Hi,
Like many people I have gradually ended up re-buying many of the computers I owned back in the day. I had an Amiga 600 in 1996 after spotting a cheap unyellowed one in Cash Converters' window while I was a student. I'd had a Spectrum growing up and had always wanted an Amiga. At that time many Amigas were being traded in, so over the months I acquired many original big box games for £2 or so, and found many useful things in the bin of "blank" floppies. In our house we had good fun playing the multiplayer stuff like SWOS and MKII and towards the end of the year I ended up trading the Amiga in towards a Sony Playstation. I think I actually turned a profit on what I had paid. The big box games made all the difference, since they tended to keep a good deal of trade-in value at the time.
I'd always kind of regretted selling that A600 - so when I saw one in reasonable condition recently I took a chance. It has cleaned up beautifully and now has a CF card, 8MB Fast RAM and 2MB Chip. I had bought a 20MB HDD back in the day and was disappointed how few games actually could be installed. I think WHDLoad may have just been getting started, but it was pretty rough and you needed an accelerator for a long time. Well this machine I have now is stock other than the CF and the RAM, and even with this it seems to run most WHDLoad installs just fine, even with exit. It is great to show my kids some of these classic games.
Patters
Like many people I have gradually ended up re-buying many of the computers I owned back in the day. I had an Amiga 600 in 1996 after spotting a cheap unyellowed one in Cash Converters' window while I was a student. I'd had a Spectrum growing up and had always wanted an Amiga. At that time many Amigas were being traded in, so over the months I acquired many original big box games for £2 or so, and found many useful things in the bin of "blank" floppies. In our house we had good fun playing the multiplayer stuff like SWOS and MKII and towards the end of the year I ended up trading the Amiga in towards a Sony Playstation. I think I actually turned a profit on what I had paid. The big box games made all the difference, since they tended to keep a good deal of trade-in value at the time.
I'd always kind of regretted selling that A600 - so when I saw one in reasonable condition recently I took a chance. It has cleaned up beautifully and now has a CF card, 8MB Fast RAM and 2MB Chip. I had bought a 20MB HDD back in the day and was disappointed how few games actually could be installed. I think WHDLoad may have just been getting started, but it was pretty rough and you needed an accelerator for a long time. Well this machine I have now is stock other than the CF and the RAM, and even with this it seems to run most WHDLoad installs just fine, even with exit. It is great to show my kids some of these classic games.
Patters
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