What was your computing like before Amiga. Did you think the mouse was for lazy people? Did you program your own Basic games? Memorize about 100 different keyboard shortcuts?
Nope, the mouse was always a great thing when coupled with software that used it. I had a mouse on my Amstrad CPC which I used with OCP Advanced Art Studio - a major improvement over using a joystick or keyboard to draw with!
However the computers were far more simple - but at least they were instant-on. I typed in many a type-in from magazines (I got a full back collection when I got my second hand Amstrad CPC 464) and then wrote my own BASIC games. I eventually progressed onto Z80 assembler, but not to a deep level unfortunately.
The Amiga arrived (second hand 1.2 A500) and DPaint and AMOS (and then Blitz Basic 2) were too good to ignore.
edit: wow, thread necro, didn't realise i had answered this two years ago :p
