Anyone remember the good-ol' Amiga?

cdfreelancer · 02-25-2006, 05:58 AM

1990 was the year and it was my 12th birthday. My excitement was palpable as I clamoured to hurriedly unwrap the large box that had materialised in my bedroom. I knew what to expect of course: A brand-spanking-new Amiga 500+. The same Amiga for which I'd been hassling my parents for several weeks beforehand.

If my memory serves me correctly it cost my father about £350 and that was when £350 was a lot of money!

No sooner had I plugged it into my TV and cranked it up for the first time that I installed my first game: The Simpsons; Bart vs the space mutants.

Games back then had a kind of simplistic, clean-cut aesthetic appeal that's somehow lacking in today's overly complex next generation of games.

Five years good service I obtained from my trusty old Amiga and I wouldn't hesitate to live out every moment again.

Does anyone else have fond memories of their Amiga?

**MunkyPhil** · 04-13-2006, 07:16 AM

Damn right, I had an A600 with a hard drive and extra RAM installed and the really slow original version of Street Fighter 2. It's all flooding back now, we swapped it for a SNES though, Mario Kart was more appealing than Pushover and Putty.

Twas a fine machine indeed, almost as good as the AMSTrad CPC464!!

Sticky Mick · 04-14-2006, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by MunkyPhil

Twas a fine machine indeed, almost as good as the AMSTrad CPC464!!

Waddya mean "almost as good?":poundon: I can remember peeps selling their PCs to buy Amiga 500s

Yeah, I remember

I started off with an A500. The first game I got was Falcon and laughed my @ss off at my mate who was running said game in CGA mode on his PC

Thinking back, I remember buying a 512K memory board for £125

I then upgraded to an A1200 with a whopping 80Mb hard drive

and about a year later I bought a CD-ROM drive and an accelerator board for it (a Microbotix MBA1230XA with a huuuuuuge 8meg of RAM) That cost me £300 for the board alone

Now what have I got? A humble AMD64/3000 with 1000Meg of RAM and an FX5500 w/128 Meg DDR and 140Gig of hard drive space

Where did we go wrong?

**MunkyPhil** · 04-14-2006, 08:09 AM

It all went wrong when you spent vast sums of money you probably didn't really have on an Amiga and all sorts of upgrades that were out of date two weeks later.

The Amiga was a class act, there's no doubt about that, somehow I have fonder memories of the AMSTrad though.

Sticky Mick · 04-15-2006, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MunkyPhil

It all went wrong when you spent vast sums of money you probably didn't really have on an Amiga and all sorts of upgrades that were out of date two weeks later.

So things aint changed there then

Yeah, I used to have one of them Amstrads too. I remember bangin away into the wee small hours with hundreds of lines of code only to find it wouldn`t work afterwards, and all it was supposed to do was draw pretty patterns

**MunkyPhil** · 04-16-2006, 03:17 AM

I'll second that on the patterns. I was just a wee nipper and I cried everytime it didn't work. But i persevered, and I struggled on, and I got there in the end. Hours of heartache

, hours of torment

and several fits of mindless hitting random things around me

ending in such beauty. The majesty and grace of a yellow circle on a blue background always warmed me in a way the Amiga never could.

Now if you would excuse me, I have something in my eye...

quartet-man · 12-30-2008, 11:08 AM

As far as games, other than a pong unit app. few years earlier, I bought an Atari 2600 in 1983. After using an Apple II C (or was that E) in school around 1985, I bought an Amiga as my first computer in 1989. I didn't buy it so much for games, but for music (midi) and database. (Microfiche filer plus.) I used my Amiga 500 until 2000 when I got my PC. I had upgraded it pretty quickly to 1 meg of memory and had to have the motherboard replaced once and some other issues.

I came here concerning Microfiche Filer Plus, but will start a separate thread.

02-25-2006, 05:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
cdfreelancer Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Southwest UK Posts: 332 OS: XP pro 32bit	Anyone remember the good-ol' Amiga? 1990 was the year and it was my 12th birthday. My excitement was palpable as I clamoured to hurriedly unwrap the large box that had materialised in my bedroom. I knew what to expect of course: A brand-spanking-new Amiga 500+. The same Amiga for which I'd been hassling my parents for several weeks beforehand. If my memory serves me correctly it cost my father about £350 and that was when £350 was a lot of money! No sooner had I plugged it into my TV and cranked it up for the first time that I installed my first game: The Simpsons; Bart vs the space mutants. Games back then had a kind of simplistic, clean-cut aesthetic appeal that's somehow lacking in today's overly complex next generation of games. Five years good service I obtained from my trusty old Amiga and I wouldn't hesitate to live out every moment again. Does anyone else have fond memories of their Amiga? __________________ AMD Athlon 2400+ Radeon 9600 (256MB DDR) DDR-SDRAM PC3200 1024MB 10MB cable broadband Last edited by cdfreelancer; 02-25-2006 at 06:01 AM.

04-13-2006, 07:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
MunkyPhil TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 1,140 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System	Damn right, I had an A600 with a hard drive and extra RAM installed and the really slow original version of Street Fighter 2. It's all flooding back now, we swapped it for a SNES though, Mario Kart was more appealing than Pushover and Putty. Twas a fine machine indeed, almost as good as the AMSTrad CPC464!! __________________ "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, July 16th 1945. CPU-z -- Memtest -- Speedfan -- Prime95 -- SandraLite Important Power Supply Info -- Applying Thermal Paste -- Posting System Specs

04-14-2006, 08:09 AM	#4 (permalink)
MunkyPhil TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 1,140 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System	It all went wrong when you spent vast sums of money you probably didn't really have on an Amiga and all sorts of upgrades that were out of date two weeks later. The Amiga was a class act, there's no doubt about that, somehow I have fonder memories of the AMSTrad though. __________________ "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, July 16th 1945. CPU-z -- Memtest -- Speedfan -- Prime95 -- SandraLite Important Power Supply Info -- Applying Thermal Paste -- Posting System Specs

04-16-2006, 03:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
MunkyPhil TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 1,140 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System	I'll second that on the patterns. I was just a wee nipper and I cried everytime it didn't work. But i persevered, and I struggled on, and I got there in the end. Hours of heartache , hours of torment and several fits of mindless hitting random things around me ending in such beauty. The majesty and grace of a yellow circle on a blue background always warmed me in a way the Amiga never could. Now if you would excuse me, I have something in my eye... __________________ "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, July 16th 1945. CPU-z -- Memtest -- Speedfan -- Prime95 -- SandraLite Important Power Supply Info -- Applying Thermal Paste -- Posting System Specs

12-30-2008, 11:08 AM	#7 (permalink)
quartet-man Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5 OS: win98se	Re: Anyone remember the good-ol' Amiga? As far as games, other than a pong unit app. few years earlier, I bought an Atari 2600 in 1983. After using an Apple II C (or was that E) in school around 1985, I bought an Amiga as my first computer in 1989. I didn't buy it so much for games, but for music (midi) and database. (Microfiche filer plus.) I used my Amiga 500 until 2000 when I got my PC. I had upgraded it pretty quickly to 1 meg of memory and had to have the motherboard replaced once and some other issues. I came here concerning Microfiche Filer Plus, but will start a separate thread.