Besides Amiga, what other platforms do/have you owned?

[coldfish]

@all.

Wow, so what systems were your favourites?

Mine would be the C64, my first computer and main machine from about 1986 till 1990 when I got an A500 (at last!).  I used to spend weekends sitting up till 4am messing around with the C64 and making SEUCK games, ah good times!

The A500 comes a clos second, being jawdroppingly awesome when it was new.  The best fun I used to have was looking in the paper for people selling Amiga disks and bying 20-30 bucks worth then sitting up all night sampling them, nirvana!

Of the current systems I have the HTPC has been a lot of fun, both building and setting up the software, that and the emulators which let you sample all those systems you couldnt afford in the day.

Of the gaming systems, the Atari Lynx is a favourite of mine, I bought it almost at release, and had to save for months to afford one and a copy of Slimeworld.  At the time gaming on a colour handheld was mindblowing.
I was a mad PS1 fan for a while having bought one at release  and being blown away by 3D games to start with but later became kinda jaded and disillusioned.  Castlevania COTM was a welcome blast from the past being 2D on a machine that could do it without compramise.

I remeber being really unimpressed by the Dreamcast when it came out, but a year or two later I got one for 100 bucks, I found the machine to be one of the saddest tales in gaming, a very underated piece of hardware that disserved better that has some really standout titles.

My GBAsp is everything I ever wanted from handheld gaming, plenty of high quality 2D games with 32bit-generation Gfx.  The handheld equivalent of a A1200 except with a far larger library.

My Xbox rekindled my interest in 3D with Halo, but as time has passed I've lost interest in preference for emulation and retro systems.

I tried Shadow of the Beast on an emulated FM-Towns last week and cant believe this machine never found release outside Japan, it really does seem to exceed any other version, grab an emulator and take a look!

[Gav]

Ok here is what i own at the moment as some of the earlier stuff from my kid years has gone such as my amstrad 464 haha..

Sega Nomad
Dreamcast,owned loads of them as i bought a lot broke but fixed them but now own just three
Sega saturn x3 inc a white jap one.
Game gear
Master system2
Mega drive 1
Mega drive 2
Mega cd 1 & 2
Snes
Atari lynx
Gameboy advance
Gamecube
xbox
Ps2
Genesis 3
Amiga 2000
Mikronik 1200 tower
My main power tower 1200
my windows xp box
..
On top of that is all the games i have which is way too many but once you start you cant stop haha..

[CLS2086]

Look in the link  :lol:

[DamageX]

The amount of hardware you guys are hoarding is quite impressive. I also have my fair share :-)

Atari C-380
Atari 800XL (x2), Indus GT
C64, 1541
Coleco ADAM
TI 99/4A with speech synthesizer
Apple IIGS
MSX2 (Sony HB-F1II), 512KB RAM, Sunrise IDE with 1.4GB and LS-120
Genesis
Master System
NES (x2)
Saturn, 4MB Pro Action Replay
SNES
Turbo Grafx-16
Amiga 2000 ('030-50, 18MB RAM, 2GB)
Toshiba Satellite 2535 (Pentium MMX-300, no LCD, 96MB RAM, 4GB, win2k)
Toshiba Satellite 2250 (Coppermine Celeron-600, 192MB RAM, 6GB, win98)
NEC Ultralite (486-33, 8MB RAM, 500MB, MS-DOS 6.0 and wfwg3.11)
the bottom half of a Hitachi E133 combined with the top half of a Sharp PC-3030 (Pentium-133, 32MB RAM, 2GB, win98)
Compaq Plus (8088-4.77, 640KB RAM, 10MB)
a few 286s
a few 386s
boxes of 486 motherboards, ISA/VL/PCI cards, socket 5 and 7 motherboards, floppy drives, MFM and IDE hard drives, PSUs
AMD K6-3-380 (128MB SDRAM, 6GB+2.5GB, TV tuner, MPEG2 decoder card, Sound Blaster 16, Diamond Viper V550 16MB, win98)
AMD Sempron 1583MHz (384MB DDR RAM, 6GB+6GB+37GB, GeForce FX5200 128MB, win2k)

