I wish I had been aware of this site earlier, but better late than never...:roll:
Stumbled across this site when googleing for a longer gotek cable for external connection.
The ones I have are too short, I do not like the gotek sitting on top of my A500.
Anyways,
I got into retro gaming/computing around 2012 when I found my old Intellivision console in the basement and got curious to see if that brand was still alive in some form or another. It turned out that there was quite a few forums and sites and I joined a couple of them. I took the name NumbThumb from the Imagic Numb Thumb Club and have stuck with that on other forums as well.
The Intellivision was not my first gaming/computing experinence though, it was the C64 and around 1985/86 it felt like everybody i knew had a C64 or 128 but me and it was getting frustrating.
Come Christmas of 1986 and I get an Intellivision...
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Long story short, I had fun with that but longed for a C64 or 128 and in early 1988 my dad bought a C128D that I had been promoting to him for some time.
He actually called from the computer store and said that "hey, they are telling me to get an Amiga 500 instead of a C128D".
But at that time I had fallen so hard for the C64 and 128 that I just could not pass on my own experience of that so a C128D with a 1084S monitor it was and I was not dissapointed.
In the spring of 1989 I was at a friends house and he showed me a demo on his A500 (a newtons cradle demo made in Sculpt 3D I think, that I actually found on planet emu)
From that moment I knew that I had to get an Amiga...
By 1990 most people in school had moved on to Amiga and so did I in the summer of 1991.
Today I have 2 C64C:s with, datasettes, a 1541-II and a SD2IEC and 2 A500:s with Gotek connected to a 14" CRT TV via scart.
It it just the greatest hobby ever!:-D
Stumbled across this site when googleing for a longer gotek cable for external connection.
The ones I have are too short, I do not like the gotek sitting on top of my A500.
Anyways,
I got into retro gaming/computing around 2012 when I found my old Intellivision console in the basement and got curious to see if that brand was still alive in some form or another. It turned out that there was quite a few forums and sites and I joined a couple of them. I took the name NumbThumb from the Imagic Numb Thumb Club and have stuck with that on other forums as well.
The Intellivision was not my first gaming/computing experinence though, it was the C64 and around 1985/86 it felt like everybody i knew had a C64 or 128 but me and it was getting frustrating.
Come Christmas of 1986 and I get an Intellivision...
Long story short, I had fun with that but longed for a C64 or 128 and in early 1988 my dad bought a C128D that I had been promoting to him for some time.
He actually called from the computer store and said that "hey, they are telling me to get an Amiga 500 instead of a C128D".
But at that time I had fallen so hard for the C64 and 128 that I just could not pass on my own experience of that so a C128D with a 1084S monitor it was and I was not dissapointed.
In the spring of 1989 I was at a friends house and he showed me a demo on his A500 (a newtons cradle demo made in Sculpt 3D I think, that I actually found on planet emu)
From that moment I knew that I had to get an Amiga...
By 1990 most people in school had moved on to Amiga and so did I in the summer of 1991.
Today I have 2 C64C:s with, datasettes, a 1541-II and a SD2IEC and 2 A500:s with Gotek connected to a 14" CRT TV via scart.
It it just the greatest hobby ever!:-D
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