What was the Best and "not so good" Amiga Models?

[Crumb]

@leirbag28:
"The 2000 is the Ugliest Amiga ever made and is a huge Behemoth"
well, I agree, the case design is crap. You can put less HDs and drives in it than in a desktop 4000... with an A4000 you can put 2 HDs next to the PSU, 2 disk drives and a cdrom without many problems... (if the cdrom is not very long of course...

[CU_AMiGA]

DoomMaster wrote:
To xeron:

The A500 is not a 'low quality' computer. It is very well manufactured, and likely to last you a long time.

Tell that to the cheap plastic case and the stripped out screw holes in the plastic stand-offs.  Also, tell that to the low quality Amiga 500 keyboard.  Just compare an Amiga 2000 keyboard to an Amiga 500 keyboard, you will readily see the difference in quality.  The Amiga 2000 keyboard has Cherry switches from Italy and the characters are printed on top of the keys.  The Amiga 500 keyboard has low quality Chicklet (rubber) key switches and the characters on top of the keys are decals.     :-o

DoomMaster, tip:

Maybe if you stopped using Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 as cricket or tennis bats once in a while, then maybe they'll last a little longer! The 2000 being too heavy to lift!  have owned all three of them and they have lasted me a long time 500,600 about 8 years (recently broke down). And the 3 1200's that i own are still going strong!  :-D

[Tigger]

iamaboringperson wrote:
I was only mentioning the released Amiga's

A3000+

?

The original AA (eventually AGA) Amiga, A3000 case, AGA chipset, plus a DSP for audio and computation power, first shown at Denver Devcon in 91, and eventually shipped to more then a few commercial developers (including me), what happened to mine is a very sad story so we dont talk about it however  .  Somewhere between 50 and 100 of them were made.
     

(I'll respect most of your orderings...)

A500+
A500
A2000

I'm confused by that one, the A500's better than A2000? No way!

The reason I ordered them that was is cost.  The first amiga I bought myself was an A2000, but it cost me over two grand with the moniter, the A500 was the same computer for 1/3 the price.   And when it came out there werent the toaster cards, the Z2 video cards and the accelerator cards that made the A2000 a great deal later.  
       -Tig

[T_Bone]

My original Amiga was an Amiga 2000HD, anything less than that was considered a toy at that time amonst my friends, who were buying at the same time. Everyone who was getting into Amigas was getting a 2000HD, so I did too, out of peer pressure.

I almost went for the 2500, (it was only $450 more, at the time) but since I was borrowing the money, stuck to the 2000HD which only set me back $1995.

I "Gave it away" in 1994, thinking it was worth nothing, not realising Amiga would still be popular even today. I regreeted giving it away ever since.

I now have a 3000, and a 500, that I bought secondhand a few years ago, but they "feel old" since I didn't buy them new like I did the 2000HD. to this day, the 2000HD holds a place in my heart that no other computer can touch.

I wasn't around when the 1200 and the 600 came out, and they just don't do it for me, since I only learned about them after the fact.

[JoannaK]

I was also away (mostly) when A1200/4000 came to market so they never
ment anything to me. And these todays Items are not made by
Commodore-Amiga so I don't comment them here.



In my books. Biggest impression was A100, seeing it at the friends
house and comparing to to anything existing at the time. It was just
amazing. (but unfortunately totally out of my reach)

A500 was my first, so it has some special meaning. But on couple
years I realized those forwever problems of that kind flat systems..
Expansion. after isntalling HD etc to a500 I had to admit it was not
enough at all.

So.. A2000.. In the end It had commodore 2091, 3630, flickerfixer
netcard etc.. Nice machine, Full featured Workhorse, but a avfully
heawy for getting it to parties.

And last.. Best Amiga I have used. Amiga3000. with flicker fixer, scsi
etc internal it was nice, compact machine. Nowdays it would definitely
need slot for cd.rom but on it's time it was uncommon.

[PMC]

Mine has to be the A500, as for the princely sum of £399 (back in the day..) you could embarass PC/Mac owners who's machines cost them three times as much.

I did read somewhere that the A500+ was simply a means of getting rid of the unused CDTV boards, and I'd love to know if there's any truth in that rumour.

