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Topic Starter	Topic: 20th birthday Amiga [nostalgia]
saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-29-2005 02:18 PM                  http://amigaworld.net/modules/features/ ... 30&sort_by 23rd of July 1985 was the launch of the Amiga 1000. There's still a little hardcore community surrounding this great piece of a home computer. I bought an Amiga 500 in 1987 and owned it for about 7 years. It was lightyears ahead of the competition with 4 channel 8 bit stereo sound, custom graphics chips and 4096 colours on screen in a time when the PC mainly had monochrome screens or the state-of-the-art CGA 4 colors. I still miss the good times when I used samples in Soundtracker and made some kind of rubbish dance song. Oh yeah, best games were hmmm: Xenon 2 Crazy Cars 2 Shadow of the Beast Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge Speedball 2 Lots and lots more. Shame Commodore totally fucked it up...they didn't know what the target group was and couldn't sell it to a blind millionaire. Don't think it'll ever resurrect again though some companies are still developing hardware for it and AmigaOS is still developed.
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[xeno]Julios Elite Joined: 10 Dec 1999 Posts: 18099	Posted: 07-29-2005 02:28 PM                  ahh.. memories. Few of my friends owned these back in the day. I used to have so much fun going over to their house to play on it and watch those awesome "acid demos". Also had a great time composing music on it - one of my friends had a keyboard. ah... my parents would never get one though - they ended up getting a shitty 16 mhz pc that fell apart pretty fast... man i used to dream about having an amiga when i was a kid
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-29-2005 02:42 PM                  me too...after our ZX Spectrum + broke down, I nagged and begged my father for a long time till he bought us one. It was an amazing jump in technology, going from 48 kB to an WHOOPING 512 kB ram :o I should have kept that thing
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-29-2005 02:58 PM                  ok ok
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diego i'm gorgeous! Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 1233	Posted: 07-29-2005 03:04 PM                  I started programming with a commodore cbm 8032 and it was horrible. But fun.
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-29-2005 03:05 PM                  dude, that was a totally different machine and Germany had the biggest Amiga fanbase and still has. photoshopnoob!
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diego i'm gorgeous! Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 1233	Posted: 07-29-2005 03:06 PM                  grr... my photoshop skills are not tooooo bad! and, yes, i know, the Amiga is still very big in ze Fazerland. I love it.
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-30-2005 02:47 AM                  Guess there aren't many oldskool Amiga users around
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*OptimusPrime* ouF! Joined: 03 Jan 2001 Posts: 2340	Posted: 07-30-2005 02:51 AM                  i love these HBD threads \o/
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phantasmagoria Bück Dich Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 6228	Posted: 07-30-2005 02:53 AM                  _________________ [size=85]
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Yeando Pitching A Tent Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 1707	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:04 AM                    saturn wrote: Guess there aren't many oldskool Amiga users around Ive still got my Amiga 1200 under my bed, still with my shitload of *PaR4d0X* games Frontier: Elite 2 & Sensible World of Soccer still own.
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:23 AM                  omg yeah, Sensible Soccer was one of the best games ever! I found an Amiga retailer in Holland that still sells 1200 and 4000/4500 Amiga's. The 1200 comes with 18 megs of ram! And 250 mb HD. That's amazing when you consider that originally the 1200 came with 2 mb of ram and no HD at all. (68030 cpu btw)
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Yeando Pitching A Tent Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 1707	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:35 AM                    Lol I remember having a go at typing a letter using Wordsworth. After typing several words the fucking program constantly bugged me to insert different disks just to update program settings
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saturn oldskool Joined: 06 Mar 2000 Posts: 40788	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:38 AM                  remember the program "Say"? You typed something i and a speechsynthesizer let the computer speak the words in an amazing computerized tone
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Yeando Pitching A Tent Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 1707	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:42 AM                    Mine was more like 'dont say'. I couldnt get anything to work properly on my Amiga. But then I didnt have a clue about computers. With the exception of getting to know how to use my old ZX Spectrum when I was only 7 (another nostalgia trip )
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ppp The Illuminated Joined: 04 Feb 2001 Posts: 1058	Posted: 07-30-2005 03:45 AM                  Ah yes, good times Rick Dangerous Elite Turrican 1 & 2 Alien Breed Mine's in the attick
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