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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Desolator on March 20, 2003, 02:07:33 PM
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Yup, this have been posted before but this one is specifically about the Amiga 500. What was the first things you did when you either heard of it, or bought it? :)
one of my earliest memories is playing around with a little game called Boo! on it, where this black square with eyes tried to survive in a little mazelike dungeon. :) (came of a disk called JumpDisk)
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Thge A500 was my first Amiga, I got it in about early 1988. I would have owned a A1000 earlier if I could have afforded it. I got the A500 in a sweetheart deal with my local dealer, who happened to be a very good friend. i got the A500 in a direct trade for my C128. I had a hard time adjusting from 8bit commies to the Amiga, but I loved it from the start.
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My first Ami was the A500 Batpack in Christmas 1989. I begged my parents for one for two years before i got one. £399 was a lot of money at the time and I was only 12.
That christmas was the best one ever. I spent all day messing about with the Amiga. Especially New Zealand Story and Batman.
It would be another year before I learnt to use DevPac. Oh the memories!! :-)
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My first Amiga 500... ah, the memories... :-)
Well, it came with 1MB Chip RAM, lots of games (copies, as usual)
For display, there was Commodore's monitor...
Bought it in fall 2002 :-)
Before that, I have bought A1200 and A2000 (in that order)
(I'm writing this on my A1200 now)
And now I'm just waiting for my Pegasos... :-)
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I upgraded from a C64. One reason for that, and one reason only:
Dungeon Master.
Thus I had to buy a memory module to boost to 1MB of
RAM. Man, that was one nifty machine ... And how I loved
that game!
I never really used the Worklbench until I got the A1200
(and eventually put a HD in it). Before that it was
floppy-rule only. I remember playing Rise of the Dragon on
floppy. Great game, looooooots of disk-swapping (the music
was on a separate disk, if I remember correctly). When I
got my first HD (360MB), it made life a whole lot easier
indeed.
But I'm straying. You were only asking about the A500.
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SlimJim
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My A500 ?
Yeap, that was cool ....
I had no other SW than WB/Extra1.3 for the 1st week, so I
played around with that ....
"Whats that stupid shell-window for ? And why can't I close it"
Next 12 months was controlled by AmigaBasic and some games
(Rick-Dangerous and Lotus(1) are most remembered.
I also bought Data-Becker(Red-Sector) Demommaker and had to get
a 512k expansion and a floppy for that..
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I never had an A500, my first Amiga was the A600. I upgraded from a SNES, as my friends all had hundreds of disks full of games that I could get for free, while SNES games sosted £40 or more, I bought a few originals too, though.
Later I got a 1MB expansion. I only kept it for a year and then the A1200 came out so I sold the 600.
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1989 A500 1.3 Roms but came with 1.2 Workbench and the Very First Disk. That was cool.
Bought an 512K A501 (£150) at the same time with Dragons Lair / AfterBurner / Purple Saturn Day.
It came from Evesham Micros in Birmingham, UK.
First thing was playing around with Basic and the Music demo that drawed the straight lines on the screen then ended up in a circle.
Still got it and it still works a treat to this day. Playing Cannon Fodder / Sensi Soccer on a 32" widescreen TV with a Scart Lead is impressive even today. Who needs a PS2
Still got Dragons Lair and the copy of ST-Amiga Format I got given free with it.
Nostalgia Rocks... Going for a game of commando now... :-)
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A500 Memories:
Using the Say program for the first time on workbench 1.3 and changing the voice settings and all of that PD stuff.
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My first A500 was was a workbench 1.2 , and came with delux paint 1. So i spent many happy hours drawing pictures using the provided clip art, that i could`nt save ! as i had no disks. The box came with a sticker on it saying "Catch the Amiga Fever" and we did ... I also remember the demos on the disk for drawing spots, lines boxes and circles , the speed of the box fill was jaw dropping ....at the time , and still quit impressive today. The other impressive thing was they could alll run together at the same time or multiple versions of the same demo. My Mac owning friends nearly died . My PC owning friends DID.
I cant remember exactly when i bought it but it was one of the first batch into the UK and came from a small computer shop called GB MicroLand in Waterlooville ,Hampshire. Every time you went into the shop they had an A1000 connected to a BIG AMP and SPEAKERS, sounded boooommming brilliant.
Ahhhh those were the days....
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I got my A500+ because I saw a mates running GODS and it knocked my socks off. That music and those graphics blew me away. I had a Amstrad CPC6128 at the time and I thought that it was pretty cool.
