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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: sumner7 on March 09, 2004, 04:38:01 PM
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I own an Amiga 500+, but a few years ago i kept wishing that I owned an amiga 1200 because all the demos I got only worked on that machine. So what is your favourite amiga model?
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CDTV and/or A3kT.
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Another thing I wish I had all those years ago was a CD32. They looked fantastic!
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What is your favorite amiga model?
That's easy! Kiki Stockhammer... ;-)
--Barry Steenbergh
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:laugh:
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A3000
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Yes... that was also a great machine!
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Amiga 3000 series without a doubt.
I've had 500, 1200, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3000t, 4000.
Sadly I'm ebaying my last 2 3k's in the next couple of weeks :-( After that I will have no Amiga Hardware left...
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a4000
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That would have to be the humble A1200, for the reason that it's so damn expandable. Virtually every single hardware limitation had been overcome with some extremely clever hardware like the Mediator PCI, PPC accelerators, Power Flyer cards that work around the slow on board IDE interface, replacement parallel/serial ports, USB... The list is seemingly endless.
The A1200 is certainly not without it's faults but for me it epitomises everything about the so called community spirit that makes twelve year old Amigas still useable today.
Runners up would have to be the original A500, simply because it was my first Amiga followed by the A3000 because it was the most complete Amiga ever made IMHO.
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Isn't there a poll on this topic somewhere? Hmmm...
A3000
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The "Commodore Amiga".
Without it you'd all be ranting about how cool your Mac's are...
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I have to say the A1200, merely because of the number of hours I've dedicated to mine.
I've always wanted to own a CD32 and an A3000, and thanks to eBay, the former is on its way to me :-D
(So far I have 2 x A1200, CD32 Spectacular Voyage pack, A600 all boxed. Trying to get one of every Amiga model)
/editi: clarification
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Favorite Amiga model???
I love them ALL so much!
Kind of like picking your favorite child:
500(+) kept the gaming revolution alive
600 proved that commodore could put good things in small packages
1000 Started it all, the wellspring from which all flows!!
1200 The most currently made add-ons support this one
2000(2500) Big, expandible, and MANLY!!
3000(T) First 32 bit clean Amiga and FLICKER FIXER!!!
4000(T) Like a 1200 on steroids!!
CDTV Defined a set top multimedia market that didn't esist yet!
CD32 "World's first 32 bit games console" add FMV for REAL fun!
I could never choose a favorite, I want them ALL!!!
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My favorite Amiga is an Amiga 1200 and cd32. The CD32 was the first game console with 32-bits power.
Now you're playing with AGA-power!
Now I have 2 A1200's. If I had some cash I properly buy another A1200.
I also like my CDTV which I got it free from a friend and the Amiga 2000.
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A3000+
Followed by my A4000 in the Megatower, CD32 was/is fun as well, I probably should Ebay mine since I dont use it enough these days.
-Tig
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For me it has to be:
A1200 (towered of course)
but, i do have a softspot for the 1000...(From what i hear, it was good, i wish i had owned one...)
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Hmmm good question.
I own the following.
A500, A500+, A600, A1200(*4), A2000, CD32
I think the 1200 has to be fave, I even use one for my buisness.
:)
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My fav is the CD32 for it's compactness.
Years ago I had two of 'em and I even made a late night call to Eyetech about one of their expansion modules. I still think it's a shame I didn't go ahead with the purchase because it really would have held my interest in Amigas at a time when I was being drawn to pcs.
These days it's WinUAE for me although I do have an A600 with a compact flash hard drive and OS3.1.
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A1000. I just love the look of it. Its really cute.
I own 2. I bought the second just for the 2 meg memory upgrade. I even have a 40 gig HD in my XT sidecar(like a bridgeboard only in an external box connected at the side) and stuck in an AT card that ran and whopping 8mghz. Woah.
The A1000 accessed the PC hd. Well it got me through school and let me program in pascal. (If only the bootup to do this didn't take so long.) Some of the error messages connecting to sidecar were hillarious.
