Your first memory?

[Harrison]

Strange. The A600 is actually the most reliable Amiga every made. During its production less than 1% of A600s sold ever needing to be returned for repair or replacement during their warrantee.

It is quite strange to think you were first getting into the Amiga just as Commodore were going out of business. I little sad to think you missing the actual Amiga years.

[cicobuff]

Strange. The A600 is actually the most reliable Amiga every made. During its production less than 1% of A600s sold ever needing to be returned for repair or replacement during their warrantee.

Yep, same with the A1200 using Surface mount technology, the old A500/plus was better for self repair though because of not using this.

[Stephen Coates]

Socketed chips are best when it comes to replacing them. No fiddly soldering to do

When I said reliable, it might have been something to do with more games working on the A500+. I really can't remember.

[Harrison]

But the 500+ and 600 are identical as far as compatibility goes. Same chipset, kickstart etc...

[J T]

As long as you don't need that numpad for a flight sim

[Harrison]

True.

As I've said before, I was surprised (and kind of disheartened) when I found out how small Mega Drive/SNES cartridge data was. And some of those games were £50+ !!!!

The size of a game's data is never an indication of the
quality of the game. These days games have expanded to fill the huge media available to hold them and in turn have often been a victim of sloppy development. When a developer had to code for a very limited storage size the innovations were often far larger than anything seen these days.

[J T]

No, I know that the amount of data isn't indicative of the quality of the game, it was probably more the ease at which they could be downloaded in literally seconds in most cases. Partially due to the increasing speed of internet connections too, but I'm sure you see what I was getting at. It was certainly surprising when it dawned on me anyway.