MiliusMesachiel
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first A500 for XMAS 1987 
What was your Amiga era?
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From 2005 to present.
I went from C64 to PC although I was planning to buy an ST but my dad convinced me to get a PC instead. CGA and beeper felt a step backwards even from C64. I bore that for a year and got a 286 with VGA and a Sound Blaster a bit later.
Well, long story short, I've got both Amiga and ST.
I went from C64 to PC although I was planning to buy an ST but my dad convinced me to get a PC instead. CGA and beeper felt a step backwards even from C64. I bore that for a year and got a 286 with VGA and a Sound Blaster a bit later.
Well, long story short, I've got both Amiga and ST.
First started out with an Amiga A500 (Flight of Fantasy Pack) in 1990, upgraded to an Amiga 1200 in 1992 (day of release in November that year) then later on upgraded it first with GVP 68030 accelerator then later on an Apollo 68060, stayed on the Amiga until 1996 when I bought Pentium PC with a 3DFX card. Now March this year returned bought another Amiga 1200 and a Blizzard 1260 accelerator and loving it lol
Mine was an Amiga Flight of Fancy Pack in 1990. Also bought the 1084s and a MIDI interface at the same time. 
Got an A500+ and a 1084S monitor in 1991 and sold it again in 1994, so it was three good years for me. For accessories I got myself an Action Replay MkIII and not long before I sold the Amiga, I got a noisy 40MB SCSI HDD sidecar for cheap (used). Stayed with the stock 1MB RAM and never even got an external drive..
Commodore was dead by then, so there wasn't much point in buying new expensive Amiga hardware, and it made more sense to get a PC to replace the Amiga in 1994. Sound-wise it was a major step down as I couldn't afford a sound card for the first year and had to stick with the PC speaker (horrible!)..
Last year I got myself my first A1200 and is now reliving some of what I missed back then. It has a nice spot right next to my PC monitor and is being used regularly.
For accessories I got myself an Action Replay MkIII and not long before I sold the Amiga, I got a noisy 40MB SCSI HDD sidecar for cheap (used). Stayed with the stock 1MB RAM and never even got an external drive..Commodore was dead by then, so there wasn't much point in buying new expensive Amiga hardware, and it made more sense to get a PC to replace the Amiga in 1994. Sound-wise it was a major step down as I couldn't afford a sound card for the first year and had to stick with the PC speaker (horrible!)..
Last year I got myself my first A1200 and is now reliving some of what I missed back then. It has a nice spot right next to my PC monitor and is being used regularly.
Got my first Amiga in late 1987, or possibly early 1988. It had KS1.2 anyway. I used it up to around 1995 I think, for gaming mostly. I still have that one left in it's original box.
Actually it was also used as a terminal when connecting to the old *NIX servers of my university via a 33.6k modem. Ah, playing MUDs and browsing usenet groups back in 1991. And downloading ehm stuff via zmodem protocol.
Actually it was also used as a terminal when connecting to the old *NIX servers of my university via a 33.6k modem. Ah, playing MUDs and browsing usenet groups back in 1991. And downloading ehm stuff via zmodem protocol.
It started Christmas 1991, I received my A500+ Cartoon Classics pack. I'd owned a ZX Spectrum for a couple of years, but the Amiga was a huge leap forward for me.
We got a family Mac around Christmas 1995 and that was the start of the end, although my Amiga kept on going for a couple of years after that. Come 1998, I had my own iMac and the Amiga left my life, never to resurface...
...until 2006, when a friend gave me an old A1200. By that point, suitably-sized laptop hard disks were commonplace and all of a sudden, the Amiga bug bit me once more!
We got a family Mac around Christmas 1995 and that was the start of the end, although my Amiga kept on going for a couple of years after that. Come 1998, I had my own iMac and the Amiga left my life, never to resurface...
...until 2006, when a friend gave me an old A1200. By that point, suitably-sized laptop hard disks were commonplace and all of a sudden, the Amiga bug bit me once more!