Things that don't work anymore or I have gotten rid of:
TI Travelmate 4000 (486SX-16, 8MB RAM, broken)
Gameboy (run over by a Volvo)
Gamegear (ingested some milk)
Dreamcast (sold)
Toshiba Satellite 1555 (accidentally fried it)
Panasonic Executive Partner (8086-7, 640KB RAM, broken)

[Tempest]

Here's my list:

Computers:
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Atari 800
Commodore SX64
Pegasos II
Amiga 4000/PPC/mediator tower
Amiga 4000/mediator desktop
Amiga 4000 x 2
Amiga 3000T Warpengine
Amiga 3000
Amiga 2000
Amiga 1000
Amiga 1200
Amiga CD32
Amiga CDTV
Dell C840 Intel 1.8 laptop (Linux)
Athlon 2500+ desktop (Linux)

Consoles:
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Saturn
Neogeo pocket
Gamepark 32
Atari 2600
Colecovision
Intellivision
Playstation II

And a Neogeo Arcade machine with around 100 games :-)

[Magic-Merl]

Here goes....

ZX-81
2x Spectrum 48k
TRS-80
Tatung Einstein (One of the best 8-bits in my opinion)
2x C64 old case and new(er) case with floppy drive
1x A500
2x A500+
1x A1200
1x A600
1x 800Mhz AMD based PC for Linux etc
1x 2Ghz PC for Windoze which dual boots Linux which runs AROS on top
1x IBM Laptop for general use.

[AdMartin]

I've personally only owned Amigas and DOS/Windows machines, but my first exposure to home computers were when my father got a Spectravideo 328 plus the big box expansion with two disk drives and extra RAM. I had the biggest computers of all my friends... Then my father got a Yamaha MSX with MIDI keyboard. Quite useless FM synth, but cool nonetheless back in the day. He also got a Spectravideo 728 (basically an MSX compatible 328) and later a Spectravideo X'Press 16. The X'Press 16 was a regular IBM compatible PC, but also MSX2 compatible, IIRC. It definitely had the best looking design of all IBM compatibles at the time, but that's about it...

The 328, 728 and the Yamaha are still back at my parents', but my mother is pressing to get all of that "junk" thrown away. I don't want to see all that history going into oblivion, so I'm gonna sell it on eBay with starting bid 1 SEK. I hope someone will find it interesting.

/Martin

[drewz21]

Well my current collection/everyday computers consists of the following:

(Collection)
Amiga 1000 x 2
Amiga 500 x 2
Amiga 2000
Amiga 1200 x 2
Amiga 4000D

TI 99/4A x 2
Atari 130XE
Mattel Aquarius

(Lots of accessories for the above that I need to inventory one day)

(Everyday)
P3.2Ghz desktop x 2
P2.4Ghz desktop x 2
P2.6Ghz desktop (home server for music and such)
P1.7Ghz desktop
ThinkPad 1.7Ghz laptop x 2
Dell Axim X51v
Dell Axim X50v

I think that's it.

I use my A1200 almost every day.  My daughter loves to use DeluxePaint IV on it.  It's also got the 68060 board in it with 64MB RAM(Thank you AmigaKit.com).  I or my kids use the A500 with the GVP HD+ a few times a week for some gaming.

The TI 99/4A was the first computer I ever owned back in 1982.  I was then big into Atari until moving to Amiga.  I never had any of the Commodore 8-bits but I'd like to add a C64 and C128 to the collection one day.

I also enjoy using the PocketPC's.  I've got over 8GB of storage on my X51v and basically carry around everything I need on it.  The Wi-Fi on it works great.

Oh and I got lucky last week and bought a Nintendo DS Lite at my local Target when they put them out early.  They pulled them back off the shelf later that day.  It's a really sweet machine too!  Brain Age is something I'm quickly becoming addicted to.  

Happy computing and computer collecting to all!  

