What was the best thing that ever happened to the Amiga? Any era.

[Amithony]

I would have to say the amiga community, hardware, bestest games (civ, pirates, lotus turbo), funnest interface ever and the early competition with the XT clones. Bring those days back I say. Oh and of course, the SAM 440 (affectionately known as the SAMiga)

[bloodline]

Amithony wrote:
I would have to say the amiga community, hardware, bestest games (civ, pirates, lotus turbo), funnest interface ever and the early competition with the XT clones. Bring those days back I say. Oh and of course, the SAM 440 (affectionately known as the SAMiga)

I'll quote myself from an answer I gave to this question years ago:

The best thing to happen to the Amiga: Commodore
The worst thing to happen to the Amiga: Commodore

[madsjm]

The demoscene.

[Amithony]

bloodline wrote:

I'll quote myself from an answer I gave to this question years ago:

The best thing to happen to the Amiga: Commodore
The worst thing to happen to the Amiga: Commodore

This is brilliant! Almost like the Zen of Amiga thought. It says so much more than the 2 statements suggest on their own

[darksun9210]

agreed on the commodore thing... :lol:

but i think the best thing was that the machines, particularly the early ones, were designed and built with true heart and soul of the guys involved. the kinda "we are going to change the world" sort of feeling. and it was a privilage to have been on the edge of that, even just as a user.

[TheMagicM]

EFIKAMIGA

[Zorro]

Jay Miner and the Amiga Dream Team...

[huronking]

Newtek. Hands down. Most of the A2000 and up hardware would have never have been produced without the demand for the Toaster.

Thats not to say most Amigas had Toasters, just that the legitimate commercial demand commanded the development and production after 1990 that we would have never enjoyed otherwise.

In short, its the only reason it didnt die by C= mismanagement sooner.

Of course the European popularity shouldn't be discounted either.

[Starrfoxx]

The Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D.

[drHirudo]

The best thing that ever happened to the Amiga was the release of the Amiga 500. It was the first really nice Amiga machine, affordable, nice looking, easily expandable, with available software and built-in ROM. The Amiga boom happened not with the release of the Amiga 1000, or Amiga 2000, but after the Amiga 500, many people bought it and it was all around the homes, especially in Europe. Only if it have color TV output (not monochrome), like the A1000. Amiga 500 with 1MB is the winner (established as standard only some months later after it's release). A500 is the second most used Amiga model for me, after the microAmigaOne.

[Tension]

Surely the release of the A1200.

I put mine in a tower and all that jazz, but now I could really do with a nice, quiet, compact Amiga and I wanna put a nice hd and an accelerator in a nice A1200 case.

I`m having my second honeymoon with the A1200 I think...

[tone007]

I am the best thing to ever happen to the Amiga.

[ddniUK]

Toni Wilen, WinUAE and WHDLoad....

[Jiffy]

Tension wrote:
Surely the release of the A1200.

I don't agree. The A1200 is a nice machine, but it was too little, too late and therefor definitely not the best thing that happened to the amiga.

[Painkiller]

I don't agree. The A1200 is a nice machine, but it was too little, too late and therefor definitely not the best thing that happened to the amiga.

Well yea they made a few mistakes with A1200, but it still was a nice machine. At the time they could easily have gone with a faster CPU maybe even a 68040 with a socket later to be ugradeable with 68060 and put simm slots inside the machine. This would have brought the price up quite a bit, but I think it would have been worth it. They should have also gone with a more traditional monitor output as the use of TV as a display had been long since forgotten + 50 and 60Hz monitors makes your eyes bleed