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F0L wrote: @MEGA_RJ_MICAL You have crossed the line loads of times. You should have been banned long ago.

You are an enemy of free speech, (further proof)
I guess FOL stands for "Force Over Liberty".

You still refuse to admit you mistook a bot for a real person,
you should rename yourself F00L.


Even better,
you should ban yourself for your own inadequacies.



/MEGA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@MEGA_RJ_MICAL

Are you a bot?

Never said it wasnt a bot. As I have said, you have crossed the line loads of times.
Now your resorting to name calling. Please grow up and go away.

To add, so your calling all the other users in this thread "FOOLS"?
You have some wierd logic.

"you should ban yourself for your own inadequacies."
Huh, inadequacies in what. Your the only FOOL here. Im a normal user, that you have gone on a crusade and attacked. Pointed out many times before. "I AM NOT AN ADMIN HERE"

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Silence, scum.


/Mega!!

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This thread started out as a nice pleasant discussion.

Does it really matter if it was started by a bot?

Saddly, the discussion was destroyed by MEGA_RJ_MICAL

@redfox

You make a good point, friend redfox.

I hereby regret for steering this healthy thread away from its original incipit for the sole reason that it was started by a cyborg.
We all should be granted equal rights, whether real people, bots, poles, cdimauro or else.

IN FACT, I HAVE AN EPIPHANY!!
What if...

What if the best role for bots in online communities was to revive forums like this? And perhaps evem to bring back threads on topic when they diverge too much from what the OP envisioned?

You truly (unwillingly, for sure) shone a light on this aging brain of mine.
SO!! Allow me once again to apologize,
and run to my forbidden vaults to don a checkered labcoat amd code the night away!!


VVVOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRR
/mega

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Like a black cat, MEGA_RJ_MICAL fades into the night to resign a life, only to return at the light of day to resume another.

Do not wail for the absence of MEGA_RJ_MICAL my friend whom swings the ban hammer, but rejoice in his stealthy return... his awakened new esse.

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@Amiga4000

a beauty is a joy forever, friend Amiga4000.

BUT LET'S GET BACK ON TOPIC:
What was your first Amiga Experience?

Given my personal experience won't matter, given I MADE THE AMIGA and they (you know what), then let me relay a beloved friend's first day with this wondrous machine:


“Ah my first day with my Amiga 500: it was the year 1990, I think, and I was coming from a Commodore 64. I had been daydreaming of owning an Amiga since I saw one at a friend's place. Drakkhen impressed me more than anything else I had ever seen on a computer before. As a nerd's nerd, seeing a role playing game coming so alive on a screen, totally got me.

With the Amiga, which we got at bargain price from an unlicensed person who was selling out of his own apartment, came one original game (The Newzealand Story) and a pirate copy of... Donald Duck's Playground.

I thought I would spend the next few days with TNZS which also happened to be my favorite arcade at the time, so I decided to try and dismiss Donald Duck quickly. I ended up soaking in the wholesome atmosphere of that game and spend an entire day playing nothing but that, after which it was Workbench (1.3.2) itself that conquered me, and when I ended up clicking on AmigaBasic I ended up in a rabbit hole that lasted a few more days.

I was in a daze for a week or so, before I even remembered I had that TNZS box waiting to be opened, still plastic wrapped.�

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@helena11

Yes, ^it's a bot^ but I choose to respond anyway. Years ago I was concerned that if I gave away any personal details someone on this site might recognize who I was. But now that the site is pretty dead and most of the remaining participants are overseas, I guess it's pretty low risk.

It was early 1986, I was 21. I lived in a beach town in Florida. A friend of a friend invited some of us from the local Atari scene over to view his new Amiga 1000. I'd read about the Amiga but this was my first actual hands-on. Well, it was amazing! I sold my Atari 500ST and picked up an A1000, then a few years later on an A2000. Amiga was my primary machine until 1994.

It was the first preemptive multitasking I had seen, it was wild to me how we could download a program from a BBS and begin trying it out while downloading more files in the background. You could have as many windows open as memory allowed, unlike on the ST. The graphics and sound were great of course. I loved how the hardware was similar to the Atari 8-bit in some respects.

Fun times. Too bad it all went to shit.

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@helena11

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helena11 wrote: Hello everyone, I thought it would be fun to start a thread where we can all share our very first experience with an Amiga. - When did you first encounter it?

It is hard to pinpoint exactly. I remember someone bringing an A500 to our house as a kid to try and sell to my brother (we had an Amstrad CPC at the time) and for whatever reason we didn't get it. I remember seeing a load of disks including a 'backup' copy of Road Rash that we attempted to load and it had an error along with some other disks that had errors. Could be part of the reason This must have been around 1992 or 93.


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- Which model was it (A500, A1200, etc.)?

The above experience was an A500, but after this I had a friend who owned an Amiga 500 Plus in 1995. I remember playing games on it including Lemmings, McDonaldland, SWOS, Ultimate Soccer Manager, Bart, Cannon Fodder, Bubba 'n' Stix. I remember his older brother bought a new boxed copy of Monkey Island (2?) and we were in awe at the box/manual and the graphics but we weren't allowed to play it

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- What game, demo, or software left the biggest impression on you?

