How did you get your first Amiga?

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. :)

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Unfortunately I don't have any :(

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

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

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Unfortunately I don't have any :(

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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.;)

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

Just like the last image you see before you die!

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Just like the last image you see before you die!

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Did you already die once?

Now that would be telling!

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

: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.

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.

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

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.

we got one with my older brother

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

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

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

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.

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

It had a US keyboard

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:

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:

Don't you mean Morris Marina?

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

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

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


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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.

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!

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!

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.