Ordered my AmigaOne X5000 from Amiga On The Lake in USA

[David Wright]

@Iggy

I like to think of the Amiga as being adopted by Europe. The Amiga was so unloved by both the Commodore parent company (not Commodore UK which knew what a gem they had) and the U.S.A. in general due to woeful marketing (and Yanks not being as able to spot a great product without being 'SOLD & marketed' it ;-)). It is such a shame and quite frankly if Newtek and the Video Toaster hadn't come along then virtually no one in the U.S. would have heard of or remembered the Amiga.

Maybe if it wasn't sold and marketed as a home game machine for the kids it would have done better. I hung on as long as possible with graphic and productivity but it was pointless by the early nineties.

[David Wright]

We waited for good software and the most needed never arrived.

When I saw that I could have vga and super vga graphics with thousands of colors with real commercial graphic applications such as Corel suite, cheap word processors, and accounting software for my business, it was over,very reluctantly.
That and 3d games like Wolfenstein etc. it was hard to look back.

But I returned around 1999- 2000 and dropped it only to come back again this year , first with Cloanto, then Amibian and now ratcheting up a 1200.
Still fun but not deluding myself as to where my real computing will be.

If I do get my hands on a Vampire, that will be great but doesn't change much.

[David Wright]

Sorry to hijack the OPs original post. I would really like to hear about your experiences with this machine.
Something I wouldn't mind playing with and trying.