Which is your favorite Amiga model?

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by CCCP alert

Was it ICD who made AdIDE for 68000 socket? A590 was a clunky old MFM PC 8086 era drive like Atari SH204 unit wasn't it?

A590 actually had a Western Digital WD93028X with XT-IDE interface, an early 8 bit variant of IDE (which was invented by Western digital in 1986). With the A590's DMA interface it had reasonable performance. You could replace it with a higher performance SCSI drive, but few did because an A500 with max 2MB FastRAM generally didn't need it.

IIRC the data transfer rate was about 150kB/s. This might sound slow but on a PC these drives were often a lot slower. The 30MB XT-IDE drive in my Amstrad PC2086 (8MHz 8086) only gets 25kB/s. That's the same speed as a DD floppy drive!

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by alexh

You're dreaming? I never saw an A1000 in the UK.

My stepfather bought one at launch, and I bought it from him in late '87. That was the only A1000 I ever saw until about two years ago when I went to see a friend across the country who also had one (first time I saw a PiStorm too, was freaky seeing the A1000 running Frontier at 50fps).

They were not common, at all. Everyone I knew had an unexpanded A500, with an external FDD at best. I have still never seen an A500 with more than 512kb RAM and always wondered what The Immortal was like.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Megalomaniac

Ridiculous.

Well, if there ever was a doubt the person wasn't the same as ImmortalA1000 now it is very clear. Indeed the idea that the A500 isn't the reason why 'the Amiga' became popular and the main reason why people today still remember it is quite out there.

[logo]

A1200.

[vulture]

A1200

[Daniel78]

easy answer CD32 with TF330

[Avanze]

A500+

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by Dunny

A1000 for looks and that gorgeous 1.x Kickstart in a big box vibe. A1200 for daily use.

+1

[Pyromania]

Easy, A1200, that's what made me sell my A500 even though I painted it camouflage. In hindsight, I should have just kept it. It was my first Amiga and I made it unique with a lot of upgrades and some custom modding. The A1200 was a fantastic upgrade but then shortly after I got it, Commodore died.

[daver]

A4000t !

[mahen]

Machine which changed my life as a school kid : A600
Machine I spent the most time with : A1200 although it was disappointing
Machine which defined the Amiga and the specs the games I use mostly make use of after all : A1000

[CCCP alert]

Originally Posted by Dunny

My stepfather bought one at launch, and I bought it from him in late '87. That was the only A1000 I ever saw until about two years ago when I went to see a friend across the country who also had one (first time I saw a PiStorm too, was freaky seeing the A1000 running Frontier at 50fps).

They were not common, at all. Everyone I knew had an unexpanded A500, with an external FDD at best. I have still never seen an A500 with more than 512kb RAM and always wondered what The Immortal was like.

When the A500 came out people started selling their A1000s in the Micromart in 87/88. I paid just £275 for mine (512k) lol he said he was getting the "more powerful A500" and I was thinking like yeah whatever just send me the best computer of all time. There was 1 or 2 A1000 adverts for like a year each week.

[CCCP alert]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

A590 actually had a Western Digital WD93028X with XT-IDE interface, an early 8 bit variant of IDE (which was invented by Western digital in 1986). With the A590's DMA interface it had reasonable performance. You could replace it with a higher performance SCSI drive, but few did because an A500 with max 2MB FastRAM generally didn't need it.

IIRC the data transfer rate was about 150kB/s. This might sound slow but on a PC these drives were often a lot slower. The 30MB XT-IDE drive in my Amstrad PC2086 (8MHz 8086) only gets 25kB/s. That's the same speed as a DD floppy drive!

Ah, thanks for the info, must be another side expansion HDD I was thinking of that looks similar.

[PDrill]

For me Amiga means Amiga 500 1.3 with 512k ram expansion and an external floppy drive. Sure the A1200 with networking and mild acceleration is the pinnacle of my 'collection', but the #1 is still the 500.

[crobin]

Mine was an 1200 up till today when it wiped out the SD card I had just spent the last 2 weeks get to talk to my PC to transfer some files. Now got to wait for a new card to start again.

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by CCCP alert

When the A500 came out people started selling their A1000s in the Micromart in 87/88. I paid just £275 for mine (512k) lol he said he was getting the "more powerful A500" and I was thinking like yeah whatever just send me the best computer of all time. There was 1 or 2 A1000 adverts for like a year each week.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Was what I wrote wrong or something?

[modrobert]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

I was the one who give him new games.

I was that "guy" as well, fun times.

Regarding thread topic:

A1200.

[Wayne123]

A2000 because it has lots of room for expansion, my A3000 is a pain to work on, my A500 is OK but it should have come with an internal PSU.

My A2000 has Toaster with an S-video card connected to it, a Microway flicker fixer with the remote card slot adapter, a Picasso II, a Buddha IDE card with an 80 GB HD and CD-Rom drive connected to it and a GVP 040 card with 64 MB of ram. I also have a 2MB chip ram add on.

[Aulapatchuc]

For me, honestly, the A500. No other computer in my life made me wow like that A500, in 1988.
The A4000 comes at a close second but only when I fully expanded it with RTG, 16 bit sound card and SCSI 2 + Ram expansion. Before that, was like my A1200 with just only a 040 as a plus. Everything was over expensive back in 1994-95 but the fun of using such a system was beyond words.

Now i'm experiencing a new wow moment on my A500 because it now has a PiStorm and is freaking amazing how such an old machine can come to the modern days and being so usable.

[Fery]

My first Amiga .... Amiga 500+