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    • garak0410
      garak0410 last edited by

      I've seen Amiga mentioned many times in here and was wanting to see if anyone wanted to share any Amiga memories...

      My first glimpse of an Amiga was an Amiga 1000 running the NewTek Demo on two floppy drives. I had never seen anything as amazing as that demo. I watched it loop over and over again. Using Paranomia as the song was such a good idea. My favorite part was the 4 monitors part with the animations (Betty Boop) and loved when all 4 were playing...

      Then I met someone with a 1000 and got to play with it...that's when I found it was more than just graphics...at the time, to me, it seemed like a good and powerful OS.

      So, I was determined to sell my Commodore 64 and get an Amiga 500. That meant shutting down my Commodore 64 based BBS on Ivory Joe Software that I had been running for 2-3 years. So, packed up my Commodore 64, 4 disk drives and loads of "cough copied cough* games and marched down and got me an Amiga 500 with 1084 monitor with stereo speakers. I was hooked from there...I remember saving the $200 for the 512K memory expansion to take me to 1 meg of RAM and it made a world of difference.

      I finally sold it and got me a 2000 which I eventually held on to until the mid 2000's. It was going to take a lot for me to give up my beloved Amiga. Eventually went via EBAY and got me a Video Toaster and was hooked on LINEAR editing. Never could get the Flyer.

      I think my favorite games were Cinemaware games...Rocker Ranger, Defender of the Crown, Wings, It Came From The Desert....

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      • MattSpeller
        MattSpeller last edited by

        Before my time but I know those feels man

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        • coliver
          coliver last edited by

          I think I used my first computer in '93... way before my time.

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          • scottalanmiller
            scottalanmiller last edited by

            So I grew up on borrowed computers until in 1987 my family bought an Amiga 1000 as the first computer that we actually owned - bought for the express purpose of me being able to program. We had the 256KB memory expansion giving in 512KB and it ran AmigaOS 1.1 originally. Dual floppy drives, the 880KB 3.5" floppies. This was an amazing machine.

            I had a lot of games for it, of course, like King's Quest, The Faery Tale Adventure, The Bard's Tale, Pool of Radiance, Deja Vu, etc. But the real goal was programming and I learned AmigaBASIC and C on that awesome computer.

            Using that same Amiga 1000 I got my first commercial internship at Eastman Kodak in 1989 doing database development for them (actually making the database software!!)

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

              @coliver said:

              I think I used my first computer in '93... way before my time.

              Damn. I used my first in 1979. Had really regular access at home (borrowed machines) since 1984 (both Mac and IBM PC running DOS.)

              In 1994 I moved from Amiga as my main machine to Solaris and haven't looked much beyond UNIX since then.

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              • coliver
                coliver @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @coliver said:

                I think I used my first computer in '93... way before my time.

                Damn. I used my first in 1979. Had really regular access at home (borrowed machines) since 1984 (both Mac and IBM PC running DOS.)

                In 1994 I moved from Amiga as my main machine to Solaris and haven't looked much beyond UNIX since then.

                To be fair, I was only 4 years old.

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                • garak0410
                  garak0410 @coliver last edited by

                  @coliver said:

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  @coliver said:

                  I think I used my first computer in '93... way before my time.

                  Damn. I used my first in 1979. Had really regular access at home (borrowed machines) since 1984 (both Mac and IBM PC running DOS.)

                  In 1994 I moved from Amiga as my main machine to Solaris and haven't looked much beyond UNIX since then.

                  To be fair, I was only 4 years old.

                  I would say that makes me feel old but I think I am looking quite young for 44... 🙂

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                  • garak0410
                    garak0410 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    So I grew up on borrowed computers until in 1987 my family bought an Amiga 1000 as the first computer that we actually owned - bought for the express purpose of me being able to program. We had the 256KB memory expansion giving in 512KB and it ran AmigaOS 1.1 originally. Dual floppy drives, the 880KB 3.5" floppies. This was an amazing machine.