The A500+ still works and has since been given the gifts of a 28Mhz 020 and as much RAM as it can handle. It also has a HD, CD and I built one of those Yamaha XG midi boxes from CU Amiga. I got it a proper monitor and a flickerfixer/scan doubler and it has OS 3.1.
Sadly it doesnt get used that much any more cos I just dont have the desk space to support it and the PC but I did buy Amiga Forever and I copied the entire HD over to the PC ( a whopping 420Mb!!! well, in those days anyway), so in a way it still lives on.
I bought it from Silica Shop in Sidcup, I went with my Dad (who stumped up half the cash) and on the way home he decided to stop off at my Nans house to see how she was. "NOOOOOOOO, I have to get home and play!", but he wasnt having it. So I just had to take over Nans TV and ended up playing Lemmings, Bart Vs Space Mutants and Captain Planet with the A500 on the living room floor.
The best times I had on the A500 were when I was doing something creative, the machine was built to be creative. I had a go at music, graphics, 3d rendering, the lot. I loved the demos also - State Of The Art, Nine Fingers and all that. I am glad to see that they are still being produced. Downloaded one the other day that required a graphics card. It ran fairly well on Amiga Forever.
Towards the end of Commodore some of my friends left the Amiga and went to the PC but I held on for a while and I was producing College and Uni reports that looked every bit as good as the PC's.
Hmmm, feeling the need to build a larger desk set up and get it out again. :-)
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Yes I remember the A500 was my first computer
I got she in 1989..
First I was playing games and checking out the
Kick/Workbench1.3
I was also Online later on (14400 Modem) :-)
(using amosaic for Internet) TERM for connecting to BBS-Boxes
The upgrades I got where OS31, 1MB chipram, GVP SCSI with 4MB Fast-RAM and 120MB Quantum HDD
I always had nice evenings watching all the new demos from the scene..
Was a cool time
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First 500 in 1989 and boy what a great machine it was plus everyone at school was trading games, so hundreds of games for a machine was just what i needed and parents was saying "We will buy the machine but you will have to buy the games" :-D
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I got the 'Screen Gems' pack , must have been some time around 1989. I wanted an Amiga after seeing my mate's A2000 (well it belonged to his Dad, and i think it had a 286 bridgeboard, whoa!) I pleaded with my Mum to get it, and she stumped up the 400 quid (Pounds) (which as someone else said was a lot of money back then...) I remember watching the intro to Shadow of the Beast II, that blew me away....
I also remember hankering after a 512kb expansion, when I got it I was well happy, I could play Prince of Persia at last!
I used my Amiga for playing around really, no homework ever got done, I was always glued to it from when I got in to when i went to bed.
Stuff I used a lot:
Med/Octamed
Deluxe Paint II
A few games
Demodisks (does anyone remember Jesus on Es?)
The 'Grapevine' disk mag
Blitz Basic (toward the end)
Hell, i even bought Paul Overaa's "Mastering Amiga Assembler". Have been reading that recently actually. Back then I thought it was too complicated and i was too young. 12 years later I realise (after gaining knowledge of programming and electronics) that he is a terrible author.
But I s'pose that was back in the days before books such as "Turning your PC on for Dummies".
Hell look at all the 'lamers' that use 'puters these days....:)
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I saw my first Amiga in '87 - at a friends b'day (lucky bastard - talk about the best bday present ever). One of the original A500s, running Bobble Bubble, Future Tank and later on Marble Madness. I was only 11 at the time but knew from that day forwards what I wanted.
It would be another 3 years of begging and whining to my parents before my turn came to own greatness. Meanwhile I had countless sleepovers to the several friends that lived nearby that owned Amiga. And everytime I would leave with an unquenched thirst and a yearning to have just another hit of Amiga.
It was torture, 3 years! of seeing games like Dogs of War, New Zealand story, Supercars, Rainbow Islands, Robocop, Rickdangerous, Turrican, Midnight Resistance etc etc.
I enoyed my Amiga for many years after 1990, playing the likes of Wings, Defender of the crown, It came from the Desert, Shadow of the beast, Magic Pockets, Jumpin Jack'son, Simcity and many more. I always liked the true classics (Marble Madness was considered classic even in the amiga days).
