Your first ever Amiga experience?

[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... :-?

[Acill]

No lie, here in the Us most of the computer teachers I have talked with in school have no idea what an Amiga is. I just dont know how they can be a teacher in the computer subjects and not know of the Amiga at all.

[Dalamar]

I was an avid C= 64 user from age 10 and knew of the Amiga when it was released.  I went down to the local mall computer store and drooled on their display window at the demos of Juggler and other things showing off the Amiga.  It was out of reach finacially so I had to be content with drooling and embarrasing the store folks with my constant loitering and playing.   I often go to the same mall and look at the store (which is a health food store now) and remember that.  

Ahhh, more nostalgia.  :-D

[Jope]

Aah yes, it must have been in 85 or 86.. I was a little kid back then. My godfather took me to his work (he was working at PCI-Data, the company that imported Commodores to Finland back then).. There I saw an A1000. I got to see a few games and drew with Deluxe Paint.  It was a truly magical machine, but of course I couldn't get one just then - it was very expensive.. So, I got a C-64 around 1985 and loved that too. :-)

Later on I got to use the Amiga a lot every time I was visiting my godfather, as he had an A500 of his own. All the early 80s games and apps still bring many good memories. :-) The clean 32-colour graphics and good use of the stereo abilities..

Finally in 1989 my parents caved in to my requests and one day my dad arrived from a business trip to UK with an A500 in his suitcase. Oh, joy! The machine was later upgraded with an extra 512k, an extra floppy and then ks 2.04 and an AR3.

That machine actually lasted up to 1995 in that config with daily use. I wanted a HDD so badly, but I never managed to save enough from my underpaid summer jobs. My parents weren't willing to put any more money into Amigas, as they were convinced that it's a "toy"..

I went PC after that, but got an A4000 later on. I'd have to say that this was a good thing. Without venturing outside the world of Amigas for a while, I probably wouldn't be employed at the moment.. PC skills are very important nowadays and I actually thank my father for seeing that back then (even though he didn't necessarily understand it fully himself ;-).

Still love the AmigaOS.. It's always so nice to sit down at the A4000 and boot it up and forget the outside world. ;-)

[voxel]

Well ,

First time I saw an Amiga, it was an A1000 in a french magazine called "LED Micro" back in 1984/5. The mag featured a lengty report of the Worl Premiere of the Amiga, with beautifull photos (What a Beast!), screenshots (aaah! kingtut), and an extensive cover of how it amazed the great Andy Warrol.

I was blown out! and instantaneously felt in love ! That WILL BE THE Computer I want and I got it... well in 1998 (A1000 won on IBazar for 600 French Francs) ;-)

In the meantime I saved all that I can on my small revenue and finally bought my real first Amiga in 1987: an Amiga 500 + A501 + DPaint II for the amazing sum of 9000 Francs at the time :-)  and never regret it. Soon after I bought an external floppy to avoid to many swapping ;-) and one of the very first version of PageStream (was called Publishing Partner Master at the time).

Since this purchase I never bought ANY other computers than Amigas, currently I own 23 units, almost all the models ever made, except the A600, A4000T, A1500, and prototypes :-D (BTW, if you have these model you want to sell... :-) )

Of course I tried or was forced to work on others (PeeCees (berk berk berk :-P ) and MacIntoshes (better) but never found the same feeling/ease of use/power than with my Amiga.

I'm currently waiting for AmigaOS4.0 to buy an AmigaONE G4 to complete my collection, I will don't mind a laptop too, but don't despair to see one day a real new custom Amiga ;-)

Amigalement,
Jean-François, Amiga ONLY since 1985.

[JFK]

I got my first one, A500 WB1.3 1/2 meg Ram for my Boy back in '89.......He aint had a look in since!!  :-D

[fragment]

I'm soooo newschool compared to you. Got my first A500 in 2002 and A1200 in 2003  :-D

[jimbob]

Getting a Batpack for Christmas 1989. I had wanted an ST as all my mates had them, but thankfully, my Dad knew someone who knew better than my mates!

I was so keen to get it setup that I managed to completely miss the audio to modulator Y lead and was happily playing Batman and New Zealand Story without sound for a few hours before I realised...

