Encelo's Projectz - OS Experiences

I have to thank Amiga for what I am, what I know and what I'd like to be.
It thought me so many things, not only about computers, but especially about how to be smart, equilibrate, elegant, rational and how things are not to be wasted so easily as we do these days.
This is the reason why I had two Boing balls in the logo of the site, near the "Encelo's Projectz" text, an Amiga tribute was mandatory!.

I imagine you now, reading this page and thinking: "He must be really mad!", and I understand you, one who has not experienced the beautiful of such an high human art cannot understand it at all... :)

I bought my first Amiga, an A500, in November 1991 when I was only 8 years and half.
I started playing to some of the best videogames ever, painting with the marvellous Deluxe Paint, working with a nice and powerful GUI, programming with AmigaBasic, and, anyway, tasting the power of a real preemptive multitasking system.
My "love" for Microsoft started growing accordingly in those years... :)

Some years later I had an A1200, all changed from that day. (AmigaOS 1.3 -> AmigaOS 3.0 :-) )
I started making some 3d graphic with the Persistance of Vision Raytracer, aka POVray, programming in C, and, in November 1999, surfing the net.

Only some days after my first internet connection I managed to buy a more powerful A1200 on which I continued doing 3d graphics, but this time on programs with a GUI (Lightwave, Cinema4D, Real3D), and I enhanced my Internet experience, providing also some servers on my dyndns dynamic domain.
Ah, me and my friend built a parallel sound sampler and I begun recording some guitar tracks on this Amiga.
Since December 1999 I'm chatting on #AmigaITA on IRCnet.

All changed another time in November 2000, when I bought a powerful PowerPC equipped Amiga.
The speed of the PowerPC 603 processor, the biggest ram and the power of the Permedia2 3d card made this machine something unbelievable, you could make anything you want on this machine, I remeber when I first played Quake and then QaukeGL on it...I had never imagined this would have been possible one day. :)

I made a plip TCP/IP net, it was the summer of 2001, between these two A1200 and played Doom with friends, ahahha, what a fun!

But the sad of all this story, yes, there's a sad part, is the death of my precious 3.2gb hd containing all the legacy from the first hd equipped A1200 to the PPC days, all the things made and collected during these long years are in that damned Quantum Fireball hard disk.
It should be easily fixable because only the logic board is broken, the mechanic part and the data are ok, so I'm looking for an identical model to take its board.
But ok, for now I have another hard disk which boots and has the basic software, so the "miggy" can still breath.

I forget mentioning that my Amiga collection grew since then, I now have the old first A500, an A500+, an A600, my first A1200, the Motorola MC68030 equipped A1200, the PPC A1200, a bare A1200, a "Tiger" painted version of the A500 and an A2000, but these last two both have broken CIA chips, the others work correctly.

My PPC Amiga stands silent near the monitor of the pc I'm now writing on, it looks me and want to be switched on daily like the old days...but it has to wait until I find a new desk to put it on with its old 14' monitor and buy a PCMCIA Ethernet board. :)
Even if I have passed my developing activity on my linux box (as you know having read this site), I cannot stop using some really great Amiga programs, like YAM, Deluxe Paint, TVPaint... which I still use on the WinUAE emulator.

Last but not least, be sure to check the AmigaRulez and the AmigaServer pages on this site.