Well I still had my Amiga 1200, with a 68030 and an additional 2 meg ram simm (yep cos that is all I could afford due to the Kobe Earth Quake), I also had a squirrel interface for an external CD Rom drive for those CD32 games and an external floppy drive along with the trusty 1084S monitor, though sometimes used a big tv (well 26" tv) for multiplayer gaming! 2 x 40 megabyte hard drives installed into the Amiga 1200 as well! That was heaps of room as most Amiga games were not hard drive installable due to copyright restrictions.
I was using Vista PRO off a magazine to generate amazing 3d landscape rendering animations, Deluxe Paint IV AGA for some silly little movies I was doing (trying to replicate some of the SFX in Star Wars), Imagine 3d renderings and using Octamed to compose some tunes!
Games at the time I was playing were Super Skidmarks, Super Frog, Alien Breed Tower Assault, Frontier Elite, Arcade Pool, Super Star Dust and Deluxe Galaga.
I thought the Commodore were on a winner with the CD32 and was very hopeful that it would turn things around but I started to see some of the games my mates were playing on their IBM PC's such as Doom, Wing Commander and X-wing (which did finally convert me over to PC).
I sold my Amiga 1200 in 1995, yet here I am using an Amiga 1200 with a 68030 with 64 meg of ram, in a rackmount kit, 2 gigabyte compact flash card, ps2 keyboard, usb optical mouse, pcmcia network adaptor, a registered user of whdload and I've been buying Amiga software on ebay like a kid in a candy store! It was the interest in the Commodore computer (starting from C64) that I really owe my current job and wealth. Yep nostalgic value of the Amiga is great and just makes me wonder how Commodore got it so wrong, yet I still love the Amiga, it holds a special place for me as it did things that I could only dream of!
