How did you get your first Amiga?

[Harrison]

How did you come to own your very first Amiga?

[Demon Cleaner]

I remember this very good. I was in school, and when it was over, I got out and my parents waited for me. Didn't know why, as the school was not situated in our hometown, but 4 miles away, and I always took the bus to get there.

They didn't say anything, and myself, I didn't also ask why. So I got into the car and we drove at the shop called Eurobureau, where they had computer stuff. Still not knowing why we got there, as I still had my C64, and I thought that perhaps my father was needing something.

So we entered the shop, and my mom said to me, tell the vendor what it is that you wish the most. I thought, wtf, and told him of course, it's an amiga baby. Only at that point I realized my dream's coming true. I got the A500 with a 1084S monitor. I still remember the price, it was exactly 40.000LUF, which is now 1.000€. That was a lot of money at that time.

[Harrison]

WOW! That must have been an amazing surprise. My parents didn't have the money in those days for such great surprises. And €1000 is for sure a lot of money. And even better getting a 1084S monitor with the A500. I had to do with a portable 14" colour TV for many years until I saved enough for a Philips monitor.

My parents did however surprise me with my Amstrad CPC464. I had wanted a computer all that year but I knew my parents didn't have much money so I didn't hold much hope and just went round to friends houses after school to play on their BBCs and Spectrums. Then come Christmas morning the CPC was sitting there under the Christmas Tree. I found out more recently that they actually couldn't afford it and had to take out a 3 year repayment to buy it for me. I will never forget that.

And that reminded me. When I had the Atari ST, I didn't even have a colour TV and had to use a crappy old 12" B/W TV, the type with the rotating tuning dial. That wasn't great at all and I used to grab the big downstairs TV to play games on whenever I could. Thinking back, I wonder why I never got a converter for the Amstrad monitor and just used that :unsure:

[Merlin]

Mine was an A500+ bought as an Xmas pressie by my dad, before that I used his C64 with it's 1541 disk drive, he even got me to Action Replay his C64 collection from tape onto 5 1/4 disks for him, my first exploits in hacking....

He was a bit p'eed off when I swapped the A500+ for an A600, but he saw the reason why when I put a 40 Mb (WOW) 2.5" laptop hard drive into it, ahh the days of disk swapping at the local cricket club on Monday evenings...the club members wondering how I booted WB so quickly, LOL

I always wanted an A1200 but the price was silly at the time, £399 if I remember correctly.

I have an A600 now (a new floppy drive for it arrived today from Amigakit) and possibly another on the way via the EAB, I am doing the A600+ project that Zetro of Oldskool and EAB has done, but I am using a hard drive for better software compatbility.

I also have an A500, a 500+ and a couple of A1200s in various states of repair,some I traded old PC hardware for them and I got one A1200 from Ebay for £10, which had a 130Mb hard drive and a 4Mb expansion board in it, I wonder what that machine cost originally...??!

I am going to get them all working in my spare time, one of the A1200s will also get the "A1200 Plus" DVD-ROM drive treatment so I can transfer adf files quicker.

It's a hobby which will keep me busy for a while....

[Harrison]

The 4MB expansion board for an A1200 originally cost £179.99. I know this well because that is what I paid when the A1200 was new. :cry:

I also think the A1200 dropped in price very quickly from £399 to £299 as that is what I paid for my first one not long after it came out. Definitely a great machine and my personal favourite Amiga as an all round machine with the best expansion short of going for a big box Amiga.

You may cry yourself when i tell you of a project I have been planning for some time, and one that I've mentioned on the old classicamiga board some time ago. I want to take an A1200, gut it, replacing the internals with a PC!!! :o Wire the Amiga keyboard up via USB using a Keyrah interface, mount a laptop DVD-RW in the lefthand side (similar to how many have mounted one in A1200 projects) and then I will have a very portable PC which will be perfect for emulation.

