What did you own before the Amiga?

[rkauer]

NEZ8000 (ZX80 clone)
MSX (short lived)
AT 286
A500 (later with A590)
A1200 (later with various accelerators, ending in 040. Really don't remember the brand right now)
then I gave up and enter the pc world again in the great Amiga disbanding circa 98~99 <-this was the stupidest decision I ever made!

[Kin Hell]

Nothing. I just chose the best first time around.

[Eleas]

What did you own before the Amiga?

My heart.

On a more serious note, I must have been around seven when my parents bought an A2000. There really wasn't time to squeeze anything in, barring an old ABC80 that didn't seem to work. And once I got to play on the Amiga, well at the risk of sounding melodramatic, there was no overwhelming need to touch the competition.

[tolkien]

I had a 48k speccy! Good times. I also learned a few things with an amstrad cpc and a zx81.

[Storm]

The good old C64 started this adventure for me

[XLV2K]

the home micro i used before the amiga, was a spectrum 128K ( still got it, works but the usual problems with the keyboard and some keys not responding has affected it ) and before that, a schmid tvg 2000 , a games console.

[Harrison]

You can get new membranes for spectrum keyboards to fix that. Have a look on Amibay.com

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[Nosferax]

Before the Amiga I had a C64, an Atari 800XL and a Trs-80 Coco 2.
My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 with a 16k expansion. I learned Basic on it.

[Harrison]

Although we did have Tandy electrical stores in the UK, stocking everything an electronics enthusiast might need such as components, soldering etc through to radio controlled cars, walkmans and TVs, we never saw the Tandy computers in the UK (at least not AFAIK), so I've never seen one, but have played around a bit with TRS-80 emulation.

What would you recommend as the best games released for the system for someone new to it to try out?

[Nosferax]

Although we did have Tandy electrical stores in the UK, stocking everything an electronics enthusiast might need such as components, soldering etc through to radio controlled cars, walkmans and TVs, we never saw the Tandy computers in the UK (at least not AFAIK), so I've never seen one, but have played around a bit with TRS-80 emulation.

What would you recommend as the best games released for the system for someone new to it to try out?

I believe it was release in Europe as the Dragon 32.

It was sold as a more serious computer. There were the usual classics available like space invaders and PAC man clone, many on rom pack. You could also expand it to 64k and run OS9 on it, a unix like os. It also used those terrible analog joystick without self center that had to be constantly adjusted.

I mostly use mine for bbsing since it offered a 64x32 screen mode while my Atari and C64 were limited to 40 character per line.