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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on October 22, 2010, 06:30:29 PM
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So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?
What model, what did you have in it, etc
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A500 rev5, 512/512k, 2.04 + 1.3 in a utilities unlimited kick switcher, Action Replay III, extra drive, DynaLink 1414VE modem, Philips TV connected via RGB Scart.
I longed for extra RAM and a HD. Alas, no money.
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A1200HD40 stock. Purchased the autumn before the Commodore's fall. It was a display model. My first Amiga.
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A1200 80mb HDD PC1204 RAM expansion with 68881
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1MB A500 Plus (Cartoon Classics Pack). A590 hard drive. Action Reply, joy/mouse switcher and a sh*t load of copied games. And a few original games too :)
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A1200 28mhz 030, 4mb RAM, 60mb HD, 1084S monitor.
Sold shortly thereafter ($450, IIRC).
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A500, Kick 1.2, 512kb mem expansion and en external floppydrive.
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A500, Kick 1.2, 512kb mem expansion and en external floppydrive.
I have a feeling this thread will see a lot of 500's :)
My own was a 1200, plain stock except an external floppy drive. Kept the beast until 96 or 97. Must have been closer to 97.
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A2000/Rev.6.2, A2630/4MB, SupraRAM2000/4MB, GVP Impact Series II/100MB Quantum, Kickstart 2.04/AmigaOS Release 2.1, 1084.
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A600 2 MB RAM 32 MB HDD and 14.4 TKR modem. Me was a hungry reader of Amiga magazines back then.
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1 A500 Rev.5 ks 1,3 with 512+512k mem, Action replay III, one eksternal drive (sold)
1 A500 Rev.6a ks 1,3 with 512k+512k mem, two eksternal drives (still have it)
1 A2000 rev. 6 ks 1.3, ekspanded to 2 mb. with A2091 zorro 40 mb scsci (still have it)
Gave it an complete overhaul last year, when i found out that the battery leaked.
1 A600 ks 2,05 rev 37.300 no HD (still have it) mint condition
Tons of floppies, also a good handfull originals (still have half of it)
Btw. i still have my Arnold and Speccy
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Only a standard A500 Plus with KS 2.04, 1 MB and floppy based OS, plugged to a 36 cm Thomson TV :-)
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A500 0.5+0.5 MB, Rochard 800 HD + 2 MB, Action Replay III, external floppy, SupraTurbo28, KS 1.3/2.05. About equalling stock A1200 speed.
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Big ol' A3000T, GVP I/O Extender, 2 CD-ROM drives, 2 HST Dual Standard Modems and 3 SCSI hard disks that sounded like jet engines.
Amazing how my current A1200 has 5X the storage and is completely silent with no moving parts outside of the floppy drive I never use.
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Two Amiga 500's with Action Replay, drives, 2 1084 monitors, joysticks and loads of disks.
No money for anything else, was a broke student in that time :)
And these days I just about own every model there is, even the most wanted A4000 which in that time still cost a fortune.
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Had the A1200 with 60MB HD purchased in late 92, but that was soon replaced by an A2000/A2630/Evolution-SCSI (+ 80MB). Both running on the trusty old 2024 monitor.
Make quite some money on the A1200 as noone had new units in stock at that time....
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If I remember correctly it was A2000 swapped with rev.6 mobo. 1Mb Chip and not sure was it 94 or 95 when put Apollo 030 / 50Mhz card in it. But always envied my buddys A1200! Now I have that too! :) Damn, tough times in 1994 'cause Commodore AND Nirvana took a dive (not referring to their song Dive anyhow)... One is dead for sure.
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A1200, GVP 68030/68882 40mhz (JAWS 1), 120mb internal HD, external 2nd floppy drive, and, back then, still suffering with a 1084S monitor. (Flicker, flicker! -- Don't think I got my used C= 1950 until early 1995, or so).
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Which one? :)
Toaster 2000, A3000/040/128mb/800mbHD/2*AD516Audio, A4000/060/PicassoIV/ on and on... and that just getting started. 93-94 was a good year, right up till C= bought it.
