7. JUST TAKING IT CHILL

You are listening to the Ericade Radio Network. Good evening and welcome to another hour of Amiga retro music. And another hour of yeah, Amiga flashback. Today we're doing nothing special. little bit of memories, some banter and yeah, I will tell you exactly how weird you look when you try to wear a face mask.Pip it up now! Pip it up now! Pip it up now! Pip it up now! Pip it up now! Pip it up now! Pip it up now! I'm a DJ, I write, it's on my right! Pip it up now!

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DJ. Yeah a little bit of memories. The Commodore C64 came out in 1982 and the Amiga 500 in 1987 and I remember when I saw the Amiga 500 for the first time. It was at a friend's house. He lived a few blocks away in pretty little suburbia called Mälarehyden in southern Stockholm.Yes, and it was a marvel to behold the first thing he showed me was this thing called noise tracker or Soundtracker. I don't remember what it was, but I saw those you know moving Bars that you have when in when the songs are playing and I immediately fell in love with the modules the Amiga mods and At that time I didn't have anything that cool. So I just wondered I want an AmigaBut I had to wait until 1990 before that happened.

So the Baskerville I think that's some kind of Scandinavian It's not Swedish at least could it be Norwegian could it be Danish have no idea my first computer was a Commodore 64 and I had it as late as in 1989 I think it wasAnd I absolutely loved all the games, the intros, the demos, everything that I had. But as I didn't have a modem, I couldn't download anything new. So it was this kind of swapping thing where you just swapped the diskettes with the people on your own street in the neighborhood. Actually, I have always been under the idea that the Commodore 64 never had a virus.The viruses were very common on the Amiga and PC. But yes, someone made the very interesting effort in actually creating a fully functioning virus for the Commodore 64. That's a thing.

full disco mode here on the Amiga station, the only real Trueblue Amiga station in the world. But then again I'm not sure because I haven't googled for it.

Christmas 1990. Well, it was when I got the Amiga 500, my first really real computer. The C64, it was a cool machine, but the Amiga, it was something else. You could do a whole lot more with it. So I spent my first Christmas flying flight simulators and for the first time in my life, getting acquainted with something such as a Windows system.not Windows of course, well Workbench 1.3. And this Amiga still stands on my table in my living room. Still works, have you know.

June 1 1994, yeah, I was sitting in the living room of a friend of mine. His name was Niklas Sjögren. He was actually one of the principal members of EverQ. You know that demo group we spoke about a few days ago in one of the podcasts. Well, at any rate,I had my Amiga 500 with me and the hard drive with my BBS. I had disconnected it because I wanted to have something to play games and demos on. He had his own BBS called Sea Green BBS and I asked him, hey, can I disconnect your BBS and connect mine? So what I actually did was that I plugged in my system and everybody came to my BBS.which led to a number of memorable moments when the user wondered what has this bbs changed name? Yeah, we also got a few users actually finding my bbs that way. So it wasn't half bad.

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I believe that Spike Jonze would have been a marvelous Amiga module artist. He used a sampler many decades before they were invented. And he made a song called I was a Teenage Surgeon. And I tried the thing today. Not the song, but I tried to look like a surgeon. because I wanted to, but because I had bought the wrong Corona masks. The two...are. The type 2 are. They are blue and makes you look like a dentist or as I said a surgeon. Well they also make sure that you cannot breathe. You can breathe but it feels like you want to rip it off because it's horrible. Then it also fogs your glasses because the exhaust air goes up under the glasses. yeah, legally blind I tried to well jump on the bicycle and I got myself to the Mall of Scandinavia here.As far as I know, I did not kill anything on the way and I didn't ram into something, which was a miracle by itself. I got in there, everybody was looking at that weird dude with a bicycle helmet and a surgical mask. I guess they would have thought about some guy with a knife from a slasher movie or something. But I got home and now I know one thing. There are better ways to protect yourself from the corona.

No encore, but a detour anyway. That's the name of the song. We continue with a firecracker, but we are a few weeks away from that anyway.

talk much about Atari in this station, probably because this is an Amiga podcast in an Amiga station. But let's, both the Amiga and the Atari had the phase that the home computer era ended in the early 90s. So that was the end. But whereas Commodore tried the CD32 and the Amiga 1200, Atari had another ace up its sleeve.The Atari Falcon. This one was a 6830 based machine and an Amiga 1200 killer. Well, I have actually looked at the specifications and while it is clear that the Falcon had a 16-bit audio card as opposed to the Amiga Polar 8-bit and it also was a bit faster with the 6830 CPU.By and large I would say the Amiga 1200 was the winner here Mainly because the graphics were better on the Amiga and Atari only developed and sold 60,000 Falcons before they actually closed shop and started doing other things But the Falcon is an interesting bird if I may say so and a very odd computer in some ways and maybe as odd as Commodore'sMFMS Commodore 65

Asparagus that's the name of the song we're going on to 1993 1993 for all your Amiga freaks out there was the year we were waiting for the second coming of Commodore a thing that never happened We hoped and we said the Amiga is going to be alright. It's all gonna be alright.

Eracade radio network remembers the Commodore Amiga. Yeah,

DJ Demon signing off here. It has been a pleasure as per usual to keep you guided through the Amiga music and some of the stories. Well, don't forget that on Saturday the 19th of December two things happen. Fondata here in Sweden. Go to www.fondata.org or why not?In the evening, listen to the Ericade Radio Network Christmas special at 9 PM CET. Or you can do both at the same time.This is the Aricade Radio Network. Want to experience a bit of the past, like a Swedish BBS? Point your browser to radio.arcade.net forward slash bbs to see how.Welcome to the Ericade Radio Network. Stay a while, stay forever.