df0
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Hi all,
found this community by chance, had a quick browse, and looks good! I loved my Amiga back in the day - I still have it, but don't use it these days. It's an original A500 (Kickstart 1.3 but Workbench 1.2, right on the transition), with 2 floppy drives, external expansion up to 3M of ram!
I used to do some stuff in the demo scene back in late 80s/early 90s, I worked with a few small teams in Italy, then Camel, Anarchy and later Plasma in the UK. I wrote 68k in seka then devpac, nothing groundbreaking, sine scrollers, blitter routines and the like! I was more a graphic artist. Still have fond memories of 68k and learning C on my Amiga too. Loved watching demos from other teams as well. Went to a few copyparties, they were hysterical.
And the games of course! Several from Psygnosis, the Dino Dini games, Kick Off, Player Manager... Silents' Pinball games, Hostages, Lemmings, Blood Money, Menace... too many to name.
These days, I am an enterprise architect, after being a Java developer/architect for 15 years. I don't code much anymore, but probably will again. I do more music than anything else in my spare time! As I said I do still have my A500, I am very tempted to gut it and fit the internals from a PC or Mac Mini inside it, and run MAME and WinUAE on it. On the one hand, I'd love to have the unit on display and doing something, but on the other, it seems sacrilege! I may sell/swap my working one for someone else's that doesn't work anymore, and gut that
Anyway, just saying hi, glad to see there are so many people who remember what was a glorious time in so many ways. Continue enjoying it, 20 years and counting!
df0
found this community by chance, had a quick browse, and looks good! I loved my Amiga back in the day - I still have it, but don't use it these days. It's an original A500 (Kickstart 1.3 but Workbench 1.2, right on the transition), with 2 floppy drives, external expansion up to 3M of ram!
I used to do some stuff in the demo scene back in late 80s/early 90s, I worked with a few small teams in Italy, then Camel, Anarchy and later Plasma in the UK. I wrote 68k in seka then devpac, nothing groundbreaking, sine scrollers, blitter routines and the like! I was more a graphic artist. Still have fond memories of 68k and learning C on my Amiga too. Loved watching demos from other teams as well. Went to a few copyparties, they were hysterical.
And the games of course! Several from Psygnosis, the Dino Dini games, Kick Off, Player Manager... Silents' Pinball games, Hostages, Lemmings, Blood Money, Menace... too many to name.
These days, I am an enterprise architect, after being a Java developer/architect for 15 years. I don't code much anymore, but probably will again. I do more music than anything else in my spare time! As I said I do still have my A500, I am very tempted to gut it and fit the internals from a PC or Mac Mini inside it, and run MAME and WinUAE on it. On the one hand, I'd love to have the unit on display and doing something, but on the other, it seems sacrilege! I may sell/swap my working one for someone else's that doesn't work anymore, and gut that
Anyway, just saying hi, glad to see there are so many people who remember what was a glorious time in so many ways. Continue enjoying it, 20 years and counting!
df0
The A500 was great due to its release date/power capabilities. Don't hurt a working unit, better to source it's case from a bad amiga 500 plus with to much battery dammage.