Plaz
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My Amiga in 1994 was like 386DX 33 MHz with 4MB of memory, a 130 MB HDD, Tseng ET3000 graphics card, Sound Blaster, 1.44 MB floppy and a VGA monitor.
It was 11 years later, when I got my first Amiga.
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Was I the only person to have a vanilla A600 in 1994? Blimey, I realised they weren't popular, but really...........were they THAT unpopular??
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It was an Amiga 500 upgraded to Kickstart 2.04 and ECS. 1084S monitor and external 1011 floppy disk drive. I had the 512K trapdoor expansion so had 1MB RAM total. I also had just purchased a used sidecar 100MB SCSI hard drive (I think it was a Trumpcard drive). I also had a SupraModem 2400.
I remember that I used Jr-Comm (a terminal program) to log into the University's mainframe VAX computer and read the Usenet messages in the days just before Commodore was about to go bankrupt. There were all sorts of dreadful rumours flying there about the impending bankruptcy....was Commodore going to live or die? As the days passed we all watched nervously as the news leaked that Commodore really did go bankrupt. It was a suspensful and sad week, watching that happen.
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my amiga 1200 was in full pc tower using a eyetech back plane kit
had squirrell scsi card before that then ran port jnr plus buffered high speed serial card
phase 5 blzzard ppc card 240 mhz 040 fpu scsi 64 meg ram
dce bvsion card
Cnet 4.60 pro bbs software running 56 k surpa enternal modem
2 lines 24 seven it ran with no probs
one day even ran ppc quake and had caller on the 68 k side
brought the blizzard card when first avaible after waiting what seemd like years after first annoucment of ppc from phase 5 wanted 060 version but there was delay on those
so was worried might miss out and settled on 040 fpu version insteed
missed out bvsion first time around so made sure agent in new zealand ordred me
dce version after phase5 got into trouble
before that my 1200 ran for years on mbx 1200 z ram card with big 340 meg western digital 3 1/2 hd shoe horned into the case
which its back to today minus the 3 1/2 drive which still going but sounds like got sand in the workings , mind you back int he
amiga club days they rekoned was lound then like plane starting up must be western digital drive thing back then ;-)
remmber thos days getting friend take amiga in his car 1084s monitor 1200 power brick external floppy then setting it up
got be expert moving it around had motor bike so wasint the go for that.
orginally brought the machine on hp in christchurch and on way home bad weather meant plane choudint fly direct to my home city
so ended up on bus and in the rush before that airport was closed the sent my new amiga to wrong city it arrived in taxi fate alot panic on my
behave ;-)
and still going , back to the future running my same bbs software.
amiga 1200 is back in its orginal casing
those where the days
blizzard ppc card sold to doctor in italy miss it heaps
oh got add this foot note sorry about novel like message
My orginal 1200 hd 21/2 40 meg drive when got home it didnt work didnt spin up so contacted commodore nz head office in auckland
after getting run around asked to speak with manager oh they said hes out playing golf .. hmmm sign things to come maybe
friend sent fax to company brought it of and like 30 mins comordore back ringing to say they have fixed soon as hehe
amazing what well worded fax can do . thanks bill t
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A500 rev 6 modified for 1MB chip (needed PAL switching for all teh gamez), SupraRAM 500RX/2MB, and a 1084s
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BPPC in 1994??? I would be very surprised if that were true!!! :)
IIRC they launched in 1997ish
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I used my dad's 386, until he decided to upgrade to a 486 and donated me an old monochrome 286. Soon after he upgraded to a pentium I got his 486 (wich was also about around 1994/1995).
My cousins had an Amiga, and the first thing that I noticed was the outstanding sound from Xenon 2 and Lotus 2 (or 3). So I bought of my savings a sound blaster clone for my 486, for a whopping 200 guilders ($100, approximately) only to notice it wasn't supported by Xenon 2 and the sound of Lotus was much less impressive. Wolfenstein, Doom, Dune 2 and Day of the Tentacle were very cool however.
