What was your amiga like in 1994 ?

[xPhilx]

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 .

[minator]

Don't remember exactly but I had a stock A1200 with 60MB HD probably still plugged into a SCART TV.  I also had a 8bit sampler and a Digiview which I never really used.
I got an "Aura" 12 bit sound card cheap at one point as I was going to support it in one of my apps. Aura had great sound quality, it was far far better than the Amiga itself.  I never did figure out how to get it working in the app - there was no internet to just look up stuff then.

I later upgraded to a 50MHz 030 with MMU and SCSI and I had a Jaz and Zip attached.  The Zip drives are famous for premature death but the Jaz seems to have died but the Zip drive still works to this day.


After that I got a PC and after a brief flirtation with the abysmal Windows 95 / 98 I moved to BeOS.

[odin]

A1200 with 80MB hard drive and a 030 card with 4MB RAM (maybe in it combined with a 1084S. Later in 94 I bought a 14K4 modem. Total worth of that setup was about 3000 guilders, about € 1500. I also had no savings left I think =).

In later years I upgraded to a BlizzardPPC/BVision combo. It wasn't until 2000 before I turned to the dark side and built my first x86 machine.

[J-Golden]

CD32 with an SX-1;  8 megs. mem and a 640 meg. HDD;  Princton Multisync 15" monitor; ext. floppy and that odd modem thing that plugs into the keyboard port; and of course, several different CD32 controllers (still have my compitition pro ).

[Amiga_Nut]

Well I had my 1000 and 2000 but also got one of the very first A1200s ever launched in the UK.

And amazingly in 1994 I used super high res interlace + Dpaint 3 and oversized pages with page preview (I think) for layout to create the most crisp and clean icons and diagrams for my project work on my degree that my PCs 1024x768 couldn't match. People actually asked me what I used to create such fantastic work....and I told them...a £299 (by that time) computer and a cheap ass Canon BJ10 inkjet printer. The look on their faces with their DX4-100 486 PCs was hilarious. Good times.

No harddisk, only 2mb RAM, a crappy old mono inkjet printer. Long live Amiga

[Animagic]

IIRC, I had 2 working A2000 with extras and internal genlocks and an A1200 which I had connected via the video out to a video mixing console and "chroma keyed" the amiga graphics. It also had a "ColorPic" digitiser and a second drive. The first 2000 was basic + genlock, the second had 3MB extra mem + genlock and the A1200 had a sort of accelerator. I don't remember if it was the blizzard at that time or if I bought that later.
Oh well, I do remember the most important. I was falling asleep on the A1200 rendering on Real 3D :-)

P.S. All the machines had (and still have) the classic 1084S square version monitor. Good times...
P.S.2 I do have some VHS copies of the Amigas at work (superimposing graphics or left the tapes recording while I was working the OS). Those should help me remember some stuff. I'll check it after the elections. Too much work at the time.

[cecilia]

the 90's was when I really used my Amiga to it's fullest.

I don't remember everything I added but there was acceleration - one A2000 was 030, the other was 0404 with a Magnum. I had an Opal board, DCTV. Syquest and Jazz drives.
I wrote my IFX articles for NewTekniques magazine.

did lots of animations using Imagine and some with the stand alone Lightware.

made websites using CED, iBrowse......wow, things were hoppin'  !!!!

[Merc]

A500, kickstart 2.04, 512M chip and 2.5mb fast, w/ A590 expansion and a noisy 20mb HD.  Supra 2400 modem and a 1084s.  Connected to big '70s stereo with floor speakers.  Great fun

[mechy]

A4000 040/40mhz warpengine with 128M ram.. sold a A3000 with 3640 so i could buy the used 4000. 1 gig of hard drives, vlab y/c card(i think).added the picasso IV in 95' i think and its still going today!

[koaftder]

In 1994, LOL. I was still rocking the a1000. Though back then I moved to a 386 and that sucker was much faster. I hated every bit of dos and windows but I loved how fast that machine ran my code.

[tasmanian guy]

Back in 1994 I had an Amiga 1200 with a Squirrel SCSI with a mitsumi drive.  It had a 1230, 50mhz processor with 50mhz 6882.  I had 2 megabytes of ram simm in the accelerator due to the Kobe earthquake at the time, that made ram very expensive!
 
I did the mod for two 2.5" ide drives at 40 megabytes each, making a grand total of 80 megabytes, which seemed like heaps back then considering not much game software was hard drive installable.
 
I was into Deluxe Paint IV, Amos, Vista Pro and had every Amiga Format issue (wish I had not chucked them all out) along with Amiga Shopper and CD32 Gamer magazine as well!  All unfortunately gone to be recycled......
 
I had a 1084S monitor but used an old 26" TV for the multiplayer skid marks!
 
