Worst Amiga?

[mjnurney]

In your view what was the worst Amiga made ?

It could be poor spec or simply a missed chance to excel..

Or even commodores fault , because of a late release?

Some dates

Amiga 3000..... June 1990
mega drive.......Nov 1990
CDTV ..............march 1991
Amiga 600....... March 1992
Snes.............. April 1992
Amiga 4000 ....sept 1992
Amiga 1200 ....October 1992
mega drive cd. April 1993
Amiga CD32.... sept 1993
Playstation...... december 1994
Sega saturn..... july 1995

Commodore declared bankruptcy on April 29, 1994

 

[Witcher1979]

A600, it was designed for girls Real men had an A500 or A1200/A3000/A4000

 

[StrontiumDog]

The worst commodore ever is a non-functional one

 

[fitzsteve]

I can't vote - All Amiga are Awesome

 

[cosmicfrog]

yay I cant vote iether

ps where`s the cd varitey cdtv + cd32

and my/our first A500 when it went termpermental, only years later did i find the dry joint on the ocilator, was sorta fun hitting and bending the 500 into shape to make it work I call it therapy

edit:
oh and the walker and those prerelse things we never really saw

now see this sorta really big and deep question hehehehehhe

 

[mjnurney]

That's easy , I forgot about the cd32 & cdtv

 

[AndyLandy]

The answer is either A500+ or A600, (or possibly both). Not because they're bad machines per-se, it's just that they were too little, too late. The correct thing would have been an ECS machine with EC020 CPU to plug that gap, then an '030 in the AGA A1200.

 

[mjnurney]

And No , you can't sit on the fence and say they are all awesome lol

 

[Witcher1979]

Yeah, the A500+ must have been the most pointless machine ever. Least The A600 had something unique about it. Even if it was to small.

 

[Templar]

I can't vote - All Amiga are Awesome

I agree with that. All Amigas are awesome, some it's better than the other, but in general terms, we have a variety to choose from for our daily needs and/or hobby.

 

[mjnurney]

Pah your all tree hugging amiga lovers ..


Where's my ST




---------- Post added at 14:28 ---------- Previous post was at 14:23 ----------

No..

I agree with the above.

The 500+ was a poor option then. ( I went with my pal to buy a new one in '92) but the 600 was so unpopular ... Nothing fitted it , half the keyboard was missing and there were no upgrades for it (at first) also it was dropped after 6 months , before the 1200 came. People who bought the 600 were not impressed.

The cdtv didn't sell and the cd32 was a year too late ...

 

[salaxi54]

No can do! Love 'em all. The A600 has been a main machine for me, for a long time!

 

[Zetr0]

@MJN

I have updated the poll to include all the official Amiga Releases,

while most of the members would plumb for the A500+ / A600, I will say that the A3000 Tower was / is the most ill conveived release of the lot... especially that within just over half a year later, the A4000 was released!

---------- Post added at 14:35 ---------- Previous post was at 14:30 ----------

The CD32 was onto a good run, infact it was selling very well as consoles go, even more so in Europe. Had Commodore not of ended up in receivership then it would of gone onto being one of the top consoles of the day. (with SNES / Megadrive)

Although its technology was a little limited by the time of its release, the 020 based console with its Amiga Computer DNA was quite a performer for its day.

 

[mjnurney]

Thanks keith,

I wondered if anyone would stray from the obvious choices...

Of course the towers where huge money too...

---------- Post added at 14:51 ---------- Previous post was at 14:35 ----------

I am very disillusioned lol.. I thought the Amiga was the ultimate computer in the 80s & 90s

But I see the Acorn machines were faster..
The fm towns (posh 386) was creating a storm in japan but luckily never released in Europe..

And the best Amigas never saw the light of day..

A1400
AAA
Next gen chipset motherboards and so in..

Commodore were working on web cams (very basic) in the early 80s and that the amiga spec from 1984 had a modem built in..

Where did it all go wrong?

 

[Witcher1979]

Even the A1400 would have been pointless like the A500+

From what I remember it would have been exactly the same as the A1200 but had 2meg of fast ram. I have no idea what commodore were thinking.

 

[mjnurney]

Wasn't the 1400 an 030 machine?

I could be wrong..

 

[Witcher1979]

Wasn't the 1400 an 030 machine?

I could be wrong..

The machine was based upon a 68020 processor running at either, 25 or 28MHz, and used the AGA chipset. Unlike the A1200 it would have came in some kind of desktop unit with an external Amiga keyboard, and include 2MB chip ram and 2MB fast ram, as well as an 80MB hard drive and high density drive as standard. It would have also used the PCMCIA slot found in the A1200.

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/a1400.html

Always to little with commodore, they liked to squeeze all they could.

 

[Powerpie5000]

I voted for the A600. It's not a bad machine, it's just my least favourite (although i've owned a few of them ). I actually prefer the A500+ as it's an ECS machine with a numpad. I'm not too keen on the CDTV either.

 

[mfilos]

A600 is teh roxz0rz. Awersome size, PCMCIA bus, IDE disk, onboard RF Modulator (ROFL feature but I had to say it) all in a small awesome package.

A500+ was the worst imo due to the onboard battery, components that existed or not (depending on the lot and Commodore's cost killing mobos), and most imporant... released very late without reason.

 

[Laudrup]

The worst one was the A500+. This thing was like plumb in the stores... my first new Amiga ever, was a A600 in 1992. I loved her and this little thing was 1000 percent cooler than the 286 PC with monochrome 13" display which were used in these times.