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I had an Amiga 500+ with 2MB chip and an A570.
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I had an Amiga 1200 with 80 Mb hard drive back then. I don't know if it was plain vanilla in 1994 or if I had bought a Power Computing CD-ROM and a Blizzard 1230 (the Blizzard might have been in -95).
It was good times! :D
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I was still a kid in '94 so I wasn't in a position to be buying fancy hardware, and my parents weren't really interested in computers. But I was lucky enough to be granted my wish for an Amiga one Christmas, and as such I was gifted an Amiga 500+ in the very early 90's. By '94 I'd expanded it with an extra 1MB of RAM.
AH.
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It was like... back in the box! I had given up on Amiga and was using various PCs in college. But I really felt bad about the fall of the Amiga. I remember telling friends how great it was. I'm so happy it's still alive and happy about this online community.
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Through 1994 I was building up a nice A2000 system. First addition was a 3.1 ROM closely followed by a friend's A2091 card with some fastram and a 50MB scsi disk. After that came a 28MHz 68000 cpu card and an A2320 display enhancer. It booted in 10 seconds from power on and about 9 seconds after a reset. I was learning 68k assembly and spent rather a lot of time stepping through programs and checking out system structures in MonAm - even when a bug caused a crash I'd be back in MonAm within 15 seconds.
In some ways, that system beat anything I've used since. An Amiga PPC debugger that could hold a candle to the functionality of MonAm would really reignite my interest in programming.
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A500, Kick 1.2, 512kb mem expansion... had it since 1988.. i wanted to expand it with a extra diskdrive,harddrive and a monitor but could never afford it at the time. in 1994 i kinda lost interest in computers after i heard about the death of commodore.
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Stock 2000, with a 2058 Ram card loaded with 4MB and a Trumpcard with a 50MB Quantum HD... both just moved over from the Phoenix Toolbox on my 1000.
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Amiga 1200 with 1942 Monitor, only a year and a half old. Would get a GVP 030@40 accelerator in a year.
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A4000D/030(Bought at World of Commodore NYC - one of the first in the US), internal CDROM, hard drive, 386sx bridgeboard, dial up modem, Multisync monitor. I should have never sold the old girl.
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A3000T 030, 16 megs ram, (3)540 meg HD's, (2) gvp io Extenders, (4) US Robotics HST Modems, (4) ringdown phone lines and a lot of debt.
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I'm pretty sure that by '94 my A500 was already gutted and transplanted to a homemade desktop case. It was nothing fancy, and I only had KS1.2, 2 floppy drives, 512+512 memory, and no HDD.
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My first Amiga was an A500 Rev 5 purchased in 1992. I am pretty positive that by 1994 it had been upgraded to a Rev 6 with an A500 HD8+, 4MB BaseBoard, and a 20MB hard drive. However, around 1996 I moved to a A500+ (Rev 8) and KS3.1, A530 Turbo, 8MB, 14.4 modem, with a few 200MB hard drives and a CD-ROM. As well, I had an A1000 with the A500 HD8+ and full complement of RAM, 20MB hard drive, running OS3.1 via SKick.
Pics related.
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A1200, Microbotics memorycard with 4 or 8 MB SIMM and FPU (68882@25MHz?), 120MB HD, Well 14k4 modem, Star 9-pin color dot matrix printer, Philips SCART-TV...
And still in the closet my old A500/512k+512k/ActionReplayIII/floppydrives.
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My Amiga in 1994 was like 386DX 33 MHz with 4MB of memory, a 130 MB HDD, Tseng ET3000 graphics card, Sound Blaster, 1.44 MB floppy and a VGA monitor.
Which was emough to run Linux in text mode. I had an Amiga 3000 25MHz with 6MB and NetBSD wouldn´t load X11 either. (Chip RAM was just used as a framebuffer).
However that year I ordered a 720MB HD which I have never filled up in my life. It works fine today.
