It was pretty pumped up, lol. I had it parallel networked to a CDTV so I could mount CD's on the Amiga. Back then I built my own cable to link them up and ran Parnet on each machine with the A500 as the host. Sounds like your A1000 served you well out there on the high seas. :)

It sounds like you knew more about the Amiga than me. Years later I worked IT / networking and was fairly knowledgeable. But that Amiga was the first computer I owned so mostly I just inserted disks and played games. I still think about a computer store in Hong Kong that was chalk full of pirated games /software. Some disks even came with free viruses. lol

I was no expert with the Amiga but I learnt as I went. I actually visited my local Amiga store to ask them about networking two amiga's together and the guy there said no but whilst I was there I bought some public domain diskettes for 50 pence each and one of them had the Parnet software and instructions to build the cable. I had bought an Amiga network CD a week before which turned out to have Parnet on too as well as having workbench on it making it easier to boot on the CDTV. I didn't have the internet myself back then so most of what I learned came from Amiga magazines. I had a tone of pirate software myself and plenty of disk copying software. Do you remember D-copy and X--copy, lol. :D

Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice popped into my head as I read that. "Now there's a name I've not heard in a long, long time. A long time." Yes, I had D copy and X copy and a couple of others as I recall. I mostly used them to make working copies of my software to prevent the 'original' disks from wearing out. Stateside I bought licensed stuff. When I hit Hong Kong I wasn't looking for pirated per se. I'd heard they had good (at the time anyway) computer stores and wanted some new games. But blatant piracy was what was for sale. I don't recall if I even saw a store with non-pirated stuff. They had stores full of copied stuff and they would xerox off the manual for you. Sort of the same deal with the stores that sold music. Which was cassette tapes at the time. They made them sort of look like the licensed albums if you didn't already know what the licensed albums looked like. Anyway, it was all I could get, being away from the states for 9 months on that cruise.

That's china for you, I bet import costs were too high for the genuine items, now it's re-flashed graphics cards and bootleg pop culture gear, all available on wish.com. There is a discount store near me here in the UK that's still trying to sell bootleg VHS tapes. They have one titled as Stargate but it has the crew of Star trek voyager on the cover. :D

That's hilarious. VHS AND wrong title.

Yup, lol. :D