ScuzzBlog: Diaries April 2018 Entry 21st April 2018: Post: 3 Groundhog Day - A day shall never forget I was so close to buying a Windows based PC in 1993 following my years of working with the Amstrad PC9512. The thing was about to set me back £2000 and I was minded to go into debt for the machine. I recall being in this hot boring computer shop in the main high street surrounded by faceless machines, at risk of becoming a boring suit long before my day. I decide not to buy the computer and instead went to see the film Groundhog Day at the local cinema. It was the summer and I caught the afternoon show. As I left in the blistering heat I was drawn to the very colourful display in Dixons shop window the electrical supplier. For there were countless Amiga 600s all brilliantly coloured and buzzing with activity. I hot footed to the local newsagent and bought the magazine featured below. For months I would sit up each night in bed and cruise the pages of the magazine enjoying all the mouthwatering articles. At the time I was mainly mucking around with video and animation. I had two video players hooked up together and used the hi-fi and camera to mix my videos and animations. I needed a better way to edit and save my work and the Amiga 600 looked the business. Amiga Format from July of 1993 I guess if I had gone the way of the Windows PC I would have very quickly become a boring suit. Instead when I saw games like Syndicate I realised I could have so much fun on a computer And in colour.. just wonderful But animation is what lead me here I had spent any number of years with pencil and paper and video camera. The idea of a computer only came to me cus to get a better camera that could store more data was so expensive. I had already determined as I read the pages of the magazine which games I would most like to play. Ishar was a given as it best suited my desire to feed my Games Workshop history I was heavy into Babylon 5 and so the thought of actually using a computer used in the making of the series was awesome But video was the primary driver here and the Amiga seemed purpose designed to work with video and animation And there was Ishar. I just couldn't wait. And so I decided to save my pennies and buy an Amiga 600. The other obvious attraction was the price I mean how could anyone resist the Amiga in the day. It looked so exciting a prospect to use and enjoy. When I look back on this I just can't believe I left it so long to actually buy an Amiga My future became the Amiga Fascinating What was sad in the end was that I came to the party so late. With Commodore going bust the following year it was like the game was up even before I had really got started By the time classic games like Dreamweb hit the shelves, the poor Amiga was without a home and in need of serious financial support to keep it going And I so wanted the chance to keep playing games like Dreamweb Some scribbles of mine that I found inside one of my magazines I was so close to not owning an Amiga I purchased an Amiga 1200 in November 1993 I fear that had I not bought an Amiga at the time I would simply have faded into the grey dull background that is the Windows based world. Fortunately I was gifted the joy of being part of the Amiga dream and still use my Amigas today Beam me up Scotty

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