My first Amiga (a 500) is pretty much unchanged in all those years. But the external CD-ROM (attached to a a590 harddrive which inherited the 80MB drive from the A3000 and has 2MB of fast ram installed) has gone now for reasons I don´t remember.
EDIT: By the way - my avatar image is that self same Amiga 3000. (editing this page doesn t work in OWB so I had to use Timberwolf, which in turn has some minor problems. - Hope you don t notice them .. Cheers!)
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1994... My Amiga was either boxed or sold, as I bought a 486 somewhere in 1993.
My Amiga was an A500 rev 5 with KS 1.2, a KCS Power PC Board (a superb card), a Macrosystem Evolution SCSI controller with 80 MB drive, a Supraram 2 MB expansion, a Multivision 500 flicker fixer, an A1010 external diskdrive, a Star LC24-10 printer, a Tornado 2400 modem and a 14" SVGA screen.
It was a nice system, but when I finally reached the above configuration, I still wasn't really satisfied with it. It either needed heavy upgrading or complete replacement to make it more like I wanted it to be. It wasn't capable of running the software I wanted to use and peecees were improving very, very fast in those days.
As I noticed I mainly used the Power PC Board on my Amiga, running MS-DOS 5.0, when it was time to buy a new system I finally bought a (back then) very fast pc in 1993:
a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB ram, Viper VLB videocard with 2 MB ram, Soundblaster 16ASP soundcard, a Zoom 14k4 internal modem, 245 MB IDE-drive, all in a nice minitower, and a HP LaserJet 4L printer.
I have been using that pc for years, constantly upgrading and a expanding it: expanding ram to 32 MB, upgrading the cpu to a P24T/83, adding a wavetable card, an Adaptec AHA2742 with a Quantum Empire 1080, cdrom drive, etc. It was the first computer I used the internet on, I guess somewhere in 1996 or 1997, running Windows 95.
Its last use was as a router, running Smoothwall 0.99 with two 3Com509 network cards, and it has been used like that from 2002 up to about 2004 or 2005 after which its power supply went bust. Great machine.
And yes, I liked Windows 95. And I still do. It was a huge improvement compared to Win 3.1, pushing computers to a new era. I know most of what Win95 could do, was possible on other operating systems (such as the Amiga), but it pushed multimedia, plug & play, the internet and a very usable user interface to the masses, for which it deserves praise.
Nowadays, I have a plethora of computers in my computer room, ranging from the C64 (my first computer) to multicore, multi Ghz machines with GBs of ram and TBs of drivespace, running all kinds of old and new operating systems. I like it that way.
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About this time I went mental buying stuff. 1200 (orig case) with 060/scsi and 128Mb RAM. Can't recall the HDD size, possible 40Meg? Vidi RT24, GVP genlock. Epson SCSI scanner (thing weighed a ton!) and a Multisync monitor (the one that did PAL and SVGA-can't recall the name). Also had all the boxed versions of ScalaMM400, ImageFX2.x, Brilliance 1 + 2, Imagine(anyone remember the AmigaFormat upgrade debacle?), VistaPro + Makepath, etc.
Got most of them working in WinUAE now. Just wish I could find all the manuals.......
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A nice Amiga 4000 and an a3000 with a graphics card (retina I think) good times
:)
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A1200/40 MBX 1204 with 68881, external floppy drive + tons of Mags and Disks. Soon sold it for a 486Dx266 which started my PC life got back into Amiga's about 2004-05(?) haven't looked back since.
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A600 +1MB expansion with clock expansion. (Still got).
A1200. (Swapped for a new microwave. I know I know, stop laughing).
CD32. (Still got).
A4000D 2MB+16MB, 340MB HDD. Cost £1,170 from First Computers, Leeds, UK. (Was stolen :madashell:)
Philips CM8833II monitor. (still sat at my side right now :)).
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Don't remember exactly but I had a stock A1200 with 60MB HD probably still plugged into a SCART TV. I also had a 8bit sampler and a Digiview which I never really used.
