My Amiga Experience

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Not helpful I know, but my Amiga experience has always been excellent. My A500 is 14 years old (still working, despite being hacked to pieces and resprayed), and my A1200 is 10 years old (still working, despite being hacked to pieces, expanded dubiously, and resprayed, not that there's much case left to appreciate the respray)

I couldn't say if my PC's would be that enduring, none of the parts stay in there long enough to find out. I suspect however, that my old Amigas are likely to run another 10 years (maybe because they'll get used only once in a blue moon for nostalgic purposes, or because WinUAE won't play ball with a particular game)

[Wibbly]

LMAO.

I used to be of the opinion that I didn't care WHAT it looked like, as long as it did what I wanted. If I realised there would still be an Amiga community in 2004, and that people would pay half decent money for mint condition miggies, then I would have left them well alone. Well the A500 anyway. I PPC'd the A1200 in '98, as I was stunned in '98 to find there was still an Amiga community, and that upgrades for the Amiga A1200 were even being produced.

My bad, and I apologise.

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There, now I don't feel bad about it. I've used wooden boxes to extend my Amiga before, but in the end I decided I liked the look of all the boards just hanging out. Plus it saved me dusting the rest of the room, as all the dust headed for the boards.