Greets

petran · 03 October 2009, 18:54

Hallo to the members of the forum and to fellow retro and amiga afficionados.

My name is Petros, 30 years old and from Greece. The 80s and early 90s were definitely the best decades for gaming, at least regarding gameplay in all platforms, where you didnt need to get so hyperactive and press 12 buttons and push three joysticks to have mastered a game.

Nowadays keyboards replace pencils and the thumb generation arises.

My first introduction to the Amiga was in the late 80s in Germany, when the expensive Amiga 2000 came out. I myself never owned one but spent some time when I visited friends. Games, applications, interface were far above the rest of the computers but for anyone wanting to do just his job back then ( eg I liked astronomy applications), any machine would have sufficed since systems were more minimalistic back then.
Whereas now they have so many features that one becomes insatiable.The irony is that for old game consoles emulation too you must have a very fast computer .

Regarding games I feel a little torn between Atari 2600, NES, MS-DOS and Amiga so each has its own share. Advantage (disadvantage for the developers) with MS-DOS and Amiga of course was that you could play commercial games for free but this is another subject.

I'll post here from time to time, though I prefer reading forums rather than typing.

DoogUK · 03 October 2009, 19:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of EAB

TCD · 03 October 2009, 19:03

Hi petran and welcome to EAB

You'll see that's not all black/white here, so might stumble over some bits for the other platforms here aswell

Enjoy your stay

prowler · 03 October 2009, 19:07

Hi, petran, and welcome to EAB!

You may be torn between several platforms as far as gaming goes, but the Amiga is the only one with the support of a thriving community like EAB!

cosmicfrog · 04 October 2009, 21:38

Hi and welcome
Know just what you mean about typeing I hate it all the time, but its just one of those things ya gota do from time 2 time

prowler · 04 October 2009, 21:41

Cosmic is actually trying to train his cat to do all his typing for him. Hence the typos.

cosmicfrog · 04 October 2009, 21:46

how you got acess to my web cam without me knowin, or is that pesky cat done something again

jmmijo · 06 October 2009, 04:58

Welcome

DH · 06 October 2009, 12:38

Welcome to EAB petran

Enjoy your stay

03 October 2009, 18:54	#1
petran Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Greece Posts: 104	Greets Hallo to the members of the forum and to fellow retro and amiga afficionados. My name is Petros, 30 years old and from Greece. The 80s and early 90s were definitely the best decades for gaming, at least regarding gameplay in all platforms, where you didnt need to get so hyperactive and press 12 buttons and push three joysticks to have mastered a game. Nowadays keyboards replace pencils and the thumb generation arises. My first introduction to the Amiga was in the late 80s in Germany, when the expensive Amiga 2000 came out. I myself never owned one but spent some time when I visited friends. Games, applications, interface were far above the rest of the computers but for anyone wanting to do just his job back then ( eg I liked astronomy applications), any machine would have sufficed since systems were more minimalistic back then. Whereas now they have so many features that one becomes insatiable.The irony is that for old game consoles emulation too you must have a very fast computer . Regarding games I feel a little torn between Atari 2600, NES, MS-DOS and Amiga so each has its own share. Advantage (disadvantage for the developers) with MS-DOS and Amiga of course was that you could play commercial games for free but this is another subject. I'll post here from time to time, though I prefer reading forums rather than typing.

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cosmicfrog The 1 who ribbits Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: leek, Staffs, UK Age: 56 Posts: 3,557	Hi and welcome Know just what you mean about typeing I hate it all the time, but its just one of those things ya gota do from time 2 time

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