I upgraded from a C64. One reason for that, and one reason only:
Dungeon Master.
Thus I had to buy a memory module to boost to 1MB of
RAM. Man, that was one nifty machine ... And how I loved
that game!
I never really used the Worklbench until I got the A1200
(and eventually put a HD in it). Before that it was
floppy-rule only. I remember playing Rise of the Dragon on
floppy. Great game, looooooots of disk-swapping (the music
was on a separate disk, if I remember correctly). When I
got my first HD (360MB), it made life a whole lot easier
indeed.
But I'm straying. You were only asking about the A500.
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SlimJim