What did you own before the Amiga?

[Submeg]

lol, nice.

[Harrison]

At the time I was very happy with the CPC464, but these days looking back on the history of computers and the 8-bit era I do kind of wish I had gone for a C64 instead of the CPC.

Not because of the hardware, but because the C64 was the first computer to start off much of the initial demo scene, and not owning one meant I missed that. Also there were many games the C64 enjoyed that were quite revolutionary and were not seen ported to other 8-bit formats. Although the other formats also enjoyed the majority of the most famous titles as well as their own.

The C64 did also have the superior SID sound, compared to the CPC's 3 channel yamaha chip (which the Spectrum and BBC Micro also shared), but the CPC did better in other areas.

When coded correctly the CPC's graphics were better than the C64s, but sadly this wasn't often apparent in games as many developers tended to just directly port Spectrum games to the CPC without improving the graphics at all, giving the impression that the CPCs graphics were not that different to a Spectrum but without the colour clash. The CPC CPU was also clocked at 4MHz compared to the C64's 1MHz.

The other area was loading times. The C64 suffered from really slow tape and disk loading speeds compared to any other format, and like the Spectrum tape loading wasn't that reliable. The CPC with it's built in tape or disk drive never failed to load a game of application unless the actual media was damaged.

[Demon Cleaner]

Do you really think that such a lame-o like god, even though he's not existing, would have come up with such a brilliant piece of hardware?

[Harrison]

Definitely not! The C64, and any gaming system for that matter, had to be conceived by the devil! Only he would know the meaning of fun!

[J T]

We had a Speccy before the a500, but I don't really remember what model it was, I think it was a 48k though.....

During and since the A500 times we had
Nintendo Gameboys (the original monochrome bad boy)
Some crappy PCs including a sh1t 286, a slightly less sh!t 386, a good-at-the-time P133
Master System
N64
PS2
Gamecube
DS
Wii

[toomanymikes]

I had a Nes prior to the A500 - it was ace but started to turn black and white for about 5 mins when you switched it on now and again.
Over the years I have owned:
Spectrum 48k - rubber keys! (it melted - no lie)
Nes
Amiga 500
CD32
Atari ST -my wee bro's old comp
IBM 386
IBM 486
Playstation
IBM P90
Gameboy - a gf's sister gave me it for my playstation
Playstation 2 - why I gave her my playstation
Some crappy Pentium II which I spent more money than I like to think about upgrading for Uni work
Playstation 2 again - first one broke 2 days after the 1 year warranty
Gamecube
Sony VGN-A117S laptop - which I'm writing this on now
Nintendo Wii
Playstation 3
Amiga 600 - my gf's old computer from her childhood - its broke
Amiga 1200 w/HD and Kickstart 3.1 - due to arrive tomorrow!

[FOL]

For me it was a long list, but last thing before Amiga was (if i remember correctly) a SEGA Master System, or was it a GameGear, hell cant remember, lol.

[Bloodwych]

My path of computer and console gaming was as follows:

Computers

Vic20 -> Spectrum 48k -> Spectrum 128K -> Spectrum +2 -> Atari ST -> Amiga 500 -> Amiga 500+ -> Amiga 1200HD -> AMD 586 PC -> various other forms of PC

Consoles

Megadrive -> SNES -> Playstation -> XBOX -> PSP

Consoles never interested me until I saw Ghouls N Ghosts, Golden Axe and Revenge of Shinobi on the Megadrive. Then I had to have one due to the near perfect arcade conversions.

[StuKeith]

Computer wise I had an Spectrum +2, an Nes, and think a gameboy/gear



In total I have owned/still owned

Spectrum +2
BBC Micro B
Nes
Game Boy * 2
Game gear * 3
Snes
N64
Playstation
Playstation 2
Atari Lynx
Atari JAguar
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo Wii
xbox360
Acorn Electron
Atari 2600

Amigas

A500, A500+, A600, A600HD, A1200, A1200HD, A1500

Im sure I have had some others, that I cant remember what.

[Demon Cleaner]

We also have a nice poll/thread where you can post your acquisitions.

Poll here