To think this was probably my first disk
and now I have over 13000 of the things
Using DPaint and animation made me realise
just how valuable the floppy was going to be
And so by the Monday I was back down the computer
shop to buy myself some more boxes.
Soon I was into my first disk box
Filled that in no time at all
Not simply with software and PD but also
cover disks and back up copies of my work
That first Christmas I set aside three games
to play and I have to say I literally never
stopped playing them. I had started to drop
ever deeper down the rabbit hole.
First game I played was Terminator 2
Next on the list was Ishar 2 and the
Messengers of Doom
And thirdly Sensible Soccer... Classic
The game just seemed to be endless
And with hard drive install I needed
only to click the icon on the screen
The Amiga became a home, a place to store
all my favourite things and to be able to
access them at the click of the mouse
Ishar was my very first real story type
adventure that let me save and pick up
where I was for my daily intake. This became
a pattern of behaviour for months, where I
would work and do other things on the Amiga
and then simply load the game and carry on
usually till I got stuck.
In those days there was a telephone help line
you could ring to get help if in real trouble
I eventually bought the help guide
Games manuals were a real joy in those days
Sensible Soccer became a joystick killer
and at £10 a pop started to become quite
expensive. The Quickshot were the best but
sadly none of them lasted.
Lots of games were still disk based and I guess
I never bothered much about the disk swapping
Disks were your lifeblood into the system
With no internet and no community to tap
into they really were your only source of
supply to feed the computer
The only real way to expand the supply was
to visit the computer store and purchase
more software. Or to buy from magazine articles
Much of what I acquired was through reading
articles in magazines and trying out the
software and then eventually buying it
I lived by the magazine and bought as many
as I could afford. Just to get the software
And the games
Let's not forget the games. This little
collection still sits by my computer as
my most cherished and loved cover games
So from that first magazine I was hooked
From my very first Desktop Dynamite
To a magical world of possibilities
And I am still living the Amiga dream
Still crazy after all these years
I do believe she will outlive me
