Best things about owning an amiga?

[commodorejohn]

A machine I can write high or low level code on and still enjoy it to the extent that it doesn't even faze me when I crash it

Word.

[Karlos]

Word.

.w

would have sufficed :lol:

[commodorejohn]

Heh

[Borut]

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

Whats the best things today?

Are you kidding? Amiga compared to green or black and white screens which needed text input and every peace of s... HW has to be mounted and had ID-conflicts and was beeping around...

For me is the question why somebody back in the days could have wanted an PC or even a Mac which back in time all together were crap. Which led to the conclusion that a big part of the population on earth is insane.

[Franko]

Are you kidding? Amiga compared to green or black and white screens which needed text input and every peace of s... HW has to be mounted and had ID-conflicts and was beeping around...

For me is the question why somebody back in the days could have wanted an PC or even a Mac which back in time all together were crap. Which led to the conclusion that a big part of the population on earth is insane.

Nicely summed up...

[save2600]

Nicely summed up...

Indeed. Tons of examples all_day_long to support this well known, but intellectually denied fact among the mainstream who is insane in the membrane.   :crazy:

[cecilia]

When I first got an Amiga, everything was great about it.  The speech synthesis alone provided countless hours of hilarity.  

the FIRST thing i did on the FIRST day I brought my A2000 home was to call up my brother and hold the phone over the speaker as my Amiga said, "Hello, This is cecilia's Amiga"


:roflmao:   That still cracks me up

I love that my Amiga taught me all about computers, how to draw and animate on a computer, how to THINK "computer" and multitask. And that changed the direction of my career. To which I am very and forever grateful.

I recall looking forward to every issue of JumpDisk because playing with the newest program was always such great fun. It's taken other systems years to catch up to this quality of FUN.

[desiv]

I got my Amiga when I was in College..
It was a largely Mac school, but I had about $850 to spend..
So, no Mac in the price range..
The school bookstore actually had some kind of sweet deal with NEC (I think) and had a decent (at the time) NEC laptop for $1000, so I was going to see what organs I could sell to swing that.....
And then they had an Amiga 500 with a 1084s monitor (and I think it came with the extra 512K.. I don't remember buying that separate) for $850..
I was a C64 guy, so I wanted one, but I needed something for school....
I was lamenting to the kid standing next to me looking at the Amiga at the time.
He asked if I knew about A-Max..
I did, of course..  Sweet..  A few hundred $$, then find a Mac ROM for more money and buy a copy of Mac OS and get yourself a Mac Floppy drive and you have a Mac AND an Amiga for less than the cost of the Mac...  But way out of my budget..

And he said, "I meant the cracked version.."  Cracked?  Hardware cracked?  What..
He explained that you really didn't need the hardware..  He had an Amiga with said cracked version, and AMax formatted floppy disks with SYSTEM and programs (including MacPascal needed at the time) he'd let me copy.  And I didn't even need a Mac floppy, as once you're online, you just file transfer everything...

I quickly flagged down the sales person and took the A500 on the spot!!!
(Which was kind of silly, because I didn't know this other kid and had no idea how good or bad the cracked A-Max was...)

Well, it was good enough.. ;-)  In fact, the first computer virus I ever got was a Mac virus on my emulated Mac.. ;-)  It was that good..

Best thing about owning an Amiga at the time?
I could afford to buy it and do what I needed (although there was some piracy in there, I admit that, but I couldn't have afforded the PC or Mac, even if I pirated software for them..)

So, I would like to formally apologize to Readysoft, but I really couldn't afford it at the time, so it wasn't a lost sale..
Turns out, even the $850 was more than I could afford and I had to buy ramen noodles and white bread for months to survive...

But it was worth it...
I did eventually buy an A-Max and a Mac floppy, but it was years (and years, well out of college) later and second hand so they still didn't get any money from it..
I did buy Dragon's Lair (ReadySoft) tho a year or so later (still in college), so I hope that helped a bit..
(Shut up, I like Dragon's Lair..  Yeah, I'm that guy..)  ;-)

desiv

[Digiman]

Are you kidding? Amiga compared to green or black and white screens which needed text input and every peace of s... HW has to be mounted and had ID-conflicts and was beeping around...

For me is the question why somebody back in the days could have wanted an PC or even a Mac which back in time all together were crap. Which led to the conclusion that a big part of the population on earth is insane.

Commodore stopped promoting the A1000 for a year due to the 500 and 2000 cockup remember

[Borut]

Commodore stopped promoting the A1000 for a year due to the 500 and 2000 cockup remember

Are you sure? In my country C= didn´t promote nearly nothing. It was mouth to mouth propaganda based on the fact what our eyes saw and ears heard.
When I remember the times a look for computers in the big warehouses here around (Quelle - now bankrupt and they deserved it...) they sold Amigas only showing the screen with the hand that holds the disk and that only sometimes - I think they feared showing of Amigas in their full glory because it would have resulted in the fact they wouldn´t have sold no single PC. In that time around 1989 I saw now Mac´s there and also can not remember a single Atari in the shops. I am not talking of the small specialised shops, you know.

Really the Commodore salespeople and management deserve a very big EPIC FAIL cup for impotent at marketing and also some other areas.