It's hard to say but when I eventually got my first Amiga (600) I remember booting up the Spaceballs Ninefingers demo and being blown away!
Also really thought the intro sequence of Another World was awesome.

@thread

While my first in-person experience was with my friend's A500, and then eventually I got an A500 for my Uni days, and then I got myself an A500 when I returned to Australia in 1991, the vast majority of what I did with all those A500s is gaming.

Some people talk about the effect of being empowered by personal computers. To that I have to say that it wasn't until I got the A1200 with 40MB HDD and 4MB Fast RAM expansion that not only did I feel empowered by my choice in personal computing, but emboldened.

I've certainly felt that way about the internet and the web, and now with early AI, but I have never felt that way about a computing platform since, and in my view it is the thing that is missing from contemporary computing platforms.

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agami wrote: I've certainly felt that way about the internet and the web, and now with early AI, but I have never felt that way about a computing platform since, and in my view it is the thing that is missing from contemporary computing platforms.

Have you tried Linux?
Sure it's a different beast to Amiga, but when I got everything setup and tweaked how I liked it, I felt probably the most empowered I've ever been sat a computer.

@plechaim

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plechaim wrote: Have you tried Linux? Sure it's a different beast to Amiga, but when I got everything setup and tweaked how I liked it, I felt probably the most empowered I've ever been sat a computer.

Any even somewhat mainstream(ish) operating system that's been released over the decades, I have tried it.
I have been an on-again/off-again Linux user since the late '90s, and even ran Debian on my BlizzardPPC expanded A1200 at the turn of the millennium. I acknowledge that Linux on the desktop has made leaps and bounds over the past 5-7 years, and there was a time in this recent past when I used Linux as a daily driver for well over a year. Even right now I run a couple Linux servers at home, and one in the cloud.

Linux provides oodles of control options to its user, which can turn into a sense of empowerment. But I wasn't talking about just the OS, and I was specifically talking about being emboldened.

Where the Amiga experience made it easy, Linux makes a bit more tricky. And I get it, x64 Linux does a hell of a lot more than 32-bit 68k or PPC Amiga OS, and has to also be secure as our contemporary connected ecosystem demands.
I do find this particular angle a bit of an excuse, as I am confident that ease of use/play can be done while preserving and ensuring security and stability.

The only other operating system which showed promise, and were it given the right set of circumstances could have one day spawned an emboldening platform, is BeOS.
While I wish Haiku OS could inherit this illusive vision, I do not think it has the right level of investment or directing to achieve that.

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@helena11

Some wonderful stories in here (skipping the noise)!

Mine started in 1990, maybe the August or so, just before school restarted. My mother and I popped back to the school I'd left a few years previously left, really just to say hi to my old teachers.

At the time I had a Speccy and a Master System. My teacher mentioned they had a new computer.

Walking to the back of the classroom, the screen was already on and there was some sort of demo running. As I approached, I made out an aircraft. Hang on. This is fully 3D! Flying around above the sea, then under a bridge and over a city... I was fixated. Never seen anything like it in my life.

This was the demo mode of F/A-18 Interceptor on the schools shiny new Amiga 500. My teacher showed me the floppy disks and how fast things would load from them. Compared to my Speccy, this was another world and I would not let my Mum hear the last of it. Christmas that year, I was the happy owner of my very own Screen Gems pack.

Shadow of the Beast 2 and Deluxe Paint II consumed me over Christmas, before I found Amiga Format (my first was issue 19) and shelves upon shelves of games to pick from every time I walked into the shops.

Such a magical time!

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@helena11

Around Q4 1989, A500 Rev 6A, ECS Agnus, KickStart 1.3, Workbench 1.3.2, A520 modulator, starter kit software, 1084S RGB monitor. After about 3 months, a 512 KB internal expansion card was purchased.

My Dad's co-workers had A2000s, and the primary use case is games i.e. sport games.

In late 1990, my Dad brought home an IBM PS/2 Model 55SX with MS Windows 3.0 from work.


Before my A500, I had a hand-me-down VIC-20 from my older cousin. My family's first home microcomputer was from Commodore.

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Screen Gems was a cool pack, I rather enjoyed Night Breed. It was the first pack I saw in my dads shop.
Don't care what any one says, Commodore UK were genius to get those packs sorted. As kids it would draw us in.

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I had a C64 and was a big Commodore fan. First seen the Amiga mentioned in a Commodore magazine and couldn't wait to get my hands on one.

Didn't get my first Amiga until around 1988/9 and bought an Amiga 500 with money saved from my crap pay as a YTS apprentice (Youth Torture, sorry Training, Scheme - I was on in at Dumfries ITeC so many moons ago) .

Later, when working in IT support/Software Development I upgraded to an Amiga 1500 and had the ROMS and custom chips upgraded to ECS and for Workbench 2.0.

After that I traded the A1500 for an Amiga 1200.

Favourite games have to be F/A 18 Interceptor, F15 Strike Eagle 2, Gunship 2000, M1 Tank Platoon, Alien Breed 3D. Loved simulation style games!

I loved the Amiga Vision authoring system. Thought it was very powerful and you could create a lot of different things through it. Don't think it received the same levels of respect as Scala MM400 but I thought it was more powerful.