Hello,
I’m from Chile and currently living in Seattle. I started with an Atari 800 XL and later moved to PCs. However, I always wanted an Amiga after reading about them on old magazines coming from Europe. I never saw or had a chance to buy one at the time in my small town.
Now days, 20 years later and after watching too many retro videos on YouTube , I got my first Amiga from eBay! an Amiga 600 PAL from UK without any mods. Unfortunately I found it has a problem (I’ve to wiggle the R audio port to fix composite video). I’m now waiting for a RGB to VGA adapter and CF PCMCIA card to install software and to continue checking the machine.
I’ve also started to build an Amiga 1200 using an FPGA and MiSTer. I’ve collected many parts so far (e.g. A1200 case, A1200 keyboard, triple LEDs, de10 nano FPGA, USB keyboard adapter) and last week I bootstrapped the FPGA for first time! (took me a while to figure out how to partition the SD card on Mac — I ended up manually patching the MBR using vim). Lots of fun!
Regards,
Carlos