One thing was certain back then, computers were fun. Little did I know that never again was I to be this happy about anything. Nowadays games like Unreal2 and the upcoming Doom3 hold the attention factor for maybe 30 minutes. :(
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Hmm.... Well i was 5 when my brothers A500 first arrived in 1986. About the 3rd into the country, originally from America, it was routed through Germany to have fixes applied to run in this country (ENG) because it has a prototype chip mounted on the underside of the motherboard. Mouse and modulator were extras at the time so it arrived with WB1.2, Deluxe Paint Programs & Fued and Space Ranger games. The machine still works fine into it`s 17th year now.... Great memories ;-)
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89 here too :-D
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I bought my A500 in early 88. I was going to shore duty from a ship and had a bunch of money. Was going to buy a AT clone but then a friend showed me the Newtek demo. I bought the A500 and 1084 monitor and 1010 ext. floppy and the A501 memory expansion. Also bought the lightning quik amiga 1200 baud modem. That was the only computer i had until 1991. I still have that A500 and It worked the last time I hooked it up.
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The first A500 I saw was my brothers, I remember he had it for Christmas and his birthday in 1990 'cs it was about £500, we alwasys shared our stuff and I think I used it almost more than him so I got a good deal there. It was a whacking great step up from the Speccy 48k we had before hand, I remember my bro telling me it was as powerfull as the computers NASA were using. :-D
Maybe I just really miss that time when computer games were so much fun, I mean I love modern games but theres never a modern game I can play all evening, like I remember on the A500.
I really miss being 8 years old...
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Playing "Mean Streets" with a mouse in the joy port. :-D
My brother completed it that way :-D :-D :-D
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Got my first A500 in 1990 - it was the Rainbow Islands/ F29 Retaliator pack - also came with Planet of the Robot Monsters. Stayed up all night some nights trying to write a Mandelbrot generator in AmigaBASIC - was a big improvement from moving from my then current computer which was just a Spectrum +. I remember having a floppy disk as opposed to tape was something that blew me completely away. Similar to when I later got a hard disk for my 1200. Bought loads of demos and Fish disks from CRazy Joes PD - remember Plasmutex - them were the days. Eventually graduated to coding some simple 68k programs with a68k.
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Ah yes.. I got a C-64 in '85 and then after showing a lot of interest, the Amiga 500 Batman pack in the summer of 89 or so.
My unit was illegally imported from the UK in a suitcase as Amiga prices were a lot cheaper there then.. :-) Ahh, TNZS, Batman the movie .. The Very First, DPaint II ..
AmigaBasic..
Life was simple at first, then in '92 or so I got online with a borrowed 1k2 modem.. Later on I loaned an 9k6 speed monster and then 14k4 :-)
I upgraded the machine with 512k slow, extra DD, 2.04 roms and an AR3 cartridge.. I did all my stuff with a few highly customized wb2.04 workbench disks.. :-)
Learning asm, deciding it's too difficult and dropping it (stupid decision back then).. BBSes, and eventually the Internet..
I got a PC next to it in 1995, but the Amiga was always hooked up and I still kept doing stuff with it.. Then in 1998 I bought a second hand A4000.. After that I've owned almost all the retail Amiga models at some time or another, some have only had a short stay on my desk and some have been around longer.
The A500 is still with me, but the only things left of the original machine are the case, psu, manuals & disks and mouse.. The innards have been swapped at one point or another (it's now an A500+ ;-)
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lorddef wrote:
Maybe I just really miss that time when computer games were so much fun, I mean I love modern games but theres never a modern game I can play all evening, like I remember on the A500.
I really miss being 8 years old...
Amen to that!
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I bought my first machine when i was 16 and that was 12 years ago my sister has it now its in her loft .i have 2 amiga 500,s now one has roctec hardrive fitted with 2 meg of memory and 4 meg expansion. i love the 500
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in 1988 the company I worked for was shifting premises (their THIRD shift) over a weekend and I earned enough with the overtime to pay one-third the cost of a 1.2 A500 & 1084 monitor (( totalling about $1400AU ))
Took it home (where I was co-habiting with a Station Mistress at that time) and set it up beside my C128D on a desk I call "Big Blue". Still have that desk in my computer room today: behind me (http://home.iprimus.com.au/vortexau/images2/Room2.gif) where my A1200HD sits INFRONT of that C128D!
Anyhow, the only software I bought firstoff was a Psygnosis game- Deep Space. I got into DPaintII and then searched out for the lowest costing source of Floppies; which was then $24-22 per pack-of-ten!
In 1991 I bought this A2000HD, and later on the A500 was sold to my brother-in-law when I bought my second Hand Scanner which, unlike the first, would install to Hard Drive!
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Ah! My first A500!
