Why did you sell your Amiga?

[Anna]

For those of you that sold your Amiga back in the day, why did you do it? For me, I had an A1200 (after a A500), and I just couldn't get copied games any more (all of the local suppliers dried up). Faced with just a few AGA game demos to play, I knew it was time to get rid of it. I also really wanted good 3D but I knew it wasn't going to happen on the Amiga (with the CD32 being Commodore's best effort!). So I sold it and all my games. About 2 years later I discovered DOSFellow on my new PC and I was in seventh heaven again!

Anna

[stainy]

I sold it and bought a P90 with 16mb ram in 1994


Like an idiot

[sneeker]

I was all for getting an Amiga 1200, a few of my mates had them, and I had a 500 for a while so was after a change...

A 1200 with a 120mb hdd was about £500 at the time, but in the few months between thinking about upgrading and it being christmas, quite a few decent pc games came out, wolfenstien, Commanche, The Pc version of F1GP looked a lot better.. So I decided to jump ship and bought a pc.

Upgraded the pc from a 386/40 to a 486/66 about 9 months later, and about this time, everyone else jumped ship too.

All my amigas I now own came from one of the biggest amiga owners I knew, he finally got a 4000/030 towards the end of 1994 iirc, must of had it for less then 6 months and he went and got a pc. the 4000 he had went off to run a bbs, and the guy still has it somewhere, not used for about 10-12 years.

[johnim]

i never i still got my origional miggys(dont ever sell)

[DDNI]

Never sold my Amigas.

Stored them for a long time though...

[john1979]

As poster above it was the PC around '96 that finally made me realise I'd had enough. By that time I'd played the Amiga to death for many years and was just bored. I wanted Doom and something to do my college work on.

The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun.

Last but not least - Sonic The Hedgehog.

[zipper]

Never sold an Amiga - just RocHard HD and Supra 28 - and regretting...

[Anemos]

I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then..

[stevsurv]

This is blaspheme!!

[mikele]

@ Anemos "I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then"

that's outrageous! the only advantage of 386 DX was ability to run Win3.1, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Sierra titles. Nothing more I guess


@ john1979 "The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun."

I kept Amiga along with having Sega Genesis+CD+CD32. After some fun with primitive FMV and early 3D games Sega could deliver like DooM, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing Deluxe I would end up turning my Amiga on and playing adventure & strategy games, listening to the modules or tinkering with Deluxe Paint or whatever. But yes I agree with you that in terms of quality some MD games like Gunstar Heroes, Punisher, Streets of Rage 2, Sonic series, Robocop vs Terminator, Virtua Racing, Comix Zone were true gems and hardly had any equivalent on Amiga.

[Predseda]

I only sold my first A600 to get money for A1200. I have that A1200 (beside others) till today and still in weekly use.

[Bamiga2002]

Never sold anything, but my original A500 broke down for some reason, then I was a teenager and interested in different things than computers . After some reckless life I got an A2000 for free(!) and was excited again. It was a great experience for me but lightning storm killed it . Then we got an A600HD which was also nice to fiddle with (and a 200Mb harddrive) until I managed to kill it by connecting the 2.5" HD the wrong way around -> smoke and cringe!

I was pissed - some time passed by and I saw an ad for A1200 in an Infinitiv tower, got it, bought a Blizzard 1230-IV and a hefty 500Mb HD for it and it was all magic & heaven for me

After that I have been sticking to the A1200, mobo changed MANY times but it's still the same good old miggie for me

[deicidal]

I didnt sell mine but it was starting to get very flaky and i was using it less and less, so it ended up going in the attic at my parents when i went to Uni. When they moved about 2 years ago it came out after a bit of fiddling got it to fire up shortly before it died again. But that then got me thinking I always wanted an a1200 and it was all down hill from there

[garet74]

what price can i ask for my amiga 2000 with monitor keyboard and many...many floppies?it should work i think..it's 20 years that i don't turn on..it's in great condition..

[Leffmann]

Never sold mine, but I had them in storage most of the time between 1998 and 2008 after having bought my first PC.

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by garet74

what price can i ask for my amiga 2000 with monitor keyboard and many...many floppies?it should work i think..it's 20 years that i don't turn on..it's in great condition..

you're gonna need to turn it on so people know whether it is just pretty, or pretty and functional

[Jope]

Only the mouse, PSU and case are what's left of my original A500, the keyboard + motherboard have been changed since.

But I never sold it. :-)

[Leandro Jardim]

I sold my Amiga 500 Fat-Agnus + 512 KB Slow-RAM because its keyboard was with malfunction. And some floppies was getting too many ready-write errors, I expect it was a drive problem. And its kickstart rom chip was getting some memory related errors (red screen, I think). It was a second hand A500, before I had a A2000 + 8 MB + Video Toaster 1.0 (my family sold this to buy a bakery).

