Best things about owning an amiga?

[B00tDisk]

What were the best things about owning an amiga, back when you got yours?

Whats the best things today?

(some) of the games.  The user interface (versus B&W Macintosh, DOS and its command line or all text-'n'-ASCII graphics "Windows"), the sound, etc.  Going from 39k free on my C64 (or 96k in my 128 I had for a few months) to a whopping megabyte of memory in my A500.  Then came my A1200 and wow what a disappointment.  I'd have gotten rid of it much quicker if a kind soul hadn't given me his DKB 030 card, then I put a 60mb HD and a 4mb SIMM in it.  Sweet little system.

These days, every once in a great while I'll fire up WinUAE and screw around with 3d apps (Scenery Animator, VistaPro 2, early versions of LightWave) but the hoops you have to jump through to get various things working on an Amiga, plus how ancient the software is, keeps me from considering it for serious work.

[B00tDisk]

'sfunny...I immediately glommed onto the drive lettering convention (and the generalities of maneuvering around the filesystem) on the PC when I switched.  Even though the HD I upgraded to when I got the PC was 3x bigger, I didn't feel compelled to have the mess of partitions everyone kept suggesting I have for my piddly little 60mb HD in my 1200, plus "C" (vs. DH0, DH1, DF0, DF1 etc. ad nauseam) just made more sense to me.

I think I'm extremely lucky to have gotten into PCs when I did - you can go back and read Info World online, going all the way back to 1980, and yes, really until around 1994/1995, IBM clones (and Mac systems but to a lesser degree) were shit.  As it was the box I built when I sold my Amiga gear, while not great, was the best combination of gear for the easiest transition from the Amiga to the PC I could ask for - and indeed in many ways simpler.  I had a 2x CD-ROM drive, 170mb HD, DOS6.22 and Windows 3.11.  As lousy as Win3.11 was, many things in it "just worked".  For me, anyway.

Had I "grown up" with PCs I probably wouldn't feel that way.