u/seelenaugeExatron

​I’m absolutely buzzing today! I just received a new Amiga 500 ( it's my second one) that I picked up from a super kind fellow Amiga fan via Kleinanzeigen.

​The condition is great, and it gave me the perfect chance to do something I haven't done since the 90s: I pulled the original box of my all-time favorite game, Lionheart, off the shelf and fired it up.

​Seeing that intro sequence and listening to rhat awesome GameStar music on original hardware again hit me right in the nostalgia. Lionheart is one of the best games ever made for the system to me. I just had to share this moment with all of you 🙂

​Happy gaming, everyone!

Gerade eben, 11:45 Uhr bei "Quarks im Ersten".[1]

O-Ton "Diese zarten weißen Linien am Himmel sehen harmlos aus; sind es aber nicht!".

Ich habt es zuerst vom mir gehört, bevor es Rainer bei Facebook teilt und Uschi bei TikTok dazu tanzt.

Spätestens jetzt ist es Zeit, ins Cloudbuster-Business einzusteigen..

[1]Quarks «Endlich Urlaub! Wie Erholung wirklich gelingt» ab Minute 15

Hello fellow Amiga lovers.

I recently came across an A500 on a classifieds app quite by chance; the price was great, and the machine was advertised as working. So, after a brief chat with the seller, I set off and brought an Amiga home again after a good 28 years. As a child, I had an A600 and I loved it.

A suitable monitor was included in the deal. I picked up the Workbench 1.3 disk and the mouse on eBay, so I was able to get it up and running at home for the first time yesterday.

The case has turned quite yellow, but that doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

There appears to be a switchable memory expansion slot in the trap doorl, though it doesn’t seem to work anymore. The left Shift key is dead, but otherwise everything runs perfectly. The drive is humming away busily too.

I don’t plan to modify it much. Especially as I can’t handle a soldering iron. :D

I already have an ACA500+ here, just waiting for the CF cards, and I hope to be able to use the machine as a gaming device. I got some peripherals (joy sticks, external disk drive) from the seller, too. They have to be testet, yet.

After lots of reading and watching YouTube, my curiosity is growing, and I fear this won’t be the last Amiga to find its way into my home.