09 August 2020, 13:47 | #1 |
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Hello from Manchester, UK
Hi, I'm Simon and I've been around on and off over the years, just never joined until now.
My first Amiga was a 500 Plus, my family got the Cartoon Classics pack. I sadly no longer have it -- I suspect it got sold or thrown out after being relegated to the attic. The first Amiga I actually owned was an Amiga 1200, purchased second-hand out of some savings. Somehow I ended up with another Amiga 1200. One A1200 lives in an Eyetech DIY tower, which regretfully involved some mutilation of the original wedge case. I didn't get around to filling in all that space; still no accelerator or graphics card. I did put an x86 PC in the tower and had a KVM switch to switch between them, but that didn't last. I unboxed my towered A1200 again about 5 years ago, and it was only occasionally powered on until around December/January when my interests were piqued with a bit of a nudge from another Amiga-owning friend. I heard about the Vampires, I found there had been some new developments with Amiga OS 3.1.4, and the Checkmate A1500 Plus looked just lovely for downsizing from the barely-used, full-size Eyetech tower -- when sales opened for another batch of Checkmate cases i got my order in (thanks Steve and co!). I'm excited that development seems to be happening on classic Amiga OS again, and I'm interested in things like the Vampire and MiSTer. Current specs:
Projects and plans:
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09 August 2020, 17:18 | #2 |
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Hello Simon ..... welcome to the forum
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09 August 2020, 18:06 | #3 |
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Welcome
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09 August 2020, 20:43 | #4 |
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welcome
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09 August 2020, 23:25 | #5 |
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Greetings. Manchester is a right dump. You have my sympathies.
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10 August 2020, 02:16 | #6 |
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Welcome to the board. You are throwing down some money on those projects, hope you get your vampire soon.
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10 August 2020, 03:04 | #7 |
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10 August 2020, 03:07 | #8 |
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