The Commodore Amiga, the present day and the very average user

Greetings folks. I was born in Denmark in 1980, basically in the middle of the computer age taking shape. My first memories of a computer was the Commodore 64 but the machine that loomed large in my youth was the Amiga, also from Commodore.

An Amiga 1200 was the first machine we had at home and I kept that beast until 98 or 99 when it was finally time to move on.

In recent years, as middle aged nostalgia started kicking in, I got back into the Amiga, first through emulation and later through actual hardware by acquiring an Amiga 1200 from the UK.

This blog will detail my journeys, things I do with the Amiga, trinkets being released for it and talk about some of the software coming out (as well as delve into the past a bit). Mostly, it will be something I can do for fun.

The perspective I hope to bring is one that I think can get a bit overlooked in the retro gaming scene: That of a pretty average person. I can’t program, I haven’t soldered anything since 8th grade and I know nothing about what a “transistor” does. I was always just an end user and I remain an end user.

On top of that, while I am fortunate enough to be able to spend some pocket money on a hobby like retro computing that is fairly expensive, I am not in a position to burn a thousand dollars to pick up a PowerPC card or a 68060 equipped Amiga 3000. My kit is a bit more humble.

As such, I hope to be able to bring more of an average persons perspective to the Amiga community: A reminder that the hobby is one that can exist on a lot of levels, depending on what you want to put into it.

I hope to see you soon!