Hello all. I used to be a dedicated Commodore user and that came to an end back in 1997. I've been reading about all the expansion options that have been available and about 2 years ago, I managed to get my brother's original A1200 up and running on a CF card. Oh if only we had this technology back in 1992. 4GB would have made you the scene king!
Beings I grew up in a small rural town in Nebraska, we never had much access to the "scene" and certainly didn't realize there was such a thing as internet until 1991 when I got my first account. Then I finally understood how people got 0-1 day warez. Up until then I imagined huge phone bills which I myself was privvy to in calling the many BBS's in Lincoln long distance. I ran a BBS for 4 years until my 1 GB SCSI drive crashed one day. I sold off my Amiga 2000 as I just didn't use it anymore. I have a basement full of Commodore 64s, a C128, Amiga 500, Vic-20s, C128D, and stacks of software that I've bought from garage sales and other people getting out of Commodore computers over the years. My wife and I are planning to build a house next year and once we move, I plan to sort this mess of computers and software out. I would venture to say that between my brother and I, we may very well have the largest collection of software/hardware for the Commodore 8-bit machines in the state primarily because we never threw anything away or sold it except for the Amiga 2000. This all dates back to 1982/1983 when I bought a Vic-20 at Kmart for $xx on lawaway.
At any rate, I've purchased an Amiga 4000 for $xxx and one of 2 boxes has arrived. I expect the 2nd box with the CPU this week. I'm gonna check the battery first thing. This was a machine used by a guy who did T-Shirt designs in Michigan. The computer powers up and he didn't know a lot of the particulars although he said it has an opalvision graphics card in it. I'll find out more once it arrives.
My goal is to get the Amiga to where I can surf, do emails, and listen to MP3s. I always sucked at games and had a bad temper when I lost so I don't plan to do any gaming unless it's like pac-man or something simple. I also enjoyed using packet on ham radio and I used to use the Amiga with my favourite terminal program JC-Comm to make connections and send messages around the nation.
I was never a programmer, but one scripting language I started to enjoy was ARexx and how I could control/automate system functions. I've always missed that in the PC world.
I know our beloved Commodores are getting quite old now, and even though I missed out on most of the scene at the time, I will be forever grateful that I grew up watching the evolution of computers first-hand. I always stood by my Commodore machines and was heartbroken when Commodore went bankrupt. My world fell apart because I honestly believed we had the best machine out there. My brother and I often discuss how modern PCs could run so much faster if the architecture was redesigned from the ground up and the streamlined approach to coding that was used on the Amiga was applied. We would see a huge increase with existing hardware if the bloat was stripped out.
I'm currently leaving this message with an Acer tower I found in a dumpster. I hoisted my wife up over the side and she excitedly dug it out for me. All it needed was a new hard-drive and the reinstall disks and I'm using for as close to free as is possible! I run Vista in as stripped down of a mode as possible to keep the speed up. I'll take performance over bloat and eye-candy any day.
I'll be 42 years old in August and I've never given up totally on the Amiga. It's a real computer with character and harkens back to a simpler time. It's a great hacker's machine.
One of my most prized computers is a Commdore 64c from Australia. My wife is from down under and I bought it from a classified ad. Unforunately the 1084S was destroyed in shipment, but the computer and drive made it okay though they had the hell beat out of them despite packing it in bubble wrap and packing peanuts. I've never hooked the PAL 64 up here in the states to see what it would do, but it worked just fine in Brisbane, QLD. It was like magic to me - laying my hands on the keyboard of a PAL machine from Oz.
Maybe I should open up a Commodore museum in Nebraska...LOL
Thanks for having me...
Erin
Beings I grew up in a small rural town in Nebraska, we never had much access to the "scene" and certainly didn't realize there was such a thing as internet until 1991 when I got my first account. Then I finally understood how people got 0-1 day warez. Up until then I imagined huge phone bills which I myself was privvy to in calling the many BBS's in Lincoln long distance. I ran a BBS for 4 years until my 1 GB SCSI drive crashed one day. I sold off my Amiga 2000 as I just didn't use it anymore. I have a basement full of Commodore 64s, a C128, Amiga 500, Vic-20s, C128D, and stacks of software that I've bought from garage sales and other people getting out of Commodore computers over the years. My wife and I are planning to build a house next year and once we move, I plan to sort this mess of computers and software out. I would venture to say that between my brother and I, we may very well have the largest collection of software/hardware for the Commodore 8-bit machines in the state primarily because we never threw anything away or sold it except for the Amiga 2000. This all dates back to 1982/1983 when I bought a Vic-20 at Kmart for $xx on lawaway.
At any rate, I've purchased an Amiga 4000 for $xxx and one of 2 boxes has arrived. I expect the 2nd box with the CPU this week. I'm gonna check the battery first thing. This was a machine used by a guy who did T-Shirt designs in Michigan. The computer powers up and he didn't know a lot of the particulars although he said it has an opalvision graphics card in it. I'll find out more once it arrives.
My goal is to get the Amiga to where I can surf, do emails, and listen to MP3s. I always sucked at games and had a bad temper when I lost so I don't plan to do any gaming unless it's like pac-man or something simple. I also enjoyed using packet on ham radio and I used to use the Amiga with my favourite terminal program JC-Comm to make connections and send messages around the nation.
I was never a programmer, but one scripting language I started to enjoy was ARexx and how I could control/automate system functions. I've always missed that in the PC world.
I know our beloved Commodores are getting quite old now, and even though I missed out on most of the scene at the time, I will be forever grateful that I grew up watching the evolution of computers first-hand. I always stood by my Commodore machines and was heartbroken when Commodore went bankrupt. My world fell apart because I honestly believed we had the best machine out there. My brother and I often discuss how modern PCs could run so much faster if the architecture was redesigned from the ground up and the streamlined approach to coding that was used on the Amiga was applied. We would see a huge increase with existing hardware if the bloat was stripped out.
I'm currently leaving this message with an Acer tower I found in a dumpster. I hoisted my wife up over the side and she excitedly dug it out for me. All it needed was a new hard-drive and the reinstall disks and I'm using for as close to free as is possible! I run Vista in as stripped down of a mode as possible to keep the speed up. I'll take performance over bloat and eye-candy any day.
I'll be 42 years old in August and I've never given up totally on the Amiga. It's a real computer with character and harkens back to a simpler time. It's a great hacker's machine.
One of my most prized computers is a Commdore 64c from Australia. My wife is from down under and I bought it from a classified ad. Unforunately the 1084S was destroyed in shipment, but the computer and drive made it okay though they had the hell beat out of them despite packing it in bubble wrap and packing peanuts. I've never hooked the PAL 64 up here in the states to see what it would do, but it worked just fine in Brisbane, QLD. It was like magic to me - laying my hands on the keyboard of a PAL machine from Oz.
Maybe I should open up a Commodore museum in Nebraska...LOL
Thanks for having me...
Erin
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