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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: AmigaFreak on April 28, 2011, 06:17:40 AM
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So just a general question, What is your personal favorite out of all the Amiga models? - Also, do you preferre the more "classic" like AOS versions or the newer AOS versions?
For me, the A1000 is my fav, being the first computer I ever used. AOS 1.3 was my main OS on it, it was expanded in 2 MB RAM with a side ram expansion back in it's prime.
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I really loved my A1200 back in the day, because it was mine :D
Now I love my A4000, because it is mine! :D
I love me the classicOS - 3.1 is the top limit for me at the moment, although if I ever get a NIC and an RTG card and perhaps a zorram, or a 4060 expansion I am definitely going 3.9 maybe :D
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The 1200. Its the one I had as a kid, and the one I have now :)
I fundamentally like something about all of them, but the 1200 is my baby.
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The A2000. Sheer bulk, built like a tank, no SMD, expansion, expansion, expansion.
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Likewise mine is my A1200, yes I first owned an A500 but from that to the A1200 was a great leap [or felt like it]....and yes I love my A4000 because I've not long bought it.
A1200 all the way!
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A3000. My first, and favorite.
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Very first Amiga I seen was my brother's Amiga 600, so I have a soft spot for it.... But my favorite is the Amiga 1200.
Though for the longest time I wanted an Amiga 4000.....
I still push around OS 3.0 since thats the roms that are inside my Amiga 1200. Only things I throw on it is magicwb and MUI for the GUI enhancements.
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THEN: My many many A2000s. I had, like six of them, at one time and each one was some sort of crazy creation. I loved all the space they had for expansion. Funny thing is I made MORE space with a good ole dermal also!
NOW: My DiscreetFX blessed A4000T. It is my second A4000T and I plan on doing MORE to it than I did before! I love making Hacks and the like... OI! Just thinking about it makes me want to get home and do some cool stuff!
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My favourite is the Amiga 1200. Even though the Amiga 500 was the first I got, I'll never forget the day when I purchased the 1200. I'm still using an Amiga 1200 today with all kinds of extras. ;)
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Im in the same camp, the A1200 :-), but i do have a soft spot for the A4000D and A4000T as well.
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Too difficult to answer, is it the A500 my parents bought me for xmas in 89 or the A1200 I saved hard for and bought myself on launch day in 92?
Or is it the A3000 I listed after for it's technical brilliance and sleek looks and finally bought last year?
Or perhaps it's my maxed out A4000/060/PIV/Deneb?
Or even the A1200/BPPC/Mediator/Voodoo 5500 beast that I regret selling a few years ago.
I can't choose! :(
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Another A1200 fan here, big jump from my brothers Spectrum to this, it was just so god dam cool to finally own my own computer and the fact i could usally out do my PC owning freind (for a short while). I really wish I had more money back then to buy more programs and learn some of stuff that was out their that I now know about.
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I have to say my Favorite was the A2000. Up until I got an A1200.
I luv the elegance of the A1200. If only they had wireless joysticks and mice back then.
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A3000 and A4000.
The A3000 is basically the pinnacle of development with the least amount of cut corners.
The A4000 is the best AGA machine.
Amigas without true Zorro III slots are not worth my time.
Between those two, I would choose the A4000 if expansions are allowed (Indi AGA, CSmk2/3 060 + SCSI) and the A3000 if they should be kept stock.
Incidentally, I have both kinds of machine, the A3000 has as much motherboard and Zorro II RAM as possible + a network card, the A4000 has the turbo + scsi + indi aga and a network card. :-)
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So just a general question, What is your personal favorite out of all the Amiga models? - Also, do you preferre the more "classic" like AOS versions or the newer AOS versions?
For me, the A1000 is my fav, being the first computer I ever used. AOS 1.3 was my main OS on it, it was expanded in 2 MB RAM with a side ram expansion back in it's prime.
Since AGA is the shit I'd say it's a race between only 3 contenders realy: A1200, A4000 and CD32. The CD32 loses before we start as it requier extremly expencive hardware to even get it to where it's a usable Amiga computer instead of just a game machine and still you're miles away from making it look like a computer... also it reminds me too much of C='s failure. My fav Amiga is then a close race between the A1200 and A4000. A1200 low cost and easy to move around, A4000 for better expansion options... I think I'll say the A4000. :D
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I've been through all of them and my favorite was the A3000T.
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My A1000. It had a great keyboard, a neat keyboard garage under the CPU, and had a quiet power supply. I had it with a 1080 color monitor, external 3.5" and external 5.25" drives, an Access Associates (Allegra) 2 MB RAM Side Expansion module, some kind clock/macro device that fit between the keyboard and keyboard port. I used it with DeluxePaint, DeluxeMusic, ProWrite, ProPage, PageStream, Analyze! and Softwood File. Also had Digiview complete with Panasonic video camera and light stand. Wrote many songs with DeluxeMusic. Published a couple newsletters with both ProPage and PageStream. Had a Supra 2400 Baud modem and used NComm to BBS (also a Genie subscriber). All on Workbench 1.3.
