Your first ever Amiga experience?

[AmiDelf]

I just wonder what was your first ever Amiga? Why did it take you by storm? Interesting reading...

Me...
Well, I got myself mine in 1988. My parents asked me if I wanted a C64 or a A500. I said A500 and got it. Played a lot, and got a bit borred of it, so in 1990 I found out that Amiga is for more than just fun.

Got myself Deluxe Paint and started to draw. In 1993 I sold my Amiga 500, with 1084 monitor and Commodore printer, for the same price wich I bought it in 1988.

For one year, I looked at PC's, tried them. But it wasnt the same and in August 1994. I've got myself my first computer with HD. It was Amiga 1200, with 260mb HD, AmigaOS v3.0 and 14" Microvitec monitor.

From that day, when AmigaOS v3.0 booted in between 1 and 2 seconds on a 14.17MHz computer. I knew that this computer will be my for ever It amazed me so much, that I still run Amiga. I love it and Windows95 didn't scared me off. I knew all the time that Amiga is the best choice for me.

And I hope to be an Amigan for the rest of my life

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[redrumloa]

Umm.. Quickly.. I was a C64 user in ~84, wanted an A1000 in 85 but couldn't afford one, so I saved my pennies and bought a C128. Finally in ~88 I got an A500.  Honestly I bought it for it's gaming capabilities, gfx and sound were just so much better than anything out there at the time :-o

[Cyberus]

I was thirteen, she was thirteen, we used to walk home the same way from school and one day we got talking....

Oh wait...it was round at a mate's house. His parents had an A2000 (one where you had to insert a 1.2 kickstart disk) I remember it had a hard drive and a bridgeboard and after seeing him play around with it, seeing WB, the way it would 'mount' the HD  :-P and just generally playing games I was in love. The following Christmas I got my mum to shell out the 399GBP necessary for my own A500....

[odin]

Well.....I guess the first time I saw a miggy was somewhere in 87. At a friend of my big brother. Playing some flight sim. In my memory reconstruction I later deduced that it prolly was F/A-18 Interceptor :-).

It wasn't untill 91 that I wanted a computer (I had an Atari 2600 I inherited from my brothers before that :-)). I looked at C64's and nearly bought a second hand one cos it had F15 Strike Eagle. But I decided no to, so with the coming of Sinterklaas to The Netherlands in 91 I bought a Kick 1.3 A500 at Byte computerstore in Groningen and a 1084s at Tandy.

Had some neat games with it, Days of Thunder, SotB II, Nightbreed Action Game (gawd that was scary, hey I only was 11 ;-)) and something else.

I managed to destroy my SotB II disks by pulling them about or switching of while it was booting. Still have those disks up to this day.

Then I discovered the workbench disks and c:Say...aaaaaaaah the fun I had with that. Soon ofcourse I grew bored with the games and started copying stuff. The most notable games back then for me must've been Birds of Prey and Wolfpack (AWOOOOOOOOOGA AWOOOOOOOOOOOOGA).

In september 92 I bought The One magazine for the first time and kept buying that mag till it was deceased in 95(?). Great humour for adolescent brats like me :-). And I learned quite a lot of English from reading Amiga mags I think.

Early 93 I sold my A500 and bought an A1200 (bought that one in Dokkum).

Got a modem in 94 due to a big article about datacomms in the only Dutch Amiga Magazine. Great times I had chatting with sysops and leeching warez (*cough*).

Eventually I started using the modem for internet access (guess that must've been ~96) and slowly but surely my Fidonetting and BBS'ing declined.

Then I discovered IRC. Oh dear. That cost my parents a sweet load of money. Not to mention the complaints about keeping the phone line busy.

Bought PPC/Bvis in 99 or thereabouts which I kept using until I got my first PC in 2001. Still have the A1200, with which I had a hate/love relation with eversince I got that damned PPC.

Don't use my Amiga for much else than IRC and email these days really. Holding on to it hoping OS4 will run on it

-edit- Deja-vu?

I think I've already seen a thread like this ....

[that_punk_guy]

1997. For some reason, I'd just always wanted an Amiga. The first thing I remember seeing on an Amiga was Zool 2 running on an A500. The game looked really good, and there was just something exotic about Amigas. I swapped my SuperNES for that same one, which a small part of my mind regrets (I had a lot of sweet games for the SNES) but in the end it was my introduction to this world... I eventually gave the A500 away, when I got my A1200.

