Which is your favourite Amiga and why?

[arnljot]

I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. Under tutorials in the forum here, you'll find both a psu project and cdrom projects. I'm just doing both in the machines (two of them).

Amithony wrote:

arnljot wrote:

Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)

Hmmm. Thats an interesting project. How far have you got with it?

[darksun9210]

hmmm
my heart would say an A500 as thats what i started with, and got me into Amigas, and what i ran for years
but really now, for shear plug an go, gotta be an A1200. i think i'm on my third, and this ones a keeper. ;-) haha

internal hard disk/CF, good accelerator, smallest footprint - so easy to pick up and go round people's houses for linkup super skidmarks, lotus2, stunt car racer, battlecars... are any link games not racers? lol

i would love an A4000 Desktop again for the ease of expandability, but i would also love an A3000 as the prettiest big box machine (and the only machine i have never owned yet, bar the A1000)

but anyway, i ramble on...

[Phantom]

Amiga 1200: Because it's nice, everything I want under a keyboard, special design. The best solution for games right now.

Amiga 4000: My main system I use now for my hobby and work. Still great and very expandable.

Amiga CD32: It's an A1200 but comes with built-in CD-ROM, thus some games especially written for CD32 are great, not to mention the S-Video output that I've connected the CD32 on my Sony 50' LCD TV. Still great and fun to insert-cd-and-play. :-D  :-D

Amiga CDTV: I think the most "cool" Amiga of all times. This machine's position stands for the living room, not in bedroom. Oh, when I look at it, it's brilliant. Even sitting down and using that wireless remote controller. ;-)
Great multimedia CD-ROMs too.

[amipac]

@ Phantom and your fav amiga is???  :-D

ALL?  :lol:

[Phantom]

ALL ALL :crazy:  :crazy:

[amipac]

Phantom wrote:
ALL ALL :crazy:  :crazy:

 :bow:  :bow:  :bow:

[yorgle]

A1000.  Grew up with it, spent many hours with it... I love the detached keyboard, which IMO has a better feel than the later (500,2000,3000) keyboards.  I like the feel of the original mouse as well, although the A3000 "Pregnant" mouse just about ties it. ...oh, and the ability to change the keyboard cable by just throwing a telephone handset cable on there.. i used a 15' cable in college which worked great!

But I like the relatively small size (compared with A200), flexibility to easily run various kickstart versions, so i can try out 1.4, or the pre-releases v27, v29... nice storage of the keyboard, etc.


Then again, I'm one of the crazies that likes the look and feel of 1.3 over the 3D look of the newer OSs. heh.

[Tenacious]

Yep, all of them!

I think the 500 has the most alluring case design.

I tend to value those machines with socketed chips vs those with SMT.

A600 is my ultra portable.

[CSixx]

Difficult question really.

I currently own a 500, 600, 1200, 2k, 3k, and a cd32.

The 1200 gets used almost daily. It's an incredible machine, and gets my vote.

[r0jaws]

Favourite?

Would you choose between your children?

If really, really pushed I would say my 1200 (it does everything I want it too),

but on the other hand, my 2000 is absolutely bulletproof, cheaper and easier to upgrade, looks beautiful (to me anyway) and the kids love it too,

but on the other hand, my 1200 has AGA, is more portable (a sh1te sight lighter) and is also a thing of beauty

but on the other hand.....

(this could go on all night)

[Sig999]

I only owned 2 - my first, a 500, then I upgraded to a 2000.

I prefered the 2000, mainly because of it's expandability and the nice big case you could put everything in.

My 500 ended up with this octopus of cables and peripherals all over the place, and was a pain to transport and set up - The 2000 was just nice and neat, not to mention pretty tough when it came to lugging around to different meets/game parties/etc.

[Hattig]

I loved the A500 first and foremost, although the A1200 is up there. The A1200's capabilities were great, especially if you ponied up for some fast RAM. I think in many ways though it was a lost opportunity due to Commodore's useless management.

The A500 was, for the time, amazing. The A1200 was, for the time, merely good.

Both gave me lots of good memories though.

[Jiffy]

That's a tough one...

I currently own thee Amigas: an A1200, an A2000 and an A3000. I had an A500 back in the days (1988, I guess), but my current machines are the ones I wanted the most in the late 80-ies/early 90-ies.

If I háve to choose, I think my most favourite Amiga is the A2000: easy to expand and easy to replace defective chips.

If you ask me again next week or next month, I might as well answer 'A3000' or 'A1200' then, though.

[Pentad]

Without a doubt, my Amiga 3000 TUX machine.  When I was at Purdue University, that machine was the bomb.  The professors I had couldn't believe that I could 'dual-boot' between UNIX (SVR4 no less!) and the AmigaOS.   I even had the 2410 Graphics Card for sweet, sweet, X-Windows goodness.

The deal was much better than the overly priced NeXT Cube's that Steve was pushing to college students back then.

Later, I added an Emplant board for Mac emulator.  Boy, those were the days.

Now, I'm the professor and my students are just amazed that I didn't own a Windows machine.   Commdodore?  Atari?  NeXT?   What are those??


I guess you really can't go home again.

-Pen

[tokyoracer]

@ Amithony,

Very good job too, I can't recomend a better model of Amiga that's for sure!

[gleng]

The A1200 is probably the one that has stood the test of time the best.

The A600 and the A3000 are the prettiest though!