Sebastian Bergmann recollects his journey into the wonderful world of Amiga retrocomputing.
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Christmas 1990 I got an Amiga 500 computer and a Commodore 1084S monitor.
The Workbench disks you see in the photo above were the only software I had until school started again after the holidays. So what did I do until then, you ask?. Learn AmigaBASIC, of course.
I really wish I had not sold the Amiga 500 when I got the Amiga 1200 …
My Amiga 1200 is now covered by a Retro-Protect Dust Cover while not in use.
I bought an Stk1160-based USB audio/video grabber for recording movies off of my Amiga 1200. Recording using VLC on a Linux notebook “just works”. Nice!
For the moment I have to use the Amiga’s built-in Composite video output while I am trying to acquire an Amiga RGB to S-Video adapter. Using S-Video should yield much better video quality.
The capacitor replacement is done and today I received a package with my (almost) good-as-new Amiga 1200. The computer still works (there was considerable damage already under the old capacitors) and looks even nicer on the outside than it did before. In addition to replacing the capacitors and cleaning the keyboard, for instance, Stefan also repaired the screw holes and exchanged the LED board.
Thank you so much, Stefan!
A while ago I bought a Mac Mini G4 to have a machine capable of running MorphOS.
I have since upgraded the machine’s memory from 512 MB to 1024 MB and replaced its 40 GB HD with a 32 GB SSD.