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Join Date: Aug 2024
Location: Brussels/Belgium
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Greetings from Absurdistan !
Hello everyone,
I am a middle aged man who has nearly always resided in Brussels. Proud owner of a C64 since my childhood and still a nostalgic user of that machine, i started wanting an Amiga since i was 12. It started when my father started buying a magazine about games called "jeux et stratégies" that was full of joy and fun. There were pages about video games. I was stunned by the screenshots of amiga games, at the time when the number of colours on screen was a big deal. I remember articles on falcon, populus and point and click games. Since that time, if i received one Belgian franc, i spared it to buy an Amiga 500. With the years passing i coveted more and more that mythical Amiga 500. Magazines with pretty screenshots amplified my desire. The video games magazines i sometimes read at that time were pretty much adverts disguised as information. My father called me "victim of advertisement". In 1992 a good childhood friend of mine got an Amiga 500 with a memory extension offered by his parents and i gamed at his place. I was really amazed by the graphics of the games. He had lots of fun with his games. Eye of the Beholder, Syndicate, Moonstone, Civilization, Z-Out. And many others. You guessed it: I never got that Amiga ! So i am nostalgic of a machine i never had. There is good emulation out there , of course. and i heard there are even USB competition pro joysticks to use with emulators. But it is not the same. One day i will get an hardware Amiga 500. During a recent discussion with someone who is thinking about selling his Amiga 500, i realized i lacked some practical knowledge on how to have a working mouse on a real Amiga, what to use as a mass storage system and where to buy all that knowing Belgian customs are horrible about everything that comes out of the EU and doesn't come with all the paperwork of an establisehd store. So i was advised to come here. Especially since registrations on Lemon Amiga are suspended right now. As a good netizen, i have read the rules and er... i hope whoever wrote them then is much less angry now. I have also read the FAQ and was a bit suprised to find it so outdated on what seems to be a very active forum. I am a bit reassured to see smileys here. I use Xubuntu 22.04 as my OS. I installed FS-UAE without FS-UAE launcher as it is all that resides in my offcial repositories. No WinUAE either. I don't know why. There seems to ba a procedure to make a full install on my OS but i will ask questions about this in another thread. And later one another thread for my hardware questions. ![]() I don't know why but the preview adds spaces between my paragraphs each time i click "preview". |
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Join Date: Aug 2024
Location: Brussels/Belgium
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Oh ! And i did a little bit bit of BASIC programming on my beloved C64. Nothing fancy. Best a did was a solver of system of linear equations. But like an idiot teenager i used divisions instead of multiplications in my pivots !
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Italy
Age: 49
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Welcome to the forum
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Ex nihilo nihil
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: CH
Posts: 5,154
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Looks like your Amiga history is as labyrinthine as your pseudo refers to. A nice wink
![]() You came to the right place to gather and share about that wonderful computer. Welcome to the forum Dedale ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Ur, Atlantis
Posts: 2,205
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Welcome to the forum.
A500 with some add ons is definitely still as much fun today as it was abck then. So I definitely recommend you finally get one ![]() The double spaces between paragraphs has something to do with Firefox and forum software not playing nice. Not much can be done about it, just try to delete them after preview. |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 32,573
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Welcome to EAB, Dedale
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old bearded fool
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Bangkok
Age: 57
Posts: 817
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Welcome!
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Join Date: Aug 2024
Location: Brussels/Belgium
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Thank you all for the warm welcome.
![]() I did not want to make my post too long and boring but i am very touched by all the love and work so many people put towards these old computers. I am more familiar with the C64 scene and games and demos but i am learning more about the Amiga. Long ago, i had catastrophic health problems which made me drop out of engineering school. And it takes a lot of time for me to work that out. Not the kind of problem that make you want to end your life or bite people but the kind which leaves you with little energy. Currently, i manage to study one sixth the time i need to go back to university. plus i have to revise two years of uni courses. So it takes time. Maybe some day you will see a press article which will look like "How touching ! Octogenerian completes a Ph.D. in engineering in Belgium !". The relation between this and computers ? Well, i find learning assembler (a must if you want to do C64 stuff) very very interesting. And i heard 6502 and 68k assemblers are fun te learn among assemblers. But i concentrate my limited work power into maths and when i will have recoverd my capacity to study full time (That means 60 hours a week), i will probably be very busy studying other things at university. So i am afraid i will do what i want to do quite late in my life. And in fact i have a long pipeline of stuff i want to learn, read and do. Having little energy is a bad problem to have but having a big pipeline of things you want to a do is a very good problem to have. ![]() |
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German Translator
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Drübeck / Germany
Age: 50
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But I can understand it, because I also had to do without it for a long time. And today I'm more interested in it than I was back then. As a teenager, for example, I never programmed. Welcome to EAB! ![]() |
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Alien Bleed
Join Date: Aug 2022
Location: UK
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Absurdistan sounds like my kinda place!
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Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: England
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whalecome, as for FS-UAE you can use the Flatpak version which contains the launcher. apt/source version(s) will likely fail with QT5 errors so best to use the Flatpak atm.
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Join Date: Aug 2024
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Ah ! Makes sense. I had posted another thread for FS-UAE. Thank you. ![]() https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=118388 |
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Ur, Atlantis
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Earth
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Hello and welcome to EAB Dedale.
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