What was your amiga like in 1994 ?

[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.

[coldfish]

1994?

I think it was an A500 1Mb, that later got converted to JAMMA and put in my Arcade machine.

[drHirudo]

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

What model, what did you have in it, etc

Commodore Amiga 500 (1 MB, ROM 2.04) with Commodore 1085 RGB monitor, two Competition Pro Joysticks and approximately 400 floppy disks. Nothing more, nothing less. Pretty standard configuration for the era.

[Buzzfuzz]

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.

I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.

[runequester]

I am surprised at the lack of 1200's as there was plenty of them in my friends circle, but the 500 was definately ubiquitous.
And to be fair, you could play kickass games, do some word processing for school, and some graphics / music on the little beast.

Interestingly, almost everybody had the ram expansion to 1 megabyte.

[Franko]

I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.

Not quite, from my personal experience...

Way back at the end of 87 and the start of 88 I set up my very first business (D.T.P.) using just a couple of  A500s and some old Star dot matrix printers, It started via the Prince Of Wales Trust and I made a tidy profit for nearly two years creating Logos, Flyers, business card designs etc... for other local companies.

I always remember one of the board members of the Prince of Wales Trust, saying to me that 'computers would never replace traditional methods of graphic designers & artists in the world of business design'... (but then the old guy was in his late 70s and computers to him were just a new fangled fad that wouldn't last...) :biglaugh:

Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then.

Back to 1994, I still had my A1000 an A1500 two A500s & 2 A1200s the most souped up were the A1200s with GVP030 + 16Meg ram + tiny 120Mb HDs...

[Cass]

A500+, 2MB Chip RAM, 1.3/2.x ROM Switch, ATOnce (broken :-( ), 1084s Monitor

[Buzzfuzz]

Not quite, from my personal experience...
 
Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then.

But that was 88, 6 years further in 94 there were more and more pc's, Amiga's became very rare in businesses.
Maybe not in the UK, but here in the Netherlands I didn't see them anymore.
Then again the UK sold 30 times more Amiga's than Netherlands and Belgium combined.

[runequester]

But that was 88, 6 years further in 94 there were more and more pc's, Amiga's became very rare in businesses.
Maybe not in the UK, but here in the Netherlands I didn't see them anymore.
Then again the UK sold 30 times more Amiga's than Netherlands and Belgium combined.

Some of the difference too is that in 88, a PC cost you an arm and a leg. By 94, they only cost an arm and half the leg

[gertsy]

Amiga 2000HD without the HD. Added GVP HC8 with 4MB Ram and 120MB HD. Midi and sampled music making.

[paolone]

In 1994 I was still the happy owner of a 68030-accelerated A1200 with 4 megs of FAST ram. In the spring of the same year, however, I bought my first PC (a 486sx/25 laptop with 4 megs of RAM and a ridiculous black&white screen, but able to show 16336 colors on a external monitor), and while using it my assumptions on 'Amiga' and 'PC' started to change. I finally switched to a Pentium PC one year later.