20th birthday Amiga [nostalgia]

Post by **saturn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:18 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.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:28 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

Post by **saturn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:42 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

I should have kept that thing

Post by **saturn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:58 pm

ok ok

Post by **diego** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:04 pm

I started programming with a commodore cbm 8032 and it was horrible. But fun.

Post by **saturn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:05 pm

dude, that was a totally different machine

and Germany had the biggest Amiga fanbase and still has. photoshopnoob!

Post by **diego** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:06 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.

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:47 am

Guess there aren't many oldskool Amiga users around

Post by ***OptimusPrime*** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:51 am

i love these HBD threads \o/

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:53 am

Post by **Yeando** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:04 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.

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:23 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)

Post by **Yeando** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:35 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 :icon27:

Post by **saturn** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:38 am

remember the program "Say"? You typed something i and a speechsynthesizer let the computer speak the words in an amazing computerized tone

Post by **Yeando** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:42 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 :icon23: )

Post by **ppp** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:45 am

Ah yes, good times

Rick Dangerous
Elite
Turrican 1 & 2
Alien Breed

Mine's in the attick