26 February 2024, 15:41 | #1 |
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Ay up! from Derbyshire in't UK
Hello everyone!
I grew up in the era of 8 and 16 bit microcomputers. My dad's C64 was the first computer I ever used and still have fond memories of waiting 15 minutes for a game on tape to load only for it to fail! I graduated to an A500+ which lasted a couple of years before I upgraded to an A1200 which eventually got expanded to include a whopping 40MB HDD and external CD-ROM. I regrettably swapped it for a Pentium P60 in about 1997 when it seemed like the Amiga brand was finished. I'm really glad to see that although there was never much success after Commodore's bankruptcy, the Amiga community never dissapeared and seems much stronger than it ever was in 2024! I've been dabbling with emulation for the past few years but recently bought an A500 from Ebay for which I'm eagerly awaiting delivery! |
26 February 2024, 16:06 | #2 |
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Hi, Greeting’s from Birmingham
Amigans are like boomerangs, everyone always comes back eventually! |
26 February 2024, 16:26 | #3 |
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Indeed! There's never been another computer that quite captures the same sense of excitement and possibility.
Kids these days can keep their "AAA" games and their raytracing graphics cards! |
26 February 2024, 16:34 | #4 |
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'ow do? aint seen likes o' yow fur ages. Grand 'ere 'init?
Colloquial pleasantries over, welcome to EAB. |
26 February 2024, 17:01 | #5 |
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Am alrate ta! 'tis grand 'ere.
Any advice for my newly purchased A500? It comes with PSU and workbench but not much else. I've ordered an RGB to Scart cable from amigakit so I'm hoping the old LCD TV I've got in the loft that has Scart inputs will work ok at least for now. I'll probably get a gotek drive as well but ultimately I'd like to be able to run some kind of hard disk in it. Does the Pistorm work well for providing at least a storage volume, or am I better looking at something like the ide68k? |
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The best bang-4-buck upgrade is a RaspberryPi based PiStorm which adds :
and soon
But with a PiStorm you've departed somewhat from the ethos of Amiga A500 and moved into the realms of Supercomputer. An IDE68K would add a HDD and FastRAM giving you a good base A500. Maybe add an RGBTOHDMI using a Raspberry Pi Zero? Last edited by alexh; 27 February 2024 at 08:08. |
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26 February 2024, 18:09 | #7 |
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26 February 2024, 19:29 | #8 |
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Welcome!!
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Welcome to the forum !
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26 February 2024, 20:02 | #10 |
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Hello from Yorkshire!
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26 February 2024, 22:03 | #11 |
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Thank you for the kind welcomes everyone!
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27 February 2024, 09:53 | #14 |
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'Ey up mi duck! Welcome to EAB, from a fellow Derbyshire Amigan.
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27 February 2024, 10:05 | #15 |
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27 February 2024, 10:14 | #16 |
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Yes, with bootable floppy disks (images).
Such floppy disks usually also require 7MHz 68000 CPU too. (e.g. an accelerator that can be turned off) Kickstart and CPU compatibility is not required if you switch over to running such programs from HDD using WHDload |
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