The biggest disappointments for me have to be the A600 (what were they thinking) and the vanilla A1200.  I know the last choice is going to generate some controversy, but it simply wasn't enough at the time.  Of course, the humble A1200 that I'm typing this post on is an altogether different beast............

[leirbag28]

That_punk_guy

Quote: The CD32 plays standard VCDs?

 Yes, The CD32 plays Standard VideoCD's and even recorded ones that you make with the Terrapin VCD recorder or the ones for the Philips CD-i and the ones you burn with NERO on windows...........of course
to play the movies, the CD32 requires that you have the Full Motion Video Card installed such as I have.

As far as what everyone has said about what is their favorite Amiga, I agree to some extent because all Amigas are Amigas and have that Amiga feeling which only Amiga users know.........so what ever Amiga you had, it has its meaning for you.

 As for me, My fave is always the A600, the CD32, and the A1000................I have a hard time picking one.

[Dr_Righteous]

Just to throw my own two cents into this thread... I think there are two kinds of Amigas... Ones with AGA and ones without AGA. I think without AGA, you might as well be running a C64. Not that there's anything wrong with that... I just think it's the difference between having a game machine, and having computer.

Note: Just my opinion... No attempt to influence anyone or start a flame war.  :-D

[x56h34]

As for me, My fave is always the A600, the CD32, and the A1000................I have a hard time picking one.

This is so true. IMHO, my A4000 will be the favorite one as it is the most expandable and powerful, however all other Amigas that I own (A500, A600, CD32, and A1200) bring me a lot of joy in their own ways. Nothing like trying to expand your tiny, little Amiga 600 unit to 030 CPU, 32MB Fast RAM / 2MB Chip RAM, with a ZIP drive, CD-Drive, etc. :-) I was sooo unlucky with the A600 expansion project of mine as twice I bought an 030 accelerator that was simply dead on arrival. :-( Ahh, the dream of owning a working one some day... ;-)

I also hope that some day I will have a mint A4000T Escom unit. :-)

[that_punk_guy]

Dr_Righteous wrote:
 I think without AGA, you might as well be running a C64.  

There's no way a C64 could multitask like an OCS/ECS Amiga.

[unclewilli-amigalover]

this a1200 is a good computer, but i think after upgrading
the a500 with viper 520 cd and the mini mega chip
for 2 meg video ram and an extra 512k on board i have to go with the
a500. can't use the speech program on the a1200 where
i can on the a500. used to use my a500 to copy a message
on the answering maching...kool!. a2000 was nice, never
got to use the a3000/a4000 how sad...but a friend
says the a3000 was the best amiga model.

[odin]

@unclewilli:

Actually you can use the speech program on the A1200, you just need narrator.device. I think it can be found on Aminet.

[jeffimix]

*Or on my Workbench 1.3 floppy here*

[tony23]

I really do love my a3000's and my a2000's and my a500's , but I'd trade one of my a3000's for a decent a4000 or even a decent a1200 no problem, just so I could have an AGA machine.

 It seems to me you miss out on a lot of great Amiga stuff if you don't have the AGA, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that OCS or ECS Amigas are comparible to a C64, they have much better games, apps, and graphics which blow a C64 away any day.

So for me I'd have to say either a towered a4000 or  even a towered a1200 would be the best Amiga.

Any one local to me wanna trade ?
hmm... probably not, but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask.  :-)

[TallAmigan]

The best was the 1000.  It appears the "first" of something good is usually the best... (for a while at least... at least  until the Amigaone with OS 4 comes out....)

Love the "garage" , the keyboard and the fact that the Amiga 1000 was truely something "different"....

Why I even remember spending $300 (US) for 1.5 MB of RAM...  

I still even have my Amiga 1000... of course it is in storage... to protect the GREAT Amiga 1000....

I get it out time to time.... :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[nDude]

The best was the 1000. It appears the "first" of something good is usually the best... (for a while at least... at least until the Amigaone with OS 4 comes out....)

While the A1000 was way ahead of any other home computer or PC at the time , both the hardware and OS.
The A1 is just an obsolete, non inventive, hardware with an OS that tries to catch up to modern standards.