I was saddened to see Commodore go bust and held out for a while, but the PC had well and truly caught up in a lot of areas, especially flight sims which I was heavily into at that time.  X-Wing and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe turned me over to the dark side!  All my Amiga stuff was sold off except for a select few magazines and some original games!
 
Now I have an Amiga 1200 in a rack mount kit, along with a Blizzard 68030 cruising along at 50mhz with fpu at the same speed.  I have a keyboard adaptor, 64 megabytes of ram, a compact flash card for a hard drive running os3.9 along with a registered copy of whdload.  I've got a usb mouse adaptor off ebay as well.  I also have a CD32 (again) for some of those CD based games and the compiliations that are available.  I've got an Amigamaniac SVHS adaptor too!
 
I would have to have over 100 games for the Amiga in original boxes, along with Amos, Comic Setter, Deluxe Paint V.  My collection for me is almost complete, just after a couple of more items and I'll be happy!
 
I wish I had realised how much software had gone over to the PC that I could of used but wasn't aware of, because of limited information, couldn't afford Internet after 1996.  I have recently purchased Winimages from Blackbelt Systems and Dark Basic Professional which is almost AMOS like for the PC, a great easy to use programming language.
 
The Amiga still holds a special place for me and the reason why I have acquired one along with so much gear!

[smerf]

So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?

What model, what did you have in it, etc

Hi,

I had

Amiga 4000, 68040 25mhz, Picasso II, GVP IV 24, 18 megs of ram, GVP scsi, yamaha scsi cd and HD floppy.

Amiga 3000, Spectrum video card, 18 meg ram, and several scsi drives.

Amiga 2000, with an 030 / 40 mhz accelarator with a video toaster.

Amiga 1200, with a 604e ppc card by DCE, 64 megs of ram, cdrom and 1.2 gig hard drive.

CD32 with SX-1, with a huge 250 meg hard drive.

Just a plain old vanilla wrapper Amiga 500.

Amiga 1000, with 2 meg IOspirit board, Supra scsi card and 4 scsi drives ranging from 10 meg to 1.2 gig. 1200 baud modem, and the thing I liked best was I could turn all the scsi drives off or on depending on which one I wanted to use. Really liked this machine then when we moved, my wife threw it out in the trash, mostly my fault because I told her that there was a bunch of old computers in the garage and she could just throw them out, forgot about my A1000, C64 and C128 all my Amiga Mags, and my C64 software. I will never forget those words:

Just throw all those old computers out. Don't worry they are all in the garage.

smerf

[Buzzfuzz]

Hi,
Just throw all those old computers out. Don't worry they are all in the garage.

As long as there stored dry, and reasonably warm, and batteries removed, then they should be good yeah.
But if it's cold/freezing and humidity is off the scale then they won't last long and they would probably be dead after few years of storage.

[clusteruk]

Well there you go a snapshot, out of maybe 40 response I believe there was 3 latest model big box Amiga's. Most people had A500's, A1200's which unfortunately were low margin units and people tended not to use Amiga professionaly that often, I did though in MultiMedia presentation at conferences. Amiga was mostly sold as a games/hobby machine which it was great. But better games machines were coming and Amiga would never compete because of lack of investment.

At this point I had A500 upgraded with our own designed HiQ Tower and busboard after Checkmate A1500 was killed of by Commodore, and an A4000T, lovely machine. I also had my A1000 still which is the only one I still own from those days as I gave all Amiga's away after Gateway fiasco.

[Hammer]

So 1994, commodore just took the dive. What did your amiga look like that year ?

What model, what did you have in it, etc

Model: Amiga 3000
Form: Desktop
CPU: 68030/68882 @25Mhz,
Memory:  2MB chip ram and 4 MB fast ram.
OS: Workbench 2.04
HD: ? (can't remember??)
MISC: SCSI CD-ROM 2X
Monitor: 1084S, PC SVGA (model??)

I was looking at 50Mhz 68882 overclocking hack.

My parents already has a 386 PC box at this time. Around 1996, my first PC was Pentium Classic 150Mhz (overclocked to 166Mhz) with S3 Trio UV64+ (upgraded to S3 Virge) and Windows 95.

[agami]

Well for one, my Amiga was a lot more useful and less behind the competition.

I didn't have a MS DOS/Windows PC at the time and my other computer was a Mac IIfx.

The A1200 I bought in 1993 had received a 030 50Mhz 16MB upgrade, a 200MB HD upgrade, an NEC MultiSync 3D monitor, external 3.5" floppy drive, I connected to a friend's BBS via a 14.4 kbps modem, a Genlock, Scala MM300 and maybe MM400, Final Copy II, a HP 4MP postscript laser printer, playing many AGA games, good times.