Christmas 1987: my Amiga 500, kickstart 1.2, NMB keyboard with US layout, 10 PD discs and 1 game. I was hugely, insanely lucky.
First game I bought was defender of the crown. Jim Sachs: what an artist!
The next year saw the extra half meg being worked for and bought, and the extra external drive. Once I realised what you could do with 68k assembler, thanks to Amiga Computing's series, I really got into the hardware. Add a Spirit HDA-506, and I was away.
Then I part exchanged the setup for a 2000, worked and bought a CSA MMR... Then I wrote the Tabby graphics tablet driver and bought a 3000... Then a 4000 from a friend in 1995. I continued to use my Amiga primarily until about 1998, at which point I found myself using the PC more and more.
So 12 years all in as my primary computing platform. Not bad.
First game I bought was defender of the crown. Jim Sachs: what an artist!
The next year saw the extra half meg being worked for and bought, and the extra external drive. Once I realised what you could do with 68k assembler, thanks to Amiga Computing's series, I really got into the hardware. Add a Spirit HDA-506, and I was away.
Then I part exchanged the setup for a 2000, worked and bought a CSA MMR... Then I wrote the Tabby graphics tablet driver and bought a 3000... Then a 4000 from a friend in 1995. I continued to use my Amiga primarily until about 1998, at which point I found myself using the PC more and more.
So 12 years all in as my primary computing platform. Not bad.
Mine started in 1988 or thereabouts. I remember having an ST whilst still at school but was aware of the Amiga as a few of my more well-off friends had one and I always hankered for one. So, after lots and lots of saving up and flogging the ST to make up the final pennies I finally got my paws upon an A500 1.3 with 512kb RAM. Oh. My. God. I don't think I saw daylight for a month after that.
I remember there was a place in Liverpool where I lived at the time that manufactured their own 512kb trapdoor expansions for quite a bit cheaper (well, I think there was only £10 in it, but that was a lot to me at the time, YTS on £26 a week) so I went down to the factory to buy one directly. It was still warm from the flow soldering machine when I got it... Raced home, fitted it and FELT THE POWAH!1! A whole 1Mb of memory. It does not get better than this.
A week later with a craft knife and my soldering iron I then made it to 1Mb Chip and the rest is history.
Stood me well for a few years, that did, until around 1993 or so I sold it to help pay for an A1500 with 1Mb chip, 2Mb fast on a GVP SCSI card complete with 52Mb Quantum SCSI and a Supra TUrbo 28Mhz accellerator which I used quite happily up until around 2000 or so. Around that time I was living here, there and everywhere so was too cumbersome to keep moving around, and I had a 1200 to keep my miggying here and there anyway so the 1500 was put away in the loft of my parents house.
Sadly, most of it went missing when my Dad executed The Great Loft Clearout
All that remained was the 52Mb Quantum SCSI drive, which is still working to this day in my A2000. They don't make HDDs like that anymore...
I remember there was a place in Liverpool where I lived at the time that manufactured their own 512kb trapdoor expansions for quite a bit cheaper (well, I think there was only £10 in it, but that was a lot to me at the time, YTS on £26 a week) so I went down to the factory to buy one directly. It was still warm from the flow soldering machine when I got it... Raced home, fitted it and FELT THE POWAH!1! A whole 1Mb of memory. It does not get better than this.
A week later with a craft knife and my soldering iron I then made it to 1Mb Chip and the rest is history.
Stood me well for a few years, that did, until around 1993 or so I sold it to help pay for an A1500 with 1Mb chip, 2Mb fast on a GVP SCSI card complete with 52Mb Quantum SCSI and a Supra TUrbo 28Mhz accellerator which I used quite happily up until around 2000 or so. Around that time I was living here, there and everywhere so was too cumbersome to keep moving around, and I had a 1200 to keep my miggying here and there anyway so the 1500 was put away in the loft of my parents house.
