Where are your 'friends' from the Amiga scene?

[Tim Janssen]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Akira]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by keropi

Theleis na ginoume filoi??? LOL!
Transl: Wanna be my friend?

Sure...

[keropi]

Originally Posted by manicx

Sure...

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

[alkis21]

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]

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]

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

[keropi]

wow...! patioths! lol

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]

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]

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

jeez i was sat here bored !!! so i did a search on google for my old nick "danGerMouSe" i found you guys lol, me like you lot really misses the Amiga scene it was a cult and life for us all at the time, and we all made so many m8s it was really wicked, yes i sold the To\X/eR bbs in 94 and moved to new zealand, i kept in touch with Dennis t and a couple of users from nz that used to spend a lot of time on my bbs ,sandman and fish. but i knew so many in the uk and europe who i used to chat to on the phone for hours on end and at all times of the day and night, shit and conference calls with so many peeps on line you couldnt hear anything. hacking and phreakin getting sprint numbas and stuff, shit yes take me back then, to when the amiga ruled and it was so cool to be someone just for a day and id be glad to die happy.
to all who read this, my greets go to you i dont wana type a whole list of names and miss someone out, so im wishin you all of you " greets from my heart" you were all that made the 85 to 94 for me the best years of my life, and sadly i sold my A4000/060 in about 2000 but my memories will live on forever, take care one and all, the best regards

DanGerMouSe

datmouse@xtra.co.nz

[SWOS]

i used to play with my 2 older brothers , but both of them r married now (kids,job..etc) so they dont have time , i even see them now like once every 2-3 weeks..my other amiga friend was my cousin but now he hates football games(we used to play swos,football glory,kick off..etc) he just plays counter strike now on his pc...

[-=SPY=-]

Hi mates .. I used to be really into the amiga scene back in early 90's when carding and using whitebox(phreak software) to modem trade worldwide :-) I was a member of Liberty who was a cracking/phreaking group based in australia who wrote the software called Whitebox which was very well know for its free call making on the old ccitt5 systems which have been upgraded to digital :-( which caused the death of phreaking in OZ,There was only blue box which stopped working also and then only option was AT&T cards which was very unsafe.Liberty got busted for there software and credit carding etc .... i then joined a german based group called SUBZERO who were a demo making crew but the scene was still dying as not many people could trade wares so i left the scene after getting in bit of troulbe myself... aussie BBS systems i was regulary uploading to are ... Borderline,Blue Obssession,The Nut factory, Predators,Blue Marlin,Devastation phase 1,Hamburger heaven and few others.... overseas bbs i used to be on .... 7th Heaven, Hangar 18, and few others ....

I gave away computers for few years getting back into it all again... would like to hear from any fellow old skool amiga users who where on any of the bbs sytems i mentioned or you remember me from the old days :-)

Greets to all the old skool groups Paradox,Quartex,Subzero,Decay,Crystal,Fairlight,Bamiga sector 1,Rebels


would like to hear from any people from the old days...
LAter....

-=SPY=-

[ElectroBlaster]

Steve Bye of F1 Licenceware... where are you, yeh lanky git? lol

Apart from speaking to Majic M, i live near a ex powerlords member and speak to a couple of the old guys on the phone.

If your reading this you might remember me (Nitro / Destiny/Scoopex Pussy uk etc...)

Dan (anarchy)
Spook (mag fields/digital)
Cosy (Digital)
Tas (god knows ! )
Phreak (Digital)
bustman (crusaders)
all the old pussy guys (hehe)

and probably a hell of a lot more, be nice to hear from anyone !

Nitro

[DaZZaBoY]

We also have a few ex-UK Amiga sceners who've signed in at our forum and we run a dedicated 'sceners reunited, thread if anyone wants to advertise there.

www.oldskooluk.org

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Nitro

Tas (god knows ! )
Nitro

Tas of Cyrus I presume?

[Galahad/FLT]

I've forgotten more than I think I can remember from the likes at the Digital Symposium in Rotherham I think it was (Ray Norrish was there, he'll probably remember!), then there was the last of the Digital Copy Parties where I had the misfortune of travelling up with Iggy/Hellfire! He wasn't that bad actually, a little less manic in person than on the BBS's.

