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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Drummerboy on November 18, 2009, 12:16:13 AM
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When was the first time you join to Amiga World?
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Many time ago, Spring '85, I think November....
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I got my first Amiga when I was 12 - Christmas '91.
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2007.
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A500 in 1988, A2000 in 1992, A4000 in 2002... still waiting for the next one. :)
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Did not get my A500 until late 1988 but bought Amiga World #1 in 1985 and wanted an Amiga for a long time. Was glad to sell the C-64 since Amiga was so much better. Read about Amiga in RUN magazine before it even came out. Would have bought Amiga no matter what company it came from.
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1987... only I still have my C64 ;)
My... those were great times!!
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Saw my first Amiga in '85 but got an Apple //c for X-mas that year. Sold the //c in the summer of 1989 and got an A500 (still have it) with a 1084s. Bought a friend's A2000 in 1993 (with 50mhz 030 GVP combo), sold the 2000 in 94 (still have the gvp). *Worked hard during those off years 1994-2009*
Returned to Amiga this year and bought a "new" 1200 and a "new" 4000T in the way. Good to be back!
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1988 was the first A500 for me too, and I still have my C64, C128 and SX-64 ;)
Plaz
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Late 80's, but I never had a C=64. :cry:
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Must have been 85 or 86 or so... a 1000, which I still have.
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Sure, i Still having the C64/128/SX64. (well. my signature said)..
I know many people came from Apple, Atari 8bit (i knew many people), and PC. And not forget a some little frustrated Atari ST users!.
I remember, some PC Users when seeing any Amiga Aplication, video, music, or game, sometime ask, "Wich kind of Video or Audio Card has this Computer..".. do you remember something like this in those years?.. Sound familiar to you?
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Early 90's after I got out of the Navy. I liked my brothers A500, so I went and got the first Amiga that came up in the classifieds which was an A1000.
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My first Amiga was an A1200 purchased in 1993.
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The first was a used A500 in 1994.
Chris
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My first amiga came in 1989. I had been a longtime user of the tandy color computer and it became clear that was no upgrade path from that after the coco 3. I knew I wanted to jump from 8 to 16 bits but I was hating on the pc and mac. Coco with os9 (not mac os9) could multitask like crazy so I knew I wanted something that could multitask.
I did some research and found amiga's os to be the best out there.
First, I got a friends amiga 1000 as he upgraded to a 2000. When he first showed me the graphics and sound on the 1000, I was blown away.
Later, I got an a500 because there were more upgrade components for it at the time. Eventually, when soundblaster became 16 bit and svga came,
because I did so much music, I had to switch to pc to get 16 bit sound and the ability to burn my music to cd.
I kept that a500 and even with a pc as my pain computer, it still saw years and years and years of use. I still play some games on it occasionally. I remember I think I paid 300$ for it originally but when I think about how much I used it, I really got my money's worth!
Steven
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Started out with a VIC-20 in around 1982 or thereabouts. I was young and attempted to program my vinyl collection as a sort of database. Gave up with an 'Out of Memory Error' :) and I was only a young lad so explaining I need a RAM expansion cart to the oldies was way out of my league.
After that migrated to 64s in the mid-80s followed by a basic Amiga 500 package (el-cheapo model sold in Australia) in around 1989. Used that for years (eyeing off my mates 1200) until I migrated to a 486DX4-100PC. I think my sister still has my original 500.
Stayed with PCs (and still do being a Windows software engineer) but dabbled in Amigas again around 2004. Stupidly sold the lot (I had one of each major model) as I did an international move and just recently have decided to get back into them.
Funny how the buggers just won't leave me alone :p
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2008 with a NOS AmigaKit A1200 :)
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Late 80's, but I never had a C=64. :cry:
Ditto, but without the sad crying face. I never had a C-64 and never wanted one. The Amiga was my first computer (not counting my Sinclair, which I never used, and therefore never learned anything from) and I still have that A1000, but it needs to be restored, so I replaced it with a mint condition A1000, just to re-live some of those early feelings I had with my first computer in the middle of 1987.
I keep it set up in the "Play" room of the house, but I have been neglecting it lately, since I got MorphOS2.4 installed on my 1.5GHz G4 MacMini.
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For me, it was early '88.... I bought an Amiga 500 pack with my first tax refund check... I was 18 years old.
I remember opening that box and being in awe.... I wanted an Amiga So Bad, but I just sat there staring at it for maybe an hour, before I hooked it up....
