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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Chartus on March 10, 2011, 01:29:02 AM
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when you decided to get an Amiga. For me was when we were on vacation visiting my brothers family in the state of Georgia. (I live in Texas) I was still in school at the time so I didn't have much money. Dead broke actually. I was just woken up at about 4:30 am for the drive back home. I looked out the window at the car and decided that i was going to get an Amiga 500 . Thats it one minute normal and then Bamm gotta have an Amiga. I seem to remember that it took about 10 months to save up to get one but I did it.
Anyone else have that kind of experience.
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All I can remember was going into a store with my parents and really wanting an A500. I also remember a man that went around all the stores demoing it with boxes of boxes of pirated games and thought thats a mean job :)
Sales guy must have talked them around as I got an A500, was a sad and a happy day. Sold my C64C :/
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Yeah, i remember when was by first time any A1000 late 1985.. When saw any computer with GUI, you can run diferents aplication same time,, the Graphics and Colors.. and the Powerfull sound.. you know i said.. i wanted!..
Being honest had small fear about if the Plataform whether it would have a solid future.
But was great time!.. great moments..was the best of the best in the market!. and you know you can fell proud about your Computer.
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I remember very clearly my introduction to the amiga. My older brother became friends with one of his teachers and would visit him fairly regularly. When my mum picked him up one time I went along for the ride, and in this guys bungalow he had a bunch of computers, one of which was the brand new amiga1000. I was pretty gobsmacked and fell in love then and there. From then on Id try to tag along whenever I could, just to have a play on the amiga. I tried to talk my mum into getting me one, but it wasnt until the a500 was released that she caved in and bought me and my brother one. We both stayed pretty passionate about the amiga well after most people had left the scene, but unfortunately my brother eventually lost interest in the recreational side of computers in general (side effect of working with them 18hours a day I guess), let alone the amiga. That said however he does on occasion surprise me with what he knows of the current state of amiga and he actually did buy an a1xe g4 some years ago (which I think he sold after delegating it to be used as a ppc linux server for a while). I had it for a while and was going to buy it, but despite a nice price I couldnt afford it at the time, so after a few months gave it back.
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I remember my first time clearly too. I went over my buddies place and he had an amiga 500 with dual floppies 1mb ram and Shadow of the Beast. i couldnt believe the gfx and sound and had to have one!
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I had talked my mom and grand parents into us getting a computer, and the 1200 had just come out a month or two earlier. The first games I got was Civilization and Turrican 2. The rest is history :)
Kept the girl until 98 or very early 99.
In hindsight, I kinda wish I had kept her longer, and just upgraded her.
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Hi,
Yeah, I remember, my otrana broke down, and I had to get a new PC to complete a Lotus 123 spreadsheet for a credit union. I went out in town and bought the newest confangled contraption out at that time the A1000, especially after the salesmen convinced me that it could run msDOS programs with a program called the transformer. Took it home on a Saturday, and cursed that machine, almost took it back, couldn't understand why they did the things they did, but the A1000 ran the transformer well and it completed my spreadsheet program, and my $150,000 contract. So the Amiga stayed and I still don't understand why they did the things the way they did, but now I am used to it.
smerf
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My first encounter;
Computer lab at highschool late 80's, populated by C64s. My friend brought in his 1Mb A500 and the teacher did a 2hr demo session, showing games, apps, demos etc.
We were all blown away...
I knew I'd never get the money to get my own and besides I had only just bought my C64c. But it left a lasting impression and I eventually got my own s/h A500 a few years later. Followed by an A1200 ...and several more A500s.
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My High school computer lab had a teacher who was an amiga nut and they had a bunch of a2000s with expansion. i remember one had an opal vision i couldnt believe it!
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I got my A2000 with the 88086 bridgeboard and an NXStar 1000. Had a 30 mg hd and 1 meg of RAM. I got it after watching an animation, cant remember what its called. An imperial walker walking downtown Chicago and blew up a helicopter. I paid $2500 for it. I actually sold my C64 for $800.
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A friend and I saw the Amiga 2000 running Workbench and Ports of Call at a relative of his. We started borrowing the manual and bought acressories for the Amiga 500. We went into shops and wanted to play with the Amigas there, but they never inserted any disks. So all we could do is reset them (Ctrl+A+A) and fantasize about building an Amiga into a car. We were about 14 years at the time. It was summer and we had to wait till christmas. Christmas however was two maonth early ;-)
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I remember seeing an A1000 in the electronics store shortly after they came out and was blown away. I think I saw Marble Madness and some other demo where it sampled the "We are the champions" audio. I begged my dad for one but he wouldn't go for it. I was still in high school so no job and no prospects of getting one as a computer wasn't something my parents would ever get me. I guess I kind of forgot about the Amiga, until I got my first job in 1988 and wanted to spend my first paycheques, and I believe the Amiga was probably the first thing I bought. An A500. None of my friends were at all nerdy so I'd never known anyone with an Amiga until I bought one.
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When I grew up, the nerdy kids had PCs :)
They all viewed them as disposable though.
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When I lived in Texas, it was around 1988. I was reading a game magazine that was dedicated to both Computers and game consoles.
