How old are you and when was your first "Amiga Experiance"?

[guru-666]

34
first Amiga was a2000 in 87.  Saw the 1000 and just had to get into graphics and sound.

[amigakid]

I was 14 when I got my first A500.  Had a C=64 prior (which I still have).  I am 35 and still using my miggys.  I have an A500, A1200, A1000, A4000 and CD32.  I want to still get an A3000 and A600 for my collection.  Cheers!!

[RobertB]

30.

       Truly,
       Robert Bernardo
       Fresno Commodore User Group
       http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[IOWASURFER]

(( 40 ))

Back in 1997 I owned my first Amiga 500 and then
2000 man I miss those old days..

I had tons of games and utils  ( death mask.. Stunt car driver.. Pirates.. Cannon Fodder.. Wings.. Settlers... colonization....
the internet was a thing called a BBS..

Hooooooooo Hummmmmmmm



Joe....

[K0rky]

Hi

I am 43 and had my first Amiga 500 in 1989.

K0rky

[steve30]

I'm 16 (17 next January). I got my first Amiga (500+) in 1997, although I had used them before.

I still have that Amiga, and use it regulaly, but it has issues. The disk drive had to be replaced and the keyboard seems to not work properly. It does now have an 8833-II, an HD, a teletext adaptor and a modem, which it didn't have when I got it.

I also now have an A1200/030 which i got last year and am planning on getting a PPC sometime soon.

[57goldtop]

Saw an Amiga 1000 in a shop window late at night sometime in 86, it was facing the window displaying a Ferrari on the monitor. I spent at least 10 minutes staring at it thinking how it could be possible.

I was 15 at the time.

[d0pefish]

I am 19, will be 20 in January (uhhhh... :idea:)

My parents brought me up on Amigas. One Christmas when I was about 3 or 4 they got an Amiga 500 and encouraged me to use it through all sorts of games etc.

When my Dad was alive I remember him being ADDICTED to Wizball and Agony. And he also loved to play Another World. I have memories of being really scared when those leeches would kill him and the animation of them popping up, sticking out this "spike" thing and hacking at the leg drawing blood and killing the player. I find it hilarious when I play it myself now though... :-)

My mum used to get me the Amiga Format and CU Amiga magazines all the time and I loved the disks. She used to order stuff for me from the PD software houses too. Good times.

As the years went by the A500 wasn't as capable and they got me an A1200 one Christmas. I loved that machine, having a hard drive and WB3.0 made all the difference.

A friend at school had a dad that was very much into Amigas. He owned an A4000 and I used to love being able to play on it. I used to dream of having an A4000. It was an 040 and very quick. His son had a CD32 which my mum bought from his family when they got a PlayStation, so one Xmas I got the CD32.

Gradually my A1200 got upgraded, Blizzard 030MkIV, and the CD32 got networked to the A1200 with NetworkCD2 and a serial cable (to use the CD drive), and I used this setup all the way up until 1999 as my main computer. It did all my schoolwork etc, used to do wordprocessing on Final Writer with pics from Deluxe Paint and clipart CDs.

When 1999 came we decided the Amiga wasn't going to get me through middle and high school, so that was when we got our first PC, and the Amiga was retired for a few years.

Until it got pulled out again to quench my nostalgic thirst. My friend and I decided to towerize it, and we converted it into a tower case and I bought an A2000 keyboard to use it with. That lasted a few years, and then I began to pursue my dream of owning an Amiga 4000.

Now I have an A4000 with a CSPPC 060/50, 604e/233, 128+16+2MB RAM, GRex 4000D, Voodoo3, Sony 19inch Trinitron, Terratec 512i, Realtek LAN card, CompServ Scandoubler II, Algor PRO USB, DVD drive and 36GB UWSCSI hard disk. It gets used every day and I love it to bits. It took about a year to acquire all the parts and cost me all my wages, but hell it was worth it. :-)

And that's my Amiga story.

[eroom]

I'm 35 next week  :-o .
I was about 14 when I saw my first Amiga around about 86, had been brought up on commodore pet, vic-20 then a c64 so always bought the commodore magazines and saw the amiga in them.

