Where are your 'friends' from the Amiga scene?

Tim Janssen · 13 October 2004, 20:17

Last weekend I met someone who looked vaguely familiar. Soon I found out it was my disk-swopping mate from 13 years ago. I had an interesting chat with him.
When the Amiga was popular we met twice a month, swapped some games and listened to our self-composed horrible Octamed tunes. But when the Amiga scene became smaller and the monthly load of software dried up, we lost contact. Apart from our interest in the Amiga we absolutely had nothing in common.
When I come to think of it, in my Amiga days there were really lots of people (whose names I have long forgotten) who I regularly contacted, stayed for dinner and so on.

Do you still see your former Amiga mates or have the contacts dried up like in my case?

BippyM · 13 October 2004, 20:29

All mine dried up, I had some good friends too, who moved away and I lost contact (Amiga friends)..

The only other person I know who was interested in the Amiga is my cousin, and nowadays he's too stoned and high on his medication to even notice the world let alone me!!!

T_hairy_bootson · 14 October 2004, 03:58

I was going to start a new thread called: Lost Amiga friends. But found this instead.

Cyprian Philip from Thornbury: You still alive mate?

Matthew from TDSC: Owens mate, you must still be into Amigas

Greek Sam from Fairfield: You still got that A2000?

Anyone else who traded with George from Preston at one stage or another.

edit: I still keep in contact with 2 of my old Amiga buddies... One is my best mate and the other a mate of my brothers. Both got rid of their Amigas and have lost all interest, one gave me his A500 to me and the other sold his for less than I wouldve given him for the monitor...

manicx · 14 October 2004, 09:29

Dr Spy: My good ST pal and later Amiga mate. Dropped his Amiga for a SGI and started his own computer grpahics business. He apparently got bored and became a farmer that grows mushrooms... Will visit him in the mountains of western Greece next week.

Elias: My KO2 partner for 2 years. When I left Greece, he got bored and exchanged his A500+ for a video! He still misses the good old days. Met his last year and had a few KO2 matches with him.

Marcello: The man who introduced me to the Amiga and Kick Off. He still has his Amiga 500 from 86 but last time I saw his Amiga there was a cockroach stuck in the floppy drive.

Alkis21: Yes, the Alkis21 that is in the EAB forums. He is more busy these days since he's got a job and lives with his girlfriend.

keropi · 21 October 2004, 10:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by manicx

Dr Spy: My good ST pal and later Amiga mate. Dropped his Amiga for a SGI and started his own computer grpahics business. He apparently got bored and became a farmer that grows mushrooms... Will visit him in the mountains of western Greece next week.

Elias: My KO2 partner for 2 years. When I left Greece, he got bored and exchanged his A500+ for a video! He still misses the good old days. Met his last year and had a few KO2 matches with him.

Marcello: The man who introduced me to the Amiga and Kick Off. He still has his Amiga 500 from 86 but last time I saw his Amiga there was a cockroach stuck in the floppy drive.

Alkis21: Yes, the Alkis21 that is in the EAB forums. He is more busy these days since he's got a job and lives with his girlfriend.

Theleis na ginoume filoi??? LOL!

Transl: Wanna be my friend?

alkis21 · 21 October 2004, 14:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by manicx

Alkis21: Yes, the Alkis21 that is in the EAB forums. He is more busy these days since he's got a job and lives with his girlfriend.

Yup, that's me.

My old (mid 80s-mid 90s) Amiga friends are all extinct but one, it's a good thing I have the Kick Off World Cup once a year so I can meet new ones, like manicx.

Amiga1992 · 21 October 2004, 19:09

I met the guy that used to provide me with software like 5 years ago. We crossed our paths on the street and I was really happy to meet him, and so was him. I did teh terrible mistake of not asking him for his address or phone number, and I lost contact ever since, and I would REALLY love to meet him again for he was very important in my computer childhood :P

Joe Maroni · 21 October 2004, 20:25

i also lost my forgotten amiga friends...

from one i got turrican 2 and from the other wings of fury and party games...

but i´ve lost contac years ago...
very sad, but the last i heard was that they even own their amigas this days...

really good amiga friends...

