If you could go back to any point in Amiga history

[TheBilgeRat]

I'd go back to 1993 when I got my A1200.

[bbond007]

I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore.  I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history:

The CD32 would have become the dominant console until it was later replaced by the Amiga CD64.

Apple and Sony would be bankrupt by the mid 90s and nobody would have missed them...

Microsoft would sill be around and would still around providing their office suite and development tools for the Amiga platform...

[lassie]

I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore.  I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history:

The CD32 would have become the dominant console until it was later replaced by the Amiga CD64.

Apple and Sony would be bankrupt by the mid 90s and nobody would have missed them...

Microsoft would sill be around and would still around providing their office suite and development tools for the Amiga platform...

Yes that sounds cool if it could be done :-)

[lassie]

I would go back to spring 1994 i have good memories playing Secret of monkey island, i had never tried a game like that before, it was almost like we were in a real adventure

[paul1981]

I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore.  I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history

I wreckon Bill must have done something along these lines.

It's almost a certainty that time machines will be available in the future, due to thousands, if not millions of years of human technological advancement. There must be many time travellers already among us, shaping the world for their own gain, or a particular gain or whatever political or religious groups are around in the future. Prove I'm wrong. :pint:

[Matt_H]

I wreckon Bill must have done something along these lines.

It's almost a certainty that time machines will be available in the future, due to thousands, if not millions of years of human technological advancement. There must be many time travellers already among us, shaping the world for their own gain, or a particular gain or whatever political or religious groups are around in the future. Prove I'm wrong. :pint:

The last 20 seconds of this clip concur.

[djos]

I'd probably go back to the A1000 release year, so that I could get an Amiga early on! Whilst still enjoying the prime of the 8-bit years. Anything after 1992 was just rather depressing in Amiga-terms!

I'd go back to '86 and buy commodore and kick out all the mgmt wankers that ruined the company and make sure the Amiga was the only focus for the company (no c64/65/128 distractions - still sell c64 but that is it!)!

I'd make sure CD-Rom support for a1000/a500/a1200 was implemented far earlier than it was - FFS why couldnt they see CD + Amiga = WIN!!!

I'd have also given AAA much higher priority much earlier on on not wasted all those years after the a1000 finding new ways to package the same HW that was basically released in '85!

Isnt hind sight a wonderful thing? :whack:

[Bif]

I'd probably go back to 1984 and get an after school job washing dishes or something so that I could afford an A1000 right when it came out instead of having to wait until 1988 to get an A500.

[B00tDisk]

When would it be?

For me the late 90s were magical.  Lots of exciting rumors and speculation (which unfortunately proved unfounded), still some commercial titles being released and magazines on the shelves.  

You could also walk into Electronics Boutique and buy Amiga games, how I wish that were possible today.

Not the late 90s, not for me.  The late 80s when my A500 was beating the pants off of my friends' PCs that cost twice as much and were barely scraping by with EGA and bleeps coming out of the speaker - that's what I'd prefer.

No, the mid to late 90s onward were sad times.  Nothing rang true for an Amiga revival and every quarter that went by the Amiga slipped further and further behind technically.  By 1996 there was no point in Paula this or dragging screens that.  I knew every rumor that came down the pike was just that - a rumor, a never-would-be.

[Jiffy]

I wouldn't go back. I have fond memories of the good old days, but nowadays I have a range of expanded Amiga-models with expansions I couldn't afford back then. Amiga hardware (both new and 2nd hand) is relatively expensive nowadays, but even so it is much more affordable than it was back then (counting in inflation and such).

The current Amiga, when it wouldn't have died as a mainstream machine, would more or less be like a current day pc, running some kind of Unix variant such as BSD or Linux. And that is already what we have.

So I look back with a warm, fuzzy feeling and enjoy the benefits of today.