Are you new to the Amiga or old timer person to the Amiga.??????

[Borut]

Nice story Sean Cunningham - I liked the reading a lot. You are a lucky man beeing so deeply involved in some fascinating work, even more when it was done with the miggys ;-)

I got mine A500 somewhere back in 1989 when I was 12. Wanted a C64 like my friend because of the many games - lucky me my brother dicided to buy this used gift for me. Even more lucky me because I got also a Phillips CM8833 with an old Apple Sticker popped on top of it???

Firstly I was the only one in the neighborhood with an miggy but after some searching I found some people for "exchanging" ;-) games. The most lived "far" away - some 1 hour bike ride. Not much time passed and quite some of mine friends upgraded to an miggy :-))

Until 1994 my main use was gaming and typing/printing for school or fun with Textomat on an Star LC-10 color 9 needle printer - wow :-)) Before that I soon had to buy that 512 kb RAM expansion and then also a second DD (it was a hard decision to choose between that and a handy-scanner - but my decision was the right one). HD were so extremely expensive here :-( for the C= at least. I also painted a little bit in DPaint or Sonix.

With the demise of C= (the day is also my birthday - what a coincidence!) I finally got more and more interested in this wonderful machine and switched more and more from buying Amiga-Gaming Magazines also to the ones which dealed with the serious stuff. Luckily a friend quickly sold his more or less new A1200 (and I my A500 with beginning errors on vector graphics) with this beast my intense Amiga story really began when I discovered that I can watch that colourfull JPGs from PCs - it began to get really usefull. An new boost was finally a harddisk a year or two later and soon a CD-ROM and an 17" monitor. Then a Blizzard 1230IV. Then I towered it - crappy Micronic keyboard interface.
When I began to work I soon bought this long desired used A4000/030 with CV643D some TBC and other nice stuff. Then another A4000/040 and I sold the former one. The came a used but pricy CSPPC - I was in heaven :-))))))

After I got a cheap CDTV and A3000 and CD32 I started my collectors careeer :-( After buying more or less a full lot from another collector I now have a little too much to use - life evolved. But it don`t stopped me to buy on of the last µA1 and 2 years ago also a MOS-MAC-G4MDD.

I am not a big fan of the emulation but I am happy that there is at least this option. The Classics are the best but I like the possibilitys of the NGs which carry the system, I like most in the world, to modern possibilitys at faster speed.

[rockape]

@mcbone

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX+3 which cost me £150.

(There was a £50 voucher off the standard price of £199.99 in "The Mirror" Newspaper I used).


Regards, Michael

aka rockape


The only stupid question is the question which is never asked.

[motrucker]

I got me first C-64 in late '83, first C-128 in late '85, and my first Amiga in late '86.  I have been using Commodore computers ever since. Currently I depend on an A2000 revision 6.2 motherboard with a GVP '030 card. Far from the fastest Amiga I have owned, but it works quite well. I may setup another video Toaster, who knows. I still use the A2000 to work on graphics along with my Windows machine.
I play a few games on it - but my game machine is an Amiga A1000 with 4.5Mb of RAM, and a laser mouse. With Kickstart 1.1, 1.2, & 1.3 disks, I can play almost any Amiga game.
Does that answer your question?

[nyteschayde]

The Amiga was the first computer I ever owned back in '89. I had used the C64s and Vic-20s at school as well as the Apple IIs but I always had to sit back and watch because my parents weren't college educated and couldn't see the merit in a computer besides games.

I learned to program on the Amiga and have been doing software engineering professionally for the last 15-16 years. Amongst the long string of companies I've worked at, I've notably worked for Google, Netflix and I now work for Facebook.

I still have at least 4 Amiga's in my office (3 assembled and ready to run)

[ZeBeeDee]

Old timer.

My first computer was the Sinclair ZX80 back in 1980. I had to wait 4 months after it's initial release before mine arrived due to the great waiting list. Couldn't get a pre-built model so had to buy the kit instead

It was also my first real dealings with a soldering iron putting it together ... Happy days!

