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

[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.

[Brian]

This is yet another topic that everyone can be in on so here's my go. The best models are quite a few in my oppinion. A1000 obviously for being the first Amiga out there, A500 for being such a fine machine and a total hit, A1200 for it's great possibilities that makes it live on even today and A4000T for being the beefiest of 'em all.

Worst would probably go to A500+ and A600 because they were as stated before pointless to market with much more powerfull Amigas so close to follow. And then the two CD units cause they were simply flopps and never got out of the starting gridd.

On the other hand all Amigas are good if you got a use for them, nothing beats the A600 for the small jobbs when you run home to a friend for stuff and it's also a great machine to use for smaller hardware projects. A3000 with 030, scandoubler and scsi onboard as standard is also a great leep for the Amiga. I personaly like the A4000 alot aswell, sure it got it's flaws as many other Amigas but it's also the model closest to rival for the most beefy Amiga award and with a few $ it sure is up there. And a CDTV how old the specs might be still blend into the stereo rack and just wait to leep out and surprice a person or two. :-D

[whabang]

The CD32 plays standard VCDs?

Yeah, but only if you got the FMV module attatched...

[jdiffend]

I used to repair Amiga's and at one time or another have had every model but a 4000.  

The 1000 had the keyboard that would slide under the main unit but it was a non-standard layout.

The 500... I must have replaced a bajillion 8520's from people plugging stuff in with the power on... same goes for the 1200.  Definately not my favorite models but I do have a 1200.

600... could have been a great little game machine with AGA.  Not upgradable enough.

4000... slow ATA interface even for the time, not much room in the case... but a decent machine.

A3000T.  That big of a machine but with a vertical drive bay?  Otherwise good machine if you have the room.

A4000T, good machine... if you have the room.

CDTV... the CD caddy was a very bad idea and the machine was too limited as a computer.

CD-32.... too cheaply made... not really a computer.

And my favorite.... the 3000.  Sure it didn't have enough room inside to do much and it used too many chips (making it more difficult to repair and it runs hot) but I like it.  Too bad the AGA models weren't sold, that would have been the ideal Amiga.

[unclewilli-amigalover]

thanks odin your right! i just needed the narrator device.
later i will make a few prank phone calls to brothers and
wife family, he! he! he! thanks again...

[CU_AMiGA]

unclewilli-amigalover wrote:
thanks odin your right! i just needed the narrator device.
later i will make a few prank phone calls to brothers and
wife family, he! he! he! thanks again...

LOL Brillaint! I'll try that as well! :lol:

[jaokim]

Well, frankly, all Amigas are sheit.
So there.
The only computer worthy of the name computer is the Atari, especially the 520ST. It rules!

















[nelson]Haha![/nelson]

Gotcha!  :-D Honestly, I even had to google to get the Atari-model right, 540 or 520...
Well, my favourite, having to choose, is... well, I cant decide actually.
A1200, bacuse it was the first I owned.
A500 because everytime I see a picture of it I get warm at heart and rember a picture of it in a Hama-book with a Rocgen genlock attached to it. Thats why I wanted an Amiga at first, although I didn't get a genlock till I bought one myself a few months ago, a Rocgen (now these things are sheit :-P ).
A3000, because it so darn good-looking.
A4000, because I have one right now.
CD32, because I've started soldering on it.

When I think about it, I guess the 600 is the only that isn't easily expanded, and thus it's the most complete Amiga. When you get it, you know you can't expand it to any extent, that's as good as it gets*.



(*No, I dont want the amiga600.de-link thrown i my face :-) )

[adolescent]

IMHO, the only real stinker in the entire Amiga family would be the A600 due to it's limited compatibility and lack of expandability.  Althought it does have the PCMCIA and IDE interface that help.

Some of the Amiga I own (or have owned):

A3000 - The best Amiga IMHO.  Sure it lacked AGA, but with it's built in SCSI and Flicker Fixer made up for that.  

