Commodore Amiga owners thread!

[Ravenger]

If anyone is interested there is a North West Amiga meet up 25th Feb. I'll be going and David Pleasance is making an appearance too.

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I met him at a Play Expo, really nice bloke. Got a copy of his book which was an interesting and entertaining read.

Where is this meetup exactly?

 

[lakitu]

Ah yeah I've read his book, maybe he has more than one now, not sure. Mine is signed too which is cool. The meetup is:

Address

Rochdale Masonic Hall

2 Richard St

Rochdale

OL11 1DU

It's a 50 min drive for me and I'll be on my own, never done anythign like this before but what's their to be scared of. A room full of people loving Amiga!

 

[Ravenger]

Unfortunately I've got plans that weekend, but I'm tempted to go to one in future.

 

[Mike UK]

Just incase anyone’s interested, Yorkshire have the following meets lined up

• November the 18th (10AM TIL 4PM)
• North West Computer Museum – Leigh
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• January the 27th
• St Margaret’s Church Leeds (2PM TIL 6PM)
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• March the 2nd
• Wisewood Methodist Church Sheffield (11:30 TIL 5PM)

 

[Pooh]

I got lucky with a cheap crt eBay purchase - a C=1940 multisync monitor



Despite the dreadful packaging it survived shipping, works fine!

Nice set-up. If you want any tips on white balance give me a shout

 

[Trick]

Nice set-up. If you want any tips on white balance give me a shout

Thanks for the offer, appreciated. For quick photos on the phone, who cares, for actual photos i'll let the 5Diii handle the white balance

 

[kPATm]

I have hunted my Dads loft a few times to try and find my old Amiga 500. But I think my Mum sold it years ago and never told me. I still remember sitting open mouthed watching the intro to Shadow of the Beast when I 1st got it.

 

[MTA99]

Similar thing happened to me. I had an Amiga 500 and 1200 but the 500 is gone

I was probably asked "Which of these is better?" then the poor old A500 went off to the car boot

 

[Ravenger]

Similar thing happened to me. I had an Amiga 500 and 1200 but the 500 is gone

Still got my 1000 in the Attic but a SNES and a C64 disk drive have mysteriously disappeared.

 

[quackers]

I've got a 500 and a 600, has anyone ever bought any of the memory expansion kits from Amiga Kit online? I'm tempted to buy the 512k expansion for the 500.

 

[!bluetonic!]

It's the South West Amiga meet today in Chipping Sodbury. Photos will follow through the day.

 

[MadMossy]

Use to live in Chipping Sodbury, just off Cotswold Road near St John's primary school. This would have been around the early 90s, would catch a bus to Bristol every morning for school at St Mary Redcliffe. Those were the days, friend of mine had a C64 and shortly after that the A1200 came out.

 

[!bluetonic!]

 

[!bluetonic!]

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Hell yeah!

 

[!bluetonic!]

It was a great meet. My aim was to complete Shadow Of the Beast 1. I did it with unlimited lives. I kept on failing at SOTB2 as you can get into situations which you can't get out of.

I also demonstrated video capture and caught up with people.

The buffet food was epic.

 

[MadMossy]

Who's the heathen using an LCD monitor! Has to be CRT or it ain't authentic.

 

[!bluetonic!]

Who's the heathen using an LCD monitor! Has to be CRT or it ain't authentic.

They won't be invited back..

 

[GR63]

Mine I bought to upgrade, PiStorm etc.. Never had time. Its prob gonna have to be sold

 

[!bluetonic!]

Mine I bought to upgrade, PiStorm etc.. Never had time. Its prob gonna have to be sold

That's a shame. Why a PiStorm? What were your aims in an upgrade?