I am 19, will be 20 in January (uhhhh... :idea:)
My parents brought me up on Amigas. One Christmas when I was about 3 or 4 they got an Amiga 500 and encouraged me to use it through all sorts of games etc.
When my Dad was alive I remember him being ADDICTED to Wizball and Agony. And he also loved to play Another World. I have memories of being really scared when those leeches would kill him and the animation of them popping up, sticking out this "spike" thing and hacking at the leg drawing blood and killing the player. I find it hilarious when I play it myself now though... :-)
My mum used to get me the Amiga Format and CU Amiga magazines all the time and I loved the disks. She used to order stuff for me from the PD software houses too. Good times.
As the years went by the A500 wasn't as capable and they got me an A1200 one Christmas. I loved that machine, having a hard drive and WB3.0 made all the difference.
A friend at school had a dad that was very much into Amigas. He owned an A4000 and I used to love being able to play on it. I used to dream of having an A4000. It was an 040 and very quick. His son had a CD32 which my mum bought from his family when they got a PlayStation, so one Xmas I got the CD32.
Gradually my A1200 got upgraded, Blizzard 030MkIV, and the CD32 got networked to the A1200 with NetworkCD2 and a serial cable (to use the CD drive), and I used this setup all the way up until 1999 as my main computer. It did all my schoolwork etc, used to do wordprocessing on Final Writer with pics from Deluxe Paint and clipart CDs.
When 1999 came we decided the Amiga wasn't going to get me through middle and high school, so that was when we got our first PC, and the Amiga was retired for a few years.
Until it got pulled out again to quench my nostalgic thirst. My friend and I decided to towerize it, and we converted it into a tower case and I bought an A2000 keyboard to use it with. That lasted a few years, and then I began to pursue my dream of owning an Amiga 4000.
Now I have an A4000 with a CSPPC 060/50, 604e/233, 128+16+2MB RAM, GRex 4000D, Voodoo3, Sony 19inch Trinitron, Terratec 512i, Realtek LAN card, CompServ Scandoubler II, Algor PRO USB, DVD drive and 36GB UWSCSI hard disk. It gets used every day and I love it to bits. It took about a year to acquire all the parts and cost me all my wages, but hell it was worth it. :-)
And that's my Amiga story.