It must've been 1988. Since it came out, I was drewling all over every Amiga-magazine I saw. Finally, I had enough money to buy me a 500 with 1084. The shop even delivered it at home! The excitement of connecting all cables, the desillusion when finding out they delivered me the wrong monitorcable... AAAARGH! The excitement when the right cable was delivered two long, lóóng hours later...
The first few days, I didn't have any software besides WB1.2 and the Extras-disk. Hell! Did I care! 'Say' was great, the basicdemos awesome and when I finally was able to play my first games...
Upgrades were soon to come: internal RAM-expansion, extra floppydrive, 24pin printer, SCSI-harddisk, flickerfixer, external RAM-expansion, Power PC Board... Great stuff!
Nevertheless, I don't own a 500 anymore: I shifted to a 1200 and a 2000, which are more to my liking.
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I already posted this to the "Poll" thread:
I got it Christmas 1988. I was working as saleman in the computer section of an electronics store. I remember myself hypnotized when I saw the first A500 we received working. The first thing I saw was the now famous "Boing!" demo.
I remember myself playing "Gee Bee Air Rally", "Test Drive", "Barbarian" or showing my customers DeluxePaint and its rainbow effects, next to an ugly 286 :-) . I sold many A500 before I could buy mine!
I sold my 6 month old Amstrad CPC 6128 to buy my first A500.
Ferrán.
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wow i rememeber the old days of sitting up all night playing games like monkey island and putting towels over the miggy so the drive didnt wake the parents up!!! also remember playing with the startup files hee hee to make sotfware look like i wrote it, very naughty! Ahh the old a500 and 500+ , what memories!!! Kevin
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I got my first A500 in February 1990, to replace my Speccy 128K.
The first thing I did was to play F18 Interceptor, before graduating to Batman the movie, Deluxe Paint and eventually using the 'say' tool in Workbench to swap insults with my mate Ben who kindly offered to help me with unpacking the machine!
However, within a few days the keyboad chip died on me and I had to get a replacement machine, which I still have to this very day.
How can I forget the hours I spent playing Xenon II, Shadow of the Beast, Speedball and Falcon? Oh, and being wowed by RSI's Megademo and spending hours doodling with DPaint 2........
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.......And changing the colour of my workbench to turquoise/white/blue, adding a nice shadow to the mouse pointer, reading my first scrolltext......
No wonder I flunked so many exams that year :-P :-D
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Ahhhh, my first A500!
My parents bought it somewhere in 1989, thinking it it would be good for our education :-) We went to a local computer shop and with the amiga came a complementary game: Thunderboy! That game was really crap....but so good at the time! My two elder brothers used the amiga just for games, but I tried everything I could to learn the machine. Took some time too: 1.3 ADOS isn't exactly a friendly learning enviroment :-D
After some time I bought the extra 1/2 meg ram (and played pinball fantasies...owwwww) and a 2.1 ROM with a kickstartswitch. All those utilities! Octamed v5! It became my life...and still is to some extend. It wasn't untill 1998 I got myself an A1200 (with '030 and all), but it never replaced the A500.... (talking about replacing: killed three diskdrives in 10 years :-P
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after burner and robocop and dpaint 3 animation art
oh man my a500 wonderful, later i upgraded it put it in a case pc power supply viper 520cd, 3.1 rom mini mega chip (2 meg chip ram) rev.6 mb put more memory on mother board, cdrom,os3.9. i ask a old amiga man what i could do with an amiga, he said the question is not what you can do, but what can't you do. amiga can do anything!
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I remember walking into Dixons (UK hardware store)
sometime in 1987 being all of 9yrs old, looking at the KS1.2 A500 they had running the polygon robot animation (about 50 frames of looped anim) and thought wow! then nagging parents for a year untill i got one. thing was, by then it was release 1.3 and didn't come with the animation. i was well disappointed. then i got one with DPaint 1, the basic demos, etc etc, gaming sleepovers, linkups (parnet, sernet), external floppy drives, 1/2mb ram upgrades (i saved pocket money for 6months to by 1/2 a meg! hard disks, A570 drives, 2mb chip ram upgrades, 020 M-Tec 28Mhz accelerators, the wonders of real fast ram. since then i've owed almost every machine at some time bar the A3000, and A1000. and even when i had my massive A4000T with GFX cards, drives, PPCs etc, i think i was most creative with a dodgy copy of Dpaint3, a coverdisk version of Protracker, an old technosound turbo sampler, and my old 1mb A500. why didn't someone say to me back then "son, these are going to be some of the happiest days of your life." would i have listened? no. i'd have booted shadow of the beast 2 one more time.