I got an "Aura" 12 bit sound card cheap at one point as I was going to support it in one of my apps. Aura had great sound quality, it was far far better than the Amiga itself. I never did figure out how to get it working in the app - there was no internet to just look up stuff then.
I later upgraded to a 50MHz 030 with MMU and SCSI and I had a Jaz and Zip attached. The Zip drives are famous for premature death but the Jaz seems to have died but the Zip drive still works to this day.
After that I got a PC and after a brief flirtation with the abysmal Windows 95 / 98 I moved to BeOS.
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A1200 with 80MB hard drive and a 030 card with 4MB RAM (maybe 8) in it combined with a 1084S. Later in 94 I bought a 14K4 modem. Total worth of that setup was about 3000 guilders, about € 1500. I also had no savings left I think =).
In later years I upgraded to a BlizzardPPC/BVision combo. It wasn't until 2000 before I turned to the dark side and built my first x86 machine.
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CD32 with an SX-1; 8 megs. mem and a 640 meg. HDD; Princton Multisync 15" monitor; ext. floppy and that odd modem thing that plugs into the keyboard port; and of course, several different CD32 controllers (still have my compitition pro ;) ).
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Well I had my 1000 and 2000 but also got one of the very first A1200s ever launched in the UK.
And amazingly in 1994 I used super high res interlace + Dpaint 3 and oversized pages with page preview (I think) for layout to create the most crisp and clean icons and diagrams for my project work on my degree that my PCs 1024x768 couldn't match. People actually asked me what I used to create such fantastic work....and I told them...a £299 (by that time) computer and a cheap ass Canon BJ10 inkjet printer. The look on their faces with their DX4-100 486 PCs was hilarious. Good times.
No harddisk, only 2mb RAM, a crappy old mono inkjet printer. Long live Amiga :)
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IIRC, I had 2 working A2000 with extras and internal genlocks and an A1200 which I had connected via the video out to a video mixing console and "chroma keyed" the amiga graphics. It also had a "ColorPic" digitiser and a second drive. The first 2000 was basic + genlock, the second had 3MB extra mem + genlock and the A1200 had a sort of accelerator. I don't remember if it was the blizzard at that time or if I bought that later.
Oh well, I do remember the most important. I was falling asleep on the A1200 rendering on Real 3D :-)
P.S. All the machines had (and still have) the classic 1084S square version monitor. Good times...
P.S.2 I do have some VHS copies of the Amigas at work (superimposing graphics or left the tapes recording while I was working the OS). Those should help me remember some stuff. I'll check it after the elections. Too much work at the time.
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the 90's was when I really used my Amiga to it's fullest.
I don't remember everything I added but there was acceleration - one A2000 was 030, the other was 0404 with a Magnum. I had an Opal board, DCTV. Syquest and Jazz drives.
I wrote my IFX articles for NewTekniques magazine.
did lots of animations using Imagine and some with the stand alone Lightware.
made websites using CED, iBrowse......wow, things were hoppin' !!!!
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A500, kickstart 2.04, 512M chip and 2.5mb fast, w/ A590 expansion and a noisy 20mb HD. Supra 2400 modem and a 1084s. Connected to big '70s stereo with floor speakers. Great fun :)
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A4000 040/40mhz warpengine with 128M ram.. sold a A3000 with 3640 so i could buy the used 4000. 1 gig of hard drives, vlab y/c card(i think).added the picasso IV in 95' i think and its still going today!
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In 1994, LOL. I was still rocking the a1000. Though back then I moved to a 386 and that sucker was much faster. I hated every bit of dos and windows but I loved how fast that machine ran my code.
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Back in 1994 I had an Amiga 1200 with a Squirrel SCSI with a mitsumi drive. It had a 1230, 50mhz processor with 50mhz 6882. I had 2 megabytes of ram simm in the accelerator due to the Kobe earthquake at the time, that made ram very expensive!
I did the mod for two 2.5" ide drives at 40 megabytes each, making a grand total of 80 megabytes, which seemed like heaps back then considering not much game software was hard drive installable.
