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I won my first Amiga 500 in a competition, couldn't have afforded it at the time, they were more expensive (but a lot better) than Atari St...
Between that & Commodore 128, my fav home computers. Poor old Commodore... :-(
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Valar Morghulis
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
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
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...
Commodore head honchos were greedy, hardly ever upgrading the machine, keeping prices high, so sad. Escom were a useless buyer too, they had no idea what to do with Amiga...
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Valar Morghulis
My first Amiga was the A500. I could (barely) afford it, after having had a friend who had the A1000 for about a year prior to this and whom I envied immensely.
Later sold off the A500 and upgraded first to an A1200, which was returned to the store, and then to an A2000 with a whopping 52MB(!) HDD.
In the early 90s I finally caved and went PC (Pentium 90MHz). At that point my A2000 was close to dying anyway. It's now long gone. I still have a lot of the software and manuals, though.
Before my first Amiga I naturally had a C64 and loved it to bits! (Still have it, tbh.)
Pleiades (23-07-2015)
I remember Fred Harris on BBC's Micro Live demonstrating the Amiga )
It was amazing and I could never look at my C64 the same way afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-NYK-8KL0
I wanted one of these so badly as a kid. I can still remember the "sunshine on a rainy day" ad that played on the tv.
I sold my Atart ST (FM) and purchased an A500+, also had an additional 1MB RAM in the trapdoor and another 2 MB "fast ram" in the RocHard SCSI HDD I had connected to it.
Lasted me until I purchased a 386-40 in '91.
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Pleiades (23-07-2015)
My earliest gaming memories are of our Amiga 500. As a very young kid I remember playing lots of demos from the disks of Amiga Format magazine, lots of racing games and a few shooters.
Full games I remember the best golf game ever: World Class Leaderboard golf & Sensible soccer.
Even playing about in Workbench with the text-to-speech feature was a source of great amusement for the 5 or 6 year old me.
I had a A600, I do remember using paint and word with my dot matrix printer.
I remember the fun on scorchhed tanks, canon fodder, sensible soccer, soccer kid, zool, james pond 2 robocod (still have the t-shirt... literally).
I had a 1200 myself, I obviously spat on all the 500 peasants...
I remember trawling games magazines drooling over the memory adds ons for a ridiculous price!
I have my brothers old A500 - It even has the tattered box and ram upgrade. No idea if it works as I doubt I could find the old workbench floppy disks.
Yay for the multiple "Memory Lane" muggings
Of course I'm perfect you just need to lower your expectations.
Ah, those were the days...
My brother and I shared an Amiga 500 followed briefly by a 600 then a 1200 that went through a few trap door and hard drive upgrades. I think it was running a 68030 (or was it an 040) in the end (I want to say @ 50MHz but I can't quite remember), a massive 8MB of RAM and something like a 60MB hard drive.
Not my auction but if money were no object I would buy this and lock myself away for a week or two remembering my geeky youth:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-1200...item1a02ef44ea
After a further search - wow - it seems like all the Amiga kit has gotten a lot more expensive on eBay since the last time I looked! A lot of seemingly very optimistic BIN prices on there!
Last edited by malfunction; 23-07-2015 at 01:19 PM.
The same is true of most of the retro hardware sadly.
I am ashamed to say that I never used one. My first PC was an Intel Pentium 1 in '94!
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