For me the magic is the feeling I got the first time I saw an Amiga, the way it blew my socks of and when I started to use my first Amiga and realy understood it's power I was hooked for life, Just how fantastic the operating system was and the custom chips was a joy for my ears and eyes. I did alot of great things back then on my Amigas and have keept a few of my old machines and code trough the years!
Nowdays I must say it's much about the nostalgica and living those years again, it makes me feel young! Still the Amiga for me is a great machine and it's fun to push as much out of the old hardware as possible, also nowdays I can afford the expansions I could not back then
The Amiga will allways have a special place in my heart and will live forever!
Edit: I might also add that the first "video game" I owned was a Videomaster Olympic from 1975
http://www.pong-story.com/vmolympic.htm tho I bought it in 1978 then in 1980ish I bought a VIC20 then in 1983 I bought my first VIC64 (commodore 64) then I use my C64 untill 1989 when I bought my first Amiga 500, Oh the joy, some of my friends had Atari ST and we kept trying to outdo eachother on what machine that was the best one (mostly my Amiga won!) then from there a line of amigas was bought trough the years and here I am today
Here and there inbetween my Amigas I bought a few other systems, but nothing could compare with my Amigas
I think my first 80286 cost me about 3000€ or something in todays currency and I was second user on it
(not sure about the price but I think it was about that.
