Recently I came across my A2000HD and my A500 (also owned an A600 at some stage, but that was sold off) sitting in the cupboard collecting dust (completely forgot I even had them...weird). I hooked them up and to my surprise they both still worked. Sadly, the A500 seems to be dying and the A2000 has a flakey CIA and a leaky battery, but hey eventually I'll fix them both.
Anyway, it was such a step back in time for me, I completely forgot how much fun the Amiga was to use (though I hate how WB won't let you switch between open windows).
Being the rather inpatient person that I am, I couldn't wait to find the time to get my old Amigas fully working again, so, through one of the people I have met from the Amiga community in Melbourne, I bought myself an A1200, nothing fancy, but better than stock, just so I can enjoy the Amiga experience again.
Eventually I will probably tower it and add a few upgrades, mainly for the fun of it though, not to use it as my main computer as I have a rather speedy Athlon based system for that.
Sadly, while reading through a lot of the post in this thread, I noticed that a lot of people seem to can x86 based systems as well as Windows. I would just like to go on record as saying that in the 10 years or so that I have been working with x86 based systems and Windows, very rarly have I ever experienced any problems, it all comes down to the quality of your hardware and how much time you put into configuring your OS.
For around 3 years I worked as a tech in a shop, and on countless occaisions I came across people with the same problem "My computer always crashes", 9 times out of 10, it was to do with poor configuration or dodgy 3rd party software, hardly ever was it just Windows.
Sorry for babbling on, but I felt my opinion should be heard as I have experienced nothing but enjoyment from all of the computer systems I have owned, from my C64 to my current Athlon.