[Merlin]

The A1200 case would lend itself to a motherboard with something like the old Western Digital layout that Compaq or Dell used on their office machines like the Dell Optiplex GX series (God I am sad to be able to recall all this crap) where all of the I/O ports are in a line, that way you wouldn't be hacking the case about too much.

Another alternative is an ITX Shuttle mobo.

I'm not a fascist when it comes to Amiga or PC modding, to each his own, if you are gutting the Miggy, I might be interested in the old innards... :)

Merlin

[Demon Cleaner]

I also had to use my C64 with a b/w TV in the beginning, and I didn't have the floppy drive. I saved a lot of money to be able to afford one, and that was about 2 years later I had the computer. When I finally bought the 1541, I costed 375€, wow.

[Submeg]

Like I said before...the computer was there before I was. lol.

[Harrison]

The A1200 case would lend itself to a motherboard with something like the old Western Digital layout that Compaq or Dell used on their office machines like the Dell Optiplex GX series (God I am sad to be able to recall all this crap) where all of the I/O ports are in a line, that way you wouldn't be hacking the case about too much.

Another alternative is an ITX Shuttle mobo.

I'm not a fascist when it comes to Amiga or PC modding, to each his own, if you are gutting the Miggy, I might be interested in the old innards... :)

Merlin

Well, the plan is to use a mini or micro itx motherboard inside the A1200 case. This will reduce the noise to nearly zero as there are many with completely passive cooling. In addition, using an external power supply, will reduce heat even more inside the case and will mean there shouldn't need to be any fans at all. Although I will test this by soak testing the system and monitoring temperatures once its built.

Alternatively I may opt for a faster Intel Core Duo based mini ITX based motherboard which would require some cooling but offers more processing performance.

Although the new Pico-ITX design is interesting me at the moment with up to 1.5GHz passively cooled CPUs and a motherboard size measuring just 100 x 72 mm in size! :o Just imagine some of the cases you could fit that in! You could probably even build a PC based around a ZX Spectrum case with that one! And one really cool thing is that it only needs a 22W PSU and only consumes 1W of Power. That could actually be a really good thing to base a file server on. 1.5GHz would easily be fast enough with enough ram to run a file sharing, ftp and torrent downloading machine. :) And no noise as it's completely passively cooled.

[Teho]

I bought my first Amiga with my own money that I'd saved up, an A500. I'd only had C64s before that. Went through several C64s in those early years, at least one of them I bought myself too. I know my older brother bought one, and the first one we had was bought for us by my dad.

[Toasty667]

Birthday. If anyone says stole do they get banned?:busted::lol:

[Stephen Coates]

My A500+ was purchased second hand from a school, which my next door neighbor worked at in 1997.

Cost £50 and included mouse, joystick, games and some software, and a 1mb ram expansion.

We bought a seperate JVC 14" colour television to use with it. I continued to ue this as a TV until 2004 when it borke and bought a new one, which also now doesn't work properly.

Although recently I have bought lots of goodies for the A500+ myself, including a CM8833-II, extra drive, HD + RAM expansion and a modem.

All other Amigas I have purchased myself over the last 2 or so years.

[v85rawdeal]

I purchased my first Amiga A500 from a friend when he upgraded to an A2000.

It cost me £600 at the time, (1991) and came with a whole MB of memory and a 40mb Hard Drive and a whole load of software, including stuff that he was beta-testing before release.

[Harrison]

That still sounds pretty expensive.

[TiredOfLife]

I think I paid £400 for the 500+
Later sold it for a £100 (I think) and bought an A1200 for £299

[J T]

I got the A500 as a joint birthday and Christmas present, but my Dad was also very keen to get it (in fact I seem to remember him coming up with the idea).

As you all know, it was the mighty 'Batman: the movie' pack :thumbs:

[Rebb/TRSI]

My first Amiga was much awaited Christmas gift in 1990. Wasn't big suprise to get one, as I already had seen the boxes at attic just few weeks before. So when I finally got it at christmas eve, I already had games and demo's for it. And had started swapping some days before :)

[Demon Cleaner]

Wasn't big suprise to get one, as I already had seen the boxes at attic just few weeks before.:nogood: always good to know where presents are kept away from children.

