What is the best Amiga in your Opinion?

[matthey]

Hello everybody what is your favorite Amiga and why

A new classic Amiga .

What the system really needed was Fast RAM, even if it was only an additional 1MB. That and something better than akiko for chunky graphics support. If not a real chunky display, then at least an implementation of akiko that could both perform the C2P and write the result to Chip RAM directly, rather than being something you wrote to, read the results back from and then wrote them to Chip RAM yourself. All that data shuffling didn't do performance any favours.

I agree. Just 1 MB of fast ram (in a SIMM slot preferably) would have been much better than the Akiko.

[Xanxi]

A1200 definitly.

[CritAnime]

I love my 600. Perfect size for sitting next to my PC's keyboard. Also some nice modding options.

[lassie]

Hi yes it is a cool little Amiga :-) i have 4 mb ram and 4 giga hard disks, but do you know if that is good for whdload? many of my games frezzes when i try to load them

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I doubt that would have been practical. The 040 was expensive, power hungry and hot and were only used by Commodore in their big-box systems.

What the system really needed was Fast RAM, even if it was only an additional 1MB. That and something better than akiko for chunky graphics support. If not a real chunky display, then at least an implementation of akiko that could both perform the C2P and write the result to Chip RAM directly, rather than being something you wrote to, read the results back from and then wrote them to Chip RAM yourself. All that data shuffling didn't do performance any favours.

And above all, proper developer support and a disk drive standard built-in so that shovelware would be discouraged (and being neat for savegames and backwards compatibility).

Anyway, my vote goes to the A500. Still ahead of it's time (though not that much as the A1000) AND affordable for many.

[lassie]

A1200 definitly.

A3000 and A1000. Both incredible machines when they came out and made with little compromise.

I have a commodore 128d and i think from the pictures i have seen of amiga 1000 that they look a lot alike

[shaf]

My vote is for the A1000 and A4000. The A1000 because it was the First Amiga I owned and was expanded all the way up to WB 3.1 using a Rejuvinator with 1MB Fat Agnus, Comspec SA100 SCSI Controller and 2 AX1000 2MB Ram Expansions.
Although I liked the A3000 Case and features I hated the use Of Zip RAMs for Memory Expansion.

[Tenacious]

I would be hard pressed to own just one.  The 500 was my first and only for 4 or 5 years and I'm still impressed with all that it could do.  I liked its looks, too.

It would be easier to like list models I've never owned: 4000, CDTV, & CD32.  I wouldn't mind a CDTV.  I have multiples of most of the rest.  I enjoy expanding them for different purposes and uses.

[CritAnime]

Hi yes it is a cool little Amiga :-) i have 4 mb ram and 4 giga hard disks, but do you know if that is good for whdload? many of my games frezzes when i try to load them

Some worked and some didn't. I ended up buying an accelerater for it in the end.

[motrucker]

I would say the 4000T. But, I still have a soft spot for the old A2000. The A2000 or 2000HD can be molded into many tasks. Damned good machine!

[Drummerboy]

The Best C= Amiga technologically speaking, is the Amiga 4000, although not was improver the audio features, like said the same Jay Miner(RIP), back in time.  The problem nowdays with the A4000, its very hard find cards, and other thing for expansion.

In this times, the best is the Amiga 1200, becouse its more easy to expand, and keep updated.

The Amiga 600, its very nice machine design, you know, could be great with A1200 power in any A600 case.

The Amiga 3000, was a great machine, the internal scandoubler and VGA conector.. that feature should be incluided in the A600, A1200 and A4000.

The A2000, the king of Amiga Big Boxes!!. For the time very expandible and very good quality. Not AGA.

The A500, the most popular Amiga ever. Nice back in time, for a 80s & 90s hoping boy!

And the Queen Ever! - The Amiga 1000. Say no  more!

[CritAnime]

I love the look of the 3000T and thought it had some great expansion options. If I could I would get one for sure. I just think the case looks great.

[nscaleworld]

I have owned at least one of every Amiga model ever produced, and my favorite is the Amiga 2000.  I also like the Amiga 500.  I have owned several Amiga 1200 computers in like new condition, with their original boxes.  They were very low quality, poorly made crap, so I sold them.  I owned several Amiga 4000 computers, also in like new condition.  Again, very low quality and poorly designed crap.  Sold them too, before I started having problems with them.  Do not even get me started on the Amiga 600 junk.  The only zorro 3 Amiga I like is the Amiga 3000, but, it has major design flaws too, and the quality is not as high as the Amiga 2000 or the 500.  Remember, the most popular and number one selling Amiga model is the Amiga 500.
 
PERSONAL EXPERIANCE:  I always have problems with "surface mount" Amiga models.  I almost never have problems with the "thru-hole" Amiga models.  I never have any problems with Workbench 1.3 to 3.1.  I always have problems with Workbench 3.5 and 3.9.  I think it is because these particular Workbenches were NOT done by Commodore, but by greedy jerks that just wanted to continue making money by bringing out "newer versions" of the old Amiga OS.
 
SUMMERY:  Amiga 2000 or 500 with KS / WB 1.3 to 3.1 equals almost no problems, works great.  Anything newer, nothing but problems.  So, you decide which is the best Amiga models, and BE HONEST (do not let personal ego interfer with your judgement).

[LoadWB]

Why, the Mil-Spec (tm) Amiga 2000, of course.

Seriously, I'm not certain I can name a favorite.  I have one of each of the desktop models (no towers and no special editions,) and each one has been great for its particular purposes.  My 4000D is my main machine, but a favorite? Can't really say.  I love all my children equally

[Hattig]

It a shame commodore went under in 1994, one would think they could keep it going with all the machines they sold over the years. but i think they made some bad choices. The amiga cd32 was a good console, but i think they should have shipped it with 040 cpu and 4 mb ram, so it could compete with the new pc and playstation. it was a time where 3d games took of

It's easy to forget how costly an '040 was back in 1993. However I do agree that both the A1200 and especially the CD32 should have come with fast RAM by default, and the A1200 should have been configurable out of the box with 4MB and 6MB options (an easy upsell from the base price). A 20MHz '020 would have made a difference, but I guess the CPU selected was restricted by Motorola's pricing at the time.

[takemehomegrandma]

Hello everybody what is your favorite Amiga and why

i like my amiga 4000 and amiga 600 the best, i find that almost all games run good on them. but i also like my old amiga 2000 that old girl still keeps going :-)

While the Amiga 500 was the most successful one, and definitely the one who meant the most for the Amiga's success, I like the A1200 better. But IMHO it arrived a couple of years too late...