Hello everyone.
I have been lurching in this forum for about a month or so. I am ready to introduce myself I believe. Name's bonoedgey, come from the great white north of Canada (not as cold as people think ) I am rather new to the Commodore Amiga scene. First off before I go any further.. I want to give a big shout out and thank you to intric8 for the wonderful sticker. Its going on my monitor side for sure.
Just had to get that out.. so thanks again intric8.. greatly appreciated and have already shared the site to others around me. Ok where was I...oh yes.. I am rather new to the Amiga scene per say.. new enough that I must confess I don't really understand some bits yet.. Some goes over my head quite a bit.. other things I believe I have a good grasp of. I am greatly fascinated with Amiga. I want to branch out and be part of a community that shares my although new.. passion none the less.
Little history.. although I am just getting around understanding AmigaOs etc.. I am not new to the Commodore scene in general. I grew up back in the 80s with a C64 breadbin and a wonderful for the time (I was a kid.. I didn't care) 13inch b/w tv for a monitor.. I think back now and I go yikes.. but playing games on it was all I cared.. color came after with a monitor meant for the C64 (1802 monitor I believe). I remember going through the compute magazines trying to program basic games.. (see what I did there ..ok I will stop with the goofiness ) . But enough with Commodore's other big boy.. its about amiga here.
I am like I said very new to Amiga scene... I found it kinda when I was growing up as a " I hope to maybe get to play on one of those at least some day" system. They seemed to be kinda out of my range and reach as my parents were content with my C64 .. and really I was too.. but as I grew up and went to the PC scene (still have a C64 kicking around.. different monitor now though) I was always seeing Amiga screenshots especially in the early games era.. They were always better looking than the IBM and clones at the time. That of course grew my *sigh I want one* feelings
Well yrs went by and I have managed to get one of these beautiful machines. I have actually managed to get a few various ones through various means. The systems are pretty darn expensive at times it seems but I have been very fortunate and lucky to manage a few.
I think one of the first things I want to accomplish is to just understand the AmigaOs a bit more. I seem to have a bit of knowledge here and there.. but its fragmented it seems.. My Amiga has a CF IDE in it and I mean I understand that .. what I mean is I want to be able to maneuver around and understand kinda the equivalent of windows/OSX for amiga .. like doing everyday things I mean. (man that sounds goofy just there.. but I am going to leave that sentence up just cause its the best at the moment how I can describe.) I can get into more details at another time.. as I am diving into it and learning on the fly..
My intro is not meant to be this long winded.. I just wanted to finally jot something down in here. It seems to be a great place to start relations with fellow Amiga admirers/lovers.. and even of retro stuff in general.
Thank you for all taking the time to read my intro.. sorry its kinda long.. As I am writing this on the wkend.. I hope that all of you have a great rest of the weekend.
Bonoedgey