What did your amiga look like in 1991?

[jm4n]

Threads like these make me wonder how our eyes have survived the computing era of tubes flashing hard, tanning  our faces for hours :-)
I like so much these old shots, with all the stuff on desks and walls.

[magnetic]

Fun thread

In 1991 I had an A500 w/1mb ram, ext floppy, 1084s monitor and tons of games. Did some bbs stuff and a little online gaming (Medievel Warriors) on my Supra Modem lulz.. ah the good ole days.. The amiga user group in my area was like 200 strong and had great meetings.

[redfox]

My first and only classic Amiga is an A2000HD.

I don't remember the exact dates, but I did some upgrades over the years.  It started with OS 1.3, later upgraded to OS 3.1.  I added some extra fast RAM, a SCSI CD-ROM drive, a second SCSI hard drive, an external floppy disk drive and a MicroWay flickerfixer card.  Never added an accelerator card so it always operated as a 68000 CPU at original clock speed.

redfox

[Darrin]

Some time during '91 my original A2000 PSU caught fire and I replaced it with an ECS A1500.  So, it would have looked like this:

A1500 with stock 68000 CPU
2 x Floppy drives (One salvaged from A2000)
128MB Hard Drive with extra 2MB RAM on SCSI card (salvaged from A2000)
0.5MB Zorro RAM card (salvaged from A2000)
A1081 monitor
Colour dot matrix printer

[B00tDisk]

and a cd burner,

In '91?  My god, how much did that cost, and how much was the media?  Please, tell me more!

[B00tDisk]

In '91 I was driving around an A500 with 2mb RAM (512k on-board, 512k trapdoor, 1mb in ZIP RAM in a Supra-RAM sidecar), an external AIR floppy drive and an Adspeed and I think an upgraded Denise.  Although I could be wrong about that.

Oh my display was a 13" color TV

The next system I had after that was around '93, and it was an A1200.  Before I sold it all off it had acquired a 1084S monitor, a DKB Cobra 030 card, 4mb RAM, and a 60mb HD.  

In retrospect, I wish I'd learned more about Shapeshifter or whatever and run Mac OS for the continuing software base.  Now, I do not care for Apple computer one whit but being able to "dual boot" and getting access to the games that drew me away from the Amiga (FPSes mostly) and a little later, web-browsers...if I'd kept my wits about me I might have held on to my Amiga a bit longer.

Of course I might have also wound up as a ravening mac fan and how terrible would that have been?  I shudder to think.

[matt3k]

- 3000D 25MHz
- Latest chips Buster 11, SCSI-08, Ramsey 7, DMAC 4
- 16 megs static column zips
- 50 MHz hack for the 882
- 250 MB or so Quantum HD
- Viewsonic 15
- Hooked up to my Carver 250 AMP/PreAmp and some custom made huge speakers.
- GVP Phonepak
- External C-LTD 50 MB Hard Disk - Used for data backup.

A sweet system that is still my favorite Amiga, use it to this day...

The Quantum tech guys were great, remember chatting with them.  They had an Amiga 3000 for testing...  Always tried to support them for that...

[mdivancic]

Just a simple 500 with 1 meg of ram. Upgraded to a A2000 with hard drive in 1992.

[ChaosLord]

20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?

Amiga 500 with KS 1.2 512K chipram and 512K Slow ram.  Used for testing those few idiot games that only worked with KS1.2 or 512k chipram.
At some point I gave it away probably in 1989 or 1990.

Amiga 500 With KS 1.3 1MB chipram.   My "real" A500.

Amiga 2000 with KS 1.3, 1 MB Chipram + 8MB Chipram + a SCSI hard disk controller.  I forgot the brand, I would have to look it up.  This was my main ECS Amiga that I played all badly coded games on.  The detached keyboard was great and the 8MB fastram allowed me to multitask my screengrabber proggies and Dpaint and stuff.

Amiga 3000 25Mhz 68030 with KS2.04  2MB 32-bit Chipram and 16MB Fastram.  My main business computer used for coding and desktop publishing and gfx and music and everything.  I had around 6 GB of HD storage using a Ricoh Magneto-Optical rewriteable drive.  I used this computer to play Wings and a few other HD installable games that benefited from the faster cpu power and faster chipram.

