How is begun your adventure with Amiga?

[chipper701]

Wow! This brings back memories. I had read about the Amiga in Electronic Games ( I loved that mag, but my mom threw them all out  :-(  ) So I called around and found out were the closest dealer was. It was in a little town called Cocoa. I road my 10 speed bike 68 miles to see it. It was in the back of a book store. Commodore sure didnt know what they had. It was an Amiga 1000 and I saw the demo disk with pics of Marble Madness and it had this little mouse and talked about multi-tasking. No computer has ever captivated me like that. I knew I had to have 1. Because of financial situations I didnt get mine till 3 years later, but I will never forget the 1st time I saw it. The 4 1/2 hours bike ride was worth it.

[Zorro]

chipper701 wrote:

The 4 1/2 hours bike ride was worth it.

Yes, for sure...

 8-)

[Lando]

andyf wrote:
My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.

Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)


andy

Are you the famous Andy Finkel?
Nice to see you here :-)

[huronking]

I bought my first A500 in 1989. I was a U.S. Army private stationed in Wildflecken,Germany.

I wanted to replace the C-64 I left behind when I
joined, and that massive $600 a month was burning a hole in my pocket.

i decided on the Amiga- it was 2 more months before I could afford the 1084 to use it. I borrowed
a Tandy 1000 CGA monitor and made it work in 16
color mode with aligator clips and straight pins.

Ahh the memories of all the alcohol  consumed while
playing Police Quest or writing awful programs in
AmigaBasic.
"You MUST insert Volume Extras 1.3 NOW!!!"

I wanted a C64 but I got an Amstrad CPC6128 for christmas when I was 9. It  used discs!! None of those tape things plus it was way better than my mates Speccy.

Then I saw an Amiga running Gods and I knew what had to be done. Soon after I was the proud owner of an A500+ with the Cartoon Classics pack.

At first I was happy but I soon realised that an extra disc drive would be handy. Then a bit more memory, a hard drive and why not stick a CD drive on that IDE chain - it can take it. Its now got a 28Mhz 020 and as much memory as it can handle. A flicker fixer/scan doubler enabled me to ditch the old Amstrad colour monitor and use a PC monitor.

It doesnt get used much any more but it recently got set up on the floor and it was good.

I now use Amiga Forever for my Workbench fix, its faster than a very fast thing and runs 90% of my old software.

[Zorro]

Lando wrote:

andyf wrote:
My experience with the Amiga started when Commodore bought Amiga Corp, and I was shipped out to Los Gatos to work on the operating system.

Seems like that was a long, long time ago :-)


andy

Are you the famous Andy Finkel?
Nice to see you here :-)

Andy Finkel ?!!?!  :-o

For Sure  :crazy:

[GPT]

Well when I was 9 years old my dad bougth me an used A1200 and that was 1994.

And since then I have loved amiga.
That was my first real experience with a computer, if you don't count the C64.


WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAaaaaaaaaaaaaa.............., sorry for that, I got a flashback ;-) :-P