Hello! Seems I am a blue one since yesterday...

Allow me to introduce myself: I am a 35 year old bloke from the darker part of Germany. I have been an Amigan since the hardware became available on my side of the country in the early 90s. While I don't know what happened to my Amiga 500 after I gave it to my sister, the A1200 is still sitting on my desk being switched on every day. I have been fooling around a lot with it - Building in a CF harddrive, connecting a CD ROM drive (for OS 3.9 installation), setting up wifi, kicking a Remus customized Kickstart with BlizKick, screwing up the system with all those patches and starting all over. Mainly I now use it to play games using WHDLoad and often my wife joins me in that.

I have been frustrated about the way thing went for the Amiga (the curse of bankrupcy, the minimized and fragmented user base), and I have never had the money for affording new hardware, e.g. the Eyetech A1 in its days, the Sam or the X1000 now, which made it even harder - cause I really love Amiga. although I was reading forums thoroughly I never took greater notice of MorphOS. You guys were "the other ones" - for me the real deal was connected to the name. But, as I said, no way of being able to pay for a AOS4 machine. (I never really understood the "red vs. blue wars since" I re-joined the scene after that, I guess.)

One day I came across a ca. half hour long youtube video in which a British guy showed all of his Amiga related systems. And that's when I discovered MorphOS to be pretty cool. Then I did some further research. My brother-in-law handed me over his out-of-use Mac mini (1.42 GHz) for a good price. I didn't even look at the MacOS but installed MorphOS right away, registered, downloaded Pack ultimate 1.6.4 and here I am. Sure I had to turn off a bit of the eye candy, yet 1.5 GHz models are off limits for me considering the prices in online auctions.

There's still a lot for me to discover and I am sure to post dumb questions here once in a while. So... hope I didn't bore you guys all too much but I am so excited about how this all works and I am now posting from an amiganiod system that's really usable in these days.

I am looking forward to MorphOS 3.0 now, of course! Cheers!

Willkommen!

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Ex oriente lux

Welcome

Welcome to the "dark side" of Amigans!

If you liked the ultimate pack (maybe with ice icons) and want to give a better look to your MorphOS desktop in few clicks then try my Better look Pack:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8135&forum=9

My suggestion is just to not use Lucy (it's an app that gives transparency to the windows/apps) on your machine, beacuse ti would make thinks slower on a 1,42Mini.

Welcome 1,286! I am 1,282!

a) you might want to check into the local asylum

b) if your in for a bargain MorphOS-system look out for PowerMac (QuickSilver,MDD or FW800), but I guess it's a little late for that advice ;)

@Red

"I am not a number...!"

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I know you guys like to keep track on the numbers of licenses sold.

@Miky060: Thanks for the hint! Really - me likey!

@Kronos: Had to take what came cheapest and quickest to get my hands on. No need for the asylum yet. Though my wife was a little suspicious when she asked "And what do you need that for now?" and I replied that I did not understand the question. MorphOS got her with the big blue butterfly. No inquisition anymore.

welcome to the collective

Mega

Welcome to the club! Have fun and dont forget there is a lot of cool 68 legacy software that is really fun for Morphos. Image Fx, Photogenics, Cinema 4d, also morphos titles like the games Birdie Shoot, Knights and Merchants, and more!