                    I had a lot of games for it, of course, like King's Quest, The Faery Tale Adventure, The Bard's Tale, Pool of Radiance, Deja Vu, etc. But the real goal was programming and I learned AmigaBASIC and C on that awesome computer.

                    Using that same Amiga 1000 I got my first commercial internship at Eastman Kodak in 1989 doing database development for them (actually making the database software!!)

                    Oddly, I programmed a heck of a lot more on my Vic-20...even programmed my own BBS program on a Vic-20. Programmed some on my C64 and NEVER on my Amiga...I become more of a consumer and multi-media producer than programmer...

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                      I still have the Amiga 1000 along with a Commodore 64 and VIC=20.

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                      • garak0410
                        garak0410 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        I still have the Amiga 1000 along with a Commodore 64 and VIC=20.

                        I get my fix for all of those via Amiga Forever and C-64 Forever...they actually work quite well and when I had time some years back, you can really set up a custom "VM" if you will...

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller last edited by

                          I recently went back and played a little of the Faerie Tale Adventure, that was one of my favourites, on an Amiga emulator.

                          I've been playing through the King's Quest and Space Quest originals with my kids but we are getting them from GOG so it is the DOS versions that they are seeing. Same era, though.

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                          • garak0410
                            garak0410 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            I recently went back and played a little of the Faerie Tale Adventure, that was one of my favourites, on an Amiga emulator.

                            I've been playing through the King's Quest and Space Quest originals with my kids but we are getting them from GOG so it is the DOS versions that they are seeing. Same era, though.

                            GOG has been a blessing (and sometimes a curse when I can't spend the money)...got my Grim Fandango finally...I'm playing through all the Tex Murphy games again and I hope GOG get's all of the old Star Trek Games...25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, Elite Force I and II, the Armada games...Trek games were mostly usually not that good but those were my favorites...

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                            • nadnerB
                              nadnerB @garak0410 last edited by

                              @garak0410 said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              I recently went back and played a little of the Faerie Tale Adventure, that was one of my favourites, on an Amiga emulator.

                              I've been playing through the King's Quest and Space Quest originals with my kids but we are getting them from GOG so it is the DOS versions that they are seeing. Same era, though.

                              GOG has been a blessing (and sometimes a curse when I can't spend the money)...got my Grim Fandango finally...I'm playing through all the Tex Murphy games again and I hope GOG get's all of the old Star Trek Games...25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, Elite Force I and II, the Armada games...Trek games were mostly usually not that good but those were my favorites...

                              Grim Fandango is available in a remastered edition on Steam now... not sure about GOG

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                              • Nic
                                Nic last edited by

                                That reminds me of a funny story. I never had an Amiga, but friend of mine did. His sister was writing a paper and had spent all weekend on it without saving at all. Of course the computer froze up. They called me over and I was able to escape to shell prompt. I wrote a little script to page through the entire memory searching for English words so that we could find her writing and copy it down. After running for 12 hours it found where the paper was located and I was able to see the text. I wrote up another little script to print out that section of memory to the printer. Unfortunately the printer driver wasn't loaded in memory by default. It went to the drive to grab the printer driver - and guess what section of memory it loaded it into? Yep, right where the paper was. In retrospect I should have had her write it down by hand.

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @Nic last edited by

                                  @Nic Twelve hours? How long would rewriting the paper have taken?!?

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                                  • Nic
                                    Nic last edited by

                                    She'd spent all weekend on it, so most likely longer. Plus that was overnight, so she was sleeping 🙂

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      Was this for her PhD?

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                                      • Nic
                                        Nic last edited by

                                        Nah, was for some college paper.

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                                        • scottalanmiller
                                          scottalanmiller @Nic last edited by

                                          @Nic said:

                                          Nah, was for some college paper.

                                          I made it all the way through undergrad and grad school and never had a paper over two hours, most were minutes!

                                          Really sad when college students don't think to save papers. That should be an F right there!!

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                                          • Nic
                                            Nic last edited by

                                            Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often 🙂

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