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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Amithony on March 25, 2008, 11:57:00 AM
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I thought I'd throw this one out there to get a snapshot for my Amiga time capsule.
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The desktop A1200 because of the look / feel of it.
If I should choose another one it would be either the A3000 or the A1000 - again because these have the best look / feel.
If it was just for the convenience and power, I would go for the A4000.
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Yes, there's much to be said about the AGA machines. I like the look of the 3000 though. I think the next one that comes out will be the greatest. (still hoping that some powerful hardware guy finds his inner Amiga and takes it on.)
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I've owned a 500, a 1200 and a 4000. I've craved for a CD32 (later, when I grew up).
I've also used an a1000, an a2000. Never seen an a3000 though.
When I parted with my 500 (with 120MB scsi disk, and 3MB ram) for a stock a1200 with 80MB disk. I felt cheated by Commodore.
I loved my A4000PPC when I upgraded to that back when P5 released it.
But now my heart belongs to the A1200. Which it never really had in the first place. That was then reserved for the A500 and A4000.
Now I love it because of the simplicity, compatability and AGA.
I "can't" use my A500, and the A4000 is too bulky to have near by the TV for those Sensible Soccer, Pinball Fantasies and Lemmings bouts...
Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)
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arnljot wrote:
Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)
Hmmm. Thats an interesting project. How far have you got with it?
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The A1200, it gave affordable and powerful computing to the masses in such style. A brilliant design.
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For a powerful machine: The A4000. I know some people hate the case, but I love it. I always coveted a Zorro-capable Amiga (I know technically they can all do it with hacks, but still...) and when I finally got my A4000 it was a dream come true!
For a portable machine: The A1200. It can have most of what the A4000 has in a nice portable case.
For pure fun: I have recently acquired a CD32, and it's awesome.
If I had to choose one though, it would be the A4000.
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moto
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tokyoracer wrote:
The A1200, it gave affordable and powerful computing to the masses in such style. A brilliant design.
I recently bought an A1200 that I will need to go and pick up. Looking forward to it more than most of my other purchases. It really is a sleek machine isnt it?
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The A1200 ! It is an amazing machine. Compact, AGA, WB3, PCMCIA...
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I have owned every Amiga model apart from the CDTV and the A4000T (I don't count my towerised A4000 desktop as a true tower), and the A3000 is my absolute favourite. If you look at the standard, out-of-the-factory specs and looks, it's just the best one that Commodore ever made. SCSI and flickerfixer onboard, and it looks awesome.
Apart from that, the A4000(T) is my favourite when it comes to expandability, and the A500 for a good oldschool gaming experience. The A1200 is a bit better than the A500, but I just don't like the looks of it. They took the wedge too far with that design (maybe I'm just gonna put my A1200 mainboard in an A500 case - best of both worlds! :-))
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The A500... it is the quintisential Amiga... it defined home computing for about 4 years. It was powerful, cheap and fun. Everyone had one.
I like the A1200, as it was the best designed of the Amigas... but it was released 2 or 3 years too late... the after about a year it already seemed dated. Still I trudged on with mine (upgrading the damn thing like crazy) until the year 2000... When the call of the 600Mhz Athlon became too great.
The Original Commodore A4000T was beautiful.
But the 1.3 A500 is my favourite. That is one machine that will stay in my heart forever. I still have one in the cupboard.
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I've had an A2000, A1500, CD32, A1200 (inc towers) and A3000.
Out of all of them I use my A2000 the most. It's an ECS model with a 68030 and a Cybervision 64/3D graphics card. I just love the room inside it which makes swapping cards a breeze and the fact it has just enough bays to mount everything I need internally (HD, floppies and CD ROM).
For some reason, my A1200s in the towers just don't "feel" like Amigas in the same way the A2000 does. Perhaps it's the nasty old PC keyboard that does it.
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My A2000, because it's mine. :)
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I love my A2000 the most, it's easy to upgrade, it's a work horse and pretty much bullet proof.
next is the A1200 although i'm half-way thru moding it and still have lots of hair pulling to go.
