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Offline orb85750

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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2010, 12:24:13 AM »
It was like... back in the box!  I had given up on Amiga and was using various PCs in college.  But I really felt bad about the fall of the Amiga.  I remember telling friends how great it was.  I'm so happy it's still alive and happy about this online community.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2010, 12:37:15 AM »
Through 1994 I was building up a nice A2000 system.  First addition was a 3.1 ROM closely followed by a friend's A2091 card with some fastram and a 50MB scsi disk.  After that came a 28MHz 68000 cpu card and an A2320 display enhancer.  It booted in 10 seconds from power on and about 9 seconds after a reset.  I was learning 68k assembly and spent rather a lot of time stepping through programs and checking out system structures in MonAm - even when a bug caused a crash I'd be back in MonAm within 15 seconds.  

In some ways, that system beat anything I've used since.  An Amiga PPC debugger that could hold a candle to the functionality of MonAm would really reignite my interest in programming.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2010, 01:35:00 AM »
A500, Kick 1.2, 512kb mem expansion... had it since 1988.. i wanted to expand it with a extra diskdrive,harddrive and a monitor but could never afford it at the time. in 1994 i kinda lost interest in computers after i heard about the death of commodore.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2010, 02:37:28 AM »
Stock 2000, with a 2058 Ram card loaded with 4MB and a Trumpcard with a 50MB Quantum HD... both just moved over from the Phoenix Toolbox on my 1000.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #33 on: October 23, 2010, 02:42:39 AM »
Amiga 1200 with 1942 Monitor, only a year and a half old. Would get a GVP 030@40 accelerator in a year.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2010, 04:32:07 AM »
A4000D/030(Bought at World of Commodore NYC - one of the first in the US), internal CDROM, hard drive, 386sx bridgeboard, dial up modem, Multisync monitor. I should have never sold the old girl.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2010, 04:48:47 AM »
A3000T 030, 16 megs ram, (3)540 meg HD's, (2) gvp io Extenders, (4) US Robotics HST Modems, (4) ringdown phone lines and a lot of debt.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #36 on: October 23, 2010, 05:50:43 AM »
I'm pretty sure that by '94 my A500 was already gutted and transplanted to a homemade desktop case.  It was nothing fancy, and I only had KS1.2, 2 floppy drives, 512+512 memory, and no HDD.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #37 on: October 23, 2010, 06:43:28 AM »
My first Amiga was an A500 Rev 5 purchased in 1992.  I am pretty positive that by 1994 it had been upgraded to a Rev 6 with an A500 HD8+, 4MB BaseBoard, and a 20MB hard drive.  However, around 1996 I moved to a A500+ (Rev 8) and KS3.1, A530 Turbo, 8MB, 14.4 modem, with a few 200MB hard drives and a CD-ROM.  As well, I had an A1000 with the A500 HD8+ and full complement of RAM, 20MB hard drive, running OS3.1 via SKick.

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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #38 on: October 23, 2010, 07:48:09 AM »
A1200, Microbotics memorycard with 4 or 8 MB SIMM and FPU (68882@25MHz?), 120MB HD, Well 14k4 modem, Star 9-pin color dot matrix printer, Philips SCART-TV...

And still in the closet my old A500/512k+512k/ActionReplayIII/floppydrives.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #39 on: October 23, 2010, 08:50:57 AM »
Quote from: Protek;586305
My Amiga in 1994 was like 386DX 33 MHz with 4MB of memory, a 130 MB HDD, Tseng ET3000 graphics card, Sound Blaster, 1.44 MB floppy and a VGA monitor.

Which was emough to run Linux in text mode. I had an Amiga 3000 25MHz with 6MB and NetBSD wouldn´t load X11 either. (Chip RAM was just used as a framebuffer).
However that year I ordered a 720MB HD which I have never filled up in my life. It works fine today.

My first Amiga (a 500) is pretty much unchanged in all those years. But the external CD-ROM (attached to a a590 harddrive which inherited the 80MB drive from the A3000 and has 2MB of fast ram installed) has gone now for reasons I don´t remember.