[toomanymikes]

When I was a kid my friend had a loan of a NES - i was amazed by the graphics compared to my Speccy 48k so I went home and asked for one for christmas. A massive 8 months later it arrived and I went about trying to complete Super Mario untill the folks kicked me out to get some fresh air. After a few years my friend got an Amiga 500 - he was the kind of guy, and still is, that had all the latest stuff, just how his folks afforded it is beyond me. Anyhoos he was playing Turrican 2 and it blew me away, more than the NES had those years before. I went home and pestered my folks who came to a compromise - sell the NES to help pay for a new A500. When I think about it that was one expensive computer - especially back then. I had the NES sold within a week and a sparkly new A500 on my desk by the weekend. Fantastic. I was gutted when I sold it for a CD32 - should have picked the A1200 looking back now!

[Harrison]

People moan about the cost of the Xbox 360 and PS3 these days, but looking back to what we were paying in the 80's and early 90's for Amigas and consoles the current system are not really priced any higher.

That was definitely not the best move ever toomuchmikes, selling the A500 for a CD32. I also purchased a CD32 at launch, but already owned an A1200 so it was more just an exercise in buying it because it was a new Amiga model.

The CD32 could have been a great system but it just didn't take off. I also think that it wasn't designed or thought out quite well enough. The save game flash ram was too limiting for one. I think that providing a floppy drive port on the back of the machine would have made a huge difference to the system. That would have instantly opened the system up to running A1200 and most A500 games with just the purchase of a disk drive, and you could of used floppy disks for save games too. I think that simple addition could have altered the success of the CD32 within existing Amiga fan circles. I still don't think it would have become more popular in general though as it wasn't really released at the right time. Rumours of the Sony Playstation were already starting and as soon as it was released it blew the CD32 out of the water.

[FOL]

I was lucky, in the fact my father owned the only Computer shop in my home town. I had asked for an Atari STE for christmas (as i was a good boy, and didnt want them to spend alot).

Come Christmas eve (I sat there all night looking at the big present) about 1 AM, my mother said "for crying out loud opening it". So I did, and to my suprise it was a Flight Of Fantasy Amiga 500 (My father even threw in an 512kb extra mem).

Best Christmas ever, :)

[Harrison]

Definitely sounds like a brilliant Christmas, especially if you had been expecting an ST and instead got the much better Amiga. :)

Did you also have access to the games in your Dad's shop? ;)

[FOL]

Definitely sounds like a brilliant Christmas, especially if you had been expecting an ST and instead got the much better Amiga. :)

Did you also have access to the games in your Dad's shop? ;)

I did indeed, ;). Ah, those were the days.

[Submeg]

Damn that is extremley cool...thats like expecting an Xbox and getting a PS3! :p

[Demon Cleaner]

That must have been some real golden years I suppose. We didn't have a lot of shops here in whole Luxembourg.

[Bloodwych]

mmmmm what memories! My very first Amiga.

While I was at junior school, my friends older brother had an Atari ST. Once I saw Defender of the Crown, Plutos (yes PLUTOS!) and Time Bandit I knew the spectrum had to go. Bought one of them to start with and spent many hours on Barbarian, Star Wars, Super Sprint (what a game), Captain Blood, Livingstone I Presume and many other classic titles.

Then, a few years later at comprehensive school, I came across the first Amiga 500 I'd seen. Man, I was blown away by the sound and graphics of the Blood Money intro, the full screen smooth scrolling of Hybris and left gobsmacked at seeing 32 (yes 32!) colours onscreen. I knew the ST had to go.

Got the Batman pack for xmas after selling the ST to some poor sucker. Hope he was a midi fanatic because he should have been looking at the Amiga before parting with his hard earned cash.

Best xmas ever! F-18 interceptor for most of that day! A few months later Bloodwych was released...

