Greetings!
I've recently obtained my first Amiga 1000 and found this board while searching for information regarding possible modifications for it. I've recently recapped a 1084 for her, as the combo is absolutely beautiful. I will be making a Kickstart ROM / CPU relocator adapter, socketing in in MKL's IDE68K/8MB and calling it a night. I tried to live with the Kickstart disk, but just couldn't do it
As a child my family didn't have much money so I was limited to the very basic Amiga 500 in 1988 (yay single mother income tax!) I later purchased a trapdoor expansion and a 1084 monitor after working long hard McDonald's hours as a teen in high school. As many of you can also appreciate, these machines forever captured my imagination and I have a great sense of nostalgia for them as a result. To easily communicate with the international Amiga community today is something I could only have dreamed of.
I can't say I am interested at all in the PowerPC generation machines, as I just can't bring myself to consider them Amigas, but something about those Vampire cards is exciting. I currently own a few PAL/NTSC Amiga 500's, 600's and 1200's and a CD32 obtained just to make one of Terriblefire's RAM expansions (which is fantastic, BTW!) In the past I've owned all three of the big box versions and 040/060 accelerators but have sold them during several "time to move on" phases in this cycle of my hobby interests. The one thing I've learned about THIS hobby is that is that I always seem to come back, so I reckon I'm here to stay.
I also have a collection of C64/128 and Atari 600/800/800XL computers. Something about those Jay Miner Atari models that feel familiar, isn't there?