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My first Miggy... Christmas '86 (A1000), then in '88 (A500). Bought another A1000 after I sold my 1st one to fund the A500, which meant I had 2 Amiga's in the early 90's. When the A1200 came out ('92), bought that for $600 and sold my A500 & A1000 to help fund. Then sold my A1200 and bought a 486 and a CD32. Shortly after that, a 586+. By early 2000's, got out of PeeCee arena and sold my CD32. Went back to Miggy's and Mac's by then. Amiga in the early 2000's was an A1200 and an A4000. Sold both AGA machines by late 2000's and now have (2) A1000's, (1) A500 and one helluva A2500 :-)
Oh and PeeCee free ever since :-)
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My father bought me A600 in 1996, it was the first computer that was mine. Fortunately, my father has always been a computer nut so in the 80s I was growing up surrounded by Sharp MZ821, Atari 800XE, CPC464, 2 x C64s, but he skipped the 16bit era and bought a 386SX in 1991. After 5 years with my A600 I bought a stock A1200 and one more with 030/50MHz, CDROM, HDD and M1438 around 2001 when I went to college and finally had some income - btw. around 2000 Amigas were going for peanuts around here as people finally started losing hope anything truly new is gonna come out in the Amiga world. I sold everything in 2007 and I was happy, because I got 6x as much as I bought it for. But as everybody knows UAE just isn't the real thing, so I bought A4000D this Monday and should receive it tommorow. Btw. I need to submit my diploma thesis in 3 weeks so I hope I can take my mind off the Amiga for long enough to finish it...
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Looks like I'm part of the most. I parted with my 128D(used 90% of the time in C64 mode) to partially fund my A2000HD in 1989.
Sold my A2000 in 1997......
But started up again with a chance A1200 find in 2005. Never looked back. Don't you ever look back!
Cheers
Gertsy
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It was the spring of 1987 (April IIRC), and it was an Amiga 1000. My previous computer was a Microcom II+ (Apple clone) and I had been wanting to get a Mac because I was reading Apple-related magazines, but then I saw the Amiga and... WOW! I never, ever regretted going Amiga.
Since then, I have had an A1200, A3000, a PC running Amithlon and Linux, and now a Sam440ep.
I still have all of the mentioned machines.
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Got my first amiga new in box A500 in 1989 after I sold my C64 :)
But sold it later like 93-94 switched over to PC... but that was not the same.
So I buy a used A4000D in 96... after that.. I have a few more amiga's in my home.
I just miss the good old days!!! sadly the golden amiga age will never return.
but I live good on my memories when I turn on my amiga and WB opens in a few sec :D
Long live Amiga :)
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got my first amiga in 93...
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Got my first amiga in late 1985 a year after starting work with Rockwell Int. New House, Second kid on the way. The Ex-wife thought the amiga was very expensive, and she was right. It never got any cheaper, but know that she is no longer around I get few complaints about the price. Haha
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My first amiga was a A500 that i got as a present in the late 80's
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Bought my first Amiga in 1987, after selling my C= Plus/4! Happily purchased from the Memory Location, Wellesley, MA USA. God I miss that place. Used to take weekly trips to see the latest and greatest, and always left amazed at the cool stuff. I just remember standing there smiling while the shopkeeper demo'd the lastest hardware and software. *sigh*
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I met Amiga on a department store in late 80's, about '88 or '89, but I never got one on such decade. Later, on '93, a friend of mine bought one A500. That was the first Amiga I touched, and that was also the first one I owned. Well, when he gave It to me, It was totally destroyed... He gave me a dead motherboard (full of soldered wires), the upper and the lower covers whit some holes from his experiments, and a dead power supply, no shielding cover, no screws, no floppy drive and no wires... Not too much. I just stored these parts... Until this year, when I started my restoration project (I'll post It later). Now It's a full working "black" Amiga.
My first working amiga was, and still It is, an A500+ I bought on ebay on '98.
It was a dead one, but I managed to get It working. Quite simple, just clean some chip's rusted legs. There was no power supply, but I fixed the dead one I got (replacing some faulty caps). I don't remember from where the mouse came, but I guess I got It for free...
So I'm a '90 user... :P
Edit:
I forgot to mention I've got an A600 I bought on ebay circa 2003...
I alsow own two C64, one is a nacked board from the same guy who gave me the A500 (also dead), and the other one from ebay, bought as not working, I don't remember the date, but It was cheap.
The first one has a dead PLA, but working VIC. The last one, has a working PLA, but a dead VIC... I bet you guess how I fixed one of them ;)
Now, I bought a VIC on ebay, and I'm working on a CPLD replacement for the PLA... just for fun :P
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I am Amiga user since September 1993. By this time I also had Turbo XT/8MHz, but quickly forgat about it and went to Amiga only till today.
Amigas I have used A500, A600, A1200, A4000, A1000, mA1, in that chronological order.
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It all started in the summer of 1994 with the A1200 which I still have and use. Before that I had the C= 64
Because making music is my hobby I sold the C64 to buy me a synthersizer Keyboard.
After spending many many weeks peeling tullip bulbs, planting Begoniaceae and taking out weeds from a mustardplant field I finaly could buy this very nice machine The Amiga A1200.
With this A1200 I bought also a DSS 8+ sampler and a harddisk of 170mb.. :crazy:
(If you convert the currency to euro it would be : € 500,00
The harddisk crashed in 2006, and I did not have any back up.
So I bought the Blizzard IV with SCSI and 64MB Ram and a external HD of 2 GB. Later I also bought the 250 MB internal HD just in case and faster start up :D
We will all know the glorious way we tried anf succeded as young people to become the generation that made a statement with Commodore machines: to change the world!
