80sFREAK
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My sons first computer... the Amiga 600
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@Marios, I've told him I can do something similar. Something I would make now i've already made my uber PPC and realised the PPC part of it is pretty useless!
I'm settled in OS3.9 and most of the things I do are 68K/AGA.
So I will make him a nice tidy A1200/060 (I have a spare rev 6, so can rocket it to 80MHz) with an Indi MKII, some kind of IDEfix solution (hope to hear about IC's SATA adapter soon?) CD/DVD drive and HDD. I think this will be a great Amiga for the lad!
I've told him it will be better than mine in some ways, especially 68k speed!
Speaking of ipad, He also loves my android phone, likes to pinch it and play "where's my Water?" ATM
I'm settled in OS3.9 and most of the things I do are 68K/AGA.
So I will make him a nice tidy A1200/060 (I have a spare rev 6, so can rocket it to 80MHz) with an Indi MKII, some kind of IDEfix solution (hope to hear about IC's SATA adapter soon?) CD/DVD drive and HDD. I think this will be a great Amiga for the lad!
I've told him it will be better than mine in some ways, especially 68k speed!
Speaking of ipad, He also loves my android phone, likes to pinch it and play "where's my Water?" ATM
Today I passed this old Amiga 600 onto my Daughter who is now 5 years old, wow how time flies. But she is now very happy and what is the first thing she wants to do? draw "pretty things" in Deluxe paint!
Ziggy who is now 9, still plays his Amiga too. he has an A1200 now with an 030. Never bothered with the 060 as this machine does all he wants. Which ended up being to play just games! He has a PS3 and a PC now too and loves building worlds in Minecraft. (He also loves old G1 Transformers... like me!)
Ziggy who is now 9, still plays his Amiga too. he has an A1200 now with an 030. Never bothered with the 060 as this machine does all he wants. Which ended up being to play just games!
He has a PS3 and a PC now too and loves building worlds in Minecraft. (He also loves old G1 Transformers... like me!)
Selma was eager to play again today here is what she created (I helped her fill the colours): -
Then she wanted to try a game "with no baddies, I don't like baddies" .... so I chose Dragon tiles
She really enjoyed it! And got quite excited when she found a matching pair she could click and they vanished. Using the mouse already very well too, I helped her when it hit the edge of the mat a bit
I'm really glad the old A600 is getting some more love!
here is what she created (I helped her fill the colours): -
Then she wanted to try a game "with no baddies, I don't like baddies" .... so I chose Dragon tiles
She really enjoyed it! And got quite excited when she found a matching pair she could click and they vanished. Using the mouse already very well too, I helped her when it hit the edge of the mat a bit
I'm really glad the old A600 is getting some more love!
commodorejohn
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Adorable
edd_jedi
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Great to see, and actually one of the reasons I still have an Amiga and SNES. When I have children I don't want them to go without, but I'm also not having them browsing the internet or playing modern games like COD until they're at least young adults. With an old computer without net access they can be creative and learn computing, while still being safe.
Yeah I agree. And my daughter did ask if she can do video chat with her friend. When I said not really as the Amiga didnt have wifi and wasnt able to even go on the Internet she looked a little puzzled and said, 'but how does it work without wifi?' I explained giving reference to 'when I wer a lad' somewhere. She found it funny
this thread is so full of win. my son is 3 right now and i hope to get him interested in my hobby too, but think he's already "tainted" by tablets and modern gaming...
we were at a friends place recently and they have a boy just 6 months older than him but is already fully immersed in PS3/4 gaming and totally addicted to marvel lego, to the point of shouting KILL! KILL! KILL! at the TV...
a freaking 4 year old....
hopefully i can salvage something before it's too late
we were at a friends place recently and they have a boy just 6 months older than him but is already fully immersed in PS3/4 gaming and totally addicted to marvel lego, to the point of shouting KILL! KILL! KILL! at the TV...
a freaking 4 year old....hopefully i can salvage something before it's too late
Ali-b, give it a try, my son plays all sorts, tablet, phone, 3ds, vita, ps3... And still goes to his amiga for a go on Zool, superfrog, chips challenge etc. He likes playing P.c.genjin on my pc engine too.
Bryce, haha, thats great! Must be the funky sine wave he enjoys looking at and manipulating with the twiddly knobs but thats fantastic that he prefers the tools
Bryce, haha, thats great! Must be the funky sine wave he enjoys looking at and manipulating with the twiddly knobs
but thats fantastic that he prefers the tools 
The device on top is an old function generator. He can already set it up to display a sine wave on the scope and then plays with the horizontal, vertical scales and the frequency as "his game". He spends hours at it if I let him.
Bryce.
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commodorejohn
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A synthesizer freak in the making! ;D
His favorite in sine wave, then triangular. He's not a big fan of square waves
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