Sadly, most of it went missing when my Dad executed The Great Loft Clearout
All that remained was the 52Mb Quantum SCSI drive, which is still working to this day in my A2000. They don't make HDDs like that anymore...
Mine started in 1991 with a Cartoon Classics pack A500+ (may she rest in pieces).
For ages we only had the 3 included games (Lemmings, Captain Planet and Bart vs. the Space Mutants) and DPaint III.
Brand new games were sporadic, we also acquired some not-so-legal stuff from time to time too!
About a year after getting the 500+ she got a major upgrade, with a chip RAM upgrade, GVP HD8+ with 8 meg fast RAM and 80MB hard drive, a second floppy drive, and a Phillips CM8833 MkII with a free copy of Lotus 2!
That was our main system until 1995 when we got our AT A1200 Magic Pack.
With a 170MB hard drive we were spoilt, and it was soon filled with games. Of the included software, the productivity stuff got more use than the included games. IIRC Whizz got booted just the once and was never touched again!
Again within a year she was upgraded with a Magnum 1230 accelerator card with 8MB of fast RAM. A bit later we also got a Squirrel and external CD-ROM drive. She also gained the external floppy from the 500+.
Obviously she was the main system, up until I sold her in 2001.
From 1991-1993 we got Amiga Format on a sporadic basis (and occasionally CU Amiga and Amiga Power), but in 1994 we subscribed.
It was great reading about new games and playing the coverdisk demos, even though we never got the full game most of the time.
We even stayed through the end of Commodore and the uncertainty of the Amiga's future, and switched to the CD edition when it started.
But pretty soon the dwindling content could not justify the price of the subscription, and we stopped getting it around 1998.
So for me, the era is 1991-2001.
The second era has not dawned...yet.
For ages we only had the 3 included games (Lemmings, Captain Planet and Bart vs. the Space Mutants) and DPaint III.
Brand new games were sporadic, we also acquired some not-so-legal stuff from time to time too!
About a year after getting the 500+ she got a major upgrade, with a chip RAM upgrade, GVP HD8+ with 8 meg fast RAM and 80MB hard drive, a second floppy drive, and a Phillips CM8833 MkII with a free copy of Lotus 2!
That was our main system until 1995 when we got our AT A1200 Magic Pack.
With a 170MB hard drive we were spoilt, and it was soon filled with games. Of the included software, the productivity stuff got more use than the included games. IIRC Whizz got booted just the once and was never touched again!
Again within a year she was upgraded with a Magnum 1230 accelerator card with 8MB of fast RAM. A bit later we also got a Squirrel and external CD-ROM drive. She also gained the external floppy from the 500+.
Obviously she was the main system, up until I sold her in 2001.
From 1991-1993 we got Amiga Format on a sporadic basis (and occasionally CU Amiga and Amiga Power), but in 1994 we subscribed.
It was great reading about new games and playing the coverdisk demos, even though we never got the full game most of the time.
We even stayed through the end of Commodore and the uncertainty of the Amiga's future, and switched to the CD edition when it started.
But pretty soon the dwindling content could not justify the price of the subscription, and we stopped getting it around 1998.
So for me, the era is 1991-2001.
The second era has not dawned...yet.
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1988 purchased Atari 65XE, had one mate who was better off financially (family in USA) he had the Atari 130 with a disk drive so I could copy a lot if games from him, then one day around 1989 I walk in to his place and get greeted with a brand new Amiga 500 !! I couldn't afford it so I kept using my Atari but played his A500 knowing this was my computer for the future.
Fast forward to 1993, arrived in Australia and bought A2000 but unfortunately I did not know many Amiga owners and many shops had almost nothing Amiga related.
1998, I think I changed to a Win98 PC... Currently Apple user and supporter.
Fast forward to 1993, arrived in Australia and bought A2000 but unfortunately I did not know many Amiga owners and many shops had almost nothing Amiga related.
1998, I think I changed to a Win98 PC... Currently Apple user and supporter.