[Harrison]

I went the same route as you, starting with an Atari ST before later ditching it for an Amiga. My reason was more the cost and my lack of money when I bought the ST, as the Amiga was £200 more at the time. I only paid £199 for an STFM, while the A500 was still £399. I still regretted buying the ST soon after once all the games started appearing on both platforms and I could clearly see the ST was very inferior with it's huge 8-bit like borders around the screen, unlike the full overscan screens of many Amiga versions. Plus the better graphics and sound. I still enjoyed the ST but wished for an Amiga the whole time.

[Bloodwych]

Yep, Amiga's were not cheap. Started out at £499 with Kickstart 1.2 in the UK, jumping down to that magical £399 mark by the time I picked one up. Considering inflation, that's a lot of money!!! Wonder what the equivalent price would be now? £799?

Makes you wonder why people complain so much about the price of the PS3.

[AlexJ]

Considering inflation, that's a lot of money!!! Wonder what the equivalent price would be now? £799?

Fairly close actually, inflation adjusted the A500 at £399 would cost £694.06 in today's money. At launch in 1987 the A500 was £587 which is £1154.43 in today's money :o

[StuKeith]

~I used to go around a mates from school, every so often and play on his A500 he had. That was great. Another mate also had a 500 I used to play on. He then got a A600 and then a CD32.

I think i Brought his old A500 from him, either that or I got it from the Freeadds.

The is someone selling a boxed A1200 this week for £100 in the freeadds.

[JLPedro]

Passed 2 years in front off a shop looking at a wonderfull A500, when finaly convinced my parents to buy me a A500, lucky or not the seller only had an amiga 600 so my first amiga was a A600 1Mb (this was in 1994 and the cost was 299€ at current). Some months late i brought a 2nd hand 1084s cause my parents thinked the computer could cause damage tho the tv (and i didn't say otherwise :) ). A Year later exchanged my a600 for a 2nd hand A1200 (my current amiga). I still own the 1084s.

[eroom]

I can remember this well as I had a Commodore plus4 at the time so had been buying all the magazines. As soon as I saw a review of sword of sodan I had to have an amiga so borrowed the money off my uncle and got a 500 and never looked back.

As soon as the 1200 was announced I had just started working so could afford to buy one as soon as they came out.

Cheers.

Paul.

[burns flipper]

Mum said "If I buy a computer, will you be able to do your homework on it?"

I said "Yes! Of course I will!"


SUCKER!!

[Graham Humphrey]

I got one as a birthday present when I was five. And the rest, as they cliche, is history.

[Harrison]

@Burns Flipper

Very similar here. But much earlier. In the mid 80's my parents saw that PCs were quickly becoming popular and so looked at the options available. They really wanted to buy me a BBC Micro "to do my school work on" but couldn't afford one, so I ended up with an Amstrad CPC464 for Christmas. Glad they did as the game catalogue was much bigger and it had a colour monitor.

[burns flipper]

and did you do any homework on it?

I didn't...unless you class "Empire building" as homework.

[Harrison]

I don't remember doing any on the CPC464, but I did use my ST and then Amiga a lot for homework. Especially graphics and word processing.

[v85rawdeal]

I think one of the reasons I have teken so much care with my computers was that I bought them all myself, as no-one could afford to buy me one for birthday or christmas. Having said that, I did buy one of my consoles TWICE!

[Demon Cleaner]

I did 4 magazines with each 20-25 pages on the C64 using a program called Newspaper and using a Commodore MPS-803 printer.

[Harrison]

I think one of the reasons I have taken so much care with my computers was that I bought them all myself...

That is a very good point. I also took care of all of my Amiga's and other systems due to saving up and buying them myself.

Those that I knew who's parents just bought them an Amiga because "it was what they wanted", and they were spoilt little rich kids, didn't take any care using them because they knew that if it was broken their parents would just buy them another, or something else that was that weeks much have item.

I do remember on kid I went to school with taking his new Amiga back a week after it was purchased and getting a refund. Why? Because it crashed during a game! :blink: What did he replace it with? A NES! Go Figure.

