Why?
Because it was simply the most awesome-est computer that had ever been.
Because it was simply the most awesome-est computer that had ever been.
Why the Amiga?
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1989-ish...
Yeah.. Turns out, apart from a couple of classes (Hypercard and Pascal), I really didn't need a Mac or PC as much as they said I would..
The word processor I had (might have been an education discount edition of WordPerfect; I think I used that for a bit) was fine.
Most of what I needed, I just dialed into the big BSD boxen and had fun there....
All the serious stuff (beyond Pascal) was C and shell script type stuff..
I even did a video for my film class that was all Amiga clips...
(I "edited" them all together, I didn't claim credit for them.. )
All in all, it did what I needed and then some...
desiv
When i was 11(?) years old, i got an C64. First with Datasette, later i got an 1541-II at christmas 
Lovely remember this great computer
3 Years later i saw an A500 at my friends room...this was the moment!
I took all my money, asked my dead for MORE money
.. and buyed an used A500.
Used this great machine for years...later i got an A1200 and finally A4000.
The Amiga was my first love and it was better than Atari
Lovely remember this great computer
3 Years later i saw an A500 at my friends room...this was the moment!
I took all my money, asked my dead for MORE money
.. and buyed an used A500.Used this great machine for years...later i got an A1200 and finally A4000.
The Amiga was my first love and it was better than Atari
Christmas 1990...
my friend had an Atari ST FM... his uncle had an Amiga 500 so his Uncle was cooler imo... so I asked Santa for one that Christmas.
We actually had an argument after I bought the 500 as it was much better
If I was offered a Core i7 PC I'd have a brand new A500 anyday of the year over it (seriously)
my friend had an Atari ST FM... his uncle had an Amiga 500 so his Uncle was cooler imo... so I asked Santa for one that Christmas.
We actually had an argument after I bought the 500 as it was much better
If I was offered a Core i7 PC I'd have a brand new A500 anyday of the year over it (seriously)
I was a C64 owner (still am 
) and I used to meet up with a friend on the long walk to and from School. Sometimes we would go back and play on his Amiga (cartoon classics 500+) and I remember seeing F16 Fighting falcon for the first time and was blown away by how "Smooth" its was compared to F19 Project stealth on the C64. I knew they were £500+ notes to buy so I knew any thoughts of owning my own would just be pipe dreams, my folks could never afford that and I certainly couldnt.
The one day a strange thing happened, he bought a SNES with one of those catridge to disk copiers and all of a sudden he was no longer interested in his Amiga and he said I could have it for £50 I think it was...
Lots of please mum please dad ensued and I even drew up a ROI plan by explaining I could buy blank disks and "copy" games off friends thereby not costing them anything further in future. I dont know what happened, whether they shelled out or I just delivered newspapers like a mad man, but I ended up owning that very 500
(along with f16 Fighting Falcon) Me and my friends spent hours and hours getting up to mischief with our miggys, we were "into" hacking and phone phreaking and spent £100's connected to BBS's, at one point we even attempted to solder our serial ports to CB radios to try and transfer data (never worked). We then got into the PD scene and made our "own" collections under the name of "Sadam Husseins Satanic <insert compliation here>" and sold them to the local computer shops.
Then for some unknown reason I swapped the whole lot for a Rotel 220 CB before moving on to an IBM PS2 386 PC and it wasnt until 2004 (4 years before joining Amibay) when an ex girlfriend said she had an old computer in the loft which turned out to be an Amiga 500+ and I have been messing around with the formidable miggy since then!
) and I used to meet up with a friend on the long walk to and from School. Sometimes we would go back and play on his Amiga (cartoon classics 500+) and I remember seeing F16 Fighting falcon for the first time and was blown away by how "Smooth" its was compared to F19 Project stealth on the C64. I knew they were £500+ notes to buy so I knew any thoughts of owning my own would just be pipe dreams, my folks could never afford that and I certainly couldnt.The one day a strange thing happened, he bought a SNES with one of those catridge to disk copiers and all of a sudden he was no longer interested in his Amiga and he said I could have it for £50 I think it was...
