The Commodore Amiga 1000 was launched 30 years ago

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[Pleiades]

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... :-(

[3dcandy]

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

[Pleiades]

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...

[azrael-]

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.)

[Bagpuss]

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

[Silmaril.SE]

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.

[shaithis]

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.

[[DW]Cougho]

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.

[Percy1983]

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).

[Rob_B]

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!

[cheesemp]

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.

[Attila the Bun]

Yay for the multiple "Memory Lane" muggings

[malfunction]

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!

[sykobee]

The same is true of most of the retro hardware sadly.

[OilSheikh]

I am ashamed to say that I never used one. My first PC was an Intel Pentium 1 in '94!