Where'd you buy your First Amiga?

[arnljot]

Bought mine for Babysitter money from a mailorder company.

Can't remember what they were called, but they also gave out an computer hobbist magazine, which later turned into a pure amiga magazine.

They also sold Atari. That's how I became aware of the Amiga. As I first bought an Atari XE64 console which were marked as a computer. Well after butting my head against basic on that one, and quickly getting bored with it's games that were only marginally better than on the Atari2600jr which I'd gotten from my parents. I saw an ad in the magazine which I got from the mail order company since buying my Atari XE.

Having heard that Whiskas (the handle of a friend of mine) had an amiga, I asked to check it out and I immediately fell in love with it. It seemed to kick ass, which it indeed also did.

Thus I spent A LOT more than 8000NOK. In quick succession I bought an Amiga500, 512k extra memory. And shortly after a 120MB GVP HD with 2MB more RAM.

And it served me well. I, Whiskas and AMOS had a lot of fun with that girl....

I remember the downer when the only game we ever had close to finishing were tested on Whiskas' "stock" Amiga with 512k extra fast. And it wouldn't run, "Out of memory". And the Orange screen from AMOS.

Alas, Ducks in Space never survived that hit... Later games that met similar fates where "Monster Bunny" and "Monster Hamster".

We only released on poorly made AMOS demo... Can't remember what it was called. But it was released under the best name our hormone filled brains could come up with: "Crime Software". Later we changed it to "Pan Productions", because we had the idea that the mythical Pan was a guy who had pleny of tail and good reports with the ladies....

Any who... that was a quick trip down memory lane....

[arnljot]

Timeline

First encounter: Neighbor had a x86 with a helicopter game...

Determination: Mowe lawns and baby sit to earn money for a computer
 
Atari 2600jr: A gift from my parents

Atari XE 64: I got suckered by ads

Amiga 500: I saw the ligth. Xpandet it with GVP 120MB scsi disk with 2MB fast and a 512k fast card with clock.

Amiga 1200: As soon as it became available in norway. I had to have AGA... Though it only had 80MB disk which I soon felt as too small. So I put in a 3.5" disk and a clock card of some sorts with mem. It got replaced with a Blizzard030

Amiga 4000: First second hand amiga. Got beefed up with PPC, PicassoIV, CVPPC, SCSI disk, etc etc. I had it until 2000 or 1999.

iMac: What can I say? I never thougth....

PC: yeah, it happened... Work is to blame, it took the edge off.. But I never managed to settle on an OS.

Amiga 500: It happened... My sisters x were cleaning out the loft last year, and found it. He gave it to me.

2xA1200: Jackpot. One is painted satin black, they will be pimped... 030, CD-ROM, CF HD, picoITX PSU...

A4000: Bought it from netherlands. Flew down and picked it up. It was fun!

MacMini: My day to day torrent, divx and firefox machine.

Now ofcourse, all since PC... back in 2001, there has been WinUAE. But I never really considered it since the amazing AmiKit came around, it kicks ass! Simply love it.

[arnljot]

@Phantom

Expensive? They must have done well, are they still around? I'm going to Crete next wednesday, so any good tips are welcome. I'm going with my gf and 9 year old son.

[arnljot]

@Phantom
We're landing the 16th at Heraklion, and flying out the 30th from Chania. We're staying one week in Agia Marina, then one week in Agia Gallini.

Looking forward to it. Never been to Crete before, only three times to the Cyclades Islands, island-hopping. Each time landing at Santorini, and making sure to spend some time on Anti Paros.

@all
Sorry for being off topic