Lots of please mum please dad ensued and I even drew up a ROI plan by explaining I could buy blank disks and "copy" games off friends thereby not costing them anything further in future. I dont know what happened, whether they shelled out or I just delivered newspapers like a mad man, but I ended up owning that very 500
(along with f16 Fighting Falcon) Me and my friends spent hours and hours getting up to mischief with our miggys, we were "into" hacking and phone phreaking and spent £100's connected to BBS's, at one point we even attempted to solder our serial ports to CB radios to try and transfer data (never worked). We then got into the PD scene and made our "own" collections under the name of "Sadam Husseins Satanic <insert compliation here>" and sold them to the local computer shops. Then for some unknown reason I swapped the whole lot for a Rotel 220 CB before moving on to an IBM PS2 386 PC and it wasnt until 2004 (4 years before joining Amibay) when an ex girlfriend said she had an old computer in the loft which turned out to be an Amiga 500+ and I have been messing around with the formidable miggy since then!
Geraldine
Re-discovering Amigas after a bit of an absence!
My Amigas are back for good!
My Amigas are back for good!
The miggy (any miggy) is still a great machine to use. In the beginning for me, it was not the games but Deluxe Paint that really convinced me that I had to have one. 1988 or there abouts I got a 500. Yaaaaaaaaaay! Then steady upgraded all the way (500+, 1200, CD32 and A4000) until the millennium when my 4000 just died on me. 
Absolutely sickened and at a total loss on what to do next, all my miggy stuff was packed away until I could summon the courage to look at them again. Now 10 years later it's fixed (thanks Amiga Kit and Cosmos) and I am glad I kept it and all the other ones I had too.
Even these days (thanks to Amibay) bought a few upgrades I always wanted back in the day but could never afford them; I mean a 68010 chip for the 500+!
Yes it adds very little to the actual processing power, but it is still cool to know it's in there and working away
Before all that that a +2 speccy. Nice wee machine, but to be honest, all I used it for was playing Saracen, Elite and Chaos
Um....................:roll: I still have that too and um..................those tapes still work with a bit of persuasion! 
My Amigas are back for good!
The miggy (any miggy) is still a great machine to use. In the beginning for me, it was not the games but Deluxe Paint that really convinced me that I had to have one. 1988 or there abouts I got a 500. Yaaaaaaaaaay!
Then steady upgraded all the way (500+, 1200, CD32 and A4000) until the millennium when my 4000 just died on me. Absolutely sickened and at a total loss on what to do next, all my miggy stuff was packed away until I could summon the courage to look at them again. Now 10 years later it's fixed (thanks Amiga Kit and Cosmos
) and I am glad I kept it and all the other ones I had too. Even these days (thanks to Amibay) bought a few upgrades I always wanted back in the day but could never afford them; I mean a 68010 chip for the 500+!
Yes it adds very little to the actual processing power, but it is still cool to know it's in there and working away Before all that that a +2 speccy. Nice wee machine, but to be honest, all I used it for was playing Saracen, Elite and Chaos
Um....................:roll: I still have that too and um..................those tapes still work with a bit of persuasion! 
For me it's still games and restoring Amiga's to their best state
I could only dream about the amount of Amiga's I have today back in the 90's
I could only dream about the amount of Amiga's I have today back in the 90's
Yeah that for me also, I guess thats the whole retro scene in a nutshellI could only dream about the amount of Amiga's I have today back in the 90's
I didn't actually buy my first Amiga (the A500) I was a spawny get and swapped my Atari STFM (that i'd gotten cheap "broken" and then fixed) for my mates A500. He wanted in on doing music related bits and bobs and wanted to run cubase. He did a straight swap with me and he even gave me a load more disks than I had for my Atari, I was a very very lucky poor ass young lad that was around 1990.
I used it mainly to play great games, swapped alot of disks in school etc It wasn't until I grew up a bit and got my A1200 (That was given to me because it crashed all the time, I found a dry joint on one of the pins on the 020, resoldered then DING! good as new!) that I tried to do more serious things like programming (I was very bad) and actually buying my software (I got a job one day). I used that good old A1200 until around 1999 all towered up and PPC etc. I gave up on anything happening to Amiga and jumped over to the PC (ARRGH!). Last year I pulled the A1200 (spare one I had) out my mums loft and thought i'd have a few goes on Super Stardust for a nostalgia trip..... one year later its quite possibly my "wildest dreams come true" Amiga!