Every time I read a computer game review they said,"It's horrible or so so on PC, doable on the Mac, but if you have the money to afford it, BUY IT ON THE AMIGA!!!".
Having read that a few dozen times, I knew what I wanted and that desire was confirmed every time I walked into a Computer Store in the mall, though I was not able to afford an Amiga until around 94 or 95. I began with a 500, then updated to a 1200 and have pretty well near had at least one around since then.
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For me The amiga always had an excitement about it. I finally gave up and got a PC but it was never the same. About a year ago I decided to get some excitment back in computing and got an Amiga 600. The excitment is back.
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Ahh the good old times.... I bought my first amiga about a month ago :P
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All I can remember was going into a store with my parents and really wanting an A500. I also remember a man that went around all the stores demoing it with boxes of boxes of pirated games and thought thats a mean job :)
Sales guy must have talked them around as I got an A500, was a sad and a happy day. Sold my C64C :/
I can relate to the SAD part ! I was really sad to lose my C64 breadbox, how I loved that machine and miss it to this day .. Just like guitarists never should sell their guitars, kids of that time should never have sold their first computers .. :-)
Wonder where my C64 went, I guess its a goner , too high odds its still in someones attic ... :-) But I can hope ..
I had it for three years and were just getting started programming when I traded it in for an A500 .. The A500 was great and all, but AmigaBASIC was not my favourite language and programming manuals cost an arm and a leg for me, so I couldnt afford any. Imagine having the resources on the net that are available today, THEN !!
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Was in my 2nd as an apprentice, making a whopping 500DM (250Euro) a month. In early early 91 I had saved a wee bit over 1000DM and destined to spend it on my 1st puter.
A decent specced PC was out of the budget (>2000DM) a Atari-MegaST with SM124 was 1400DM and I allmost went for that ..... but in the end I waited another month and spend 1500DM for an A500+1084 at the local supermarket.
At 1st I allways wondered, what that stupid shell-window was for and why I couldn't close it ;)
Another 2 months later I ordered a 512k expansion and an external floppy (pretty sure it was at Vesalia).
Keept it that way till XMas 92 when I bought myself an 1200 with 60MB HD.
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Yes, I was 15. To say she was promiscuous would be kind, but she was attractive,.......
oh, wait, my bad, I seem to be recalling a different "1st time".........
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I was already a Commodore user (C-116, then C-128) when I read about the upcoming A500 in a magazine and it already caught my interest. Short time after, when the A500 was available in Germany, I saw one in a shop running the Juggler Demo and I was lost.
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Hmmm... can't quite recall now it was that long ago, I was just an apprentice shipwright to this old bloke called Noah who was building this big wooden boat, now what was the question again.... :confused:
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When I grew up, the nerdy kids had PCs :)
They all viewed them as disposable though.
When I was growing up, there were no PC's. :(
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I was about 15 and the happy owner of an Atari 520STFM. I must have had the ST for about 1-2 years and spent all my time using it. Then I visited a friend who had an A500 and showed me the RSI Megademo. From that instant onwards, I was sold. I think I bought an A500 some months later (much to my parents disapproval).
I wonder how many machines the RSI Megademo actually helped sell? I know my local computer stores often had that demo running (complete with a bunch of us kids hanging around watching it).
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After getting my first job after graduating from college, I began looking for a computer. Macs were too expensive, so I decided to get a PC-compatible. I went into a computer store in New Jersey around 1986 to check out a Leading Edge PC-clone. Not too far from it was an Amiga 1000. The price was about the same, but the Amiga had a color monitor and the Leading Edge had an amber monochrome. I got the Amiga 1000 with the extra 256kb RAM module, an external 3.5 drive (for a total of 2), the 1080 monitor and the 5.25 drive with Transformer so I could run DOS programs. I never got the Transformer working properly, but I had a blast with the Amiga. The computer came with AmigaDOS 1.1, Textcraft and Graphicraft. I also purchased DeluxePaint and Seven Cities of Gold. I also remember the Kaleidescope and Demos disks that came with it. It definitely was the coolest computer at that time.
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i remember it like it was yesterday
around 1987ish I was working on a white cloud commercial - next to me was an incredibly talented artist - Rose Lovell. As we airbrushed the cels she talked about this computer that she and her husband had written a lightbox program for. They also had made a driver for the summagraphics tablet for this computer.
at some point she suggested I attend a local convention and when i arrived at this Amiga convention in NY and saw LIVE, and her animation program (later incorprated into DPaint) I had an epiphany
It's like I saw my future before me. It was an amazing experience. I saved my pennies and bought my Amiga 2000 in 1989 and changed my life.
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Well before launch in early 85 when I read a preview of the spec of this new Commodore machine in development.
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Yeah. When my brother got his A500, and booted Firepower. KABOOM!
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Yeah. When my brother got his A500, and booted Firepower. KABOOM!
Firepower! A most excellent game, and one of the few we would play networked with a null modem cable. Great times indeed!
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Mine was around 1994, I had my C64C but my mate had an A500 and I just had to have one, a friend of the family was selling theirs to buy a PC so my mum bought it for a Christmas present......I still have it and it still works........there was such a great feeling and excitement to it all. That was only repeated when I bought an Amiga Inc A1200!