But the main reason to sell my A500 was not because it was getting broken, but instead because I read in a brazillian magazine about DOS-UAE. The magazine told about it as a miracle of software engineering and in part, a blasphemy, because for many Amiga users a PC never could be capable to emulate an Amiga in any way because so sophisticated it was in comparison with a PC.

The sad thing about this, is that the A500 never could not be sold really. That is, its not with me anymore, but I never seen the money back.

I explain: thats because my father *gave* it to a friend of him, and one that doesnt had any kind of interest in the little machine, without talk to me.

Probably that man trowed it in the trash, because he never understood how I could use it if it had only 1 MB memory, a disk drive and no hard-disk...

I got very, very angry with him.

With a PC I could learn how to program, because with a A500 was very hard to a teenager like me to find info on programming, because at the end of the 90 decade (even at the middle), even the Amiga magazines was disappearing in my city.

So it was very useful for me. Well, not much.

[Reynolds]

why I sold any...? Human mistake, obviously.

[mrbob2]

I still have my a500+ amiga 600 and A1200 060 150mb hd

The 1200 was 399, the 060 was £400 and to be honest, it wouldnt be worth selling them now, and even if someone offered me £1000 for the Lot i would never sell my memories, my objects of a wonderful childhood and the FORTUNE it cost to get them lol

[Adropac2]

Luckily i was one that never did but in the time of the first Playstation, i did what most others did and enjoyed that era. Had the Snes and Megadrive too during 92 onwards but favoured the Amiga and often still enjoy my favourite Amiga games over this gen

[TroelsDK]

In 1996 I took my A500 to my parrents summerhouse, 'caus then I had something to do when beeing dragged there.... A few years later I hardly ever went up there with them, but forgot to bring back the Amiga incl. ram expansion, joysticks games etc., and my parrents sold it off since "I never used it"... I'm still having a hard time forgiving them for it! I think that it is this horrific experience that now have got my collecting way to many Amigas, and other computers/consoles My original NES was borrowed to a friend who again lent it out and so it was lost...

[mikele]

Originally Posted by TroelsDK

A few years later I hardly ever went up there with them, but forgot to bring back the Amiga incl. ram expansion, joysticks games etc., and my parrents sold it off since "I never used it"... I'm still having a hard time forgiving them for it! I think that it is this horrific experience that now have got my collecting way to many Amigas, and other computers/consoles My original NES was borrowed to a friend who again lent it out and so it was lost...

Someone please call Dr Phil immediately

[I.Did]

Originally Posted by mikele

Someone please call Dr Phil immediately

I'm on it

[Thorham]

Never sold mine (haven't been without an Amiga since I got my first one 20 years ago), and my A1200 was my main machine until about 2004.

[Bodie_CI5]

We sold our C64c to buy an A500 (arghhhhhhhh!)

We hen sold our A500 to buy an A1200 to do our 'homework' on from Maxwells in Abbotsford, when they were first available. Well, we did. Even at uni, I was typing essays on it, but then I went interstate in 1997 and bought a HP laptop and then a Gateway desktop. My brother was still using the A1200 as his main until one of his teachers said she wants to read his essays in Times New Roman. I remember he was pretty pissed at that.

We've kept our A1200 in storage at times, dragged it out once in a while. It's now permanently sitting on a coffee table hooked up to a projector, thanks to Jens's indivision.

We bought a cd32 in jan-feb of 1995, still have original C= box (but ripped). Invariably in storage. Will permanently reside as games machine once I work out placement solutions.

Bought a non-working A4000, I think in 2003, from a bloke in the UK. Sent it up to TonyW (member over at amigaworld.net), who fixed it up the psu on it. Only thing it needs is a battery (had started to leak when we received). Couple years back, we received a free A600, but it's in storage. Same situation as the cd32 at the moment.

But as things come full circle, recently acquired a C64c again from eBay


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Oh, forgot to say, reason why I opted for PC when I went interstate. We didn't know that WordWorth had footnotes! Our Final Writer didn't, and we didn't know about Doug Moir's shop at Cronulla. We only found out about both when he was shutting up shop to move to QLD...

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by Bodie_CI5

We sold our C64c to buy an A500 (arghhhhhhhh!)

We hen sold our A500 to buy an A1200 to do our 'homework' on from Maxwells in Abbotsford, when they were first available. Well, we did. Even at uni, I was typing essays on it, but then I went interstate in 1997 and bought a HP laptop and then a Gateway desktop. My brother was still using the A1200 as his main until one of his teachers said she wants to read his essays in Times New Roman. I remember he was pretty pissed at that.

We've kept our A1200 in storage at times, dragged it out once in a while. It's now permanently sitting on a coffee table hooked up to a projector, thanks to Jens's indivision.