[Buleste]

When i had MY C64 i used it for Word Processing, Databases, Spreadsheets all that kind of stuff as well as Elite, PSF and Wizball of course. I had a 24pin Panasonic colour printer.

[Harrison]

I never had a printer for my CPC464. I always wanted one and would look at the adverts, but could never afford one. Plus the CPC had a unique connector so you were restricted in the printers you could buy. Once I had an ST I finally got my first printer, which was a Star LC10C 9pin colour printer. That thing was really loud!

[woody.cool]

I got my first Amiga (Amiga 500+ Cartoon Classics pack) as a christmas pressie. My folks didn't see me for ages upon openening that thing. Best crimbo I ever had. Once I got slighlty bored with the games, I fired up Deluxe Paint III and let my creative side shine through (not that I have much of a creative side)


I never had a printer for my CPC464. I always wanted one and would look at the adverts, but could never afford one. Plus the CPC had a unique connector so you were restricted in the printers you could buy. Once I had an ST I finally got my first printer, which was a Star LC10C 9pin colour printer. That thing was really loud!

Althought the connector on the CPC is different, it still uses the standard Parrallel Centronics interface, so and adaptor cable expanded the range of printers that could be connected to the CPC's printer port.

[PiAnt]

I'd seen some stuff about it in the news and what have you and was determined to get one. I save for it and got it in 1985. I had to travel to Nottingham which was the only shop in the north which had some in stock. Had a few demo disks (one of which I'm still searching for) with it and a few games too.

Previously I'd had a Commodore +4 (you probably won't remember that one), and a C64 for a while, both of which I programmed in assembler. You have no idea how satisfying the feeling was to discover how to use multiple bitplanes and to invent the variable yourself!

I submitted some stuff to a PD Library called Tony Thompson's Services, based in the Hebrides, on programming in Assembly using the A68K PD Assembler. Really looking to see if I can get hold of it and maybe my stuff too. Don't suppose anyone remembers it? They used to advertise in all the mags. (Maybe I should start a new thread?)

[woody.cool]

Previously I'd had a Commodore +4 (you probably won't remember that one)
I had a C16, which the was part of the same series of machines as the +4 (also a mate of mine had a +4, basically a C16 with 64K and some programs built into ROM)

[Demon Cleaner]

I got my first Amiga (Amiga 500+ Cartoon Classics pack) as a christmas pressie. My folks didn't see me for ages upon openening that thing. Best crimbo I ever had. Once I got slighlty bored with the games, I fired up Deluxe Paint III and let my creative side shine through (not that I have much of a creative side)


I never had a printer for my CPC464. I always wanted one and would look at the adverts, but could never afford one. Plus the CPC had a unique connector so you were restricted in the printers you could buy. Once I had an ST I finally got my first printer, which was a Star LC10C 9pin colour printer. That thing was really loud!

Althought the connector on the CPC is different, it still uses the standard Parrallel Centronics interface, so and adaptor cable expanded the range of printers that could be connected to the CPC's printer port.I used a Star LC10 for my C64, previously I had the Commodore MPS 803, which was very slow, and my cousin got a Star NL10, which was later replaced by the LC10, which was exactly the same model only just with another model number. I also had to buy a connector to plug it into the C64, and the connector itself cost me about 75-100€, can't remember exactly, but I know it was very pricey. The printer itself already cost 17.000LUF at that time, which are 425€!

[Harrison]

Wow! That was an expensive printer! I've no idea what my LC10C cost. It was so long ago I can't remember. I do however remember that my parents ended up buying it as a Christmas present for me to use for my school work. Was definitely over £100, and possibly more. Might still have the receipt somewhere.

[Demon Cleaner]

Indeed very expensive, if you consider that you'll get printer/copier/scanner/fax nowadays in one single unit for less than 100€.

[Harrison]

All hardware continued to fall in price at a great rate. The Canon all in one can now be bought for under £30 and is perfectly good for general home use for example.