Spent the next couple of years drooling over them in the mags.

As soon as I saw Sword Of Sodan and the size of the sprites I had to have one so got a A500 sometime around early 89 I think.

Been collecting them eversince.

Paul.

[mingle]

Ah yes... memories!

I'm an old git, of 39.

My first Amiga experience was back in 1985 hearing about my friend's brother's A1000 (one of the first in Melbourne).

I then drooled over the various magazine previews and reviews and finally got an A500 in 1987, I think... Moved on to an A1200 in 1992 and finally sold it last year, after leaving it in the cupboard since 1998! Now I'm an occasional WinUAE user...

[Holmes]

I am nearly 44 and first saw an Amiga 500 up my friends house.This was about 1978. My first Amiga Experience was the juggler, possibly the best demo to show off the amiga's capabilities at the time.Do other users think that the juggler as stood the test of time?

[amazing]

wow holmes..i think u saw the first prototype of the a500 in 1978?
 :-D  :-D  :-D

[Reynolds]

Age 30.

First time I saw Lotus Esprit and Startrekker in 1991. Next year I bought my A500 after selling the C64...

[Hodgkinson]

Age 17.

Got given my first amiga (A1200) when I was 14 or so after growing up and being force-fed PC and Microsoft software at school...Darn single track education system!

Hodgkinson.

[HopperJF]

Age 20, 21 next month.

First Amiga experience: Playing on a friend's A500+ with Commodore 1084S monitor around 1994/95. Used to love Lemmings, McDonaldLand, SWOS and Ultimate Soccer Manager. I used to love the purple Workbench disk prompt screen, and the fact that you could use a game save disk to save where you were up to in a game (I was used to the cartridges of the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, where such a thing was rarely possible).

I got around to getting my first Amiga in 1999, an Amiga 600 for the price of just £6 + a 2MB PlayStation memory card. Bargain! Came with some great games too.
Unfortunately the day I got it the F4 key went missing. I also bought my first Atari 520 ST at the same time, which I preferred at the time because I had a lot more games for it. I didn't have many disks for the Amiga. But it was obvious to me that the Amiga was the more powerful machine with better sound and better graphics. Better games too.

I used to love playing on Cannon Fodder and was amazed even in 1999 with the graphics on Beneath A Steel Sky. 15 disks!  :-o That amazed me too hehe.

I swopped the Amiga 600 to a friend in 2000 in exchange for an Amiga 500 because I preferred the A500, but I then swopped that A500 for a SNES. I sold the SNES, and got an A1200 in Christmas 2000. I used this and upgraded it into a tower with 8Mb RAM, 030, CD-ROM, 1Gb HD and OS 3.9 but sold in 2002, it was a VERY unstable system!!!
After a brief run-in with the AmigaOne in 2002/03 I left the Amiga and switched to Mac.
I now use a PC. :-P

Last year I became re-united with the same Amiga 600 and it is currently hooked up to the TV, still with the missing F4 key. I have a lot of games for it now  :-D


PS.. If anyone has a spare Amiga 600 keyboard please PM me!

[Steril707]

Seems i am pretty typical:

I am 32 now, and got my first hands on Amiga experience back in what must have been 86 or maybe early 87...I was 12 years old, and this was an Amiga 1000 with a loaded Workbench. What a beauty, nevertheless I was a little bit disappointed, for i didn't know what to do with it.

You know, on the usual Homecomputer of that age you could type in stuff like
10 print "Spectrum 48k sucks!!"
20 goto 10
run

and had some stupid fun..

but with the workbench, i didn't know exactly what to make out of this.

Anyway, i got my first Amiga (a 500) in Christmas 87, but lost interest in computers somehow around late 1991. At that time i already felt that the pc would crush the Amiga into pieces, to be honest. Seeing Wing Commander and Gunship 2000 in all of their glory, i felt the Amiga was quite underpowered, and Doom in 93 really sealed their fate.

Anyway, the Amiga is still a big love affair of mine. It was the only computer with its own character in these 22 years i am into computers now. Everything else was just silicon.