One that comes to mind, "Really Broken. Stop All and Reboot". Wasn't good when showing the system in front of my PC and ST owning friends but we all cracked up.
I'll probably gut one for the Amiga One upgrade. Mahaha.
Poor thing. I've already seen someone gut one and put a pc motherboard in there. Sacriledge.
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Well, I've had every Amiga model made..but to me the A2000 was the best design given it's expandability and that it had more room in it..everything wasn't squashed together and you could easily get to any of the slots, without having to remove the other cards. The 4000T would have been my favorite, if it weren't for the fact that you had to remove the whole drive tray setup just to get to the CPU card,
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Wee, lets see. I have 2 Amiga 4000's and one Amiga 2000. I remember that my high school had a Amiga 1200 and an Amiga 3000UX. I'm still drooling over the Amiga 4000T that my public library has streaming CG graphics over our cable system for our public access channel. (It's the only computer in the library that hasn't been upgraded or offered for sale)
I remember some friends that used to do some coding for the 500, so I guess that sparked more of my gaming love, (well that and our Atari 800)
I would have to say I just love the Amiga in all it's form. My 3 are playing nicely :D
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I would have to say A4000T because it is like an A4000, but with all the problems fixed. No leaking Elyctrolitic capacitors, no leaking battery, etc etc.
Hightly annoyed after getting these problems with my newly aquired A4000. Should have just stuck with my towered A1200.
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Mine is the A1200.
I had a A500 then A500+ then an A1200 and I now have:
MotherBoard A1200 Rev 1D4
3.1 Kickstart
Apollo Turbo 1230 MK2 ('30 16MB)
1.5GB Hard Drive
LiteOn 52x CDROM
1084S Monitor
AmigaOS 3.5
Only a modest setup I know but I love it :)
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AmigaMCC (http://www.amiga.org/images/subject/icon26.gif) ;-)
no, really, I think I like the CDTV the most.
And preferably with diskdrive and hd.
second, the A600HD
these two solely because of their neat console/computer hybrid feel. They made it not 'fish nor flesh' (sorry punkie, it's a dutch saying) but made it 'fish and flesh'.
But for revolution purposes, the A1000, A2000 and the A500.
But AGA came far too late and the A3000 wasn't spectacular either.
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I only owned an A1000 and A1200 myself.
So i pick up A1200, which is towered and has some nice hardware atm :-)
I have seen and used a friends A4000T though, can't say i don't like it, but too pricey for poor guys like me :-(
Can't decide if i should choose the A1200 or A4000 now :-)
Well, i guess it will be the A4000 then :-D
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Currently I have an A500 (w/GVP HD-8+), 2 A1000's (one with PC sidecar), an A2000HD and an A1200, in the past I also owned an A600. As for my favorite, I can't choose, the A500 is great for games, the A1000 is the probably the neatest looking Amiga, the A2000HD has heaps of room, the A1200 is a little rocket and the A600's size speaks for itself. Can't comment on the rest, never owned them. So, sorry, I don't have a favorite, I like em all.
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I guess I've had enough Amiga computers to form an opinion. (1000, 2000, 500, 2500, 3000, 3000T, 1200)
1000 = I had this first, it made me fall in love with Amiga
500 = learned how to make music with MED and draw with DPaint (all at 7.16 MHz even!)
2500/2000 = Using this you can feel the stability. It feels like metal instead of plastic.. if that makes any sense
3000/3000T = My 3kT is the fastest Amiga I've ever owned (040/40). Also has gfx card (Picasso II).
1200 = By far most versatile, I used this for 3 years to surf the internet. In 1998 I got surprised looks by friends at how much faster the 1200 would download and render a webpage than their PCs!
I would say the 1200 has been my favorite overall.
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Hi,
Honestly, I wish I had an A4000T, But this old A2000HD packed to the gills (chk profile) has helped me get by until newer models are available. A1 showed up monday, Working on it.