Now I have that love/hate relationship all over again, and am even considering buying one of the "NG" Amigas. I'd love to be able to just not use any other machine (Windows/Linux/Mac) than Amiga for everything I do.
Biggest wish for the future.... NG Amiga Laptop A-Cube? A-EON? Come on guys, make it happen one day
that was around 1990.I used it mainly to play great games, swapped alot of disks in school etc
It wasn't until I grew up a bit and got my A1200 (That was given to me because it crashed all the time, I found a dry joint on one of the pins on the 020, resoldered then DING! good as new!) that I tried to do more serious things like programming (I was very bad) and actually buying my software (I got a job one day). I used that good old A1200 until around 1999 all towered up and PPC etc. I gave up on anything happening to Amiga and jumped over to the PC (ARRGH!). Last year I pulled the A1200 (spare one I had) out my mums loft and thought i'd have a few goes on Super Stardust for a nostalgia trip..... one year later its quite possibly my "wildest dreams come true" Amiga!Now I have that love/hate relationship all over again, and am even considering buying one of the "NG" Amigas. I'd love to be able to just not use any other machine (Windows/Linux/Mac) than Amiga for everything I do.
Biggest wish for the future.... NG Amiga Laptop
A-Cube? A-EON? Come on guys, make it happen one day Why amiga for me..
Why amiga for me..
My first Amiga, an A500 back in the days, was bought for me by my parents...
Their reasons were:
1, i wanted to play games on it
2, i could also do other non gaming activities on it, like schoolwork.. (i wanted a nintendo at the time, but my parents thought a non games console would be better)
3, i could trade (read: pirate) games with my friends at school
Why amiga for me..
My first Amiga, an A500 back in the days, was bought for me by my parents...
Their reasons were:
1, i wanted to play games on it
2, i could also do other non gaming activities on it, like schoolwork.. (i wanted a nintendo at the time, but my parents thought a non games console would be better)
3, i could trade (read: pirate) games with my friends at school
I think I was really late to the scene, around 92/93 when the A600/A1200 came out. Up until that point I still really enjoyed my Spectrum 2+ and magazines like Your Sinclair! .......that and I couldn't afford an Amiga
I really loved my mates A500+ Cartoon Classic edition, I think this must have sewn the seed for me in terms of my future computing choice. I also remember seeing Delux Paint 3 I think for the first time and being totally blown away by it! The demo scene was the real lure for me though!
I finally brought a A1200 when they came out around 1993 I believe - sold it 9 months later to buy a PC.. *cough* sorry..
Returned to the scene after discovering my A600 I brought in a bargain shop in 1997 for £30... And it has been absolutely fantastic so far, and I feel very fortunate to arrive back on the scene near the very moment all this incredible new hardware is being developed & sold!!!!
I really loved my mates A500+ Cartoon Classic edition, I think this must have sewn the seed for me in terms of my future computing choice. I also remember seeing Delux Paint 3 I think for the first time and being totally blown away by it! The demo scene was the real lure for me though!
I finally brought a A1200 when they came out around 1993 I believe - sold it 9 months later to buy a PC.. *cough* sorry..
Returned to the scene after discovering my A600 I brought in a bargain shop in 1997 for £30... And it has been absolutely fantastic so far, and I feel very fortunate to arrive back on the scene near the very moment all this incredible new hardware is being developed & sold!!!!
I was in "högstadiet" (7-9 grade) in school when people in my class started to buy ST/Amigas, the guy i hanged out with the most bought an 520STFM and ofcourse I wanted one too.. started to save up for one, but with limited economics and I also had to finance other interestes (RC cars and mopeds ) it took some time and I had to stick with my C128..
Then when I was closing in to be able to buy one my neighbour bought an A500, first I didn't think it was so fantastic, the games where the same and the OS was as ugly (1.2), even if I didnt really understood what workbench was useful for at that point.
