Hello from Ontario!

[Snowbound]

Hey everyone, big fan of vintage computers, and the Amiga has greatly intrigued me since I first heard about it a year ago. Finally buying my first Amiga in a couple days, and I imagine this will be a good website to join in advance!

Hope to get to meet many of you and really learn how to use the Amiga. I'm going into this with 0 prior experience...any noobie tips?

 

[arnljot]

Welcome.

What kind of systems did you grow up with?

The Amiga was a mismanaged system ahead of it's times. It's still a simple and able system that lends itself to the user by insights and easy to grasp concepts.

Enjoy your stay here, and read up on the rules of you wanna buy something, they're simple too

 

[miggymad]

Welcome.

Noobie tips:
1) There are no stupid questions
2) Don't be afraid to ask for more information if you don't understand something
3) There is no spoon
4) Make use of the search function as your question may have already been answered
5) When in doubt, see tip #2
6) Enjoy your stay

 

[Snowbound]

Welcome.

What kind of systems did you grow up with?

The Amiga was a mismanaged system ahead of it's times. It's still a simple and able system that lends itself to the user by insights and easy to grasp concepts.

Enjoy your stay here, and read up on the rules of you wanna buy something, they're simple too

Well, the first computer I ever used was my father's IBM Thinkpad around 2002, we alao had an old PC with CRT monitor in the basement I used for a bit. So I never grew up in the era before everything was a PC or Mac.

I'll be getting an Amiga 2000 with a bunch of video toaster stuff as my first system. I'm hoping to learn how to use the toaster once I get the hang of the 2000.


Thanks a bunch by the way!

 

[Snowbound]

Welcome.

Noobie tips:
1) There are no stupid questions
2) Don't be afraid to ask for more information if you don't understand something
3) There is no spoon
4) Make use of the search function as your question may have already been answered
5) When in doubt, see tip #2
6) Enjoy your stay

Thaanks a bunch! If a spoon is present in my Amiga 2000, does that prove it's a fake?

 

[miggymad]

@Snowbound

I see you are putting tip #1 to good use

 

[Snowbound]

@Snowbound

I see you are putting tip #1 to good use

xD You bet!

 

[Watson]

Welcome to Amibay!

 

[StrongARM]

Welcome to Amibay!

 

[arnljot]

I'll be getting an Amiga 2000 with a bunch of video toaster stuff as my first system. I'm hoping to learn how to use the toaster once I get the hang of the 2000.

That's fun, so your preferences for computer hobby use is towards video then?

For me it's coding, gaming and customization. I'm '76-model myself so back in the day when I had an amiga those were the activities that consumed my time on the system.

However, I did do part time at the local tv-station when I was a teen. Purely in the capacity as an Amiga nerd. The local TV station had Amigas with genlocks and vlab motions and also Video Toasters. I'm afraid how ever that I've forgotten all but a few things about the Scala MM500 software. I think that's what it was called...

The TV station had at the time each of the "big box amigas", the 1000, 2000 and 3000. As a kid mostly into games at that time I remember that I was underwhelmed that I perceived the time that those machines ere just a bit more powerful than my A500 with GVPHD8+, loads of RAM and 120MB SCSI disk...

That's how little I understood at the time

I pitied the A1000 and it's kickstart floppies (how can it have a greater model number but be interior???), and that the A3000 only had ESC graphics and such a higher price point... Only the A2000 really made sense to me at that time.

Also as far as I can recall it had a bridge board, a 286 but at least it made some kind of sense.