In my time, I've known lots of people and lost contact with all of them, times move on, people move on. The ones I miss most are:

Red Devil/DCS, Semtex-Hogster-JBM-N.O.M.A.D.-Splatt!-Andeveron-Kitaro-Hawkeye/Fairlight, Phil Douglas/Delirium, Rebel/Quartex, Deadbeat/Scoopex, Pazza-Torch/LSD, Charon/Rednex, Subzero/Skid Row, Mok-Samir-Troops/Prestige.... plus many many more

I heard my 'best friend' The Black Cat died some years ago......

[Fred the Fop]

I have no friends...

[DaZZaBoY]

It's shocking how many ex-scene guys who've now shuffled off this earth.

Here's a few bods I used to swap with:

Raven / Aneurysm (Andy Coleman)
Ninj / Syndicate
Micon <----
Flecky Flenco <---- both from Liverpool

We have also have Freak/NFA, Kooky / Cyberdreams and Kei / Carnage as a members on our forum. Remember 'The Word' diskmag anyone?

[dlfrsilver]

yes i remember in global gladiators, protection castrated by the black cat.

RIP....

[whiteb]

In the UK, my only friend with amiga was lost when i moved from the UK to Australia.

Then when I moved to Australia, I got to know someone with an amiga and we did lots of swapping, but he sold his amiga and went to university to study pharmacy.

Then the thing called a "Wife" appeared, and the "Girlfriend" got put in the cupboard... its been making extra marital adventures in the lounge of late, including the credit card taking a pounding, buying more "apparel" for the girlfriend.. like an A4000.

New amiga "Friends" are now making themselves known via here

[Methanoid]

Originally Posted by alewis

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

That'd be Dominic Clifton aka Hydra.

Originally Posted by alewis

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

I wonder how well you knew James.... the board wasn't a Faglight board although the link to Faglight was that JBM grassed James to get his Centersoft account closed as Faglight struggled to beat James's supply and if you can't beat them then you cheat....

Funny but NOMAD and Splatt from FLT even rang to apologise about how bad that was....

James was sysop of Arcadia, a small 5 node BBS which at the time it was busted was the UK's largest warez BBS

[bird]

I lost contact to most friends from back then too, only contacts left are swoop/rebels and cg/e^d.
One of my best hangout buddies, ramone/mono sadly died some years ago, heart attack. Just as he finished some sound for a console game. Miss ya crazy fool.

Big hug to: zod,zorro,fungus,etrigan/lsd, dr.dre,beatnik,irata,strider/trsi, ltrimm/talent(c64), h2o,mogue/arclite, trivial/lp. Great times, great people.

[Mungo]

Have lost contact with nigh on everyone I knew on the Amiga scene. Still see TGR now and then and keep in faltering contact with TDK too.

Good to see so many old sceners cropping up here.

Greetz to all my old friends and contacts. Lol

[Mungo]

Originally Posted by Methanoid

Splatt from FLT even rang to apologise about how bad that was...

Splatt was a really nice guy. Used to mail trade with him.

I used to send him demos (Which, being a sysop, he very rarely got a lot of) and he'd send me 0 day warez in return. Which was pretty ace for a mail trader.

[MajicMushroom]

Splatt! was an excellent guy. Used to send him rave tapes and get 0 day warez in return. Went to a party at his house once and met Cemi and Hogster too. Hogster was another decent genuine bloke.

Torch of LSD was a nutter, always a nice bloke, as was Birdy of IE / Digital.

Phil Douglas and Wildcard of Delirium were great guys too.

I still speak with B-Real / ex DCS on a regular basis and Mungo's friend Rotox atleast 3 times a week (yay for VoIP )

[bippym]

I'd love for some of the guys I used to see/trade with and have general chats with on here.

FreakyB who used to live in Chaddesden/Derby was my main source. He moved to Mansfield around 1994 I think but we kept in contact for a while and then things just sorta faded and we lost contact.

Alan & Babs who were also in Chaddesden, again things just fizzled out.. I actually ran into Alan around 1998 at college in Derby.. he was doing some computing stuff and had moved on from Amiga to PC

There were also others around the midlands.. it's such a shame and I hope that one day they'll visit here and we can catch up

[Mungo]

Originally Posted by MajicMushroom

... and Mungo's friend Rotox atleast 3 times a week (yay for VoIP )

Pass on my best!

Is he still doing the ascii art?

Edit: Hi Photon BTW. We used to mail trade for a while - You ended up trading with Retaliator instead so you could both talk code. Hope you are well!

[MajicMushroom]

heh Don't think he does ASCII anymore, he got fed up with all the requests.

He got busted in 93 I think when Kitaro and Intreq got done.