Anyay,he was going away for a week with his parents, and said that I could borrow his A500, and I carried it all home and connected everything in my room
..That was bad he got me hooked really badly, and all the money in the "Atari ST fund" was quickly rerouted to an "A500 fund" ..some months later I bought an A500. ..When A4000 was released I wanted one of those, and started to save money.. however, during my military service 1993 (I was 18) the A500 went belly up, and I really needed a computer, so I took the money I had (taht wasn't enough for an A4000) and bought a brand new A1200 that was released not long before that.
..And at that point I was finished with the military service and was going on some program for unemployed young people, so I was helping out on a company and recived money from the government so.. the normal upgrade route followed..
..Ofcourse I needed a harddrive.. so I bought one, and memory.. so I bought a turbocard.. and a new harddrive.. and a faster seriel port.. and a CDROM..
Then I suddenly found a real work, and then I decided to buy an A400, bought an used A4000/030, but it was so slow.. so a 060-turbocard.. and memory, and disks, and a gfx card, and faster serial ports, and a vlab (I had a Vidiamiga and later Vidi12 before), and a ethernet card and so on.. this was a tight fit so I bought a towerhawk.. and more disks.. and a faster disk controller, and more disks (had 7 disks and CDROM and CD-burner for a while)
Well, that is where I am today, on the weay I also bought several other computers, A1000, another A1200, serveral A500, two A3000, A600, CD32 (with SX1)..
) it took some time and I had to stick with my C128.. Then when I was closing in to be able to buy one my neighbour bought an A500, first I didn't think it was so fantastic, the games where the same and the OS was as ugly (1.2), even if I didnt really understood what workbench was useful for at that point.
Anyay,he was going away for a week with his parents, and said that I could borrow his A500, and I carried it all home and connected everything in my room
..That was bad
he got me hooked really badly, and all the money in the "Atari ST fund" was quickly rerouted to an "A500 fund" ..some months later I bought an A500. ..When A4000 was released I wanted one of those, and started to save money.. however, during my military service 1993 (I was 18) the A500 went belly up, and I really needed a computer, so I took the money I had (taht wasn't enough for an A4000) and bought a brand new A1200 that was released not long before that...And at that point I was finished with the military service and was going on some program for unemployed young people, so I was helping out on a company and recived money from the government so.. the normal upgrade route followed..
..Ofcourse I needed a harddrive.. so I bought one, and memory.. so I bought a turbocard.. and a new harddrive.. and a faster seriel port.. and a CDROM..
Then I suddenly found a real work, and then I decided to buy an A400, bought an used A4000/030, but it was so slow.. so a 060-turbocard.. and memory, and disks, and a gfx card, and faster serial ports, and a vlab (I had a Vidiamiga and later Vidi12 before), and a ethernet card and so on.. this was a tight fit so I bought a towerhawk.. and more disks.. and a faster disk controller, and more disks (had 7 disks and CDROM and CD-burner for a while)
Well, that is where I am today, on the weay I also bought several other computers, A1000, another A1200, serveral A500, two A3000, A600, CD32 (with SX1)..
QuillOmega0
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I just remember the Amiga as one of the first Non-PC's I've used, in Kindergarten. Decided to relive my old memories.
Nice story Glenn
Back in 1989, I saw ATARI ST in 1986 but I wasnt sure if they were good as it was too expensive back then So I had C64 at the time then I went round to my mate who had Amiga. He show me Aircraft game called F15 somethings and it pretty much blow me away how good Amiga was!
2 years later, I couldn't waited to buy AMIGA 500 but they didn't have Amiga 500 as it out of stock....so I went for AMIGA 500 PLUS back in 1991 and to this day.....The Amiga was OUT OF THIS WORLD when come all the games that I bought through the years
2 years later, I couldn't waited to buy AMIGA 500 but they didn't have Amiga 500 as it out of stock....so I went for AMIGA 500 PLUS back in 1991 and to this day.....The Amiga was OUT OF THIS WORLD when come all the games that I bought through the years
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