And look at ram. 1GB for £13!.

[Demon Cleaner]

I binned my 6 month old HP (scanner/copier/printer) now, and I'm never gonna buy an ink jet printer anymore. Next one will be a laser printer, as I use the printer once a month at home, and if I have something bigger to print, I do it at work. And I don't need a color printer, as we have laser color printers at work.

[Harrison]

Cheap all in one printers definitely don't print to the quality of a better more expensive model. The cheap printers are also a false economy in my view as the print cartridges are very expensive. HP ones for example can end up costing over £40 for one set of black and colour carts. Too expensive in my view.

I agree about laser printers. For the number of pages you can get from a single toner cartridge, the higher quality printouts and the speed of printing, they are a much better solution for general printing. You can even buy quite decent ones for £50 these days.

I still don't think colour printouts from laser printers is still as good as a decent inkjet. The colour accuracy is not good with it often hard to get decent greens and blues. I still find my old Epson Photo EX A3 printer produces much better colour prints than any of the newer injets I've seen too. I'm not talking photos though. I'm taking about colour printing of text and vector graphics. For photos I just use our Espon photo printer. :)

[Demon Cleaner]

The printers we have at work are no usual desktop printers, but more professional ones like this one:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/classicamiga/DSC38.gif

[Harrison]

Yeah, i thought they might be. I still don't think they produce colours very accurately. And I think the design industry thinks the same because all professional graphics printers still tend to be based on inkjet or dye-sublimation technology.

[Demon Cleaner]

Well, I'm not printing nude photos of Angelina Jolie ;)

[Buleste]

Well, I'm not printing nude photos of Angelina Jolie ;)

You're not printing those pictures of V85 are you?:lol:

[Demon Cleaner]

Well, I'm not printing nude photos of Angelina Jolie ;)

You're not printing those pictures of V85 are you?:lol:Unfortunately I don't have any :(

[Buleste]

Well, I'm not printing nude photos of Angelina Jolie ;)

You're not printing those pictures of V85 are you?:lol:Unfortunately I don't have any :(

You're lucky. The ones he sent me nearly ruined what little eyesight i have left!!!!:lol: They looked like something out of a medical textbook under unsightly and incurable diseases.;)

[Demon Cleaner]

I know that. Some pictures can burn themselves into your retina, so even when you close your eyes, you can see them, awful.

[Harrison]

Just like the last image you see before you die!

[Demon Cleaner]

Just like the last image you see before you die!Did you already die once?

[Harrison]

Now that would be telling!

[KatManDEW]

The Turbo XT "clones" had just become available. I went to a computer store in a nearby big city, where you could pick out all the components to build your own "IBM clone". After selecting all my components, the guy in the store asked me if I had considered an Amiga. I didn't know what an Amiga was, so he showed me the Amiga 1000. The color GUI blew me away (PC's were still text based, and just beginning to provide color). Then the guy in the store grabbed the Workbench with the mouse and drug it down to reveal a picture of a naked woman behind the Workbench, and that sealed the deal :D

[Amigaman52]

:shades:My wife bought me my first Amiga for Christmas in 1989 and I got to use it three times before my Unit and I got shipped off to Desert Shield/Storm from Germany with the 2nd Support Command and I really did not want to leave my family alone in Germany but had too. I got back six months later and everyone and everything was doing very well. I have bought several Amiga's since that date and own both a Amiga 500 Plus and an Amiga 2500 fully loaded and both are up an running as I type this blog. Does anyone have "World Games" for sale on this site or "Robin Hood: Conquest of the Longbow" , both of these games were stolen from me during a move from Germany back to the States from my household goods.

[Harrison]

If you are looking for some specific games I highly recommend taking a look at our sister site http://www.amibay.com You can post a wanted advert for any software you are looking for (if you want originals). Otherwise you could download the games as ADF files and then convert them back into floppy disks for use on the real Amiga.