I eventually moved to an A2000. It was more practical because it had a hard drive. But that power supply was a bit noisy. I had an AMax board, A2630 accelerator and A2320 flicker fixer (used with a Sony 1303 multisync). Also moved to Workbench 2.05. This set up was better for desktop publishing.
I have acquired various other Amiga's and used AmigaDOS 3.1 thu 3.9. I also used tried some nextgen OS's on spare PC's like Amithlon and AROS, as well as WinUAE. But that first A1000/WB1.3 is still my favorite.
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I have an A2000, but my favorite would be either an A1000 or A3000. I'm hoping to pick up an A1000 and maybe an A3000 eventually but to be honest, I am not sure what I'd do with them.
I also prefer the classic operating systems (which, to me, is 2.0 and below).
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My first A1000 back in 86 holds a special meaning to me and having owned all models at one point in time except the A3000 it's the A1200 that is my favourite, be it in the desktop model or a towered up version, I honestly wouldn't go back to any other models and will stick with the A1200... :)
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My first amiga was the 500, but I do like the 1200.
Ofcourse I loved the 4000, but they 1200 was/is just great.
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A1000 for me as well. Just love the looks of it with a 1080 sitting atop and a 1010 by its side :)
Re: OS's, kind of up in the air about 1.3 and 3.1. Depends on what I want to do on an Amiga. On a floppy only based system, I *prefer* 1.3 because I like the looks of it better (nostalgic for sure) and appreciate its simplicity, but 3.1 on everything else I guess because of its productivity and practicality. With a special Kickstart disk, easy enough to turn your hard drive based OS3.1 system into a floppy only based OS1.3 system too though and that's one of the greatest things about using an Amiga - the flexibility.
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My A500T, with 060
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/62/1_3017.jpg
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I'm rapidly falling in love with the A3000 now that I've got one. The case is kind of cramped (at least compared to the A2000, monster that it is,) but it's built just as solidly, and the lower profile, better stock CPU, full 32-bit bus, and built-in SCSI and flicker-fixer put it at the top of my list.
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Amiga 1200 :-D
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I've now owned a 500, 2000, 3000, and a 4000. I'd have to say the 3000 is my fave. I only got the 4000 recently and only played with it a couple of hours, but it felt surprisingly cheap or backwards in direction to me, not having a flicker fixer, and the case is pretty ugly. I like how sleek the 3000 is, and at the time it came out it was as pretty decent machine.
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So just a general question, What is your personal favorite out of all the Amiga models? - Also, do you preferre the more "classic" like AOS versions or the newer AOS versions?
I pass. no poll and most importantly no pancakes.
greets,
Staf.
PS: A1200 ;)
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A1200 - fast (then), relatively cheap and amazingly expandable - Commodore really should have released an A1200-Tower officially to help keep people's desks tidy.
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A1200 was my first and favorite machine of the Amigas.
As far as the next-gen systems go, they really don't do what the Amiga does in the way that the Amiga does it. I've posted a bounty suggestion on AROS-Exec about a shader program to emulate AGA graphics features on modern shader-equipped graphics board but so far there have been no comments, much less takers.
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WinUAE on XP - nothing can touch it.
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The A3000D without a doubt!
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A3000@25MHz!
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Hard call, down to the 2 best Amigas (that I've known):
A1000
A3000
I think I'm gonna say A1000, because of emotional reasons and that it started it all.
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WinUAE on XP - nothing can touch it.
:lol:
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I like the A500 and the A1200 - they're the computers I had.
I like the A1000's design, it really should have lived longer as a low-end box Amiga. Keyboard had funky cursors and a cut down numpad though, but the box itself was great.
I did a lot with both of my computers, the A1200 edges it in my opinion.
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A1200 but A4000 comes close so dies the A2000
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i loved my a500, I loved my cdtv, I loved my a4000, but my A3k is and always be king daddy of them all!
lost
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My A500T, with 060
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/62/1_3017.jpg
Nice!!!!! A500 in a tower? :)
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A2000, although I've had an A1500 for 15 years and haven't really done anything with it, it at least needs a scsi card & some ram.
Back in the day my a500 with 28mhz 68000, 250mb trifecta drive + 2mb fast, 2mb chip ram, 1.5mb trapdoor was awesome. However I wish I'd dropped all that money on a big box amiga.
I've had an a1200 since about 1994 with 2gb drive & 50mhz 68030+48mb ram. This was my everyday computer at home until around 2000. I wouldn't class it as my favourite, but it's the only one that has been plugged in for pretty much all that time. I started with a commodore one, but switched to an amiga technologies onea fter I:
a. fixed the display timing issues
b. unhacked the motherboard so it can use an original floppy drive
c. hacked the floppy drive so it had disk change and ready in the correct place then
In the process I think I dropped some solder on the emi coils & it melted, so I had to repair that too (although I think fixed is a strong word, I think I just covered it in more solder :-) Still works though, all I've had to do recently is replace the ide cable to the buffered interface, but in the years that have passed I've lost the screws as it's been open for so long.