Your new Amiga - what peripherals came first?

[Hyperspeed]

Okay so you bought your new Amiga, you have fond memories of the
bundle - but in the following months/years what extras did you buy for
it and in what order?

I got a hard disk for my stock A1200, then printer, accelerator/RAM,
modem then SCSI setup with drives and scanner.

I never did get a GFX card as for A1200 it was like stroking a cat
from arse to head.

:-D :-D :-D

[Hyperspeed]

Wow, nice upgrades!

My upgrade path was a lot slower but I suppose it gave me time to get
the most out of every last byte of memory and disk space. It's a good
discipline to have less and make the most of it - an Amiga tradition!

I wish I got a monitor the same day as my A1200, I had to use a 25"
telly for a few years, then got a PC SVGA NEC Multisync 3D (hey they
seem a popular monitor for scandoubler users!)

The Dataflyer would be an interesting bit of kit for CD32 owners if
they had an SX32 since it would allow them to use SCSI scanners, CD
burners and flash card readers!

miksuh: Do you still have your IBM `DeathStar'? They have a bit of a bad rep!

Chunder: I meant it goes against the grain and doesn't feel quite
right!  ;-)  Ripping the shielding off, stuffing the motherboard in a
tower (at an extra £100+) then getting a Zorro busboard and keyboard
etc. It's not the sort of thing your average Amiga owner wanted to do
back in the mid 90's.

:-D

Turambar: The best Amiga mouse was the Wizard 3-button (560dpi) mice
in black and vanilla - very accurate, great microswitches and the
middle button could be assigned to shift or used in Quake to run/jump.
I still think the CD32 pad is the best you can get for Amiga, not sure
about joysticks but 'The Bug' was a little too wobbly for me.

X-Ray: The A4000T would be most peoples' dream upgrade...

;-)    ;-)

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I got a printer before I got an accelerator. Graphics were my joy so I
got a Canon BJC 600 which was £600 GBP at the time.

I could have bought a Blizzard 1260 for that back then!

:-D

I remember the BJC600 was a delight to use but there was no TurboPrint
back then so I made do with the Workbench drivers. It was wonderfully
quiet compared to an Epson and had 4 replaceable colour carts in a
frosted plastic so you could see how full they were in the blink of an
eye.

They were 50% sponge, 50% liquid unlike an Epson cart which is 100%
sponge in terms of volume.

360dpi was a breakthrough back then, especially when the latest craze
was the Citizen ABC 24-pin dot matrix.

Another of my early purchases was a Squirrel with a Reno-CD drive (the
one that snapped in half and doubled as a discman!). It was too noisy
to be a discman and too slow to be a CD-ROM drive - crashed a lot too.

Eventually I decided I needed a SCSI-IV and a PC case to house the
drives.