I thought i'd jot down my experience using the Amiga since the 1980s..
A500 - was fantastic starter machine, great for games and workbench 1.2 or 1.3, even my spectrum and atari ST fans hated me.. lol mind you C64 ran rings around them..
I still remember the day when i loaded 'marble madness' and 'defender of the crown' on the A500.. amazing!
A2000 - great for bridgeboards and expansion from A500, cheap and easy to fix.
A1200 (CBM & AT) - Great machine, and AGA games are just great fun.. and can be made to run not all but most A500 games (Whdload).. watch out for the dodgy High Density floppy drives shipped with AT models.
A3000T - lovely machine, it hated OS3.9 (my model did anyway) rolled it back to 2.04.. and was a heavy beast it was actually heavier than the A4000T.
You may have seen screenshots or posts i added to the "The Big Book of Amiga Hardware" website.
A4000D - again another favourite of mine, ok it's missing onboard scsi and vga but you got to admire Commodore did try.. at least there plenty of expansion available.
If you can get one of these mighty little brother machines, don't sell it like i did.. big mistake.
A4000T - I had this machine from new for a long time, big brother of all the Amiga's.. very noisey when kitted out but fantastic machine. I sold mine to a guy in Germany scientific research, so it's being used for something useful rather than trying to stablise PPC side on games and watching OS3.9 tick away..
CD32 console - for games i would say this is my favourite machine for Amiga AGA games, ok it was over priced at the time and it had very limited expansion available (hard to find) but hey you gotta love 'Ultimate Body Blows' and "Alien Breed Tower Assault" amongst many.. It was a shame Commodore didn't push this machine further.. i would have loved to see a better port of 'Last Ninja' on this console.. shame Last Ninja 3 was a big dissapointment.
So I would say which ever Amiga you choose to buy they all give you enjoyment, and again depends what you want out of the machine. I really hope someone keeps a complete collection for a museum, emulators just don't give you the same nostalgia.. my heart raced the other day when i booted up my old C64, brings back memories when i was a child. There is such a huge collection of games for the commodore computers, you think software houses would tap into these games, creating sequels or updated versions of these classic games.
Sorry to blab on.. and if i've missed alot out sorry its just a recap of what i remember..
