Amiga Photographs

[jag]

I can't believe you guys who have Amigas but don't actually use them! Maybe I would be the same, but I am suffering from some serious nostalgia here, at the minute. If I recall correctly, we had an A600 with an external disc drive so you could put in two discs at the same time - does that sound about right? Also a joystick, so that you could get really well mashed into the wall playing Lotus or run full pelt into the bombs on the various shoot-em-ups.......

;-) Jag

[Puni/Void]

Hi there Jag,

I'm still using the Amiga several times a week. Even got a new table for it not long ago. Here's a picture of my current setup:



Here's the specifications:

Escom Amiga 1200
Apollo 68030/40MHz with 32MB of RAM
Toshiba 40GB 2.5" HD
PCMCIA CF-adapter
Micromys Mouse Adapter
Competition Pro Joystick
Old-school Goldstar 14" colour-TV

On top of the machine, you can see a PCMCIA W-LAN card, which makes it possible to surf the Internet on the Amiga. Great for FTP's, Aminet and simple errands.

Harrison will probably comment on how tidy the desk is.. well it actually is. The Amiga zone is sacred and littering is not looked kindly upon.

An Amiga 600 with an external disk drive sound right. Was great being able to have two disks inserted when playing games, as one didn't have to swap disks as often. A lot of new hardware for the Amiga 600 has been released recently by the way.. we're talking turbo-cards (better CPU, more mem), scandoubler/flickerfixer and so on.

[jag]

Me not jealous much, of course (hem, hem). Yes, very impressed with the neatness of your work area. Do the dreaded Guru Meditations still occur? Used to have that with games not loading or crashing horribly halfway through some really tense bit. It would tell you to click the left mouse button, but sometimes you would get a repeat offender and just have to leave it for a while (a bit like having a row with the other half and having to go off for a walk to calm down for a short time.....)

;-)

[Harrison]

Oh yes, still the old Guru messages. All great fun.

But, these days you can install pretty much all Amiga games onto an internal HDD using a clever program called WHDLoad, and that removed such issues most of the time, plus games load near instantly with no floppy disks needed.

[Puni/Void]

Oh yes, still the old Guru messages. All great fun.

But, these days you can install pretty much all Amiga games onto an internal HDD using a clever program called WHDLoad, and that removed such issues most of the time, plus games load near instantly with no floppy disks needed.

WHDLoad rulez! Not having to rely on floppies for gaming on the Amiga is a blessing.

[Harrison]

I think if there ever was an award for the greatest invention/development in the Amiga world in recent years it would have to go to WHDLoad. It breathed new life into Amigas for me. As you say no need for floppies, so an A1200 can become a standalone retro gaming system with everything to hand and ready to run. No media needed.

[jag]

You've seriously got me started now. I've downloaded WINUAE - will let you know how I get on idc. Looks a bit scarey, so will probably need some help. Other than the psychiatric, of course, which I'm not disputing (but then a youth misspent messing around with Amigas, motorbikes and keyboards which required 'system exclusive dumps' - I kid you not - will do that to you.)

;-)

[carvedeye]

Well since we are sharing photos I thought I would show my current set up of my amigas hope you all like the pics

Sorry that they are a bit blurry