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My first A500 (and my very first Amiga computer ever) was purchased quite a while after I saw one at a Software Etc. store in a mall in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Had to save up money for a long time. Gee, that was a long time ago! It was running the "El Gato" demo. Bought with 1 MB of RAM and an additional floppy drive. It has changed a lot since then. You can see what I've done to that very machine (yep, I still have it to this day) at this LINK (http://mikerye.homeip.net/about_my_computers.html).
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I got my A500 in March 2000 but it died within a few months.. i still have 2 A500s lying around though but at the moment the 1200 is resident on my desk next to the PC. Guess which one i use more :-D
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Well...my first Amiga 500...wow...such a long time ago..I was an exchange student in San Diego...went to a shopping mall..saw one running some demo...called my mother asking for her permission..she told me "ok, buy it, but when you return home, you get rid of the C=64 you have..i dotn want more garbagge in your room" ;))
I bought it the very next day, with the a501 clock expansion. Paid a LOT of money (cant remember how much), got rid of all boxes, put it in the middle of the my luggage, and pray. At local customs here, i had to pay one guy 50 dollars extra to be able to bring it home. It came with Carmen Sandiego & Tetris. The very first day home, i sold all my c=64 equipment, bought a 1084 and bought about 10 games....Thats the beginning of my story with Amiga, and was the "end" with C=64 (I returned 10 years later, when i re-bought all the stuff i have sold)
;))
Regards
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I bought mine in 1990..I was working at a supermarket for $3.85/hr..saved up around $550 to buy my Amiga 500..I first saw one at my friends house..he had a C64 so I bought one..he bought a Amiga..I was blown away by the sound and graphics..well..3 months later I saved enough money to buy one..
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Has anyone got it out of the loft recently to find out that the loft ain't a good place to keep the old girl?
(I suppose you can guess what happened to me recently....)
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"Whats that stupid shell-window for ? And why can't I close it"
LOL, I remember thinking that :-)
A500 since 1987. KS1.2. It's resting up in the loft at the moment :-)
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Got the half-meg expansion, played Monkey Island
etc. on floppies.
Now have 5 meg ram-, scsi harddrives, Boots 3.1,
020 accelerator, this thing is still amazing!
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I actually bought a A1000 in 1990, came with some software. (In fact, I traded it for a TurboGrafx-16). In 1991 I landed a good job, and purchased a used A500. Added the ram expansion, "fatter agnus" and eventually graduated to KS1.3. I'm trying to remember the fist thing I did with it, but considering that I had the A1000 before.... I think it was mostly to play some of the titles I had in PAL. ;)
After a little bit an oppertunity presented itself and I traded the A500 for a LtKernal 40Meg HD for my C=64 for use with my C=64 based BBS. :P
I bought another A500 a few months aftwards. I also upgraded the processor to a 68010, added a ZorroII side car that had a GVP harddrive +HD and 8 megs of fast ram. I also had a Vidi Amiga 12. By then I was playing around with Image FX, CineMorph and the Vidi Amiga 12 making little animations. :)
That A500 got traded in towards an A1200 eventually. (But I still have an A1000 in my closet. :P) [Oh, that A1200 was traded away for a GVP Impact Vision 24...]
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I never had any A500 ... started with a A2000 and a 20MB HD :-o in the early 90's :-D
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The first thing i did on my a500 .. was a game called crazy cars :-)
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Well...i was a C= fan (having a huge 64c and 128 and all that stuff) and had the chance of seeing one Amiga 500 at my local shop (and by "local" i mean, a store which was 2000 km away from me. Yes, i lived in the south of Argentina, where no places to buy stuff for computers..) Anyway, it was SO expensive (but SO beatiful). In 1989 i was an exchange student in San Diego (California), and i went to one of those chain computer shop called Electronics Boutique. Saw one 500, asked how much it was. Called back my parents, asked for permission, returned the very next day...I took it all way to Argentina with me, played a lot with Tetris and Carmen San Diego until "Insert Lazarus volume" appeared..then my love with Amigas begun...Of course it was NTSC so i had to "fix" that (it cost me 100 dollars to convert it to PAL) Then, i bought a rom switcher, an Action Replay, a 1084d monitor (actually i trade it for ALL my c64/128 stuff), a sampler, a second drive...bla bla bla...
:-D
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The A500 was my first real (flexable) computer in 1989, had a Timex/Sinclair and an Atari 1200 before that. I first saw it in a shop next to an IBM XT, both were playing Battle Chess. The game play and sound were fluid on the Amiga, the XT was jerky with no sound. I couldn't wait to get more software!