Syko · 21 October 2004, 22:29

Dave from Shipley; used to work with him, hang out at his house, play on his snes (and lose badly, to his four year old daughter

) got loads of games and stuff, that caused me to go and buy the real ones, reasonably often!

Last I heared he'd got a job down south and was moving there, haven't heard from him in ten years or more

My other mate Rik, who wrote cool med tunes, some of which are on my web site, lives six houses up the road from me

All the rest of my Amiga friends live here!

Shatterhand · 22 October 2004, 07:59

I had abouy.. hmm.. 3 friends who had an Amiga here in Brazil.. 2 of them worked together and I met both at the same time, 1 met the Amiga through me, and every game he had he got from me, so I never got anything from him

. Well, there was also my father, if you can count it as an "Amiga friend", as it was him who introduced me the Amiga, and I changed many disks with him.

Nowadays I have no contact with none of them. Even with my father..

I've met the guy who knew the amiga through me twice after we lost contact, but he barely remembered he had an Amiga once...

Dastardly · 22 October 2004, 11:18

I had quite a few friends I met just because of Amiga game swapping (copying). Sadly Ive lost touch with most of them because they've grown out of gaming (never!), but there is still one who is a great mate to this day.

manicx · 22 October 2004, 12:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by keropi

Theleis na ginoume filoi??? LOL!

Transl: Wanna be my friend?

Sure...

keropi · 22 October 2004, 12:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by manicx

Sure...

lol!

Really, is there any dealer in athens that has amiga hardware?

alkis21 · 22 October 2004, 22:13

I doubt it. You can find plenty of stuff in www.fleamarket.gr , though. Are you looking for anything in particular?
Do you live in Athens, keropi? Feel free to e-mail me and Nikos (manicx) anytime, we can get together and relive the old times.. especially if you play Kick Off 2.

Nikos and I are going to Milan next month to participate in the World Cup, as I wrote in another thread. Our Amigas are still very much alive.

keropi · 23 October 2004, 20:25

alkis21: Nope I am at Ioannina.... I was looking for a ps2mouse adaptor, just bought 2 new amiga mice from ebay though! Maybe we meet sometime!

alkis21 · 24 October 2004, 00:30

Nikos is from Ioannina too!!!! He lives in Athens though. I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about.

keropi · 24 October 2004, 00:52

wow...! patioths! lol

29 October 2004, 11:07

I seem to have pretty much lost touch with all the Amiga people i used to go round to. Laxity went off to work in a sunnier climate (southern england) - still in touch with him via email from time to time, it's been a while though., chem(soap city) haven't heard from in years, others, well, i still see some of the local people (Bowch, Moose etc), and the other one are either RIP, or living at HMP somewhere.

Photon · 24 November 2004, 14:39

We live in different cities, but Uncle Tom (the world famous musician!!! :P) is still my friend and we keep in touch almost daily. Before we both left the Amiga scene in like '92 or '93, we were in the same demo group (Scoopex). Ever since '93 he's been in the Arcade Scene

and he has about 200 arcade game PCB sets, feel free to visit Arkadtorget if you understand Swedish :P

Another one of my best friends is Core of Phenomena, which lost interest in Amiga before I did. We keep in touch regularly, but not as often as we used to. He's now an engineer at Sony Ericsson, developing operating systems for mobiles and handhelds.

I myself am studying my last year of Game Programming, after which I'll study two years 3D modelling and animation unless I get a job programming.

Mahoney still recognizes my voice right away when I call

He's done a couple PC demos and released all his music and some of his demo stuff. I'm sure you all know the URL.

alewis · 25 November 2004, 00:44

I must look some up... Oddly enough, I can remember real names better than (most) scene names

There was Carl, from Silica Systems, lived down in Maidstone when I was in Chatham... last spoke to him about 3-4 years ago, after an I-dont-know-how-long gap...