A1200 - Love the form factor and expandability.  Ihave a SD/FF, HD floppy, 20GB HD, PCMCIA NIC, Blizzard 060+SCSI, 128M RAM, all stuffed in the stock case (I feel towering defeats the purpose...).

[iamaboringperson]

My list of the worst Amigas ever!

#4 A1200 - People say you can expand this quite well. But thats only aftere hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of cases, expansion slot add-ons, little PCB's that plug into other little PCB's that plug into other little PCB's so that you have this great big wobly tower that is made of PCB's and connectors. Too many hacks are needed. Yuck.

#3 A1000 - Great start, however it had crap expansion, and no proper kickstart.

#2 A500 - No internal HDD, crap expansion.

#1 A600 - Missing keys, pathetic expansion.

IMO lack of standard expansion options, decent screenmodes for serious computing, and ####ty non-os-compliant software are the reasons for the Amigas death.

[KapitanKlystron]

I have 2 A500's, an A1000,and an A2000. My favorite of that bunch is the A2000. None of these machines are in daily use now. I used an A3000 for awhile and I really liked it.  I  would hate to express an opionion about newer amigas than that. I would think that the A4000 tower has to be nice.

[redbaron]

I found quite a nice 600HD out of a trash pile. Works ok, but the HD was completely empty and i found no disks with it, so i'm running WB1.3 on it. But for some odd reason it won't run lemmings

[Jiffy]

Ok, my list of favourites:

#1: A1200. Compact and yet easily expandable.
#2: A2000. Built like a tank. EXPANDABILITY!!!
#3: A3000D. Standard SCSI & FF. And a lovely case...
#4: A4000T. Repairs flaws of the A4000D. Easy to upgrade.
#5: A3000T. Easier to upgrade compared to the 'D'-model.
#6: A500(+). The right computer at the right time. Upgrades are plentifull, but take a hideous amount of deskspace.
#7: A4000D. Castrated design. But hey, it's fast and it has AGA.
#8: A1000. Hard to upgrade, but it's where it all started...
#9: A600. Compact but hard to upgrade.

At the moment, I have both the A1200 and the A2000. The A1200 is heavily expanded, but still in its original housing (with a four drive SCSI-tower, though). The A2000 has some uogrades to make life a little easier, nothing more.

I didn't mention the CDTV or the CD32, as I don't think of them as being 'complete' Amiga computers and therefor don't fit in with the list above.

As a sidenote, I'ld like to add that I like all the models I mentioned above, but this is my list of personal favorites. I would love to have all of them, but hey, lack of space...

[odin]

CU_AMiGA wrote:

unclewilli-amigalover wrote:
thanks odin your right! i just needed the narrator device.
later i will make a few prank phone calls to brothers and
wife family, he! he! he! thanks again...

LOL Brillaint! I'll try that as well! :lol:

Oh the fun I had as an 11 year old kid typing in rude Dutch words ;-).

[CU_AMiGA]

Oh! What about that Walker thingy? What was all that about? What happened to it? I remember looking at it in a magazine a few years ago (maybe Amiga Format) and they were crowing on about it and how it looks! :-)

[olegil]

Considering the fact that I still have a working A500 THAT WAS FOUND IN THE TRASH!

Hardly anything will kill an old Amiga, except me :-)

I must say the Access is quite cool as well ;-)

[Matt_H]

Re: narrator.device

Hee hee. I used that to record voicemail greetings. Good times. :-)

Re: Amigas

As for the different Amiga models... (Did I already respond to this thread?)

I think every Amiga has its place somewhere.

The A600 and A1000 are aesthetically pleasing. The 600 has a nice compact design and the 1000 has the Keyboard garage. Plus the 600 is luggable.

The 500 made the Amiga available to mass markets.

The 1200 is insanely expandable. It's a machine you can grow with and upgrade as your needs require.

The 2000 is the only desktop machine with a huge case for expansion cards/drives. Helped bring in the Toaster, establishing the professional video market.

The 3000(T) has onboard FF and SCSI with a small desktop footprint.

The 4000 introduced AGA.

The 4000T is the pentultimate productivity machine.