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I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. Under tutorials in the forum here, you'll find both a psu project and cdrom projects. I'm just doing both in the machines (two of them).
Amithony wrote:
arnljot wrote:
Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)
Hmmm. Thats an interesting project. How far have you got with it?
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hmmm
my heart would say an A500 as thats what i started with, and got me into Amigas, and what i ran for years
but really now, for shear plug an go, gotta be an A1200. i think i'm on my third, and this ones a keeper. ;-) haha
internal hard disk/CF, good accelerator, smallest footprint - so easy to pick up and go round people's houses for linkup super skidmarks, lotus2, stunt car racer, battlecars... are any link games not racers? lol
i would love an A4000 Desktop again for the ease of expandability, but i would also love an A3000 as the prettiest big box machine (and the only machine i have never owned yet, bar the A1000)
but anyway, i ramble on...
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Amiga 1200: Because it's nice, everything I want under a keyboard, special design. The best solution for games right now.
Amiga 4000: My main system I use now for my hobby and work. Still great and very expandable.
Amiga CD32: It's an A1200 but comes with built-in CD-ROM, thus some games especially written for CD32 are great, not to mention the S-Video output that I've connected the CD32 on my Sony 50' LCD TV. Still great and fun to insert-cd-and-play. :-D :-D
Amiga CDTV: I think the most "cool" Amiga of all times. This machine's position stands for the living room, not in bedroom. Oh, when I look at it, it's brilliant. Even sitting down and using that wireless remote controller. ;-)
Great multimedia CD-ROMs too.
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@ Phantom and your fav amiga is??? :-D
ALL? :lol:
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ALL ALL :crazy: :crazy:
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Phantom wrote:
ALL ALL :crazy: :crazy:
:bow: :bow: :bow:
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A1000. Grew up with it, spent many hours with it... I love the detached keyboard, which IMO has a better feel than the later (500,2000,3000) keyboards. I like the feel of the original mouse as well, although the A3000 "Pregnant" mouse just about ties it. ...oh, and the ability to change the keyboard cable by just throwing a telephone handset cable on there.. i used a 15' cable in college which worked great!
But I like the relatively small size (compared with A200), flexibility to easily run various kickstart versions, so i can try out 1.4, or the pre-releases v27, v29... nice storage of the keyboard, etc.
Then again, I'm one of the crazies that likes the look and feel of 1.3 over the 3D look of the newer OSs. heh.
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Yep, all of them!
I think the 500 has the most alluring case design.
I tend to value those machines with socketed chips vs those with SMT.
A600 is my ultra portable.
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Difficult question really.
I currently own a 500, 600, 1200, 2k, 3k, and a cd32.
The 1200 gets used almost daily. It's an incredible machine, and gets my vote.
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Favourite?
Would you choose between your children?
If really, really pushed I would say my 1200 (it does everything I want it too),
but on the other hand, my 2000 is absolutely bulletproof, cheaper and easier to upgrade, looks beautiful (to me anyway) and the kids love it too,
but on the other hand, my 1200 has AGA, is more portable (a sh1te sight lighter) and is also a thing of beauty
but on the other hand.....
(this could go on all night)
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I only owned 2 - my first, a 500, then I upgraded to a 2000.
I prefered the 2000, mainly because of it's expandability and the nice big case you could put everything in.
My 500 ended up with this octopus of cables and peripherals all over the place, and was a pain to transport and set up - The 2000 was just nice and neat, not to mention pretty tough when it came to lugging around to different meets/game parties/etc.
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I loved the A500 first and foremost, although the A1200 is up there. The A1200's capabilities were great, especially if you ponied up for some fast RAM. I think in many ways though it was a lost opportunity due to Commodore's useless management.
The A500 was, for the time, amazing. The A1200 was, for the time, merely good.
Both gave me lots of good memories though.
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That's a tough one...
I currently own thee Amigas: an A1200, an A2000 and an A3000. I had an A500 back in the days (1988, I guess), but my current machines are the ones I wanted the most in the late 80-ies/early 90-ies.
