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| Re: The Amiga 500 [message #294565 is a reply to message #294540] |
Mon, 29 June 2015 09:34   |
Stephen Thomas Cole
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Neo Fortune <serenity3043@gmail.com> wrote:
> I loved the Amiga 500 when I bought one in 1989
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500
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I was given a 500+ for Christmas, either 90 or 91. Loved the thing. A few
school friends had Atari STs and, even as a computing neophyte, I could
always tell that the Atari was a crapper in comparison.
> The first Amiga Magazine had a fractal program on disc
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> This totally blew my mind away
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> I was doing a computer course at college, learning the basic programming
> language on the BBC Microcomputer's and the crappy PC's
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMWEiCdsfc
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMuBH2aZbE
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> On the PC's they had the game Battle Chess
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> The graphics were blocky
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> This game using the Amiga Graphics looked brilliant on comparison
I've got an ongoing modding project where I've fitted a 1200 motherboard
into a 500 case and added loads of upgrades, accelerator, cf HDD, internal
cd drive, RAM. She's not quite finished yet, probably usb and a scandoubler
to be fitted before I paint her black (have already swapped the keys with
black ones from a CDTV keyboard), so she's semi-dismantled on my workbench
(no pun intended) but I'll download Battle Chess and give it a spin, never
played that one!
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STC // M0TEY // twitter.com/ukradioamateur
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| Re: The Amiga 500 [message #294738 is a reply to message #294565] |
Tue, 30 June 2015 15:31 |
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Originally posted by: Sparc IPX
Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
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> I've got an ongoing modding project where I've fitted a 1200 motherboard
> into a 500 case and added loads of upgrades, accelerator, cf HDD, internal
> cd drive, RAM. She's not quite finished yet, probably usb and a scandoubler
> to be fitted before I paint her black (have already swapped the keys with
> black ones from a CDTV keyboard), so she's semi-dismantled on my workbench
> (no pun intended) but I'll download Battle Chess and give it a spin, never
> played that one!
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I wanted to do something similar with my A1200 and spare 500 case. Do you
have pictures of your ongoing project?
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sparcipx
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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