Chris
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bloodline wrote:
The "Commodore Amiga".
Without it you'd all be ranting about how cool your Mac's are...
Or we'd be flaming each other about homosexual marriage in America on Atari.org ;-)
Edit: Ohh yea. Well I've only ever had an A500 and an A1200, of the two I prefer my A1200.
The A3000 is my big fetish fantasy.
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Amiga 3000(UX) :-D
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I have an A1200, an A2000, an A3000UX and an A4000. Out of all of them I would have to say my favourite is the A3000UX although it is out of action at the moment! :-(
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I own an A4000D in tower, an A1200 in tower and another one in original case and an A600 also in original case. I've within the last year sold out 2 A1200, 1 A600, 2 A2000, 2 A3000 and 3 A4000 of my Amigas mostly becuase my I needed the money and I couldn't find usage for the machines. The best and sweetes have been saved and shows what I find to be my favourites.
As many others my personal favourite is the A1200 closely followed by the A4000D and A600. The A1200 simply because of it's size and it's expandability. The A4000D because of it's expandability and the A600... well... I don't know... it was my first Amiga and it's so small and cute. :-D
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I'm buying an A600HD this weekend. Mainly cos they look cool, but also for old games. :) For serious Amiga stuff though I'm not interested in classics.. I use WinUAE for programming, and hopefully I'll have OS4 soon for my A1 sitting here.
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A1000 - because it was a great machine the days it has been purchased, always wondering how anybody could buy an IBM-PC after the Amiga was available back that days
A3000T - because it was another great step, fast, expandable and nice look, still using mine -- this moment ;-)
Noster
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the A600 because it so small and feels like a console-computer hybrid
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I just love the A3000 machines and especially my Tower :-)
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BigBenAussie wrote:
I'll probably gut one for the Amiga One upgrade. Mahaha.
Poor thing. I've already seen someone gut one and put a pc motherboard in there. Sacriledge.
Putting an A1 Mobo in there would be scariledge too... :-(
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I know the Amiga3000 was the last machine were the engineers put in everything they wanted. But to me my best amiga's were the A500 and A1200.
The A500 was cutting edge and powerfull in it's day, and inexpensive for what it was. Everything from Painting,DTP,games,music,word processing...
But the A1200 (while perhaps not as cutting edge as the A500, and not much faster) Was so expandable, in such a neat little package, I started using it for games, and some Dpaint/wordprocessing...and ended up using it for amateur magazine work using pagestream, photoshop using a mac emulator (and all my graphic design college mates spend thousands on similar spec mac's) and lightwave/imagine work in the games industry. And I could still take it faster...if it wasn't for the fact I have a A4000T under my desk,not on the desk, it would break it :)
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I liked my C= A4000, I spent over £1000 in 3 months to upgrade it with Mirage tower, Scandoubler, Mediator, Voodoo 5, NIC, TV card, CyberStorm PPC/060, GVP SCSI card, etc and it absolutely flew. Way better than any of the PPC A1200's I had owned before. But of course my Pegasos is orders of magnitudes better and faster again (and, surprisingly, more "Amiga-compatible" than my Amiga was, as it runs more things with less hassle/reboots etc), so I'd have to say that this is my favourite "Amiga" model.
I also have a soft spot for the A600 though, as this was my first ever Amiga (I sold my SNES to buy one). If the A600 had AGA (or better) and a CPU slot like the A1200 it would have been perfect.
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My beloved A1200 Blizzard 1230IV with 38MB RAM, x8 SCSI CDROM and 4GB HD served me faithfully for 10 years before finally giving up in 2000. Prior to that, 2 years with an A500 + 512Kb Expasion.
Now I have Cloantos unparalleled Amiga Forever. It's superb and adaptable in ways my A1200 could never be....
....but it's just not the same.
