Back in 1994 I had an Amiga 1200 with a Squirrel SCSI with a mitsumi drive. It had a 1230, 50mhz processor with 50mhz 6882. I had 2 megabytes of ram simm in the accelerator due to the Kobe earthquake at the time, that made ram very expensive!
I did the mod for two 2.5" ide drives at 40 megabytes each, making a grand total of 80 megabytes, which seemed like heaps back then considering not much game software was hard drive installable.
I was into Deluxe Paint IV, Amos, Vista Pro and had every Amiga Format issue (wish I had not chucked them all out) along with Amiga Shopper and CD32 Gamer magazine as well! All unfortunately gone to be recycled......
I had a 1084S monitor but used an old 26" TV for the multiplayer skid marks!
I was saddened to see Commodore go bust and held out for a while, but the PC had well and truly caught up in a lot of areas, especially flight sims which I was heavily into at that time. X-Wing and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe turned me over to the dark side! All my Amiga stuff was sold off except for a select few magazines and some original games!
Now I have an Amiga 1200 in a rack mount kit, along with a Blizzard 68030 cruising along at 50mhz with fpu at the same speed. I have a keyboard adaptor, 64 megabytes of ram, a compact flash card for a hard drive running os3.9 along with a registered copy of whdload. I've got a usb mouse adaptor off ebay as well. I also have a CD32 (again) for some of those CD based games and the compiliations that are available. I've got an Amigamaniac SVHS adaptor too!
I would have to have over 100 games for the Amiga in original boxes, along with Amos, Comic Setter, Deluxe Paint V. My collection for me is almost complete, just after a couple of more items and I'll be happy!
I wish I had realised how much software had gone over to the PC that I could of used but wasn't aware of, because of limited information, couldn't afford Internet after 1996. I have recently purchased Winimages from Blackbelt Systems and Dark Basic Professional which is almost AMOS like for the PC, a great easy to use programming language.
The Amiga still holds a special place for me and the reason why I have acquired one along with so much gear!
