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05 February 2009, 16:29
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Another Newbie....
Hi
Just thought I'd drop in and say hello  Kinda New-ish to the Amiga Scene... I'll explain. I say new-ish, in the Mid-late 90's I had an Acorn A3010 which Ran Risc OS 3.10.... What has this got to do with Amigas ? Everything and nothing. Most of the Games I had for the A3010 were Amiga ports (company called Krysalis I beleive) First Game I bought was Lotus 2... the soundtrack is rattling in my ears as I write this  WinUAE.Have an Arc Emulator as well, and can play all my non "Amiga Ported Games" but alas finding Arc copies of games such as Lotus 2, Canon Fodder etc is rather difficult/potentially expensive on the fleabay... sooo, I figured Amiga Emulation was the way to go (since I've found a stack of old Amiga stuff a neighbour was about to throw out!) Anyways I will post my requests for help in the other section.... cheers Andrew |
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05 February 2009, 16:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: www.amigakit.com
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Welcome!
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05 February 2009, 16:43
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HOL/FTP busy bee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
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Hi Andrew and welcome to EAB
You'll soon find out that we're a bunch of funny (and maybe a bit strange) guys here  Also we're always here to help and we're pretty fast with it most of the time  Enjoy your stay 
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05 February 2009, 16:46
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OT Whore
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Switzerland
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Hey, welcome Andrew
enjoy your stay here, awesome community!
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05 February 2009, 16:58
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Global Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Might as well be WORK :(
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Welcome to the board Andrew
We are so very  and friendly  like TCD said, but there is always 24 hours a day help.Oooops. Wrong Smilie
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05 February 2009, 17:19
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1 Potato to Spam´em all!
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Lost in a Wine Country
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Not "always" friendly, but i´m improving...
Welcome!!! |
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05 February 2009, 17:29
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Registered User
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Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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thanks guys
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05 February 2009, 18:42
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Location: westmids
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@asm1,
welcome to the monkey farm dude
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05 February 2009, 19:34
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Welcome!
Perhaps you'd like to read the acorn arc thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...ighlight=acorn Great machines, as us UK Amiga users know.
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05 February 2009, 19:40
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: taunton.som.uk
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@asm1
hi and welcome there coming thick and fast now chaps were not all mad honestly 
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05 February 2009, 19:48
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Quote:
 I knew a few people that had those, definitely an awesome machine of the time. If my memory serves me right, the company that I first worked for used these in their main offices, but I don't think any of them realised the potential of the machine, let alone how to work it properly My father tried to persuade me to get one of those instead of the A500, guess which one won
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05 February 2009, 20:05
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Doogster
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dorset
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Got an acorn 3000 in the loft...never used it.
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05 February 2009, 21:51
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move.w #$4489,$dff07e
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Norfolk, UK
Age: 42
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And a sad hard drive still sat on my desk...
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05 February 2009, 22:08
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Doogster
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dorset
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Oooh yeah!
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05 February 2009, 22:32
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Ahh the Good old Archie *sighs*
Nice Article Quote:
 And yes the "end" / break up was horribly messy. Risc OS is still going though and there have been a few machines (much like the new Amiga one) built on non RISC hardware - Iyonix, A9 home. but these have been developed by third parties as Acorn no longer exists (and even they have stopped production... same problems... who wants to pay £1200 for a low-spec PC, just because it runs Risc OS.... Not that I'm being picky but your Screenshot actually shows Risc Os 3 which was far nicer than OS 2 I actually went out and recently got myself a copy of "Strongarm Virtual Risc PC" - (yes I know I'm sad). and I plan on having it Running Risc OS 6 just "because I can" lol and at a fraction of the price a "new" machine would have cost me at the time.Silly Silly People Acorn/Commodore *slap* you both had good things going and yet you made the same mistakes.... (pricing, marketing etc) I mean really, When the Risc PC came out it was the best part of £1200 for a base model  Now it was a nice bit of kit BUT... seriously, when you could buy 2-3 IBM compatibles for that price, is it any wonder Tesco "Acorn" computers for schools, became Tesco "IBM-PC's for schools  Right enough my Pee Cee Runs Amiga/Risc OS far faster than the old hardware could  bleh I want my Arc back now... wish I'd never sold it... mind you the money I'd spent on it (as I'm sure you chaps will empathise )
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