Rob Hardy, who moved to Hull from Germany in the mid-90's

Gary Bews, lost contact with him after he moved from Blandford

Couple guys from Bournemouth, one who wrote the BBS s/w to challenge Ami/X

Dangermouse (Dave) who used to run The Tower BBS, moved to New Zealand in 1993/4

James, sysop of a large scene bbs that was busted.... was it an FLT bbs? One of the biggest in UK. Cant remember name

Dan, sysop of Oasis, Freeze, sysop of The Fridge (where I co-sys'd), lost contact back in the mid-90's.... heck, and a lot of guys I last met at the LSD(?) copy party somewhere up North in 1993/4

13 October 2004, 20:17	#1
Tim Janssen Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Den Bosch / The Netherlands Age: 47 Posts: 1,271	Where are your 'friends' from the Amiga scene? Last weekend I met someone who looked vaguely familiar. Soon I found out it was my disk-swopping mate from 13 years ago. I had an interesting chat with him. When the Amiga was popular we met twice a month, swapped some games and listened to our self-composed horrible Octamed tunes. But when the Amiga scene became smaller and the monthly load of software dried up, we lost contact. Apart from our interest in the Amiga we absolutely had nothing in common. When I come to think of it, in my Amiga days there were really lots of people (whose names I have long forgotten) who I regularly contacted, stayed for dinner and so on. Do you still see your former Amiga mates or have the contacts dried up like in my case?

14 October 2004, 03:58	#3
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	I was going to start a new thread called: Lost Amiga friends. But found this instead. Cyprian Philip from Thornbury: You still alive mate? Matthew from TDSC: Owens mate, you must still be into Amigas Greek Sam from Fairfield: You still got that A2000? Anyone else who traded with George from Preston at one stage or another. edit: I still keep in contact with 2 of my old Amiga buddies... One is my best mate and the other a mate of my brothers. Both got rid of their Amigas and have lost all interest, one gave me his A500 to me and the other sold his for less than I wouldve given him for the monitor... Last edited by T_hairy_bootson; 14 October 2004 at 04:03.

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13 October 2004, 20:29	#2
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	All mine dried up, I had some good friends too, who moved away and I lost contact (Amiga friends).. The only other person I know who was interested in the Amiga is my cousin, and nowadays he's too stoned and high on his medication to even notice the world let alone me!!!

14 October 2004, 09:29	#4
manicx Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 991	Dr Spy: My good ST pal and later Amiga mate. Dropped his Amiga for a SGI and started his own computer grpahics business. He apparently got bored and became a farmer that grows mushrooms... Will visit him in the mountains of western Greece next week. Elias: My KO2 partner for 2 years. When I left Greece, he got bored and exchanged his A500+ for a video! He still misses the good old days. Met his last year and had a few KO2 matches with him. Marcello: The man who introduced me to the Amiga and Kick Off. He still has his Amiga 500 from 86 but last time I saw his Amiga there was a cockroach stuck in the floppy drive. Alkis21: Yes, the Alkis21 that is in the EAB forums. He is more busy these days since he's got a job and lives with his girlfriend.

21 October 2004, 19:09	#7
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	I met the guy that used to provide me with software like 5 years ago. We crossed our paths on the street and I was really happy to meet him, and so was him. I did teh terrible mistake of not asking him for his address or phone number, and I lost contact ever since, and I would REALLY love to meet him again for he was very important in my computer childhood :P

21 October 2004, 20:25	#8
Joe Maroni Moderator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Germany Age: 44 Posts: 1,303	i also lost my forgotten amiga friends... from one i got turrican 2 and from the other wings of fury and party games... but i´ve lost contac years ago... very sad, but the last i heard was that they even own their amigas this days... really good amiga friends...

21 October 2004, 22:29	#9
Syko Now got GSX750F :)) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Halifax UK Age: 59 Posts: 584	Dave from Shipley; used to work with him, hang out at his house, play on his snes (and lose badly, to his four year old daughter ) got loads of games and stuff, that caused me to go and buy the real ones, reasonably often! Last I heared he'd got a job down south and was moving there, haven't heard from him in ten years or more My other mate Rik, who wrote cool med tunes, some of which are on my web site, lives six houses up the road from me All the rest of my Amiga friends live here!