[eliyahu]

@mcbone

new-ish, i suppose. although i knew of them back in the 80s and 90s, i never bothered with them. first time i used an amiga was in 2010 and i've been hooked ever since.

-- eliyahu

[mechy]

Old timer for sure....

I started on a ti99/4a  in 1980 i think which was shortlived.I wrote my first extended basic program with sprites on it however. It was a engine with moving internals.
Started with a c64 in late 82' when my friend came back from germany with one and a nice color monitor, i was hooked. I had to have one.
I had tons of fun on the c64 interfacing stuff to it like a home made burglar alarm for the house using the joyports and S.A.M for speech to yell out "Intruder Alert-section B" etc.
when i had installed it in my room,i forgot to mention it to my mom and she came in to have this siren go off and the computer yelling intruder!-scared her half to death.

Went to sears quite often to load malicious programs on the c64's and 128s there. We would turn up all the monitor volumes and load a police siren like program that would go off as soon as someone touched a key. we would wait by the door and watch it happen and laugh like fools!

Got modem and hit the bbs's.. learned to phreak(before ESS came) and called worldwide bbs's to get new warez. I also was on Qlink(quantum link) around 85 or so,and had a ball there.. many people never knew we had a national online service like Qlink just for c64/128 with irc like chat and such.

I had a c128dcr in here also,i think i got it around 1986. I expanded it later with CMD ramlink,CMD HD,and a CMD super cpu eventually. great machine.

The first time i saw the Amiga, it was in the local PX around 1986 and it was playing the newtek demo i think.. I must have watched it over and over for a hour with my jaw on the floor.

around them the local commodore club had some amiga guys showing up with A1000. One guy actually printed color brochures off his A1000 for the club, They seemed incredible for the time.

I got my first amiga, the A2000 in late 87. I soon expanded it with a Ivs Vector 030 card and scsi cdrom(wow they were expensive!!!). I thought i was in high heaven but the A3000 was soon out. I quickly realised the benifeit of a all true 32bit machine with zorro3 and sold the 2000 and got a 3000.

The 3000 was expanded with a A3640 and 16Mb ram and a external scsi cdrom i put in a old ibm floppy case given to me. The 3000 was a truely sweet machine and i did quite a bit with it. But i sold it also.

My good friend had a A4000 and warpengine 040/40 around 92-94 and i ended up buying it for a song. This was a real power house and i soon added a picasso IV and i was in 24bit bliss! best card i had ever bought. eventually it became a 060 machine and today is still running 24/7 with a csppc and mediator/radeon etc.

Tinkering with everything from dpaint to lightwave 5x to anything in between kept me so busy, it just seemed the world was infinite then. Great days.

I still have all my c64,128dcr's and amigas.The A4000 is in daily use.

[Drummerboy]

I am from the old times.

My first computers contact was with the Texas Instrument TI99. Later C=64 and Atari 8 bits (the real Amiga predecessor)

1985, appears the Amiga 1000, then i came from thats Amiga times to the date.

I meet Internet on Amiga, and Amiga was my main computer until 2010.

[nickoteen]

Got my 1st Amiga (A500) in 2011 or 2012 as a gift from a good friend. He got it somewhere, didn't know what to do with it, so he gave it to me. It was all yellow and without any expansions/disks but I fell in love. Yeah, she won me over at first sight. I'm a new timer then I guess...

[yssing]

Bought my first amiga, an A500, in 93.
I have been hooked ever since that time.

[kjmann]

Old Timer Here. I bought my first amiga 500 In '89. I had saved for quite a while to buy it. I was upgrading from an Atari ST. lol.

[gertsy]

Old Timer Here. I bought my first amiga 500 In '89. I had saved for quite a while to buy it. I was upgrading from an Atari ST. lol.

Me too. I bought a 2000 that year.  Had been using my housemate's 500 a bit.  Even though I had a C128D.  When I moved out I sold the 128 and got my 2000.