I was into Deluxe Paint IV, Amos, Vista Pro and had every Amiga Format issue (wish I had not chucked them all out) along with Amiga Shopper and CD32 Gamer magazine as well! All unfortunately gone to be recycled......
I had a 1084S monitor but used an old 26" TV for the multiplayer skid marks!
I was saddened to see Commodore go bust and held out for a while, but the PC had well and truly caught up in a lot of areas, especially flight sims which I was heavily into at that time. X-Wing and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe turned me over to the dark side! All my Amiga stuff was sold off except for a select few magazines and some original games!
Now I have an Amiga 1200 in a rack mount kit, along with a Blizzard 68030 cruising along at 50mhz with fpu at the same speed. I have a keyboard adaptor, 64 megabytes of ram, a compact flash card for a hard drive running os3.9 along with a registered copy of whdload. I've got a usb mouse adaptor off ebay as well. I also have a CD32 (again) for some of those CD based games and the compiliations that are available. I've got an Amigamaniac SVHS adaptor too!
I would have to have over 100 games for the Amiga in original boxes, along with Amos, Comic Setter, Deluxe Paint V. My collection for me is almost complete, just after a couple of more items and I'll be happy!
I wish I had realised how much software had gone over to the PC that I could of used but wasn't aware of, because of limited information, couldn't afford Internet after 1996. I have recently purchased Winimages from Blackbelt Systems and Dark Basic Professional which is almost AMOS like for the PC, a great easy to use programming language.
The Amiga still holds a special place for me and the reason why I have acquired one along with so much gear!
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So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?
What model, what did you have in it, etc
Hi,
I had
Amiga 4000, 68040 25mhz, Picasso II, GVP IV 24, 18 megs of ram, GVP scsi, yamaha scsi cd and HD floppy.
Amiga 3000, Spectrum video card, 18 meg ram, and several scsi drives.
Amiga 2000, with an 030 / 40 mhz accelarator with a video toaster.
Amiga 1200, with a 604e ppc card by DCE, 64 megs of ram, cdrom and 1.2 gig hard drive.
CD32 with SX-1, with a huge 250 meg hard drive.
Just a plain old vanilla wrapper Amiga 500.
Amiga 1000, with 2 meg IOspirit board, Supra scsi card and 4 scsi drives ranging from 10 meg to 1.2 gig. 1200 baud modem, and the thing I liked best was I could turn all the scsi drives off or on depending on which one I wanted to use. Really liked this machine then when we moved, my wife threw it out in the trash, mostly my fault because I told her that there was a bunch of old computers in the garage and she could just throw them out, forgot about my A1000, C64 and C128 all my Amiga Mags, and my C64 software. I will never forget those words:
Just throw all those old computers out. Don't worry they are all in the garage.
smerf
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Hi,
Just throw all those old computers out. Don't worry they are all in the garage.
As long as there stored dry, and reasonably warm, and batteries removed, then they should be good yeah.
But if it's cold/freezing and humidity is off the scale then they won't last long and they would probably be dead after few years of storage.
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Well there you go a snapshot, out of maybe 40 response I believe there was 3 latest model big box Amiga's. Most people had A500's, A1200's which unfortunately were low margin units and people tended not to use Amiga professionaly that often, I did though in MultiMedia presentation at conferences. Amiga was mostly sold as a games/hobby machine which it was great. But better games machines were coming and Amiga would never compete because of lack of investment.
At this point I had A500 upgraded with our own designed HiQ Tower and busboard after Checkmate A1500 was killed of by Commodore, and an A4000T, lovely machine. I also had my A1000 still which is the only one I still own from those days as I gave all Amiga's away after Gateway fiasco.
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So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?
What model, what did you have in it, etc
Model: Amiga 3000
Form: Desktop
CPU: 68030/68882 @25Mhz,
Memory: 2MB chip ram and 4 MB fast ram.
OS: Workbench 2.04
HD: ? (can't remember??)
MISC: SCSI CD-ROM 2X
Monitor: 1084S, PC SVGA (model??)