If I háve to choose, I think my most favourite Amiga is the A2000: easy to expand and easy to replace defective chips.
If you ask me again next week or next month, I might as well answer 'A3000' or 'A1200' then, though.
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Without a doubt, my Amiga 3000 TUX machine. When I was at Purdue University, that machine was the bomb. The professors I had couldn't believe that I could 'dual-boot' between UNIX (SVR4 no less!) and the AmigaOS. I even had the 2410 Graphics Card for sweet, sweet, X-Windows goodness.
The deal was much better than the overly priced NeXT Cube's that Steve was pushing to college students back then.
Later, I added an Emplant board for Mac emulator. Boy, those were the days.
Now, I'm the professor and my students are just amazed that I didn't own a Windows machine. Commdodore? Atari? NeXT? What are those??
I guess you really can't go home again.
-Pen
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@ Amithony,
Very good job too, I can't recomend a better model of Amiga that's for sure!
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The A1200 is probably the one that has stood the test of time the best.
The A600 and the A3000 are the prettiest though!
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The veteran A500 of course! is "the start level".
All i know about Amigas was with my 500 and hours, days, months, years...(oh what a lovely times).
I like it's shape and keyboard touch, floppy noise... ¡and it's games!
Bye :-D
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This is a real tough one for me....
Either it's the A500 or the CDTV...
The A500 for the bedroom programming/gaming/modtracking/demoing aspect, or the CDTV for it's awesome design/philosophy (though it just had to have an internal harddisk and diskdrive, and room for expandability.
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I loved my A1000 back in the day. Used it in University. Loved the design. Great machine... but my A2000 was terrific... built like a tank, able to expand it out the wazoo. I had an A500 at one point but I never got hooked on the all in one form factor. Never had an A1200... so my vote goes to the A2000. :-D
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Well that would be my A500 Plus with A530 Turbo 40 MHz, just fun working with it and playing some old games. :-)
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The A1200 ofcourse - it's the best concept computer; everything gathered within a keyboard.
It's kinda funny how this thread pops up like a confirmation of the all-in-one concept I pointed out as a part of the Amiga success (in another thread). The vast majority here are those all-in-one models A500 and A1200.
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It's not easy for me to choose..
But I will have to say: A500
Because it was the first computer that i owned. Used it a lot :-)
Games & Interword with a 24 pin matrix printer.
In the living room I have a CD32 and a CDTV for games and to play cd's. Most people like it :-)
At the desk: A1200D and A4000T, Internet, music and games. And general some messing around just because Amiga are a hobby of mine :-D
Projekts: A1200T, A4000D and A3000D
A1200T, needs a lot of work before it will be done, will be my primary machine.
A3000D & A4000D just needs network cards.
My A500 and A600 are stored now, I will set them up when I have my computer room done.
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Well that was fun reading those posts. Now I'd like to add my two penn'orth. I do have one overall favourite Amiga, but I'll come to that later.
I started out with a 500+ - well, it wasn't really mine - I bought it for my son to use for his school projects. However, he complained it was too big to fit on the desk he had at the time, so I bought him a 600 for his 16th birthday, and claimed the 500+ for myself. I always loved that machine, and I still have it. I put a hard drive onto it, had lots of programs and learned how to use them on that machine. Perhaps this was all the more remarkable because of the fact that I was at the time 40 years of age, and had never used a computer in my life before!!! I found the 500+ incredibly user friendly.
After using the 500+ for some time, and having purchased FinalWriter, I began a project on my local railway branch line. I then decided to go on a computer course at the local comprehensive school - taking my Amiga with me and using a television as a monitor!! However, after a while I found I knew more about computers than the other "beginners" there, and so abandoned the course and completed my project at home.
