Which Classic Amigas do you own?

[Franko]

Speaking as someone in the US who was "into" computers in the 90's (albeit only in my early teens when the 1200 came out,) I don't recall very much advertising at all for Amiga systems.  The last commercials I recall for Amiga were A500 era.  Maybe I was just too busy playing Nintendo and fighting with Apple IIe's and 8088s, who knows.

You must've been too busy playing the Nintendo, cos I've been gathering all the old Amiga ads from the net to put together on my sight and 90% of them are US ads...

[Kesa]

PSSSSST Franko, where are the dirty pictures?

[nicholas]

NONE... YOU VOTED NONE...

Brings a tear to my eye that does...

If we all chip in together I reckon we could maybe get enough cash together to buy nicholas a second hand miggy on ebay, or maybe some glue and a soldering iron and he could build his own from the various bits n pieces he has...

Good grief man how can you live without an Amiga... :eek:

It's difficult my friend, very difficult indeed.

[Franko]

It's difficult my friend, very difficult indeed.

Good grief... there's two off them now nicholas & Oldsmobile_Mike...

Now I've got tears in me other eye... :cry:

(hope there's no more of you with invisible Amiga's cos I'm running out of eyes here... :eek:)

(anymore of this and I'll have to write to Bob Geldof and see if he can organise Amiga Aid..

[nicholas]

Good grief... there's two off them now nicholas & Oldsmobile_Mike...

Now I've got tears in me other eye... :cry:

(hope there's no more of you with invisible Amiga's cos I'm running out of eyes here... :eek:)

(anymore of this and I'll have to write to Bob Geldof and see if he can organise Amiga Aid..

You'd cry if I told you how much I let my Towered KS3.1 A1200 + BPPC + Mediator + FastATA Mk3 go for a couple of years ago.

[Karlos]

You'd cry if I told you how much I let my Towered KS3.1 A1200 + BPPC + Mediator + FastATA Mk3 go for a couple of years ago.

I bet the person that bought it was smiling though...

[nicholas]

I bet the person that bought it was smiling though...

Indeed!

Did I say "how much"?  I meant "how little".

[redfox]

A2000HD + CD-ROM + A2058 RAM expansion + Microway FlickerFixer AGA 2000 + AmigaOS 3.1

I never did put in an accelerator, so it still has only the original 68000 CPU.

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redfox

[A4000_Mad]

7 X A4000 Desktop

3 X A1200 Towers

10 X A1200 Desktops

1 X A2000

2 X A1500

3 X A600

5 X A500 Plus

4 X A500

:drink:

[kedawa]

You must've been too busy playing the Nintendo, cos I've been gathering all the old Amiga ads from the net to put together on my sight and 90% of them are US ads...

Commodore may have produced a lot of ads, but they certainly didn't get much play on television in north america.  I've only seen ads for the A500, and those were pretty infrequent.

[Alex2000]

I bought an A2000 brand new when I was young...
Now I'm getting crazy finding expansion cards, accelerator, etc...

The Amiga is fantastic!

[stocksj]

I started in the 80's with a new A500, the moved up to an A2000HD. Sold that one in 1992. Later in 97 bought a used A500 then another A2000HD.
 I still own a C64 2nd Gen which was my 2nd C64. I've had about 5 different old Mac's which are no fun. Can't hack 'em.
 
 Jim

[mechy]

Speaking as someone in the US who was "into" computers in the 90's (albeit only in my early teens when the 1200 came out,) I don't recall very much advertising at all for Amiga systems.  The last commercials I recall for Amiga were A500 era.  Maybe I was just too busy playing Nintendo and fighting with Apple IIe's and 8088s, who knows.

You poor bastard,that must of scarred you for life..You are right,amiga commercials even in the 80's/90's were few and far between.Leave it to commodore to try and keep it a secret
I wouldn't of known what an amiga was if i hadn't had a friend who had a A1000,he had plenty of money and it was expanded well,he printed full color C= newgroup letters with fairly hi-res color graphics back in 87' time frame,we were all amazed. Seeing the newtek demo reel on a A500 in the PX was amazing.. had to  get one for sure then.

[dammy]

Unsurprising to see the A1200 / A500(+) machines in the lead.

True, those machines had a great bang:buck ratios that played cool games.  Take away the bang:buck ratio and the games and you have an entirely different situation.

[motrucker]

I seem to remember an A500 TV ad that launched a house into orbit... That is the only TV commercial I can remember.
Another point - Commodore placed ads in all of the Commodore and Amiga magazines, but ads in other computer magazines were really scarce. Odd strategy, that
BTW - I am using the old A1000 even more now that I found a copy of B.A.D. to use with it. Works well - until I can find a hard drive set up.....

[Buzzfuzz]

Over the years I've had most of them (except the 3000 and 4000) in various editions and models, with various franken-1200's upgraded to the hilt.

Oh yeah, most my machines are accelerated or/and fast ram added and with HD.
 
A500 Plus rev 8A 2MB chip > GVP A530 4MB fast 105MB Quantum HD
A500 Plus rev 8A 2MB chip > BSC Alfadata Alfapower 8MB fast (bulding CF/4GB)
A500 rev 8A > 2MB fast RAM IDE (Tom Thul) (bulding CF/4GB)
A500 rev 6A > 2MB fast RAM IDE (Tom Thul) (bulding CF/4GB)
5 A500's more in build
 
A600, various models with 2MB chip, but none accelerated.
 
A1200 Blizzard 1230 50Mhz 64MB fast 4GB CF
A1200 Blizzard 1230 50Mhz 64MB fast 4GB CF
A1200 Mtec 28Mhz 8MB fast 128MB CF
A1200 Blizzard 1260 64MB fast + SCSI kit 32 MB fast, tower project in progress
A1200 (maybe 18 December) Blizzard 1230 50 Mhz, 32MB fast
All 1200's have kick 3.1 and run Classic WB 3.1 except for the 1260, that will run 3.9
 
A2500 GVP Combo 030 33Mhz and 33Mhz FPU 12MB fast 4.3GB Quantum Atlas
A2000 A2620 EC020 14Mhz 2MB fast and 4MB fast GVP HC8II 2.1 GB IBM
A2000 GVP Combo 030 40Mhz and 40Mhz FPU 16MB (card arrives tomorrow, machine in build)
5 more A2000's in build and 1 A2500
 
CD32 SX32MKII 8MB fast 1.4GB 2,5" HD Classic WB 3.1
another CD32 stock, but trying to fetch an SX32 Pro for this
 
A4000D A3640 full 040 25Mhz 16MB fast 4GB CF Classic WB3.1
A4000D A3640 full 040 25Mhz 16MB fast 4GB CF Classic WB3.1
(yes 2 of them, not a copy error)
A4000 Micronik tower Cyberstorm 060/PPC 50/200 Mhz 128+16MB fast with Cyberstorm Vision PPC and 36GB IBM Ultrastar, setting up 3.9 and in the future 4.1
A4000D A3640 full 040 25Mhz 16MB fast, work in progress as black edition A4000 (yes, fully black painted with original black Amiga mouse and CDTV keyboard)
 
I'm having the most fun configuring them and seeing what is possible and what not.
When Christmas is there I will pickup the A1200's and register WHDLoad and then it's game on :roflmao:
So as you can see, I have more than enough acceleration in the Amiga's, but my primary goal is to have them setup as WHDload machines, so basicly most will be the same and I will try to play on many of them as possible, although the ECS machines will be less used then the AGA machines.