Greetings from an another Amiga user

[Captain_Seamus]

Hey! I'm an OLD Amiga guy - I actually go back to Atari 2600 before it was the 2600 - then got a Timex Sinclair 1000, then a C-64, and when it had issues, a buddy of mine had an A1000 with an 80meg sidecar - I was thinking of an IBM clone until I saw the color and graphics... I was hooked. I got an A500, then another, then an A2000, and then an A4000/040 - that lasted me until 1996 or 1997, when I finally shifted to Windoz... with the occasional Linux run...
At one point and why I had 2x A500s, I had a BBS running off an A500 and 2 floppies. It worked great for text RPGing.

Never been thrilled with Dos/Win systems, Linux has occasionally done a few interesting things. I have an Acer Aspire running AspireOS - I had it from late 2008 when I was travelling the world, and bought it to use for work.

Found C=OS a few years ago - version 1 or 2, tried it, liked it, but it wasn't anything to run every day for me at that time - but now, with this version - I have it loaded on as the primary OS on a Gateway (yeah, another Amiga tie) laptop - it runs nicely on a 12 year old machine.

To the devs and others working on this - thanks for the effort - this is a very cool update and really digging it. Gonna do some tweaks to make it how I like it (change to Brave amongst others) but mostly just use this as my fun laptop.

[elwis]

Aah, i never owned the 4000 .. but it's never too late. There's one for sale now but they are kind of expensive in Sweden.
And I was thinking of BBS's yesterday, good times indeed. A lot of fun!

[LeoNigro]

I have an A1000 with a 40meg sidecar which was still massive for back then, split 20/20meg for Amiga/PC.
I even stuck a 286 card in the sidecar which worked fine. I still have it.
The drive would most certainly have stopped working and I thought about replacing it with memory card options.
It powers up, but the pins are damaged, and they cost a fortune to replace.
And as the A1000 is the only input and output mechanism, it's kinda hosed.
Maybe one day I'll do something about it.
I have a pistorm in the A1000 now, and if I was so inclined, I guess I could run a PC emulator for similar performance to the Sidecar.
Kinda bummed I never experienced the AGA Amigas first hand, and only later via emulation.

[LazarX]

I have an A1000 with a 40meg sidecar which was still massive for back then, split 20/20meg for Amiga/PC.
I even stuck a 286 card in the sidecar which worked fine. I still have it.
The drive would most certainly have stopped working and I thought about replacing it with memory card options.
It powers up, but the pins are damaged, and they cost a fortune to replace.
And as the A1000 is the only input and output mechanism, it's kinda hosed.
Maybe one day I'll do something about it.

I assume the SideCar used SCSI? Might I suggest the BlueSCSI project?

[LeoNigro]

No, the HD was for the PC so I believe it used the cheaper IDE.
That's what made the sidecar so sought after.
The only annoyance was you needed to launch the interface via floppy first.
The Janus interface software, rarely worked first go, so you needed to soft reboot.
And that would have been after the kickstart disk.
Funny how it didn't feel so painful at the time.