I then treated myself to a 1200. The main reasons for buying the 1200 were that I wanted to be able to use more colours, and as my project grew in length FinalWriter became slower and slower on the 500+. However, I have to say I have always had a love/hate relationship with the 1200. I love its speed and its capabilities, but I hate its habit of suddenly deciding I am pushing it too far and crashing on me!!! I also purchased a 1200 tower from a friend, but I'm looking for an Amiga compatible monitor for it, as it has a PC monitor and the thingy at the back takes up too much space in the place where I have it. By the way, to whoever it was who complained about the PC keyboard on a towered Amiga - didn't you think to buy a 4000 keyboard instead?
Whilst all this was going on I also equipped my brother with first of all an Amiga 600 and then a 1200. The portability of the 600 is amazing - I carted my brother's machine across Manchester many times so that the late great Rob Baxter could install some sound samples on for me to use in a "book" I was compiling for my brother.
I think I may have mentioned on this forum previously that I have a 1000 - complete with all signatures - lurking under my desk. One day I hope to set it up with one of my monitors and see what it can do. My problem is lack of space, and, at the moment, time.
Now, having mentioned all these, you may be wondering what is the favourite machine of this crazy woman. It is the 4000. For years I wanted one, and always called it my dream machine. I saw one working at one of the Amiga shows, and actually touched it!!!! It was a dream for many years - and then a guy who ran a second hand shop locally, and knew about my Amiga fetish, told me one day he had something I may be interested in, and lo and behold it was a 4000. Whoever had owned it had no idea of the power of such a fantastic machine, and had installed very little. What he had installed was way below 4000 standard. I bought the machine, got it home and used it, but it kept crashing on me. A friend looked at it and we discovered the battery had corroded and leaked onto a couple of the chips. He tried to fix it but the motherboard was pronounced dead. I then acquired another motherboard and eventually it appeared to be fixed. However, at the moment it is misbehaving itself again, and lack of time - both on my part and the part of my friend - precludes me doing anything about it. I will though, and will eventually have my dream machine operating again on my desk. Meanwhile the old workhorse 1200 continues to do what I want it to - nice machine, I like you really - and I plod on doing the boring jobs I have to do at the moment.
One thing I have discovered is that my Amiga does things far more efficiently than my son's PC does for him. For one thing it doesn't ask stupid questions when you feed it a file it has never seen before!!!! Good resolution on his monitor apart, watching my son use his PC leaves me with no desire at all to invest in a Gates Crate. What I WOULD like for compatability and portability is an IBook - but I would also like the money it costs to buy one!!!! Maybe one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's have some more comments about Amigas - I love it.
Regards Kathy
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I have to choose A2000.
Well it is not perfect, but I can not think of a more badass workstation.
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The Amiga 1200 - compact and probably the most versatile expandable computer ever!
Now, if NatAmi gets released in a wedge and is as good and compatible as I've heard, that could change :-D
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My fav'rit would have been ... A6000 / A6060 .... the CDTV equivalent of A1200.
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/wondertv.html
Really want to track down one and own it.....
Anybody's got one?
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the A1200 hands down for me :-D love the style, solid feel of it..great for aga games ...add a Blizzard card and wow!..i just installed a 2GB CF HD and man its a silent and fast killer retro machine with modern goodies on it ;-)
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Amithony wrote:
I thought I'd throw this one out there to get a snapshot for my Amiga time capsule.
That's such a tough question. When I think of Amigas I think of the wedgies. I had never seen any of the high end systems until I started collecting them. My first Amiga was a 500, then later a 600. These two have a special place in my mind, though when the 1200 was released I would have sold my soul for one. I didn't get one until 2001 when I started expanding my Amiga collection.
I think I'd have to say the Amiga 500 is my favourite. I think it's the one machine that made the Amiga a highly sought after home computer in the late 80's and early 90's. Some think of it as a gaming console, though I'd admonish anyone who limits it by characterising it as such. To me it seemed so far in advance of any of the home computers of the time, at least until the Atari ST came along, loathed as I am to say that. By the time the 1200 hit, home PC had already closed the gap, so it didn't seem as miraculous to me by comparison. The little beige beasty is the first thing I think of when I hear or see the word Amiga. 8-)