Greetings all! Amiga 600 owner :)

[grasshopper65]

Hello all,

I recently obtained an Amiga 600. I was intrigued with Amigas back in the day, but never actually had one. After a couple of years of playing around with WinUAE, decided to go with an actual Amiga. The 600 is an interesting version - understand it was derided back in the early 1990s for various reasons. But oddly enough, two of the reasons ... the PCMCIA & IDE interfaces make it appealing now.

Been working on transferring the applications from the emulated environment over to the physical machine -- been fun so far!

James

 

[snoopy77]

Welcome grasshopper,

Agree the IDE and Pcmcia make it very usable today in terms of file transfer and storage.

The 600 is an interesting version - understand it was derided back in the early 1990s for various reasons. But oddly enough, two of the reasons ... the PCMCIA & IDE interfaces make it appealing now.

Yes it did a lot of damage to Commodore. I was supposed to be a cheap version priced lower than the A500 (which could have really helped things), but once Commodore management weaved their magic it was more expensive and they dumped the A500. If it had been priced somewhat lower than the A500 and was called the A300 as planned it think it would have been a different story.

 

[grasshopper65]

Yup ... and that they released the A1200 so soon after the A600 and for close to same price, if I recall correctly...

 

[snoopy77]

Yup ... and that they released the A1200 so soon after the A600 and for close to same price, if I recall correctly...

Yeah, I remember the A600 in shops at the time, maybe it was a year before the 1200. I think by the time the 1200 came out it was game over, 486 prices were coming right down and a cd-rom and soundblaster combo packs could be added at a pretty reasonable cost. In Australia it was worse than the UK and US though, the A1200 was well overpriced.

 

[Templar]

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