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17 March 2021, 22:42
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Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: Seattle / USA
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Hello
Hi All!
I'm a software developer based in Seattle, but I grew up in Manchester, UK. My first computer was my dad's oric which I used to type in lines from lady bird books on. Later my dad got me a zx spectrum +2 which I still have in the loft of my parents house. I'm desperate now to get hold of it again but my folks live in the UK and I live in the USA. After the speccy my dad bought me an Amiga 1200 which I mostly used for playing Elite Frontier, lotus turbo Elise and various cover disks. I got a CD32 after that which I always planned to 'upgrade' to get it back to being an A1200 but I never had the funds. Then there was a snes and eventually a PC. Never had much money in those days, so I missed out on a lot of the games of the time and contented myself with playing cover disks and random stuff my dad got me off car boot sales. I don't know if it's age or the fact I moved to the US a few years ago, but nostalgia has become a force to be reckoned with in my life! I'm looking to get going again with Amiga stuff. Maybe do some assembly development on an Amiga 1200 if I can get hold of one. I've been a software developer for nearly 20yrs but never done much assembly. I've been playing around with devpac 3 running on amiberry on a raspberry pi but it's early days! |
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17 March 2021, 23:09
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: France
Age: 50
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welcome on EAB
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18 March 2021, 14:44
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Location: Liverpool
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Welcome
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18 March 2021, 14:48
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Italy
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Yep, always good to start a "nostalgia adventure" !
 Welcome to the forum 
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18 March 2021, 23:39
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Location: Sweden
Age: 50
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I hear Seattle has a pretty good retro-computing scene with a bunch of nice places where you can buy retro consoles, computers, games.. ;-) Well, about that long overdue CD32 upgrade, your timing is pretty good. Only in recent years did we get a good upgrade option (030 accelerator + rgb out, IDE and keyboard connector) thanx to some talented people in the community. Check out Amibay if you you're looking for stuff to buy: https://www.amibay.com/forumdisplay.php?24-Amiga Cheers |
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20 March 2021, 05:29
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Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: Seattle / USA
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Thanks all for the welcome!
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20 March 2021, 05:32
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Location: Seattle / USA
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23 March 2021, 21:56
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Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Greece
Age: 50
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Welcome to this incredible fun and informative forum
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23 March 2021, 22:48
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Earth
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 welcome back
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24 March 2021, 00:20
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Location: Chicago, IL
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@burma-shave
Welcome, stay a while, stay forever. |
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24 March 2021, 08:27
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Needs a life
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: England
Posts: 1,707
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I love Seattle
. The Seattle retro games fair I was lucky enough to be in town for was awesome, and I really hope the living computer museum is just brilliantHopefully one day I’ll get back there... welcome! |
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