What is the best Amiga in your Opinion?

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Hello everybody what is your favorite Amiga and why

i like my amiga 4000 and amiga 600 the best, i find that almost all games run good on them. but i also like my old amiga 2000 that old girl still keeps going :-)

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Is Amiga 1000 rare? i dont see them for sale here in denmark. and they are not on ebay very often. are they easy to upgrade or is it hard

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It a shame commodore went under in 1994, one would think they could keep it going with all the machines they sold over the years. but i think they made some bad choices. The amiga cd32 was a good console, but i think they should have shipped it with 040 cpu and 4 mb ram, so it could compete with the new pc and playstation. it was a time where 3d games took of

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I wish i had an Amiga 1200 but mayby i will get one in the future :-) it sounds like a cool machine.
Right now i have my Amiga 4000 and 3 x 2000 and Amiga 600 and the good old 500 :-)
and the only console amiga made the cd32. hope i can save up to a 1200 soon.

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Hi yes it is a cool little Amiga :-) i have 4 mb ram and 4 giga hard disks, but do you know if that is good for whdload? many of my games frezzes when i try to load them

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A1200 definitly.

A3000 and A1000. Both incredible machines when they came out and made with little compromise.

I have a commodore 128d and i think from the pictures i have seen of amiga 1000 that they look a lot alike

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Mind that this was also during a time when the competition was paying a tonne of money on custom-designed consoles with not-so-inexpensive processors: the Sony PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, and the ill-fated Sega Saturn.  While everyone was clamoring for more powerful consoles, the Sega Genesis still held quite a field four years after release with its 68000 processor and Z80 co-processor.  As well, the NeoGeo was still a powerful game machine with the same processor specs as the Genesis.  The CD32 could have been much more than it was when released, IMO.

It amuses me that Atari was approached by both Nintendo and Sega to market their consoles and Atari couldn't agree with either.  Whoops!

Hi yes i think the Amiga cd32 is a cool console, i have 2 myself :-) but it is a shame that it was mainly old Amiga games they put out on it ( not that they are not good ) but i think they could have make some cool games for it. mayby it was because commodore went under 7 months after the released that they did not make new games for it. But still i think its a fine console, and i have almost all the old consoles from sega and nintendo. take sega cd, the amiga have 4 or 8 times the ram the sega cd has, and 20 times the colour.

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i  love  my a1200  ..has everything i need  aga  upgraded 030 heaps  ram ..runs  everything i throw at it ..more or less ..love  my cd32  cause  it can play movies  with the fmv card ..which for its time was a very good bit of hardware ..before  dvds came along..but for most time just playing with my computer has to be my a500  ...still got my original  workbench 1.3  model bought for 800.00  aust dollars  brand new ..have added harddrives  ..dvd drives superfat agnes wb 2.04  an now 3.1  ..ran pctask  an got 286 games  plodding along  ..games  till  4am some nights  ..still in fully working condition ..a500  had the most  ports you could do anything to it it seems..vortex pc emulator  a570 cdrom  parnetted  networked  even put it online  ...best computer  a500 ....most used  now  a1200  ..

Hi i dont have fmv card in my amiga cd32 but i have it in my Philips cdi so i watch old movies on that :-) yes its quite cool to see movies on a cd 5 years before the dvds came along

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No way they could've used 040 in a console in 1993. 020 was good for a console but they should've used 1 MB Fast RAM instead of Akiko. Remember that Playstation was released more than one year later than CD32. You should compare CD32 to SNES, MegaDrive, PC CDROM and CDi.

CDTV and A600 shouldn't have been released at all, with a extended availability of the A500 Plus 6-12 months longer.

A1200 should have been configurable to 2 MB chip or 1 MB chip and 1 MB fast (expandable to 2 MB chip and 4 MB fast).

I agree that A3000 was released when Commodore/Amiga peaked.

Hi yes your are right when i think about it, 040 cpu in 1993 was quite expensive i can imagnine, but if they change the ram as you talked about, do you think they could run doom clones better? still with the 020 cpu.

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With the CD32, I think the intention was just to get it to market, interest an existing audience and then work on something later.
 
From what I recall from an old post by Haynie, the CD32 basically sold out in the UK. Commodore's inability to build and sell enough was part of sealing the coffin.
 
 
So yeah, it'd have been doomed very shortly, but at the time, it was well received.

Yes you are right for what i read i have 2 Amiga cd32 and i think they are some fine machines, sure they could not handle 3D very well, but still there are some cool games for it, i use mine a lot

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A3000 with SCSI hard drive and deinterlacer.
Most PRO Amiga by standard, A4000 with IDE and no flicker was just tower A1200 with better CPU.

A3000 introduced ECS (Productivity) as well as AmigaOS 2.x which is most revolutionary. A3000T came as first real tower and A3000U with UNIX.

Sadly A3000+ was discarded - 040 CPU, DSP, AGA, KS 3.x

I have never seen an Amiga 3000 in real life. Are you lucky to have one?

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I've had upgraded 1200's, but honestly have had the most fun with them when they're modestly expanded ('030 and large HD) and used for gaming. For any type of serious expansion, you'll be much happier starting with a 3000 or 4000, heck, even a 2000.

Then i am lucky since i have 3 Amiga 2000 and 1 Amiga 4000

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Yes, very lucky. :pint: My first big-box was an A2000 I picked up some years ago, and spent a long while hunting down various expansions making it perfect for me. (The 2000 is definitely one of my favorites!) Up until that point, I had always had 500's and 1200's. I really enjoyed being able to buy cards, then plop them in the huge case without any fuss, or worry about cooling or power. My first RTG card was a CV64/3D, which was simply amazing compared to AGA.

Expanding the 1200 much beyond an accelerator and a few do-dads always felt like a complete hack-fest, not to mention the sheer terror of the clockport, and mounting challenges increasing the risk of frying something. Even the accelerator can be a pain, since most of them have the CPU facing down - I really despised having the 1200 "up on blocks" when I had the Blizz 1260 in there, simply ridiculous when you can't close the trapdoor and call it good.[/QUOTE

Yes there sure is some space in those Amiga 2000. And they are some heavy machines, they sure did not Compromise when they build them i am glad to have mine, even if they take up a lot of space in my apartment What Amigas do you have now?

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Amiga 1000, the only Amiga that was the best desktop computer, AND best looking, in the world on the day it was launched. Downhill all the way from A500 really.

A1200 once reduced to £299 was a good machine too, not at £399 without SIMM slots for fast ram though. 2.5" IDE was a classic cockup.

Rest were either ugly, overpriced, cheaply made or had zero improvements over A1000 OCS worth nothing.

The A4000/030 was a special dead turkey, all people wanted was a 28mhz 020 (same speed) with 2+2 memory in an Amiga 1000/3000 style slim case (for use of cheap 3.5 IDE drives) which Commodore could have produced for half the cost of A4000/030. Commodore gave us a 486 priced Amiga with 286 performance....nice!

A4000/040 was at least justifiable in 1991 on spec/price. Not in 92-94 though.

I have a Commodore 128D, i think it looks a lot like the Amiga 1000 in style

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I have a small collection, mostly 500's and 1200's, a few 600's, 2000's, 3000's, and a 4000D. Also a fair number of Zorro cards and accelerators. One of the 1200's sees the most use these days for the odd game or demo. The others haven't been turned on in quite a while, mainly for lack of time. I wouldn't mind a 4000T someday, but probably won't seek one out unless I suddenly find myself with an abundance of time and money. :-)

I also have an Amiga 600, it is quite a cute little Amiga i think