A Portrait Of An Amiga User In Jakarta-Indonesia


                         Edwin Nugroho                                                                                                       nunu@server.indo.net.id
(first of all, sorry about my english)

I am a recent computer engineering graduate.

I am working at my campus's electronic & computer labs, and my campus's video labs.

I am also a fanatic amiga user who lives in jakarta indonesia.

I am amazed by amiga video and multitasking capability.

I think amiga OS is very powerful and efficient.

In my city 80 percent of amigas are used for video work. there are 6 - 8 video production alone in my city although here in jakarta, we don't have any dealers. Because we don't have any dealers, we got to order it directly from UK, USA or Singapore, and the price will go up to 1.5 - 3 times than the normal prices.

I always encourage people that use computer for video work to use the amiga.

I even encourage my lab at my campus to use the amiga. (curently my campus's video labs using amiga 500 & amiga 4000/040 for your information my campuss had to pay US$4000 for amiga 4000 alone, without monitor)

Here in Jakarta, amiga are nameless computer. Recently, at computer expo in Jakarta, local apple dealer show to the big screen projector, 'Change Myself' music video from Todd Rundgren (I know it was created using AMIGA) people visit to their stand will think it produced using Apple Computer,

So you see, I work very hard to promote amiga,

To support amiga here in jakarta, with several of other fanatic amiga user, we even create our own memory boards, sampler boards ( at the moment only for A500), repairing the amiga (without support from anywhere), help to install the 3,5" HD to AMiga 1200, created our own external disk drive using cheap IBM drive and others activity.

The 7 - 14 video production (in 3 city in Indonesia) that use amigas, depend on us.

We even think in the near future we want to become an amiga dealer. (for video work amigas are still popular, but because it is hard to find especially in indonesia, then people buy IBM or Apple instead)

So I hope Escom will make amiga's future brighter than before. 
My system consist of: Amiga 1200-030/882 50 mhz 10 MB ram,
                      Amiga 2000-EC030/882 40/66 mhz 9 mb ram
                      2 Amiga 500 2 mb ram & 1 mb ram  
                      (i change the oscilator for my A2000)
                      GVP-Glock & Minigen PAL Version
                      DCTV PAL, 1.5 Gbyte of total HD storage