What was your most memorable amiga experience?

[CodePoet]

Might sound silly, but mine was the transition from WB1.3 to WB2.0; I thought the ability to add background patterns was the best thing since sliced bread! ...Couldnt wait to get home after school just to play with those patterns lol

What was yours?

[Linchpin]

Yeah.. i remember the day i got my 2.04 roms for my A500 and got Workbench 2.1.... was a happy day!

And proberbly the 1st time i saw JoE's... and State of the art.

All happy memories of my computer days! Back in the old day's where i had to put a towel over my printer / amiga FDD to stop it waking up my parents!

[Noster]

Hi,

I think my most memorable amiga experience was the day I've got my A3000T.
Wow what an improvement in performance to my good old A1000 :-)

Noster

[Damion]

LOL, ditching school to watch demos at a buddy's house :-P

cheers

[orange]

it must be getting Amiga (500) for first time. nest thing would be 512Kb slow_fast RAM upgrade  :-)

[fillosauru]

The first time I got my hands on a miggy, 12 years ago; and the second, several years later, was when I got my own A500, 512k+clock expansion, and a 68030+4 Mb RAM accelerator; And to think the one who sold her to me thought it's a C= 128 with a 3.5 FDD so I got her really cheap (100 DM, aprox 50e)  :-D

[poktis]

When I discovered my A500. All was technically exciting. I opened the box, started the computer and could resize the very first window with the mouse... Synthesizers excepted (and mine are very expensive), no more tools -surprise- me today, in comparison with the A500 in the eighties of course. The A500 was simply the quintessence of the multimedia world (A1000 legacy)

[HellCoder]

The day I was finally able to put sprites in the side borders of my C64 and 1 hour later my neighbour showed me his new Amiga running Lemmings. Suddenly the trick learned on my C64 became less exciting.

[DonnyEMU]

The update from wb 2.x to 3.0. I thought finally we are getting the graphics updating the Amiga deserves.. It took a few years for the vga cards from there to achieve full 24 bit color..

-Don

[drGspot]

Every time I remember Amiga Demo Party "B.R.U.T.E." 1997/98 held at Virovitica, Croatia a bit of sorrow embrace me.
There are so few paries these days, if any in some placecs.

A tiny peace of that enthusiasm I have found in Gentoo GNU/Linux workshop "razmjenavjestina" -- "skillExchange" held at Zagreb,Croatia every Saturday 12:oo-15:oo(19:oo)
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/razmjenavjestina/

amiga & linux are state of mind
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software is like sex -- it¨s better when it¨s free

[cecilia]

when i added a Spectrum card on my 2000 and got 16/24 bit color on my amiga!
wow that was cool and eventually upgrading 3.1 to 3.5 and 3.9 - without any change in hardware the whole system speeded up!

[itix]

The day when I got my Amiga 500.

[mikey2001]

Probably playing SWOS for the first time. :-)

[Karlos]

There are many such moments for me really.

On the hardware front, roughly in chronological order...

1) The day I first saw an amiga. I was a schoolkid and one of my friends dad had just got an A1500. It was something else.

2) The day I got my first amiga. I had lost interest in the whole computer scene over my teenage years (on reflection a good thing really), but when I was 18, I got nostalgic and was after a computer. To my delight, my mum got me an A600 for my birthday plus some magazines with coverdisks (introducing me to Protracker and Octamed).

3) The day I got my first A1200. This was xmas the same year as the A600. I'd learned by then that the 1200 was a much more expandible route to take. I still have the A600 but alas it is not working :-(

4) The day I shoved a hard drive in it :-) It was 1.28GB in the days when PC's typically shipped with 500MB :evilgrin:

5) The day I got my first accelerator. Having saved for the B1230-IV with FPU, the apollo 1240 appeared on the scene and I opted for that instead. The increase in performance over the base A1200 was jaw dropping (especially once I installed some patches to move all the system stuff to fast ram).

6) The day I got my BPPC and built my 1200T. I wanted to get the 060 version but at that time it was way too expensive. However, I reasoned that PPC should open some interesting possibilities. I wasn't dissapointed :-)

7) The day I got my first RTG card, the BVisionPPC and a 19 inch display to go with it. The difference from AGA was incredible. No more 1280x1024 (autoscrolling 640x512) 16-colour laced workbench with magic tv, now I could enjoy 1600x1200x16-bit colour at 75Hz.

On the software front, each new release of the OS. I started at 2.05 and worked my way up through each major version since, although I still use a 3.5 installation for most of usage.

Demos. Where do you start? Each new one you saw just left your jaw swinging.

There was OctaMED, which evolved into the bear-perfect tracker (IMHO). Each new version was a delight :-)

Art packages - from DeluxePaint II and on. DPaintIV AGA was a lot of fun :-)

Games - too many to mention, really but Turrican, Syndicate, the Alien Breed series and later the 'impossible', Doom, quake etc.


The day I wrote my first working C program on the amiga.

Damn, that's like too many memorable moments. Do I have to pick just one?

[Tempest]

I've got many memorable Amiga experience's.

Just a few:

-when I first saw an Amiga 1000 running Testdrive at a local shop and decided that I must have an Amiga :-)

-a year later when I got my first Amiga, an Amiga 500 with Amiga Graphicraft and Defender of the Crown.

-the day I got a 20MB harddrive for my a500.

-a couple of years later when I got a Retina card for my a2000.

-the day I got an Amiga 4000

-the fun I had/have with all those great Amiga games and demo's.

-my first demo in Amos.

That's enough for now :-D