We bought a cd32 in jan-feb of 1995, still have original C= box (but ripped). Invariably in storage. Will permanently reside as games machine once I work out placement solutions.

Bought a non-working A4000, I think in 2003, from a bloke in the UK. Sent it up to TonyW (member over at amigaworld.net), who fixed it up the psu on it. Only thing it needs is a battery (had started to leak when we received). Couple years back, we received a free A600, but it's in storage. Same situation as the cd32 at the moment.

But as things come full circle, recently acquired a C64c again from eBay


-edit-

Oh, forgot to say, reason why I opted for PC when I went interstate. We didn't know that WordWorth had footnotes! Our Final Writer didn't, and we didn't know about Doug Moir's shop at Cronulla. We only found out about both when he was shutting up shop to move to QLD...

Now THAT is determination! lol

[fryguy]

I sold my A1200 because my BlizzardPPC and BlizzardVision made the computer unstable. If i only used the PPC and not the BVision it was stable, but AGA sucked so..

I bought a PC instead a Celeron 466MHz.

The system I sold was an A1200 with Infinitiv2-case and the BPPC and BVision. But i kept one A1200 with 030.

[Obliterator]

I had a C64C first then my parents got me a A500 in 1988 or 1989 i then sold it to buy the lastest amiga the CD32 then i sold that for a Playstation 1 when they came out oh well and then four years ago i bought another A500 now i have 3 A500's and a A1200 and just bought another C64C with a 1541 II around two months ago

[BrooksterMax]

The A500+ we had as a family saw service from 1991 to about 1996 when we got a Pentium PC. It was put into storage and not sold, by then it was worth very little.

Good service for £399 and I still have it today!

[nkarytia]

I had sold my A500 just out of pure stupidity (to get a psp)! I have bought another one for double the amount a year ago.

[alenppc]

I used the Amiga exclusively as my main machine until 2001 when DSL connection became available in my neigbourhood which I couldn't take full advantage of through the X-Surf card.

The CSPPC that I owned was also starting to become flaky and freezing all the time, making it impossible for me to use it for more than 10 minutes at a time. With no prospects of fixing it, I got my first PC.

Eventually I got the CSPPC fixed and sold off the various parts of that A4000 when I was short on cash. Still own my previous models (600/1200) from which I upgraded however.

[lordofchaos]

I sold my first A1200 some years ago so I could buy a PS1, although I really like the playstation I soon regreted it and ended up buying another A1200 shortly after..go figure eh

[pubzombie]

Split up with ex misses - she came round the house whilst i was at work to collect her stuff. Took my Amiga and all the kit and games with her.
B1*ch

[diablothe2nd]

My answer is simple, and probably a little dull, but

I WOULD NEVER SELL MY AMIGA

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by pubzombie

Split up with ex misses - she came round the house whilst i was at work to collect her stuff. Took my Amiga and all the kit and games with her.
B1*ch

Ouch that's harsh Deprive a man from his Amiga, not good.

[Paul_s]

Traded my 500 in around 1993/4 for a 1200.

Sold my 1200 in 1999 for a Peecee when my job became permanent! I think I held onto it for quite a while I really regret selling all my gear then as I had a lot of stuff and flogged it for £40 at Cash Convertors! That included the 1200, a HUGE stack of original games (all mint) and various bits of hardware (it literally filled an entire counter!). God, I hate thinking back to that day

Had various Amiga's since 2003'ish (only got one A500 at the moment). A500 is my favourite as that has the most fondest memories. Wish I could have my original 500 back!

[pubzombie]

Originally Posted by lordofchaos

Ouch that's harsh Deprive a man from his Amiga, not good.

Yeh then to rub it in her sister told me her new fella was playing all my games and laughing about it. but our dog bit him and ran off and came back home off his own initiative.
That was 1993, I think,,, seems like a different world..
I told the wife about it in 2008 and woke up on Christmas morning to a brand new Amiga technologies A1200 and loads of goodies from amigakit.

[lee t]

I sold my A500 to buy a A600 and then very soon after sold that to get my A1200 in 1993 In 96 I was selling my 1200 as I like many others wanted to play Doom but found it hard to sell so I swapped for a Magedrive with around 30 games. sold them to get a 386 and regreted it. My current 1200 with HD was brought off a car boot in 2006 for £25.00. I have not looked back since.

[Obliterator]

Originally Posted by pubzombie

Yeh then to rub it in her sister told me her new fella was playing all my games and laughing about it. but our dog bit him and ran off and came back home off his own initiative.
That was 1993, I think,,, seems like a different world..
I told the wife about it in 2008 and woke up on Christmas morning to a brand new Amiga technologies A1200 and loads of goodies from amigakit.

Wow what a awesome wife you have to do that my girlfriend just rolls her eyes and goes what did you get now when i get something in the post for my Amiga