Flashback - Amiga A500
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I had the standard Amiga 500 and upgraded it to 1024. Never understood what all the other Amigas did differently and didn't care as long as I could play my games 
4 weeks of work experience it took me to buy that Amiga - 4 painful weeks of being office junior/slave at an insurance company during my summer holidays as a teenager. Was it worth it? I certainly thought so on the last day of that 4 weeks when they gave me £400 and I went straight out and bought my new toy
4 weeks of work experience it took me to buy that Amiga - 4 painful weeks of being office junior/slave at an insurance company during my summer holidays as a teenager. Was it worth it? I certainly thought so on the last day of that 4 weeks when they gave me £400 and I went straight out and bought my new toy
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In the loft i have the following computers (with games 
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Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Atari 520ST
Atari 400
I think there may be an atari 800xl up there also but im not too sure.
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)Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Atari 520ST
Atari 400
I think there may be an atari 800xl up there also but im not too sure.
Tony
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When Commodore made their brief comeback in the mid 90s as Amiga they should have gone pc and dropped their own operating system. Or did they?!! 
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I had a 400 with 48K and clicky keyboard upgrade to which I attached my Lego to the joystick ports using little transistor arrays 
, then an 800XL, then a 130XE, then an A500 Used to love the Atari shows at the Novotel as a kid, seeing Jeff Minter et al.
, then an 800XL, then a 130XE, then an A500 Used to love the Atari shows at the Novotel as a kid, seeing Jeff Minter et al.
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LOL.
I remember my primary school getting a zx81 as its first ever computer and everyone being really excited. They only got one of them and all I can remember playing on it was bat and ball
Even when I was doing A levels my school had only just progressed to 386's Only started getting my hands on 'proper' pcs at college and then uni. Primary schools now have kids as young as 5 or 6 using pcs and teaching them how to use them 
I remember my primary school getting a zx81 as its first ever computer and everyone being really excited. They only got one of them and all I can remember playing on it was bat and ball
Even when I was doing A levels my school had only just progressed to 386's
Only started getting my hands on 'proper' pcs at college and then uni. Primary schools now have kids as young as 5 or 6 using pcs and teaching them how to use them
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Fantastic
I remember buying my Amiga 40 Meg hard disk with 2MB of memory in for 480 quid It was the nice contoured one that matched the shape of the Amiga.
In fact, it's still at home in my mum's loft wasting away I think. The Amiga I had that it worked with, my mum managed to drop on the floor and the Amiga never turned on again. Think the hard drive still worked OK though. My dad got another Amiga A500, but it had the power converter built in or something, and it didn't want to allow the hard drive to slot in the side
Think there's a shed load of games up there as well. I remember fun nights playing F-117a, Gunship and F-16 Combat Pilot
We always used to have a challenge as well to see how many lives you could finish Turrican II with.I think I was up in the 20s or 30s
Gonna have to fish out my copy of UAE and my 2CDs of Amiga games now.
I'll miss using my luminous green Competition Pro joystick though
I remember buying my Amiga 40 Meg hard disk with 2MB of memory in for 480 quid
It was the nice contoured one that matched the shape of the Amiga.In fact, it's still at home in my mum's loft wasting away I think. The Amiga I had that it worked with, my mum managed to drop on the floor and the Amiga never turned on again. Think the hard drive still worked OK though. My dad got another Amiga A500, but it had the power converter built in or something, and it didn't want to allow the hard drive to slot in the side
Think there's a shed load of games up there as well. I remember fun nights playing F-117a, Gunship and F-16 Combat Pilot
We always used to have a challenge as well to see how many lives you could finish Turrican II with.I think I was up in the 20s or 30s
Gonna have to fish out my copy of UAE and my 2CDs of Amiga games now.
I'll miss using my luminous green Competition Pro joystick though
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ahhhhhhhhhhhh, Amiga! Classic gaming days.
Falcon, F/A 18 Incerceptor, Carrier command, Elite, xennon II, turrican, Dueterous (weird ending on that one!), Stunt Car Racer, Populus II, Exile (loved that game!)
One I loved was, damn, what was it's name, was really funky, one of those civilisation type things, you moved through different 'epochs' from caveman to nuclear age (you could put people into suspended animation) anyone remember the name?
Oh, and lemmings, how can we forget lemmings! here we go!
Falcon, F/A 18 Incerceptor, Carrier command, Elite, xennon II, turrican, Dueterous (weird ending on that one!), Stunt Car Racer, Populus II, Exile (loved that game!)
One I loved was, damn, what was it's name, was really funky, one of those civilisation type things, you moved through different 'epochs' from caveman to nuclear age (you could put people into suspended animation) anyone remember the name?
Oh, and lemmings, how can we forget lemmings! here we go!
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