graafen | (Reply)

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I picked up another A1200 myself off ebay last year, after having had a 500 for years (also still at the parents place to this day). I don't end up using it anywhere near as much as I'd like to though, but it is one of those machines I definitely want to do some work on as a project at some point (add new hardware, update the ROMs to 3.1 if I can get hold of the chips etc).

One of these days I need to get hold of a 5.25 inch floppy drive for the PC too. Just so I can see if the one remaining big floppy I have containing my BBC Master 'masterpiece' from 2000 still works.

It's actually the Amiga that really got me started in my love of programming, for all the horrible slatings the shipped AmigaBASIC used to get. Indeed I still have most of that guff online now on a really old website of mine:-
http://www.tesandco.co.uk/programming.html
(Oh and http://www.tesandco.co.uk/animation.html if you want to see some of Deluxe Paint III/A500 masterpieces from the turn of the millenium :P)

Indeed on the subject of sites, you should check out

eliki's site sometime too. He used to do all his furry art on a fairly bog standard A1200 right up until about 2006 when he finally cracked and went to PC use however still remains a massive fan of the machine to this day.