[that_punk_guy]

odin wrote:
Deja-vu?

I think I've already seen a thread like this ....

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2014

[odin]

Ah cheers. Guess I couldn't be arsed to reply back then :-).

[XDelusion]

I began as a true Jay Minor fanatic, not with that flakey (but often times kool) C64, but rather with an Atari 400. I spent a lot of time with my Atari and joined a small Atari 8-bit user's group finally in the early 90's. That is when I went to one of the user's houses and he showed me his Multi-tasking Amiga 500 which TOTALLY blew me away! Apple Macs were far from impressive and the 386's of the time were even less so. I had seen pictures of the Amiga running in old computer magazine's in the 80's and knew that if you were going to pick what computer to buy a game for you were HIGHLY suggested to go with Amiga over Mac or PC, but actually using an Amiga was something new all together!

 So as fate would have it, he aquired another 500 and sold it to me, after which I spent a lot of time doing OctaMED tunes, and trying to understand the OS. I eventually upgraded to a 2000 (hated it) 600, broken 3000 (sad story) and eventually a 1200 which was later stolen. So now I am stuck with emulation till I have enough flow to order my new 1200.

 I REALLY can not wait to see the future of Amiga OS, I just wish it could run on Mac Hardware so badly!

[Doobrey]

I first saw one at a friends one day after school.
We played Microprose' Formula One for ages, and it just blew me away. He had a standard A500, and when he told me about the A1200 which was about to be released, I knew I had to have one.

[Plaz]

About 1987 I went to a commodore 64/128 user group, saw an A500 being demoed with an animated  looney tune cartoon with stereo sound, went home and sold my 128....... and here I am almost 14 years later.

Plaz

[graffias79]

My first Amiga was the A1000.  Got that for cheap with kickstart and workbench 1.1,  1.2, and 1.3.  Back then I for some reason used the Kickstart 1.2 disk the most. Anyway it had a Spirit Technology Inboard (I think it was called) so it had an additional 512k of fastram. Plus of course the additional 256k front connector.  My friend wanted an Amiga too so he found himself an A1000 but he was jealous because his only had 512k of ram.  Anyway one year later i traded it in to the computer store I got it from for an A500 with WB 1.3.2, Supra A501 clone card, and C=1084 monitor.  I still have that 500, but now I have an A2000, an A1200, and A3000T.  I liked my A1000 for all the tricks I could do with it, but I really fell in love with the A500.  Ordered some regular software like DPaint III, which I immediately got addicted to and some PD disks from TLAS in Texas and started myself into Music with OctaMED 4.  Long live Amiga!!  :-)

[downix]

My first experience?  After the premiere of Star Trek Generations I got to chatting with some friends in the parking lot of the movie theatre.  Discussion was normal, bad movie, summoning demons, the usual chit-chat of teenagers.  I mentioned this Compaq I'd just bought and my friend went "you ain't seen a computer yet."  Went back to his house, and he showed me his pride and joy:

An Amiga 1500

For hours the thing blew me away.  With an 030-50Mhz onboard, this thing was amazing.

I couldn't afford buying one till '97 or so however.

[angrybrit]

I had an Amiga 500 (with video adaptor for TV output).

A-10 tank killer (that game was guru addicted), Gods, etc... :-D

We added 512K of ram in the slots on the bottom after a year.

Then came the Tandy 1000TL2 (with SimCity and Eye of the Beholder) and the Amiga died out in the closet. :-(

[Acill]

I was a C64 user up to 1986 when I got a used A1000 at last. I loved it and used it and hacked the heck out of it up to 1989 when I sold it to buy the A3000 I have now. I've never looked back and still use it on a regular basis. My favorite thing to do was show it off in computer class at school. The teacher would talk about how great the PC was and say how cool windows 3.0 was, then in college some professor said Windows was the first real multi tasking OS, I mentioned my Amiga and he never heard of it. I brought it in and showed him the Demos and stuff I collected. He was totaly blown away! I couldnt believe this computer could do all it did at the time it was new. I told him I had to even slow it down and degrade it because the demos and games wee made for a much slower system. I loved that!!!!

[that_punk_guy]

Acill wrote:
some professor said Windows was the first real multi tasking OS

It's astonishing how ill-informed some professors can be... :-?