Amiga 3000 25Mhz 68030 with KS2.04 2MB 32-bit chipram and 8MB fastram.  It was on sale for $799.00 so I grabbed it.  Great for datalinking Stunt Car Racer and other datalinkable games!  A few years later I sold it.  Then a couple of years ago they gave it back to me when they were throwing away all their old Amiga stuff.  So now it is sitting here in a box probably leaking battery acid everywhere.

For monitors I had some 1084S monitors and a Commodore C= 1950 Multisync monitor on my A3000 for viewing 640x512 in rock solid flickerfixer mode.  My A3000s all had dual-monitor setups.

Lots of rubbery Ergosticks for controllers.  4 player adapters.  An HP Deskjet 500 inkjet printer.

A Sony stereo with a "Surrond Sound" button that mixes the Amigas audio correctly to fix the "wide separation" problem and makes the Amiga audio soooooooooooooo beautiful and wonderful to listen to.

A Visual Aurals Mindlight 7.  The grooviest hardware ever.

Those were the good old days.

[zylesea]

Here's my setup, taken in late 1992 actually. Close enough?


two amigas from my past by blakespot, on Flickr




bp

;-) I  kind of sold my first Amiga about 20 years for my then first amiga. The elder sister of my gf was offering me quite a nice sum for the A500 and since I spent more time with her little sister and lesser time with my A500 I let it go.
Not the worst decision, a few months later when unfortunately her little sister and me were a thing of the past again I had time and use for Amiga again, the A600HD was cheaply on sale.

[Lando]

It looked like a SNES.  I didn't get an Amiga until 1992, when the A600 came out.  Then I got interested in coding and bought extra RAM, a hard drive, only to upgrade to the A1200 the year after.  Still love 68k assembler!

[pwermonger]

I had a 2000HD. Not sure if in 91 I had purchaed the used 2620 board yet for it. In it was a 286 Bridgeboard, the 2091 hard drive controller, and a 40MB (holy cow hard to remember when we dealt in Megs instead of Gigs) Quantum Pro Hard drive that booted that Amiga through WB 1.3-3.1 until I finally retired both it and the 2091 in favor of a GVP 030 accelerator with SCSI and RAM and a DAtaflyer IDE controller, I also might have had the Mimetics Framebuffer card by then, not sure. Now, that Amiga has Opalvision, 386 Bridgeboard, that GVP acceperator, Dataflyer IDE. I loved filling up a big box Amiga in the day. Every slot, every drive bay must be used.

[Dr.Bongo]

Having Amiga pipe-dreams back then. Had a C64c and a big pile of cassettes.

[AmigaFreak]

I had an Amiga 1000, bought by my Father when they first came out. 2 MB ram expansion externally, Workbench 1.3  and loads of software such as Deluxe Video, Deluxe Paint, games games games. External floppy drive. Oh and a Coleco Adam game controller in the second joystick port for games. A couple years later I modded my Amiga with bright yellow system and main floppy lights over the stock red ones.

[haywirepc]

Amiga 500, 1084s with extra external floppy drive...
An old stereo power amp with amiga going to aux channel and some big kickin
speakers. A 2400 baud modem and a sound sampler.

My amiga 500 was esentially my protracker music and sampling workstation.
Thousands of floppy disks filled with samples. I learned to sequence music
and create samples thanks to amiga.

I sure don't miss flipping sample disks for hours on end trying to find the perfect kickdrum sound...:laughing:

[Ami_GFX]

In 1991 I just dreamed about having an Amiga. I had 2 Atari Sts with both mono and color monitors. I liked playing around with the color graphics on the ST but they were really limited and I used it in mono mode for midi sequencing.  I had a few hours a week of studio time in a studio that had a lot of synthesizers and an Amiga for sequencing. I didn't like it for music but the ham graphics impressed me. 2 years later, I finally got an A2500 which came with a lot of software. It totally obsessed me for the next year.