I remember walking into Dixons (UK hardware store)
sometime in 1987 being all of 9yrs old, looking at the KS1.2 A500 they had running the polygon robot animation (about 50 frames of looped anim) and thought wow! then nagging parents for a year untill i got one. thing was, by then it was release 1.3 and didn't come with the animation. i was well disappointed. then i got one with DPaint 1, the basic demos, etc etc, gaming sleepovers, linkups (parnet, sernet), external floppy drives, 1/2mb ram upgrades (i saved pocket money for 6months to by 1/2 a meg! hard disks, A570 drives, 2mb chip ram upgrades, 020 M-Tec 28Mhz accelerators, the wonders of real fast ram. since then i've owed almost every machine at some time bar the A3000, and A1000. and even when i had my massive A4000T with GFX cards, drives, PPCs etc, i think i was most creative with a dodgy copy of Dpaint3, a coverdisk version of Protracker, an old technosound turbo sampler, and my old 1mb A500. why didn't someone say to me back then "son, these are going to be some of the happiest days of your life." would i have listened? no. i'd have booted shadow of the beast 2 one more time.
