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05 August 2015, 17:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Stafford
Age: 52
Posts: 41
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An Italian in UK
Greetings all!
I am 43, I am Italian but I have been living in UK for the last 10 years (decent academic jobs are hard to find in Italy if you are not "the son of X"...) Anwyay; got an A1200 two years ago (one of Petro's batches) and I have been playing with it a bit. Had an Atari ST way back in the day (wanted an Amiga 1000, but back then they cost far too much) so now that I have unlimited funds, I thought it was about time to see how it worked  (well, it doesn't really work, as I have a day job, I am married, and with two children  )I am not a lot into gaming (except Lucasarts and Sierra adventures) but the main reason I got the A1200 (with a 68030 accelerator) was to run MINIX on it (long story...) and do some OS hacking (projects for the future: implement an IDE driver, and extend MINIX to support the 68030 MMU.) Cheers, Antonio |
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06 August 2015, 03:39
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Jackie Chan
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Ireland
Age: 46
Posts: 986
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Ive got an a1200 but its gathering dust atm. When I move house, I'll have more room for it. And I need an indivision aga.
There's quite a few adventure games on the amiga. |
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06 August 2015, 09:24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Stafford
Age: 52
Posts: 41
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I was lucky enough to find a multisync LCD monitor (some Chinese unbranded thing that was gathering dust at my workplace), so I could connect it to the A1200 (using the Commodore VGA adapter; the one sold by amigakit didn't work as it doesn't have any electronics inside.) So I get all resolutions without the expensive indivision stuff. The monitor doesn't handle interlacing well though, but I don't care as I use productivity mode when programming, and standard 15kHz resolutions when playing.
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07 August 2015, 14:23
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Retro Gamer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Underworld
Age: 51
Posts: 4,061
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Welcome to EAB!
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07 August 2015, 15:00
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Italian Amiga Zealot
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Italy
Age: 36
Posts: 1,911
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Nice to hear about other Amiga-loving italian expats in the UK!
Welcome to EAB, mate! 
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