[Vincent]

My list:

NES
SNES
N64
GameCube
GameBoy
GameBoy Colour

MasterSystem II
MegaDrive x2
DreamCast
GameGear (red version, but not the Coca-Cola one)

PSX (Mark I) not working
PSX (Mark II - chipped) not working
PS2 (the big bulky version)

A500 x2 (floppy knackered on both)
A500+ (battery taken off mobo)
A600 (knackered floppy)
A1200 (Z4 tower, BPPC/BVision)

PC (AMD Sempron 2600+, GeForceFX 5200, 1GB ram)

Spectrum 48k x2 (cover is coming off on one of them)
Spectrum 128k x3 (2 black and one grey)

I think that's everything.  The Speccy's, A500s, A500+ and A600 are packed away, but everything else is out ready to play.  All the consoles are in the living room and the A1200 and PC are in their own room upstairs.

[CLS2086]

Oups sorry I forget a few :
Sega Titan ST-V
Neo Geo MVS 1-A
Neo Geo CD top loading model 1  (i'm looking for a PSU or just the PSU plug) !!
Bandaï SwanCrystal Blue Violine
and lots of PC (x88,x86,x286,x386....)

[nomore]

Cool thread.

Got:

Amstrad CPC 464
Amstrad CPC 464 Plus
Atari Lynx 2
Nintendo Gameboy Pocket
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Sega Megadrive 2
Sega MegaCD 2
Sega Nomad
Nintendo NES
Nintendo SNES (best console ever!)
Nintendo Gamecube (silver)
Nintendo DS
Commodore Vic 20 (x 2)
Commodore Amiga 600
Commodore Amiga 1200 (x 2)
Commodore Amiga 1200 (Power Tower)
Commodore Amiga CD32
Matel Aquarius
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz PC (Fedora Core 4)
Apple Powerbook 15"
Apple Powermac Dual G5
Apple MacBook Pro 17"
Sony Playstation

Had:

Sega Megadrive 1
Sega Mastersystem 2
Sega Gamegear
Singlair ZX Spectrum +2 (128k)
Panasonic 3DO R.E.A.L
Nintendo 64
Sony Playstation 2
Microsoft XBox


Does anyone know of a console called 'Database'? I had it in the late 80's. It was cream coloured with some silver panels and yellow buttons. The controllers had loads of buttons on them and plugged into the console with a DIN plug. The cartridges plugged in, well slid in horizontal to the console.

It had basic Atari 2600 type graphics. Games included a submarine games, sapce invaders, tank games etc.

[Vincent]

nomore wrote:
Does anyone know of a console called 'Database'? I had it in the late 80's. It was cream coloured with some silver panels and yellow buttons. The controllers had loads of buttons on them and plugged into the console with a DIN plug. The cartridges plugged in, well slid in horizontal to the console.

It had basic Atari 2600 type graphics. Games included a submarine games, sapce invaders, tank games etc.

Nope, unless it's listed here under a different name.

[tonyvdb]

My first computer was an Apple IIe with two 5 1/4" drives and an amber screen monitor It is still working today although I dont have it as I gave it away to a friend 5 years ago.
My second was a no-name 486 PC thats not working any more (says something there dosent it?)
At the same time I got an Amiga 500 after my younger brother dident want it (He won it in a cerial box contest).
I also have a Nintendo64, X-Box, and a AMD 1800+ PC with 1.5 gig ram, 95gig of hard drive space, ATI All in wonder 9600xt and dule layer DVD burner.
And of course my A4000 towerised :-D

[JimS]

lets see...
I've got a homebrew Z-80 built from magazine plans.
An Atari 800 and an upgraded 800XL. I did have a 400, but it's gone.
Three Amiga 1000s, Three A2000s.
5 peecees.
A 68040 MAc powerbook ( $1 at garage sale! )

[Amiduffer]

Do you think the old Odyssey2 would count? :-D

[coldfish]

Amiduffer wrote:
Do you think the old Odyssey2 would count? :-D

Oldschool!

I had one of those Pong, TV games for a while, got it from a St Vinnies for $1, it was actually pretty fun.

Growing up across the road from a deli caused me to become addicted to arcade machines at an early age.  I remember sneaking into the shop on the way to school for a quick round of space invaders.  

I still love arcade machines, the games and the machines.  I've owned several cabinets, It was unbelievable when I found them in the paper for a few hundread bucks.  Me and a mate used to share a flat with a gamesroom full of machines. Blacktiger is still awesome.  I even went on to put an A500 inside a Jamma cabinet, the hookup is easy and sraightforward.

Now I have a PC/arcade cab running u-name-it emulators.