Hello,
after more than 30 years without Amiga I started to look for a replacement for the Amiga 2000 which I had sold in the early 90s. A sale I soon started to regret.
The retro fever hit me in August this year - at the moment I am assembling two Amiga 2000 and was able to buy an originally sealed and never tampered with Amiga 500. (And I could not withstand to get a C64 and two C128 ....).
I was and still am totally surprised that there is such a big and active community sharing these interests, and that new hardware is still being developed.
In the mid 80s I started with the C64. Without having anybody to show or teach me, I started learning to program BASIC by reading the user manual. The first game I got some weeks later from a friend who was able to create quality copies of audio cassettes. My next device was a C128 (which then was the first type of computers which were used in school). On this machine I did my first assembler programs and played games.
In 1988 I was able to persuade my parents to buy me an Amiga 2000. "It will help me to prepare for studying information technology." It helped that some months before the school bought one, too, and I had access to it. In the meanwhile, I also had some connections (teachers) to get software (e.g. a Lattice C compiler). Of course 90% of my time was spent playing games
But I stayed true to my plans and made my master in information technology in the mid 90s. The Amiga was my companion for the first two years of studying (a A2286 bridgeboard helped to do the stuff needed for my courses), but then I became unfaithful and bought my first PC ... Amiga was more or less standing still and the better machines like A3000 and A4000 were way out of my budget. PCs were developing fast (graphics, performance) and became more and more affordable - and Linux helped a lot to catch me ...
Still it was never the same feeling as with the Amiga and
Interestingly, I also feel the same lack of "cosiness" when running those new overbred FPGA based turbo emulators. They are impressive, but for me they are not Amiga.
I enjoy looking and searching for components, software, documentation and then to restore it, bring everything together and to life again. AmiBay seems to be bustling with others who seem to share this interest and love - so of course I have to join.
I am looking forward to having a good time with you.
Liebe Grüße
Oliver
after more than 30 years without Amiga I started to look for a replacement for the Amiga 2000 which I had sold in the early 90s. A sale I soon started to regret.
The retro fever hit me in August this year - at the moment I am assembling two Amiga 2000 and was able to buy an originally sealed and never tampered with Amiga 500. (And I could not withstand to get a C64 and two C128 ....).
I was and still am totally surprised that there is such a big and active community sharing these interests, and that new hardware is still being developed.
In the mid 80s I started with the C64. Without having anybody to show or teach me, I started learning to program BASIC by reading the user manual. The first game I got some weeks later from a friend who was able to create quality copies of audio cassettes. My next device was a C128 (which then was the first type of computers which were used in school). On this machine I did my first assembler programs and played games.
In 1988 I was able to persuade my parents to buy me an Amiga 2000. "It will help me to prepare for studying information technology." It helped that some months before the school bought one, too, and I had access to it. In the meanwhile, I also had some connections (teachers) to get software (e.g. a Lattice C compiler). Of course 90% of my time was spent playing games
But I stayed true to my plans and made my master in information technology in the mid 90s. The Amiga was my companion for the first two years of studying (a A2286 bridgeboard helped to do the stuff needed for my courses), but then I became unfaithful and bought my first PC ... Amiga was more or less standing still and the better machines like A3000 and A4000 were way out of my budget. PCs were developing fast (graphics, performance) and became more and more affordable - and Linux helped a lot to catch me ...
Still it was never the same feeling as with the Amiga and
Interestingly, I also feel the same lack of "cosiness" when running those new overbred FPGA based turbo emulators. They are impressive, but for me they are not Amiga.
I enjoy looking and searching for components, software, documentation and then to restore it, bring everything together and to life again. AmiBay seems to be bustling with others who seem to share this interest and love - so of course I have to join.
I am looking forward to having a good time with you.
Liebe Grüße
Oliver
