Amiga 500 comes home to roost

[Huxley]

One of my prized computers when I was a kid (10-12 years ago) was a pair of Amigas - a 1000 (got in a trade for a TRS-80, IIRC) and a 500 (found abandoned in my grade-school's storeroom). While I didn't have much software for the systems, I played "California Games" to death, and loved every minute of it. I've been dreaming of getting back into the Amiga scene ever since I left those systems with my Dad.

So, with the backstory out of the way, I just bought an A500 kit on eBay last week. Here's the link, so you can see what I snagged:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280266903362

It just arrived yesterday, so I'm only starting to get it set up. I'm unfortunately stuck with a Commodore 128 monitor (a 1902A) which doesn't accept the type of color output that the A500 puts out, so I'm limited to black-and-white for the moment, or at least until I find a nice 1084 screen to use. Any offers? I'm also looking for a replacement keyboard, and a disk cleaning kit, as the drive seems a bit flakey.

That's it for now!

Huxley

 

[Rodus]

Just plug it into your tv via the coaxial cable, thats what I did. I miss my 500, many happy hours of Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Lemmings etc.

 

[II2II]

That's a nice collection of games, but I do hope that you won't have to write about your bizarre adventures with zebras after zipping to the zoo.

For some reason, I've been feeling the urge to pull out an Amiga for the last couple of weeks.