[Crusher]

My cousin had bought an A500 with a 1084 monitor and the game Mercenary. I was totally sold on Amiga after that.
We played the game all night and after that he showed me Amegas.
6 months later I bought an secondhand A500, the seller thought that it was broken, it wasn´t. It was the floppydrive that was broken so I fixed it and had many fun hours with it and the rest is history.  :-)

[Jope]

fragment wrote:
I'm soooo newschool compared to you. Got my first A500 in 2002 and A1200 in 2003  :-D

Interesting.. :-) What drives a person to the Amiga so long after C= died?

Surely not advertising. :-)

[ami500]

Mmmm..... Got my first amiga a couple of months ago. (A500 + A590 HDD module).

Then got a 1084s monitor for it, and a couple of weeks ago got a 2.04 rom ,workbench 2.1 + a new mouse for it. Oh yes, and a 2gig scsi hdd for the a590. All up now I've also added a 512k expansion to the amiga itself, and I put in 2meg more ram into the a590, giving the machine 3MB all up.

[Calen]

Got my C-64 probably around '87/88 and thats pretty much around the time when i learned of the Amiga.

Seen it running first time in local computer shop around '89/90 and was blown away, i couldnt afford one so ended up with an STE, there was no love there and it was gone within 6 months. I then finally could afford the real comp that i wanted and that was the Amiga,  around '90/91 which was the A500+.
Turrican and lots of scene demos (phenomena enigma) had totaly blown me away. Absolutely nothing touched the Amiga in gfx and sound back then.  :-)

Got the A1200 around about 6 months after it's release...late '93/early '94 and spent most of the years after adding all sorts to it, 030 to 040, HD/CD-Roms/Towers and all the usual stuff, last big spend on it was the BPPC with BV around '99 ish

[stefcep]

In 1995.  I wanted to buy a sNES to play games.  but a friend said easier to get games for the amiga and the graphics were smoother than a PC.  i had never heard of amiga before, but when I saw Adams Family ( crap game ) on an A500 with 1084 i was amazed by the smooth sprites, vivid coors stereo sound.  then bought a GVP HD with 2 meg ram.  Then put joystick down to play with Dpaint,Got Real 3d from Amiga format, needed more cpu power, sold A500 for A1200 with 40 mhz 030, multiscan monitor, found AGA too slow for photogenics, then waited and saved and saved until i bought my dream machine a4000 68060 with CV64 17 inch monitor,CDRW, Hypercom

[SilvrDrgn]

Saw an A500 running the "El Gato" demo at a Software, Etc. store (if I remembe right) in a shopping mall.  That was1986, I believe.  Decided then and there that I had to have one.

[fragment]

Jope wrote:

fragment wrote:
I'm soooo newschool compared to you. Got my first A500 in 2002 and A1200 in 2003  :-D

Interesting.. :-) What drives a person to the Amiga so long after C= died?

Surely not advertising. :-)

I never owned an Amiga (nor any Commodore machine), only MSX and many PC's. First I wanted to play old games, and got a few 500's and a 1083 quite cheap and I was happy for some time. Then I wanted more and more.  And now I've spent quite a nice amount of money (for a student) in the A1200 and its expansions.  I use it for games and demos, and it's also an excellent machine for demoparties.  I'm also planning learning some AGA programming..

[minator]

It was 1987 I think, a friend was going to sell me his C128 but then I read about the Atari and thought that sounds far better...  Then one day I was in Belfast and went to have a look in a computer shop at the Atari, they had an Amiga showing the Newtek demo reel 1 with HAM pics, I was completely gobsmaked - forget the Atari!

I couldn't afford an A500 (they were 700 GBP at the time) but I later found somewhere selling old French A1000's cheap, so I got one of those - complete with stickers over the keys!

I later got an A520 20MB HD and 2MB RAM upgrade which plugged into the A1000 backwards and made a lot of noise.  I also changed the CPU for a 68010.

Then in about 91 I got an A500+, later I went to an A1200 and a 60MB HD.  It also got a 50MHz 030, Zip and Jaz drives.  I still have it but haven't used it in years.

I got an A1000 in 2002 in France this time but this time with US keyboard - go figure.  I was messing with it the other night, I finally found a driver for Radeon video capture in BeOS and was checking it out.