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Inside was a very useful collection of spare screws, bolts, blanking panels and a cable. The brown cardboard box was taped inside the case, in one of the spare HD slots. Very well packaged and protected during the journey.Īnd here’s the assorted collection of “extras” that came with this X5000. The following day, this very exciting parcel is what turned up on my doorstep: About a week after I ordered it, it had been built and tested (great communication from AmigaKit by the way - they’re only a small operation, but I have to hand it to them keeping the Amiga dream alive!) and I received a shipping notification and tracking number. I know there will be a fair amount of overlap between my blog posts and theirs, but I hope my take on the X5000 will maybe help convince a few more old Amigans to join the party!Īnyway, back to the X5000. While I’m at it, I should give a special mention to two fantastic blogs:īoth of these provided a wealth of information on next-gen systems, and I was particularly pleased to see Epsilon received his X5000 only a few days before I got mine.

I’m also a little rusty on all things Amiga, so if I’ve made any glaring mistakes please feel free to contact me or leave a comment and I’ll fix it! Hopefully, once I’ve repaired my A1200 there also will be a series of posts on the classic 68k scene.

I’ve also never had access to the current breed of next-gen PPC systems, so this series of Amiga-related posts is intended to document my adventures and experiments with my new Amiga, from the perspective of an old Amigan getting back into the scene. I finally took the plunge and ordered my maxed-out X5000 from AmigaKit in the UK, with the aim of getting a more modern, reliable system and moving all my projects from the A1200 over onto it.Īlthough I used OS 3.x pretty heavily “back in the day”, I jumped ship from the Amiga scene in the late 90s/early 2000s before PPC accelerators had really become wide-spread. This left a large Amiga-shaped hole to be filled, and I’ve always been fascinated by the next-gen PPC systems. Sadly, my A1200 recently died and while I haven’t given up on it yet, it’s going to take me some time to source spare parts and experiment with fixing it. But I’ve always been amazed by the sheer tenacity of the Amiga scene - nearly 30 years on from when I first got my Amiga 600, the scene is still going (albeit fractured into different camps) and new systems are still being created for this legendary platform. Granted, a large part of this is nostalgia on my part the Amiga was a lifeline to me during my teenage years and was responsible for starting my twin interests of computing and music. As you may have seen with my latest music project, I’ve been getting back into the Amiga scene in a big way over the last year.