When was your 1st Amiga

[swift240]

I bought my first ever Amiga in 1992 Amiga 600.
I jumped from a Commodore 64c to this new Amiga machine.
I was amazed by the Workbench and the games with all those colours.
I paid £200.00 at the time from Comet in Redditch one Saturday afternoon.

2 weeks before that I got my very first Amiga magazine on the front cover was a 2 floppy disks with "Interword" on
I worked a week of my holliday to get the over time money.
This was 12 years ago.  All I could do was read and read until I got my A600.

Now I got a 1200 expanded.
Do you remember your very first ever Amiga and when it was?
And your first program for it?

Mike......

 :-D

[Karlos]

My first experiences with amiga were back in 1986 or so. I didn't get to own one until 1992, again an A600, a present from my Mum who could remember my earlier droolings.

I hadn't been into computers for some time, but I was soon hooked again. I got myself an A1200 by the end of the same year.

I still used my A600 right up until a few years ago when it mysteriously died :-(

I used to have it connected to my then 1.28Gb HD 16Mb 040 A1200 via a parallel connection and booted from a custom floppy that launched ParNET. OS2.05 was installed in a folder on the A1200's hard disk and all the assigns and stuff were set there during booting. It was cool :-D

I still have the A600 in the hope I can get it fixed at some stage, but that depends on working out what died in the first place...

[restore2003]

I got my first amiga(an a500) in 1988, the first program i got, was deluxe paint II, and DOC`s SoundTracker.

Ahhh, happy times! Also discovered the demo scene shortly after, used to impress friends with the red sector megademo, they shortly after bought Amiga`s aswell   :-)

[Lemmink]

My first Amiga was an A600 too. I got it in 1993 short before Commodore went under. It was a blow out sale at Karstadt for 299 DM. The first Softwar eI got was Wingcommander and I got it over 2 Months in advance. Yes I completed Wingcommander on a bog standard A600 playing from floppy.
The first expansions I got was an external secondary drive and a 1MB Chip-RAM expansion at 149 DM each.
Those were the days ;-)

[Loki1]

My first amiga was the A1000 in 1986.

Upgraded to A2000 when is first appeared.

Skipped the A3000.

Upgraded A2000 ----> A4000 when A4000 first appeared.

Have also owned A500, A1200 & CD32 at one time or another.

Currently only have the orignal (almost, new MB) A4000.

Also Amiga Forever 4.x for my WindBlows machines:roll:

Loki :-D  

[Kronos]

Seems noone is answering the question asked ...

Stupid answer 1:
Bout 5 o'clock ......

Stupid answer 2:
1 Jan 77 (or does my memory betray me here ?)



 :-P  :-P  :-P

[Waccoon]

I asked my dad for an A1000 after seeing Deluxe Music Construction Set and Arctic Fox running on one.  I think I got it in '87.  Eventually got a 2MB fast RAM upgrade that plugged into the CPU socket and filled the entire top of the machine.  Man, that was a lot of memory chips.  :-)

I went straight to the A1200HD.  I got the first one in stock, and replaced the 40MB drive with an 85MB, 6MB fast RAM, and an FPU (for 3D rendering).  I was really disappointed with it, though.  The CPU was too damn slow, and the hard drives (both of them) were REALLY noisy and parked the heads continuously after each access.  I was rather surprised that so many of my old games worked, though.  I used it mostly for DPaint and MIDI through OctaMED.  I bought my first PC (a 386) a year later, but only used it for DOS games.  Win95 was my first Windows.  I'm thankful I never had to endure Win 31.  If I did, I probably would never had gotten that 386.  ;-)

[Waccoon]

Stupid answer 2:
1 Jan 77 (or does my memory betray me here ?)

Funny how a computer manufactured in '92 defaults to the year '77!  Not putting a battery clock in the A1200 was pretty dumb.  I'm glad my FPU board came with one.

[x56h34]

I've started with a ZX Spectrum 48k, somewhere in 1983. My dad sold it in 1986 and bought us shortly a C64c. Ever since I've heard of A500 I wanted it badly, but I wasn't able to get one until mid 1995. My friends were all into music making on their Amigas. I spent days and months at my friend's place playing around in ProTracker on his A600. Finally, I was able to purchase an A500 in '95.

I brought it to another friend who was familiar with soldering, so that he could modify my A500 to detect 1MB of chip ram instead of half/half. I needed this in order to be able to compose more comfortably in ProTracker. :-)

[PMC]

My first Amiga was (and still is - I still own it) an A500 bought in February 1990.  Beforehand I'd had a Spectrum 128k +2, and the jump to Amiga was nothing short of astonishing.  Within a year, the A500 had an A501 RAM expansion, twin external floppy drives, a Mastersound sampler and a Phillips CM1183 Monitor.

I can never forget playing stuff like Batman the Movie, Interceptor and Shadow of the Beast and thinking "wow!".

Since then I bought an A1200 in January 1994 (which I'm using right now) which has been upgraded over the years ;-)

Elsewhere I have a PS2 and an Athlon 2500 PC.

[SilvrDrgn]

Mine was (still is) an Amiga 500 that I bought from a friend in the summer of 1990.  It was bare bones, stock at the time.  I have since upgraded it a lot.  Check out all my computers at my About My Computers page.

[DIABLO_NEGRO]

My first amiga is my A2000 that I bought last year!!

but I have been using them since '86 and mostly using the toaster from '91-'94!

I waited almost 10 years before i could get my hands on one with the toaster!!

I saw a500 in a thrift store in '96 when I went to the ATM and came back some {bleep} snached it before I could get it! :pissed:

[Rebel-CD32]

I got my first Amiga 500 back in 1987 when they first came out. We were actually going to the shop to buy a Commodore 64, but the guy there showed us how awesome the Amiga was, and after handing over around $1000, we were the proud owners of the world's most advanced (and coolest) computer.

[MarkTime]

I've never owned an amiga.


ok, just kidding.

well, my first comp was a TI/994A, and I later got an Atari 400 second hand, and then a CoCo Model III, and then finally got a Commodore 64.

nevermind the dates being mixed up, some were new, some used....and then I got a Atari 520ST, which was an awesome experience, of course I knew the Amiga was better, but I was cost sensitive.

Eventually I did get an Amiga, starting with an Amiga 1200, later getting a towerized version of the same, and work gave me an A2500 which I promptly got rid of...

I have no amiga at this time.

[cecilia]

April 12, 1989
Amiga 2000, just the box but with two floppy drives.

DPaint lll
Word Perfect

I still have it. I added memory (8UP)
accellerators - i think it's got a Dillinger 030

it used to have a supraDrive, but that died at some point. i forget what's in there now controlling the HD.

added DCTV
oh, and a Studio16 (mono) card.

my other 2000 has the Magnum 040 and an OpalCard. but i stipped using that after I got a spectrum card.
that HD died and i haven't had time or money to replace it.
someday.