22 October 2004, 07:59	#10
Shatterhand Warhasneverbeensomuchfun Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Age: 41 Posts: 3,450	I had abouy.. hmm.. 3 friends who had an Amiga here in Brazil.. 2 of them worked together and I met both at the same time, 1 met the Amiga through me, and every game he had he got from me, so I never got anything from him . Well, there was also my father, if you can count it as an "Amiga friend", as it was him who introduced me the Amiga, and I changed many disks with him. Nowadays I have no contact with none of them. Even with my father.. I've met the guy who knew the amiga through me twice after we lost contact, but he barely remembered he had an Amiga once...

22 October 2004, 11:18	#11
Dastardly Into the Wonderful Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: England Age: 49 Posts: 2,335	I had quite a few friends I met just because of Amiga game swapping (copying). Sadly Ive lost touch with most of them because they've grown out of gaming (never!), but there is still one who is a great mate to this day.

22 October 2004, 22:13	#14
alkis21 Zone Friend Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Age: 49 Posts: 1,408	I doubt it. You can find plenty of stuff in www.fleamarket.gr , though. Are you looking for anything in particular? Do you live in Athens, keropi? Feel free to e-mail me and Nikos (manicx) anytime, we can get together and relive the old times.. especially if you play Kick Off 2. Nikos and I are going to Milan next month to participate in the World Cup, as I wrote in another thread. Our Amigas are still very much alive.

23 October 2004, 20:25	#15
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	alkis21: Nope I am at Ioannina.... I was looking for a ps2mouse adaptor, just bought 2 new amiga mice from ebay though! Maybe we meet sometime!

24 October 2004, 00:30	#16
alkis21 Zone Friend Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Age: 49 Posts: 1,408	Nikos is from Ioannina too!!!! He lives in Athens though. I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about.

24 October 2004, 00:52	#17
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	wow...! patioths! lol

29 October 2004, 11:07	#18
AwoL Posts: n/a	I seem to have pretty much lost touch with all the Amiga people i used to go round to. Laxity went off to work in a sunnier climate (southern england) - still in touch with him via email from time to time, it's been a while though., chem(soap city) haven't heard from in years, others, well, i still see some of the local people (Bowch, Moose etc), and the other one are either RIP, or living at HMP somewhere.

24 November 2004, 14:39	#19
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	We live in different cities, but Uncle Tom (the world famous musician!!! :P) is still my friend and we keep in touch almost daily. Before we both left the Amiga scene in like '92 or '93, we were in the same demo group (Scoopex). Ever since '93 he's been in the Arcade Scene and he has about 200 arcade game PCB sets, feel free to visit Arkadtorget if you understand Swedish :P Another one of my best friends is Core of Phenomena, which lost interest in Amiga before I did. We keep in touch regularly, but not as often as we used to. He's now an engineer at Sony Ericsson, developing operating systems for mobiles and handhelds. I myself am studying my last year of Game Programming, after which I'll study two years 3D modelling and animation unless I get a job programming. Mahoney still recognizes my voice right away when I call He's done a couple PC demos and released all his music and some of his demo stuff. I'm sure you all know the URL.

25 November 2004, 00:44	#20
alewis Monochrome and 8 bit Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Underbarrow, Gods Country Age: 57 Posts: 600	I must look some up... Oddly enough, I can remember real names better than (most) scene names There was Carl, from Silica Systems, lived down in Maidstone when I was in Chatham... last spoke to him about 3-4 years ago, after an I-dont-know-how-long gap... Rob Hardy, who moved to Hull from Germany in the mid-90's Gary Bews, lost contact with him after he moved from Blandford Couple guys from Bournemouth, one who wrote the BBS s/w to challenge Ami/X Dangermouse (Dave) who used to run The Tower BBS, moved to New Zealand in 1993/4 James, sysop of a large scene bbs that was busted.... was it an FLT bbs? One of the biggest in UK. Cant remember name Dan, sysop of Oasis, Freeze, sysop of The Fridge (where I co-sys'd), lost contact back in the mid-90's.... heck, and a lot of guys I last met at the LSD(?) copy party somewhere up North in 1993/4

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