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I had an amiga 600 /1200 and a few months ago purchased an amiga 4000d and upgraded to 060 and mediator and 3.2.2.1 roms I spend more time on it than my pc / linux machine, im hope to get into programming and update software for this great machine that will never die.

All hail the amiga 🙌

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Wow, impressive to hear about the 4000D motherboard! What case did you put it in?

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It's in standard 4000d case but I upgraded to the bfg9060 rev 6 running at 100mhz 128mb ram on board , I added 2x 256mb zorro 3 ram cards I have added a radeon 9250 128mb card I use for the graphics via dvi on card to hdmi on my 42" TV and if gives me 93 mb of that ram as system memory as well 2mb chip and 16mb on board mediator 4000i with the pci slots radeon, networking, sb128 card and usb spider card 128gb ssd card

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Love this. I too read the article and was disappointed with the lack of cool recognition. I consider myself to be a generation 1.5 Amiga enthusiast. Countless hours watching my Mum playing, then playing myself when I was old enough to "get it", starting off with platformers like NZ story, rolling Ronnie etc. then ending up on strategies like Millenium 2.2, Deuteros, Midwinter, Imperium and the like, but even some Infocom text games.

Mum was mad on PD stuff, and while I never got the bug, I've tried to archive a lot of what she had. My experience with XCopy only really comes from the last 10 years, but all of this is still an adventure. When I can, I churn through these secret PD treasures - ones I daren't load into the original A500 (I have it working in it's vanilla form), but rather ADFs in an emulator.

So for me, the Amiga (500) is actually really bloody cool, and a source of nostalgia and many memories too.

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