Hi all! Some people probably recognise my alias as "Amida". Since then I've changed it to Crash which I commonly use in other forums. I met Kei in 1994 and joined the scene in the group Carnage. Carnage was formed just as I joined.

I used to spend much of my life behind the screen, No TV just me and my Amiga coding, producing graphics, animating, 3D tool kits, gaming etc. Perhaps my favourite work which I've done was a disk-mag called Anime-X which can be found on the Aminet.

I've owned few Amigas in my past: A500, A1200 (then sold to Kei), the beast: A4000/030 - upgraded to 040, 2 x A600s. I remember the days when my hardware list kept growing with the A4000 being the beast of them all. :lol: Despite owning a fair number of Amigas the only one I have left is the A600. I think the A600 is a fine machine, it had SCSI/CDRW/68030/OS3.1/4.3GB HD/32MB RAM and it was very compact but my only disappointment was the graphics couldn't be upgraded. ...or can it?

Nowadays I'm still nostalgic when it comes to retro gaming. I still use WinUAE, MAME32 including older machines like the Amstrad CPC.

Those were the days!! *thumbs up*

Welcome Crash, the more OldSkoolers we have on here the better....

:)

Merlin

HELLooooooooow :)

Hi mate,

Still got the A1200 you sold me, and my old A500.

Kei

Hiya Crash and welcome to the family!

I'm currently finishing the leechfest of Kei's Carnage collection at the mo, so looking forward to checking out some of your old stuff. Anime-X sounds interesting so that'll be my first port of call I think. ;)

Thanks. Its good to be here.

Anime-X was also my last project. I remember working on Anime-X in 1997 but it wasn't finished till 1999. It would have been a wasted effort if I didn't finish it, so I kept on going. :)

Has it still got the KEI red logo I remember?

Welcome to the site Crash!

Back in 1994 I was called Nemes!s. I don`t believe we ever crossed paths, but welcome all the same :)

Hi Crash, yeah it still has the red KEI logo on it.

I got the A1200 down from the loft yesterday. I had a RGB/VGA adaptor but when I hooked it up to an old CRT PC monitor it said "out of range" on the screen.

I tried it with the RF lead with two TV's but it was just a black screen.

So I removed the FPU+mem expansion board and voila! it booted and it came up on the TV. So it looks like my expansion board may be dead.

Anyway, my plan is to see if any of the 1,000+ floppies in my loft have retained their data after all these years. You see I have a sneaky suspicion that I may of come across some of the guys currently frequenting this board in my former miggy lifetime and I wanted to check if I kept the digital letters, graphic art concepts, etc that they may of sent me.

Looking at this A1200 brings back memories. I remember trying to shoe-horn a full size hard drive into a wedge shaped case, and having to leave the expansion door off to get the FPU card in. It even has that free black mouse that we both got when we went to that computer show in London and had a chat with the head of Commodore. Remember that? He was all doom and gloom and we were sure everything would be ok.

Ha, I remember that at that show after we were handed free stuff for the first time that you thought it was so cool that you went around to each stall and started pointing at stuff saying "is that free?", "how about that?", "are you giving those away?". Had me in stitches but we did come away with a lot of goodies.

Kei

@Kei:

Yeah, no doubt you'll have come across at least one of us during your swapping days. My bet would be Sarek, as he was the most active of any of us in the UK scene (NerveAxis etc.)

I dunno if you remember a couple of game compilation disks called Mr Q's Classic Arcade that were kicking around on a few PD libraries? I produced those. :)

I have 'em converted to .adf if you fancy a peep sometime.

My offer still stands about giving you a hand with the conversions with that MEGA bundle of floppies btw.

Ok thanks for the offer. I may take you up on that.

I'm trying to figure out how I'd convert them myself, bearing in mind that all my PC's have no floppy drive or legacy ports.

Has anyone connected their Amiga to the internet? Maybe I could do the conversion on my A1200 and upload it direct from my home network.

Kei

Kei,

Yeah I remember the World of Amiga show - it was a great show - probably my favourite computer show ever. I can't believe how much free stuff I brought back from the show! :lol: (erm...that wasn't the main reason for liking the show LOL)

I remember entering a competition to win some £££. Who can come up with the best acronymn for the PC. It was "what do you think PC stands for". When they announced the winner - "public convenience" I was like WTF!!? :blink: I wrote down "Piece of Crap" LOL.

Everyone kept wondering if TFX will ever get released on the Amiga, I think Ocean showed a rolling demo but I can't remember.

They had a black Amiga A600 laptop.

I also had that Olivetti laptop with a monochrome screen and dodgy NiCd battery. I remember using it to dump files onto floppies to distribute as PD.

On display they had an A4000T with a PPC board + Cybervision running a 3D Mpeg as a backdrop. That was awesome!

We met David Pleasance and the guy who coded Worms.

The 1 millionith Amiga made was on display - an A500 painted in gold.

If only we had digital cameras those days I would have taken many pictures.

Crash,

I take it that it is you using the Crash handle on Pouet, is it? Just found it by chance after mooching around for missing prods/info today. ;)