Well, after some dithering about it last month, I picked up the phone today and rang up the folks at AmigaKit and bought a copy of OS4.1, which if all goes well should arrive in the next few days, if not tomorrow. Just as well, it was the last copy they had in stock for the A1, apparently. Though I'm sure a good salesman tells that to all the customers, right?

For the first time in quite a while I'm actually feeling a twinge of excitement at the prospect of messing with computers...

Odd as it may seem, I've been out of the Amiga scene for a long time. Coming back is, frankly, a little strange.

Up until the around 2005 or so, I was an avid Amiga user. My towered 1200 was my main machine for years. I used it all through University (refusing to buy a PC) and I even wrote my final thesis on it, albeit using Word under Shapeshifter. I was, dare I say it, a bit of a zealot.

Since then, life has conspired to deny me any time to indulge the old hobby....

Somebody once said to me it's like letting your brain take a dump.

Well, here goes...