Well, started when I was younger (about 18 years younger) when we had a Spectrum 128k. We then went to a Commodore C64.. After a little while, we had an Amiga 600 :-)
Whilst loads of friends at the time had either Mega Drives or SNES or the odd A500 or A500+, I upgraded the Amiga 600 with another 1mb of chipram :-D The Settlers (what I was mainly playing back then) took on a hole new level :-)
After I think we sold that (1 or 2 years later) my Mum and Dad bought a Amiga 1200 for christmas or birthday (one of the two!!) and I noticed it whilst I was down at my Dad's mum's flat..
So when it came out the box, I was gobsmacked and basically 'fell in love' straight away... AGA games I was buying all over the place, Breathless, Banshee, Super Skidmarks etc The list went on..
Met a guy at college who had an upgraded model, saw it, thought it was fantastic and I just had to have one myself! So upgraded it with a 040 40mhz, 32mbs ram, 4gb or 6gb (might have been less, I cant remember!) hard drive and I had a CD-rom with it to, all in a tower.. :-) It was a beaut.. Ran games faster and I was real happy, until I saw the PPC and Bvision PPC cards..
So when I bought a new car, I had a bit of money, so I spend £1200 on Amiga hardware to get the fastest thing possible... Oh my world was it awesome.. Wipeout 2097 and Quake ran fine :-) Until one day, a year later....
It blew up. I lost everything.. :-(
By then working whilst at college I had a few quid floating so I had a really old PC off of a friend.. I used them ever since..
But whilst using them, I was trying to get Eyetech to help me with getting another Amiga through my Mum's house insurance (power spike) and the results where very disappointing as it took over 6 months to get the bits and then it was nothing compared to my PPC and Bvision...
I sold it and stuck with PC's for ages after that..
I think a few years ago (must be 4 maybe 5) I bought the Amiga 1200 I have now, added a Blizzard 1230 @ 50Mhz, 16Mbs of ram and a small 2.5" hard drive.
I've had it ever since, wouldnt dream of getting rid of it (not a chance, The Settlers, Indyheat are just some of the classics, I really cant stop playing!!) and I'm now considering a Amiga 4000 and towering it. After all, its the ultimate Amiga in my opinion :-)
Sorry, that took a little longer than I thought! :oops: :crazy: I am completely mad about Amiga's, so I'm gonna do my utmost, to track down a Amiga 4000 and try and get to the stage to use it as an every day machine.... :-)
