Hey fellow Amigans (and other assorted collectors/users)

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Scyphe

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Swedish Amiga owner since September 1987 (I've STILL got my A500 OCS 1.2 rev.3 motherboard with the C= Hi-Tek space-invaders keyboard and it STILL boots but I need spare parts for the keyboard, something that is NOT easy to find these days).

I used that one for 7 years doing everything from programming in SEKA to creating fonts and logos in Deluxe Paint and finally the most important in the history of mankind, Soundtracker I. Obviously I moved from ST 2.3 to Noisetracker and finally Protracker and am waiting for my EasyADF-kit to rescue as many of my old diskettes as possible which contain my source codes, graphics and modules.

I have an A1200 that I'm planning to upgrade with internal IDE-CF, accelerator (or at least fastram expansion) and use that as my main Amiga. The A500 1.2 (which has been modified with a kick 1.2/2.04 dual switch) is purely of nostalgic value which I will fix up and try to return it to the best possible state. After all, almost everything I made was made on that except the last stuff which I made on the A1200.

My hope is to become part of the AmiBay community while also finding some deals on spare parts and upgrades and possibly sell some spare parts I have myself.

Cheers,
Scyphe (Daniel)
Sweden
 
I forgot to list the hardware I currently own (and grew up with):

ZX Spectrum 48k+

C64 (breadbox)

2 x C64C (white ones)

1541 (toaster, the original with rainbow sticker and weird disk locking mekanism)

1541c (white with twist-knob, still same shape as the toaster)

Amiga 500 1.2 OCS rev.3 board (first release) with original NMB keyboard.

Amiga 500 1.3 ECS rev.6b board, not working most of the time, broken big enter key, will use for spare parts.

Amiga 1200HD, slowly upgrading it with IDE-CF, EasyADF PCMCIA-CF kit, trying to buy a 030-accelerator card with RAM. Have no monitor, cant use LCD (need 50hz support) so have been using the RF-in on a crappy pci-tv card resulting in fuzzy and noisy image (the S-Video input doesn't work). EDIT: found my RGB->Scart and have been using my telly with sharp picture while working.

Amiga 3000 (working on getting a mates A3000 that I've had for years without being able to use it since the Superkickstart-boot fails. Now that I have the EasyADF-kit I've created a Superkickstart-disk for the A3000 and will see if the SCSI-HD is broken or if it's just the Superkickstart-area that needs to be rewritten. Either way, I hope I can buy it off him, then I get the multisync monitor as well (it's got a Picasso II in it as well).
 
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Hi there, all I can say is, Well Done for keeping all your stuff!

I had tonnes of old disks on the amiga i made. Compliations, and stuff I wrote myself in AMOS basic, and barely any of it has survived as it all was thrown out. Including my old Amiga and old ZX Spectrum.

But thanks to Amibay I've been able to hook up with other enthusiasts and start buying some of these old computers again and re-live the dreams! Its a shame about my old stuff though. I also used to make some stuff on the ZX Spectrum and none of that has survived the dumpster!

So get your ADF transfer kit as soon as possible and get imaging all your old disks!
 
I finished the job of transferring ALL my remaning disks from 1987-1994 (ie. the important stuff such as all my source codes, gfx disks for demos, intros etc., soundtracker disks with songs, modules, ST-XX disks that I used and so on, I didn't keep any game disks) and it felt like an eternity to turn those disks into afd files. Around 98% were in perfect health, the rest I used Disksalv to rescue 98-99% of what was on them and made new adf's with the surviving files.

Now I have the "pleasure" of sorting everything out. When I open an adf in Total Commander (with the .adf plugin) and read the earlier source codes there were no >external "df1:blabla.bmp" commands, just;

font: blk.b 20480
logo: blk.b 6000
module: blk.b 38750
spritedata: blk.b 2000

with no idea what and where those files are (they are on other disks, in fact, I had a lack of disks back then so everything was spread out everywhere, I couldn't afford to have a single disk for a single project (not to mention I usually worked in several different projects at the same time, and I also saved the same source 30 times because I suffered from the Byte Bandit virus in the early days before virus killers showed up).

Anyway, it's also great fun to go through stuff I worked on, check out images, logos etc. from those times etc..

I may put something up once I have sorted everything out (which will take quite some time.
 
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