 IV accelerator card for the extra speed and RAM.
Apart from all the gaming, this machine really made it possible for me to do creative stuff, such as creating music, using a genlock to add titles and credits for homemade movies.
I have always loved my Amigas and view PC's as a necessary evil, but fact is, the PC took up more and more room as time passed. The Internet became popular, and I even bought a compatible PCMCIA network adapter to get my Amiga online, but it never really caught on. After Commodore shut down, PC gaming started to move closer to the quality of my Amiga, and series like Command & Conquer, StarCraft, Doom, Quake caught my interest, and the time between Amiga sessions became longer and longer. Starting a gaming console collection didn't help either...
Never losing interest in the system, I kept on following online forums and websites and one day I decided to help a buddy get an Amiga 1200 and fix up my own. The harddisk was replaced with a 2.5" and I bought a brand new danish keyboard, invested in a registration key for WHDLOAD and made a new and improved Workbench setup.
The Amiga 1200 we bought for my buddy was in really bad shape, so after disassembling everything, cleaning it up and installing a harddisk and Blizzard 1230 IV, my Amiga-love once again surfaced for real.
Lately, a lot of interesting hardware is being created, allowing me to expand my Amstrad, Amigas, Commodore 64 into running my software on the original hardware, adding fast loadtimes and rescuing me from the dispair of my poor floppies and tapes that keep on dying on me.
So... Here I am, refueled with nostalgia and the urge to improve my Amiga once again, which means I will probably buy some stuff from you guys pretty soon.
Computers have had a significant place in my life ever since I got my Amstrad CPC 464 at the age of 7. I still have it, by the way
After playing games, programming and stuff on the Amstrad for years, I finally got my Amiga 500 at my confirmation. Playing "Rainbow Islands" was, to my love-struck eyes, exactly like having an arcade machine at home, and I really enjoyed doing graphics and animations in Deluxe Paint and creating music in ProTracker.
The years went by and my RAM expansion began to act up more and more, making my Amiga 500 unstable. I think there was broken pin, if I remember correctly.
My dad sold it off to one of his buddies' son for at decent price, and I decided to move on to Amiga 1200.
My Amiga 1200 was bought through mail order (I think) and came preinstalled with a 3.5" harddisk, and a lot of demos and stuff. It was originally a "Desktop Dynamite" pack, so it came with Wordworth 2.0 AGA, Deluxe Paint 4 AGA, Print Manager, Dennis and Oscar games.
Some of the keys looked strange and the print started to peel of after some time, and I later realized that the keyboard was a "converted" german version. They had simply sandpapered some of the keys and printed the danish letters on them afterwards.
After a short period of time, I got a Disk Validation error, and not knowing what to do about it, I finally formated the harddisk, sadly losing all the installed demos. As I really enjoyed watching demos, I contacted the seller to ask if they would transfer the demos and stuff for me, but they wanted too much money for it and I decided to cut my losses.
I bought a sound sampler for making my own samples for music, mostly ending up in replacing drums with fart sounds
and a Blizzard 1230 IV accelerator card for the extra speed and RAM.Apart from all the gaming, this machine really made it possible for me to do creative stuff, such as creating music, using a genlock to add titles and credits for homemade movies.
I have always loved my Amigas and view PC's as a necessary evil, but fact is, the PC took up more and more room as time passed. The Internet became popular, and I even bought a compatible PCMCIA network adapter to get my Amiga online, but it never really caught on. After Commodore shut down, PC gaming started to move closer to the quality of my Amiga, and series like Command & Conquer, StarCraft, Doom, Quake caught my interest, and the time between Amiga sessions became longer and longer. Starting a gaming console collection didn't help either...
Never losing interest in the system, I kept on following online forums and websites and one day I decided to help a buddy get an Amiga 1200 and fix up my own. The harddisk was replaced with a 2.5" and I bought a brand new danish keyboard, invested in a registration key for WHDLOAD and made a new and improved Workbench setup.
The Amiga 1200 we bought for my buddy was in really bad shape, so after disassembling everything, cleaning it up and installing a harddisk and Blizzard 1230 IV, my Amiga-love once again surfaced for real.
Lately, a lot of interesting hardware is being created, allowing me to expand my Amstrad, Amigas, Commodore 64 into running my software on the original hardware, adding fast loadtimes and rescuing me from the dispair of my poor floppies and tapes that keep on dying on me.
So... Here I am, refueled with nostalgia and the urge to improve my Amiga once again, which means I will probably buy some stuff from you guys pretty soon.
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