EDIT: By the way - my avatar image is that self same Amiga 3000. (editing this page doesn t work in OWB so I had to use Timberwolf, which in turn has some minor problems. - Hope you don t notice them .. Cheers!)
« Last Edit: October 23, 2010, 09:00:22 AM by lsmart »
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #40 on: October 23, 2010, 09:00:00 AM »
1994... My Amiga was either boxed or sold, as I bought a 486 somewhere in 1993.

My Amiga was an A500 rev 5 with KS 1.2, a KCS Power PC Board (a superb card), a Macrosystem Evolution SCSI controller with 80 MB drive, a Supraram 2 MB expansion, a Multivision 500 flicker fixer, an A1010 external diskdrive, a Star LC24-10 printer, a Tornado 2400 modem and a 14" SVGA screen.

It was a nice system, but when I finally reached the above configuration, I still wasn't really satisfied with it. It either needed heavy upgrading or complete replacement to make it more like I wanted it to be. It wasn't capable of running the software I wanted to use and peecees were improving very, very fast in those days.

As I noticed I mainly used the Power PC Board on my Amiga, running MS-DOS 5.0, when it was time to buy a new system I finally bought a (back then) very fast pc in 1993:

a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB ram, Viper VLB videocard with 2 MB ram, Soundblaster 16ASP soundcard, a Zoom 14k4 internal modem, 245 MB IDE-drive, all in a nice minitower, and a HP LaserJet 4L printer.

I have been using that pc for years, constantly upgrading and a expanding it: expanding ram to 32 MB, upgrading the cpu to a P24T/83, adding a wavetable card, an Adaptec AHA2742 with a Quantum Empire 1080, cdrom drive, etc. It was the first computer I used the internet on, I guess somewhere in 1996 or 1997, running Windows 95.

Its last use was as a router, running Smoothwall 0.99 with two 3Com509 network cards, and it has been used like that from 2002 up to about 2004 or 2005 after which its power supply went bust. Great machine.

And yes, I liked Windows 95. And I still do. It was a huge improvement compared to Win 3.1, pushing computers to a new era. I know most of what Win95 could do, was possible on other operating systems (such as the Amiga), but it pushed multimedia, plug & play, the internet and a very usable user interface to the masses, for which it deserves praise.

Nowadays, I have a plethora of computers in my computer room, ranging from the C64 (my first computer) to multicore, multi Ghz machines with GBs of ram and TBs of drivespace, running all kinds of old and new operating systems. I like it that way.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #41 on: October 23, 2010, 09:42:57 AM »
About this time I went mental buying stuff. 1200 (orig case) with 060/scsi and 128Mb RAM. Can't recall the HDD size, possible 40Meg? Vidi RT24, GVP genlock. Epson SCSI scanner (thing weighed a ton!) and a Multisync monitor (the one that did PAL and SVGA-can't recall the name). Also had all the boxed versions of ScalaMM400, ImageFX2.x, Brilliance 1 + 2, Imagine(anyone remember the AmigaFormat upgrade debacle?), VistaPro + Makepath, etc.
Got most of them working in WinUAE now. Just wish I could find all the manuals.......
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #42 on: October 23, 2010, 10:11:51 AM »
A nice Amiga 4000    and an a3000 with a graphics card  (retina I think)   good times

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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #43 on: October 23, 2010, 12:19:15 PM »
A1200/40 MBX 1204 with 68881, external floppy drive + tons of Mags and Disks. Soon sold it for a 486Dx266 which started my PC life got back into Amiga's about 2004-05(?) haven't looked back since.
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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« Reply #44 from previous page: October 23, 2010, 01:07:15 PM »
A600 +1MB expansion with clock expansion. (Still got).
A1200. (Swapped for a new microwave. I know I know, stop laughing).
CD32. (Still got).
A4000D 2MB+16MB, 340MB HDD. Cost £1,170 from First Computers, Leeds, UK. (Was stolen :madashell:)
Philips CM8833II monitor. (still sat at my side right now :)).
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