For me the Amiga was the most logical upgrade from my Commodore 64. I never got an Amiga until late 1989.
I remember taking it upstairs at Angus and Robertsons and getting to do the 1mb chip ram with the Angus chip.
I remember paying $499 for a 2 megabyte (sidecar type) upgrade giving me a total of 3 megabytes enough to run some of the larger Eric Schwartz cartoons.
I also remembered creating a Fly By of Mon Olympus in Vista and taping it on to a VCR. Boy was it slow rendering....days worth.
I loved AMOS (and now use Dark Basic Pro as it is so similar)
Then came the Amiga 1200, another logical upgrade.....I also got a Microbotics 68030 at 50mhz with 2 megabytes. Why only 2 megabytes, well that is all I could afford as the 2 megabytes upgrade was $199 due to a earth quake in Japan at the time.
However the PC started having some great games, such as Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and what tied me over was X-Wing. Both these games never got released on the Amiga.
When Commodore went bust, I thought the issue would be sorted out in a few months, not years (afterall we're talking about Commodore who gave us the C64, how could they disappear)....so I waited but I gave up waiting after six months or so and sold everything!
I still kept my eye open on the net about the Amiga.....but sadly nothing progressed.
I have an Amiga CD32 and an Amiga 1200 (I got a 1084 from the tip shop the other week for $20), they're not a bad machine, considering they're now almost 20 years old and still going. I fire them up but compard to a modern pc, they're a stark reminder though of how far we've come.
As people say they're a hobby.......I have a soft spot for the Amiga and the C64. It was Deluxe Paint that introduced me to computer graphics art, it was Audio Engineer and Octamed that led me to produce computer music, it was Vista that got me introduced to 3D landscapes, it was Imagine that got me into 3D modelling, it was AMOS that got me into programming and it was all the great games that made me think only Amiga makes it possible.....for a time it was.