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A4000T....I can use more HDs and use an additional Zorro card. :-)
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Amiga 4000T ofcourse! If it could only arrive...maybe it's to big for the norwegian mail service? Hope they haven't used it to climb on or something like that..I hate receiving stuff in the mail :-o
But my A1200 with Blizzard and SCSI is still fun...it is cheap and the most expandable!
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bloodline wrote:
BigBenAussie wrote:
I'll probably gut one for the Amiga One upgrade. Mahaha.
Poor thing. I've already seen someone gut one and put a pc motherboard in there. Sacriledge.
Putting an A1 Mobo in there would be scariledge too... :-(
Yeah, but only in my second spare A1000, with the lower practically uselsess spec and slightly damaged case. I'll probably mod the case somehow to look like my avatar. Took a look on the internet for titanium, to bring off the effect.
An A1 board is the only upgrade that could do it justice. I'm keeping the other A1000 in pristine condition and when I move into my new place I'll have enough desk space to place them side by side.
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The A3000 that I booted up just to post this message.
:-D
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A3000
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I'd have to say the A3000 for sure on that one. Its wat I use now and have used ever since I got rid of my A1000. I did have an A1200 for a short time, but becides the AGA it didnt run near as well as my A3000 with a graphics card did. I sold that on ebay about a year after I got it since I never used it.
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Well, what can I say? I love all of my Amigas :) I have an A500+, AmigaCD32, A4000/PPC/060, A600HD/030 and an A1200 (which is not exactly mine). I guess I`ll vote for my A4000 :-)
I want AmigaOne!
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You certainly have a lot of amigas! Oh, how we wouldn't live without the amiga! :-o
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I have an attic space full of Amigas of one sort or another but the three I use the most are my Towered A1200, my A1500 and my little A600 all of which are still working beautifully so these are my favorites.
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I like my A4000T, QuikPak style. Though I hate the case, it's a pain to open/close and work in as you have to tip the tower on it's side, the left-side case cover wraps around the top and bottom. Yuck. But the machine is quite nice. Luckily I haven't had any CIA problems or anything, but I've got some SMT PLCC sockets around here somewhere for if I do find myself with a need to remove a CIA chip. It's been my main computer for about 7 years now.
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I wouldn't know which to really pick.
First I had the A500+ which seemed to do everything well, but later on I got an A600 which seemed to be pretty much the same, but a lot smaller (which was useful considering my room was the size of a closet). I then got a CD-Rom drive and squirrel for it which was quite cool. Then came the dreaded days when coverdisks started having AGA games on which I couldn't play, so eventually I managed to get an A1200 too. Then I picked up a HD as the CD-Rom drive wasn't much use without one, and here began my Amiga Format days. I call them that for the simple reason the main thing I remember doing was playing through all the reader request games on the disks and filling up my hard-drive with them (obviously as well as the commercial demos). Then I decided to pick up an accellerator, and tower the whole thing.
Many years later in the quest for the ultimate machine, I sold all the parts of my A1200T and bought an A4000. The A4000 isn't impressing my much at the moment due to all the current (and potential) faults, although I know it's a very capable machine.
I think if it came down to it, I would have to say my favorite machine would have been the A500+ because it didn't seen to have any problems and always worked. I would say the A600 as they were virtually identical but the A600 being smaller, but the A600 seemed very fragile, if you knocked it even slightly it would freeze, where as I could throw the A500+ across the room and it wouldn't even care.
All of the machines had memory expansions in them, so memory was never a problem for them.
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A4000T..an a4k done right, SCSI an' all.
Couldn't use any of 'em without a decent graphics card and 040/060
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Pegasos....the best 'Amiga' that Amiga never made :-D
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my favorite miggy model always was the a3000, tho i got a 4000 later ... never owned an a3000 :-(
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A1200 because of expansion possibilities + A4000 hardware prices are still STEEEEEEEEEEEP!
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haymiggan wrote:
A1200 because of expansion possibilities + A4000 hardware prices are still STEEEEEEEEEEEP!
@Povl
I also like the A1200 because of the number of games you can play on it. :-)