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I picked up my first A500 in the early 90's and my fondest memory was playing Chaos Engine with a buddy till our fingers could no longer push the buttons.
Wow, those were the days. :-)
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I realize this thread is old but I had to share my story. My A500 was bought from a local computer store in 1995, I was 16, incidently I now work for that store. My first experiences with that computer were some of the most enjoyable times I've ever had with a computer. It was a 68000 rev A6 MB, 512kChip 512kFast/clock, an external A1010 FDD and a C=1084 monitor. I used OctaMED mostly on it as well as DPaint II, III, IV. Bought a Megalosound sampler one year later. To this day I am fascinated with making music on computers, just bought a microkorg synth. I still have my A500 but I upgraded it with kickstart 2.04 and a fat(ter?) agnus board with 2MB chip onboard, but it disabled the fastram on the card, however the clock still works (?) Anyway, I also own an A1200 with a 40MHz 68030, 32MB fastram, 2GB ide drive and panasonic 5 disc cd-rom changer (modded the case to let out an ATA ribbon) and a bigfoot psu. I got online for the first time with that 1200. :-)~ i miss using my babies - WinUAE just doesnt cut it.
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Pirates!
Ahr, matey! (http://www.tag-board.com/smilies/pirate.gif)
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I think we got ours in 1988. (I say we because I went in on the purchase with a friend.) I remember many a night trying to get to sleep when I'd hear a knock on the window telling me he wanted to play Dungeon Master again.
I've owned many machines since then, but have not been able to get the Amiga out of my blood.
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The first experience I had of the amiga was when my mate brounght it over to my house- we plugged into the tv and started making the opening credits for a movie! I was so jealous when we were running Dpaint- Daniel asked me
" What shade of red should we use?"
I had been using my PC for years and only had 4 colours... no SHADES!
So then I got one... and then an A2000... Still got my a500 and am looking to buy a 600 to save space...
So very sad that all we have left is nostalgia.... Amiga could have changed the whole world.
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The A500 was the first computer our family owned. All I wanted to do was play King's Quest 3. Nothing like EGA graphics and beeps to show off an Amiga, but hell, I didn't know.
Unfortunately, the first thing I did was Initialise the King's Quest disk. I was NOT a happy chappy. A quick lie to the retailer and I was happily playing. ;-)
Within 18 months I was experimenting with 68k assembler after the limitations of AmigaBASIC on Extras made themselves felt.
I reckon one of the best things about Amiga was the way Commodore wrote the technical documentation. It just seemed to be explained in a way I understood and learned really quick. Maybe I'm alone here, but it worked for me.
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My first Amiga was the A500. The first programs I run were some public domain disks that I was given from the store where I bought it. They were 17bit disks (slideshows I think) and some demos. I didn't mess with workbench until I bought some blank disks, a few days later, to make copies of it and keep the originals in a safe place. They are still in that safe place. I really liked WB1.3.
The A500 was also a goodlooking machine. I used to spend time just looking at it when it was off. Well I still do some times ;-)
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it was in June 1988.
WB 1.2 and GFA.basic
some games : two on two, karting, marble madness,
crystal hammer,wold games, Formula one.
It was so fun.
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Yep, I bought the batman pack too, it was exhilerating !!,and it took my breath away :-D
I mainy used it for games and really did not go deeper into the OS until a year or so.
Every thing was so damm expensive 1/2 meg upgrades for £50, we made commodore a lot of wonga at the time,pity they did not match their extortionate rates with good bussiness sense,ah well :-x
When prices dropped i could not get me hands quick enough on more Ram,HD, CD, Extra drive, Fatter Agnus, Denise, Rom switcher ECT..........the list is endless. it still sings today !.
But then I bought my beloved A1200(swoon).
and the A500, became dormant piece of hardware.
Missed but not forgotten !.
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I got my first Amiga 500 in 1987 after having played with a A1000 in filmschool. A friend of mine actually won two in some lotery and sold me one at half price. I also had an external diskdrive which made life a lot easier, lot's of disk swapping in those days. I remember buying an external harddisk for it, (20 MB storing space ! ) but that was probably quite a bit later, The program I used first and most on that machine was Dpaint and a program that later became TAD/ADPro (forgot the name). I also used Aegis animator and Deluxe Video for a while but didn't really like them. There was also a 3D program, I think it was called Videoscape.
Later I replaced that with Sculpt4D.