I was looking at 50Mhz 68882 overclocking hack.
My parents already has a 386 PC box at this time. Around 1996, my first PC was Pentium Classic 150Mhz (overclocked to 166Mhz) with S3 Trio UV64+ (upgraded to S3 Virge) and Windows 95.
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Well for one, my Amiga was a lot more useful and less behind the competition.
I didn't have a MS DOS/Windows PC at the time and my other computer was a Mac IIfx.
The A1200 I bought in 1993 had received a 030 50Mhz 16MB upgrade, a 200MB HD upgrade, an NEC MultiSync 3D monitor, external 3.5" floppy drive, I connected to a friend's BBS via a 14.4 kbps modem, a Genlock, Scala MM300 and maybe MM400, Final Copy II, a HP 4MP postscript laser printer, playing many AGA games, good times.
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1994?
I think it was an A500 1Mb, that later got converted to JAMMA and put in my Arcade machine.
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So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?
What model, what did you have in it, etc
Commodore Amiga 500 (1 MB, ROM 2.04) with Commodore 1085 RGB monitor, two Competition Pro Joysticks and approximately 400 floppy disks. Nothing more, nothing less. Pretty standard configuration for the era.
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Well there you go a snapshot, out of maybe 40 response I believe there was 3 latest model big box Amiga's. Most people had A500's, A1200's which unfortunately were low margin units and people tended not to use Amiga professionaly that often, I did though in MultiMedia presentation at conferences. Amiga was mostly sold as a games/hobby machine which it was great. But better games machines were coming and Amiga would never compete because of lack of investment.
I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.
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I am surprised at the lack of 1200's as there was plenty of them in my friends circle, but the 500 was definately ubiquitous.
And to be fair, you could play kickass games, do some word processing for school, and some graphics / music on the little beast.
Interestingly, almost everybody had the ram expansion to 1 megabyte.
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I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.
Not quite, from my personal experience... :)
Way back at the end of 87 and the start of 88 I set up my very first business (D.T.P.) using just a couple of A500s and some old Star dot matrix printers, It started via the Prince Of Wales Trust and I made a tidy profit for nearly two years creating Logos, Flyers, business card designs etc... for other local companies.
I always remember one of the board members of the Prince of Wales Trust, saying to me that 'computers would never replace traditional methods of graphic designers & artists in the world of business design'... (but then the old guy was in his late 70s and computers to him were just a new fangled fad that wouldn't last...) :biglaugh:
Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then. :)
Back to 1994, I still had my A1000 an A1500 two A500s & 2 A1200s the most souped up were the A1200s with GVP030 + 16Meg ram + tiny 120Mb HDs...
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A500+, 2MB Chip RAM, 1.3/2.x ROM Switch, ATOnce (broken :-( ), 1084s Monitor
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Not quite, from my personal experience... :)
Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then. :)
But that was 88, 6 years further in 94 there were more and more pc's, Amiga's became very rare in businesses.
Maybe not in the UK, but here in the Netherlands I didn't see them anymore.
Then again the UK sold 30 times more Amiga's than Netherlands and Belgium combined.
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But that was 88, 6 years further in 94 there were more and more pc's, Amiga's became very rare in businesses.
Maybe not in the UK, but here in the Netherlands I didn't see them anymore.
Then again the UK sold 30 times more Amiga's than Netherlands and Belgium combined.
Some of the difference too is that in 88, a PC cost you an arm and a leg. By 94, they only cost an arm and half the leg :)
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Amiga 2000HD without the HD. Added GVP HC8 with 4MB Ram and 120MB HD. Midi and sampled music making.
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In 1994 I was still the happy owner of a 68030-accelerated A1200 with 4 megs of FAST ram. In the spring of the same year, however, I bought my first PC (a 486sx/25 laptop with 4 megs of RAM and a ridiculous black&white screen, but able to show 16336 colors on a external monitor), and while using it my assumptions on 'Amiga' and 'PC' started to change. I finally switched to a Pentium PC one year later.