BinaryDemon wrote:
Thanks... Yeah... I was born in 1976, so I was a young teenager when Amiga was a machine that young gamers used. So I have experienced the entire Amiga culture and how people were social with this platform. It began to fade in 1993, as IBM compatible PC's began to take over.
I was born in 1976 also. I briefly remember using a Vic 20 but from what I remember it was more console than
PC either it would boot a cartridge or it would boot into Basic. I would write programs in basic but I had no way of saving them (no storage) so I would leave the computer on all the time. After that my father got an ibm compatible Epson 8088 and we were x86 from then on. I am interested in the alternatives I missed out on like AmigaOS and MacOS so thanks for sharing your experiences.
It was a way different time, in which we did a lot of piracy. It was like the wild west of the computerworld back then. Usually we gathered once each week, to be able to play games and learn about hardware and somebody might give lectures on how to program. Now not everyone had a computer at that time. So it was a small group of some 20 young teenagers getting together that day each week.
People usually cam with their Amiga500's in a backpack and a tv that they carried in their arms. Somebody had a small vagon, that they used to haul their equipment by foot. We played two player games around one machine, that we shared for that game. There were no network at that time, so if we wanted a copy of a game, we asked to look through a buddy's disk-boxes. And if we found a game that we liked, then we bought a set of floppy disks from the leader of the computerclub. He had like 1000's of empty floppy disks in long cardboard boxes of 100 disks, that he had bought in Germany for like 1/5 of what they were sold for in Denmark. So he sold them at 50% and the money he made, was donated to the computerclub. So yeah.... A lot of piracy was going on. It was like really unusual to see someone buying an original copy. These days it is so different. I can still remember the leader yelling "Copy Tiiiiime" one hour before the club closed each time it was held.
Now... Not only did we have this computerclub. We had something called Computerweekend. It was still wayyyy before LAN or Network if you like. It was when us geeks and nerds had our biannual computer gathering. Yeah... Two times a year. And we slept amoungst the computers in sleeping bags. Well some of us did it. Some fell asleep on their Amiga500 or PC keyboard. It was not unusual to see someone using their computer as a pillow, because they fell asleep during an X-Copy session. Like half of us did not sleep for one whole weekend. We had stashes of cola, candy and chips/crisps all around. Tables filled with random floppy disks. Someone sampling sounds for tracker music. Someone repairing or installing hardware and someone playing sensible soccer or something.
During these dataweekends, we had other activities. Like body crashing...
This is from 2000 and not 1991/92, yet you will understand. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAfuzTykE8
Then we had competitions in floppy disk throwing, wich is kind of like diskos or spear throwing, just with floppy disks. Later they used floppy drives (5,25 and then 3,50 inch), and then harddrive throwing, then cd-throwing (yes, drives too). We also played basketball on the local court, because the weekend was in a schools gym-hall. And there were a lady preparing each meal in the schools kitchen. Usually spaghetti and meatsauce, stuff like that. And there were an improvised cinema, showing terminator and hellraiser on vhs.
Yeahhh... It was a beautifull time back then. Lots of "creative" stuff going on. Yet. If someone sold pirated game, then they would actually get beaten up in school. Yet we had a rule. One rule... If you got one copy of a game, then you had to share it to as many as possible. For free... Else you could mind as well go and buy an original.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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