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I think I got my first Amiga in 1992. I was heavy into C=64/128 before that. Our club president bought a brand new A1200 as soon as they came out and I bought his A2000.
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I saw the A1000 in a store I guess in 1985 or so and I was totally blown away by it. I wanted it so bad. But I could never convince my parents to get me any kind of computer, even though I wanted one since I was probably 10. So when I finished high school I got my first job delivering pizza, and saved my first paycheques and got an A500 as the first thing I ever spent my own money on. I guess that would be 1988. I really wish I could have gotten one earlier, as I was pretty good with computers and wonder if I could have gotten ahead better in the early days of computing when you could actually invent something unique and gain market share pretty easily. I had a keen interest in developing audio software (that's what I do for a living now).
I sold the A500 and upgraded to an A3000 some time later on... I can't quite remember, but maybe a couple of years later. I loved it, but a year or so later I traded it for a new PC and $1400 as I needed the PC and cash for computer studies. I really wish I never had to sell it, but I guess I had to. Wish I could buy it back now. It was just such a huge part of my life being my first computer, and I always compare every other computer to it, and never feel the same magic. It's the stuff like pull down screens and amiga-n/m that I miss.
Luckily I forced my wife to keep her A2000HD (we actually met and eventually married by meeting on an Amiga chat BBS). I just broke the A2000 out after a 15 year hibernation, and I was surprised how well it still works. I expected the Amiga experience to not be as fond as I remembered given getting used to contemporary systems, but it still does the odd thing better than the stuff I have to use now. Amazing how serviceable it is for a 20 year old system.
I still have a soft spot for the A1000 that I never could get my hands on at the time. Wouldn't mind owning one just as a collector piece.
Maybe one day if I no longer have to work I will get involved in Amiga coding again. I know it's totally pointless but at least you can write some software that fills voids, where other platforms are just flooded with too much software. So it might seem more rewarding and fun, and remind me of those simpler times. I always wanted to do it back then, but didn't have the skill set, but there is still time to fulfill those dreams =). It feels like the only computer I owe something to.
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around 1987ish I met Rose Lovell who with her husband Doug wrote the Summagraphics Tablet driver for the Amiga and LightBox - the first such program on the AMiga which was later incorporated into DeluxePaint.
I played around on her 1000. wow, what a beautiful computer!
1989 I got my 2000.
been in love ever since
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First was an A500 Plus back in 1992. Cartoon Classics pack with Simpsons, Lemmings, Captain Planet and D-Paint III . :)
I remember HATING the A600 because i saw an issue of Amiga Format saying "The Amiga 500 is Dead, Long live the Amiga"
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I had to have an A1000 and was first in the queue for one. Never regretted it since (unlike many Mac/PC purchases since) it was the perfect machine, light years ahead of all other computers in its day.
Loved it...and still own the little bugger...it's not leaving me until my last heart beat is over.
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1993 was when I got my A1200, which retired my ever-faithful C64.
Andy
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I got my Amiga 2000 in 1988 the year before I went to college with a 8088 Bridgeboard to run MSDOS compiler on. The differences between an Amiga with AmigaDOS 1.3 and MSDOS 5 were stark indeed. Those were the days.
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Ohhh. WoW!!.. What wonderfull historys!!.. I identify myself with many of thats storys!.. Great!..
Cool, to read all this things happened, its like back in time becouse i remember many of thats steps in the Amiga history!!..
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I first saw an Amiga 500 with a Digiview doing some demos in 1987, I was blown away and hooked. I wanted to be on that cutting edge. My wife and I bought are first Amiga 2000 in 1992 or early 93 and we still have it.
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"It was just such a huge part of my life being my first computer, and I always compare every other computer to it, and never feel the same magic."
I couldn't agree more, I know that feeling well!
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I accidentally voted wrong. I selected "In 1985" where i meant "Late 80´s after sold my C=64".
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First Amiga I got to use was the A1000 in '86, and later my boss got an A2000 for the office and got to play with that as well. My best friend got an A500 in 87 for his birthday so was at his place all the time.
I did not get an Amiga of my own until '91 when I bought an A500. (had to sell my trusty C=128 to help fund that)
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I got my first Amiga in 1988 an A500, I think I saw some ad in Computer shopper for Dpaint and I was just drooling. At the time I owned a Mac plus which was a cool computer but I ended up selling it and spending all my money on Amiga stuff. I had a modem and a midi connector printer. Great days, I took it to work one day and blew everybody away.
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Got my first Miggy when I moved to the US in June 1987 (bought my miggy 500 in september).
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1987, never had a c=64.
Plus/4 all the way!!
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again never had an amiga in the early days as was bought a c64 in the very early 90's and could never seem to make the jump, allot of amiga game play was done at friends house's who had the a500 though or the plus
i then moved on to games consoles in the mid 90's after putting the 64 in to storage, it was not until around 99/00 that i was given an old very yellowed a500+ from a friend, i got started setting it up straight away and testing all the disks i had
i now have a a1200 in very good con, that i plan to upgrade, i have this set up in a converted attic with the c64 and the 500 :D