The forum is running on an Amiga ? Might explain a few things.
Hay don't knock the Amiga. Was a brilliant computer system for its time
They were quite popularly used in pokey machines during the mid to late 90's
wait... what??
guru is on this forum???
I thought I was finally released when my old amiga 1200 broke down just about 5 years ago, although I still have its remains. ( I cant get myself to bury the old rhubarb, him and me have had so much fun times!!)
and I agree, amiga was not only brilliant, but imo way ahead of its time at release. ( I can still hear my die hard pc friend laughing when I told him I bought one, only to leave him with his mouth open when he saw the graphics and the sound it was producing... that moment was just priceless!!)
guru is on this forum???
I thought I was finally released when my old amiga 1200 broke down just about 5 years ago, although I still have its remains. ( I cant get myself to bury the old rhubarb, him and me have had so much fun times!!)
and I agree, amiga was not only brilliant, but imo way ahead of its time at release. ( I can still hear my die hard pc friend laughing when I told him I bought one, only to leave him with his mouth open when he saw the graphics and the sound it was producing... that moment was just priceless!!)
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Don't forget that the visual effects for Babylon 5 were initially done on an Amiga using the "Video Toaster"
Time to re-ignite the Atari/Amiga war
Atari STFM all the way
... ok I had both
Atari STFM all the way
... ok I had both
Amiga all the way!
Still rocking an A1200!!
Still rocking an A1200!!
I remember having to send my Atari away for a 512k to 1Mb ram upgrade because it was soldered to the damn board... £60 plus p&p... fun times
I had both the the Amiga 500 & the STFM (still got them both in fact). I soldered 512 MB of ram directly to the STFM mobo without sockets! Worked first time. Boy, was I pleased with myself.
I've still got my A500 with an original Frontier complete with a very worn starchart it still works fine after all these years.
it still works fine after all these years.
My brother had one - he even had one of those fancy 20 mb SCSI HDDs. I was quite envious at the time, because I only had an A 500 (but at least with a ram extension - it had a mechanical switch I built in myself to turn off the additional 512k because some games couldn't cope with such copious amounts of ram...).
Was thinking of it a lot recently - The DK2s chromatic abberation strongly reminds me of Deluxe Paints HAM mode...
Ah - the memories - sadly I don't have it anymore
Some of my Amiga gear packed ready to move house last year.
The monitor (yes that is an original!)
Elite and Frontier
Everything is still in working order Amiga has a Magnum 4mb Ram expansion fitted. I have CD Roms x2, 2 x FDD, about 100 games and sundry other bits and bobs. Sadly have no room anymore to set it up permanently.
Edit: Oops just realised Geraldine's post was for the nostalgia buffs, maybe this should have gone in there instead.
The monitor (yes that is an original!)
Elite and Frontier
Everything is still in working order
Amiga has a Magnum 4mb Ram expansion fitted. I have CD Roms x2, 2 x FDD, about 100 games and sundry other bits and bobs. Sadly have no room anymore to set it up permanently.Edit: Oops just realised Geraldine's post was for the nostalgia buffs, maybe this should have gone in there instead.
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Hay don't knock the Amiga. Was a brilliant computer system for its time
Who's knocking it ?
After playing Elite on Acorn Electron, Spectrum 48k & Amstrad CPC6128, I bought an Amiga 500 in early '88 especially to play Elite because the polygons were filled on that version ! Moved on to the Amiga A1200 to play Frontier, first with an '030 accelerator & later with an '060/Mediator/Voodoo3.
I still have both machines.