[Amigaman52]

Hello Amiga Geru, I need to find out if the games for sale by places like you mentioned PAL or NTSC, I can't run PAL formated disk on my Amiga. I also need to know how you get on the site, I've tried until I'm blue in the face.

Mark

[Harrison]

When you register with Amibay, you then need to wait for one of us to authorise your registration before you can post. It's a security measure due to recent events with unhappy ex-members using multiple accounts to annoy the site.

If you post a wanted advert on amibay, just ask for NTSC games and I'm sure someone will come forward to help you out. And also feel free to post in any topics advertising games for sale, to ask them if they are NTSC versions.

[Shoonay]

we got one with my older brother

[Harrison]

That's quite a bonus... to get an Amiga bundled with your older brother! ;) :lol:

[Shoonay]

lol, what's even better, he payed for it!

[Phantom]

My father back in 1991. I was 13 years-old, so no money from my own. :lol:

[mdripley]

I bought my first amiga while I was Stationed At Baumholder, Germany with the US Army. I bought it from the Post electronics store, it took me about 4 months to save enough to put it on layaway and about 3 more months to pay it off and bring it home.

[Harrison]

Did it have a German or US/UK keyboard? Germany definitely was one of the most popular countries for the Amiga.

[mdripley]

It had a US keyboard

[ubermick]

It was sort of half and half. I'd managed to save about 80 pounds (Irish) myself over the course of a year, and as school started, we'd organized a class trip to London. Cost for the trip was £100, which my dad didn't think was worth it. After much complaining and whining, we took my £80 into Maddens TV and Video in Cork, put that down as a deposit on an A500 Batman Pack which my dad bought on HP.

Wow. That was 22 years ago, I think.

Considering the times I went to London afterwards and hated it (!!) I think I got the better end of that deal! :lol:

[Kin Hell]

Back in 1987, I had a Triumph Acclaim for sale. The young lad (18) who came to look at it was driving a Vauxhall Marina at the time and he tried getting £500 off my asking price. We never did a deal on the Triumph & I ended up buying an A500 off him with loads of games for £400 less than a week after he came to look at the car. We are still very good friends today and all for the love of Amiga. :cool:

[Harrison]

Don't you mean Morris Marina?

[Kin Hell]

Don't you mean Morris Marina?

F'k Dave, you're dead right. Please excuse the fading mind.....

Perhaps I need to change my Sig..... :lol:

[ChrisUnionNJ]

I had to sell off all my C64/128 stuff just to buy a base A1000 then built that up...:)


:coffee:

[protek]

I bought my first Amiga, an A500 on 2005. I had a buy add on a local Usenet group. Paid 20 € for it and got an external floppy drive, two joysticks, RGB cable and box of games with it.

[rkauer]

Bought mine in the end of 1989, as a personal Christmas gift. Had to sell my pc (lol) but in the end I have A500 plus external drive. Paid around US$1000 for this setup!

[studio460]

Odd that there's no posts in this thread since 2012?

Well, here goes . . . I bought my first Amiga in 1989 to replace my extremely anemic Apple IIGS. It was a loaded Amiga A2000HD tower with an A2286AT PC Bridgeboard—it took my friend, a network engineer, about 50 hours to get the damned thing working.

Total cost with software ran about $3,500 (I later added a Video Toaster). I purchased it through the Commodore educational discount program, and convinced an investor to put up all the cash for it to start a commercial database venture which never panned out. So, I basically got a $3,500 system for free!

In 1995 after graduating from college, I returned to television production, and sold it all to a TV producer for $1,000. I gave him all my licensed software. Since then, I've been looking for this AI software I used to own (Magellan 1.1 from Emerald Intelligence), which I finally just found, and now just bought a used Amiga A1200 from the EU to run it. Will get it in a week or so. Also pre-ordered the Apollo black-molded A1200 case and Kipper2K keyboard with black keycaps from amigaonthelake to turn it into a Vampire V4 look-alike. Very excited!

[Harrison]

Very nice, and welcome!

I bet your regret selling the old system now? I still have most of mine, but do sometimes still regret selling my A4000.