Hi everyone. Harrison here from classicamiga.com

I've been active in the Amiga community running classicamiga for many years now, and have been a fan of the Amiga since the beginning. Rather than run through the whole history of classicamiga, telling you what I've been up to, you can visit the site and read the Site History page if you are interested in finding out how it progressed and developed.

Over the years I've owned many Amigas and still own most of them. Of these the ones I still own include:

A500 (KS1.2), A500 (KS1.3) x2, A500+, A600, A1200 x2, A4000, and a CD32.

And I'm still after a boxed CDTV.

I actually didn't get my first own Amiga until 1991 with the release of the A600. Before that I owned an Atari ST! *blasphemy*, because I just couldn't afford an Amiga in 1987 and instead had to buy the £100 cheaper ST at the time. I instantly regretted it though as the games just didn't measure up to the Amiga versions, and lots of my friends had Amigas so I would play them often. The day I finally owned my own Amiga was great.

I've been visiting OldSkool UK for some time now, mainly following links posted by members over on the classicamiga forums, with many members of OldSkoolUK also being members of classicamiga.

I finally decided to join here to check out some of the forum content and join in, plus the classicamiga demo section is constantly expanding so we will be looking for information and sceners to help us out.

Hi Harrison :D

You're a n00b :lol:

I've not been here long myself, I just had to join too. Some things can't be avoided.

@Harrison

Indeed, i have been trolling calssicamica.com an absolute labour of love!

welcome to the crew, theres plenty of mischief to get up to around here :D

Hi Harrison,

Welcome to the board and nice intro!

As you know, I've been a member of Classic Amiga for some time now (love the layout and the vibe on the site) but when you were suffering bad server lag a while ago, it kinda dented the whole experience for me. Glad to see you've switched servers these days and everything is lightening quick now. :)

I'm glad you signed up because even though we have a LOT of regular guest visitors, they are missing out on about 60% of the forum. Everything goes here, as you'll see. lol

Enjoy!

Yeah, that definitely wasn't so great. When the site started to suffer due to server issues it really hit the whole site badly and our visitor rates really fell, plus it wasn't so nice trying to work on a site suffering from bad slowdown.

When the new site first went live it ran fine but we quickly started to expand with a lot of new content and that hit the database server badly. Switching to a dedicated server was the best thing I ever did. I was initially concerned over the costs, but it is worth it for sure, as the instant speed increase was huge, and monthly donations help to pay for it which is good. Plus as I now have a whole server to myself I can also use it to host other sites which is great. :)

Thanks for the welcome everyone. I've only so far had time for a quick look around the forum but there is a lot of interesting posts to read which I look forward too.

@Harrison welcome to this forum!

Some of us love Retro, Some of us love Oldskool but most of all we enjoy getting drunk and having a good old fashioned rant or two ;) well most of us do with a hint of computing to disguise the above shamefull fact lol:)

We ain't PC, but like Pc but not as Much as Amiga, we also love other systems too ;) both Retro and even New!

I think that just about covers us! Thats about the most poetic post i've ever written ;)

@Sarek

[quote]"I think that just about covers us! Thats about the most poetic post i've ever written"

well except for that post claiming your undying love for me... but hey thats understandable..... :D