The Commodore Amiga 1000 was launched 30 years ago

[Strawb77]

still use my miggy for gaming (microprose golf and jimmy white`s snooker] when my mate comes round.
also cut my teeth on elite xx, many many many hours of my youth gone..
and now we have elite;dangerous- there is no hope for me

[crossy]

Think I count as a Commodore fan (JT RIP). Vic-20 (still got - much to SWMBO's annoyance), C64 (loved that one), then at one point I had Atari ST, Amiga 2000 and an Amstrad CPC128. Boy was that Amstrad a nasty piece. Oh anyone remember MSX? (Had one of them too)

Personally I always remembered being over the A1000 - heck, think I might still have a PC World magazine with it on the cover. But it was just too darned expensive. Then again, I also remember the vitriol passed to and fro between STer's and Amiganauts. And maybe I'm a heretic but I never really got to "love" the Amiga the same way I did my ST - but then again the ST I'd had longer and those light synths of Yak were sweet.

Still got that A2000 and a load of games, joystick, etc. But I was thinking the other that I'll dig out the ROM's, ditch the box and slap on UAE on one of the PC's. There was a game - think it was Sidewinder - that I really loved and I really can't be bothered to try and get that old '2000 working again.

Remember the 'Video Toaster' FX for Bablyon 5? Though the A4000 really just served as a base for the (for its time) whopping rendering add-in card...

Heck yes, I read that they moved to "proper" render (PC based) for the later episodes and - to me at least - it lost some of it's charm.

[Jonj1611]

I always wanted one of these, several friends had them, my parents told me I had a surprise after school so eagerly rushed home expecting to get a A500 and yay, it was a PC, oh wait.....

[gordon861]

I think I still have my A500 and A4000 in my parents loft.

[Zimano]

A500, A500+, A600, A1200,A2000,A3000 and an A4000 user here. Best computers I ever used, the A4000 was on 24/7/365 for 3 years running the Digital Candy BBS system with 14 cd's and loads of extras attached. 6 phone lines and 6 USR Courier modems too

I remember buying the Sportster and having major problems. Sent it back and paid (I think £320) for the Courier, glad I did as I was able to flash it all the way from 19,200 baud rate to 56,000 baud rate iirc. I just about remember your BBS, nice to see old sysops are still out there

[kellyharding]

Still have 2 A1200s as well as an Atari ST with 4MB. Need to get them up and running sometime.

[Athrun1234]

First ever PC at the end of the 90's where Amiga's were still in second hand shops going for 200+ each.

[DisturbedJim83]

loved my Amiga 500 got mine brand new in 1987 for my 5th Birthday and still gamed on it recreationally till I sold it about 3yrs ago with over 250 games,even had ported versions of Megadrive games like Afterburner,Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and many others thanks to a clever guy on my dads work team in the M.O.D (They had a Amiga Club) my favourite games were SWIV, Warzone and Jaguar XJ220, found some of my old disks yesterday which include New Zeland Story and Nightbreed( The Interactive Movie) which game in a Screen Gems Amiga pack.

most kids did paper rounds for pocket money I sold amiga games using X-Copy even had emulator software that allowed me to run BBC and Atari Jaguar games on my A500 also had the half mb ram upgrade that plugged into the left side and only had to replace the floppy drive once during the whole time I owned it.

The guy I sold it to still uses it today so what can I say other than they don't make them like that anymore cough Xbox cough Playstation cough cough XD

[llololloy]

My brother had the batpack a500, got it from some shop down in Birmingham I think.
That Batman game was one of the best movie games ever. Had a load of games, including new zealand story, mercenary and fa 18 interceptor.
I got an a600 then a 1200, had the ram and cpu upgrade, had to buy a "goliath" psu and I remember finding out you could shoehorn a pc hard drive into it. I bought a 540mb hard drive and people were saying "you'll never need that much space"
My absolute most played game was Frontier, spent the better part of a few years playing that. I remember a lot of time on Pinball dreams and Turrican II. Also, Speedball 2, SWOS and Dynablaster are the greatest multi player games on a single screen ever in my opinion.
The thing I remember best about the amiga days though was the demoscene. The stuff those guys were able to do with such hardware was amazing. I probably spent more on discs for PD stuff than I did on games.
The guys at spaceballs did the best demos, state of the art and nine fingers were great for the hardware they ran on.
I really miss the Amiga. There was a great culture that went with it. The only thing like that in technology now is Apple, but I feel that's a soulless monster by comparison.

[smilertoo]

The jump from 8bit c64 to the Amiga500 was massive, I've never seen a comparable jump in ability since.

[The Hand]

I got my first Amiga in Xmas '92.. Amiga 600! Three months later Amiga 1200 came out lol. I had a tiny desk though so the 600 was the only practical option at the time.

[Axle_Grease]

Yes, it was a sexy sexy multimedia beast in its day and easy to program. Now my Amiga 1000 and companying stuff lie in the cupboard for things long disused and yet I don't want to let it go. I'll get rid of it when I lose interest in PC technology. But, you know, 30 years on and the high performance PC tech hormones still rage.

[Ferral]

I have always been a Commodore fan.

I still have my 1985 Breadbin and it works as well as it ever did, also have a C64c.

Amiga back in the day I had a 500 and I remember my mum bought me a half meg expansion for it for my birthday one year, loved that machine. She let me youngest brother borrow it when I moved out and he sold it and all the games.

Now I have an Amiga 600 (more viable today than it ever was thanks to the onboard IDE and PCMCIA slot on the side), fire up ReLoKick to soft downgrade and it fixes most compatibility issues than have a habit of cropping up. I also have an Amiga 1200 but I am currently trying to find a keyboard membrane or new fully working keyboard for it, half the bottom row of keys are goosed and just not doing anything, Amigakit did have them but now no stock, hopefully they will be getting a new batch made.

So yes, I do love the Amiga, my 600 now sits beside my Atari STe hooked up to the same TV. I have been lucky to find a few original games on the Saturday market for the machine and won a few on eBay the other night.

[pvtbanner]

I spent the entirety of my first grant on an A500 with the 512 upgrade. I remember being laughed at, mates sayin nothing uses 1mb.
I also remember the way Alien Breed laughed at you if you didnt have the ram upgrade.
So many good games.

[PaulM1]

I remember the playing space invaders on a pet 4000 and having an introduction to coding when the 8000 came along in order to get the game running on the larger screen

[gupsterg]

Gotta admit the days spent on an Amiga, Gods was one of my favs! . Xenon Megablast was another classic, Speedball 2, Kick Off, so many great games which hours had been spent on!

Still have an A1200, occasionally fire it up just for a roll down memory lane! Originally had an A500.