Who owns a real Amiga ? - Page 6

kriz · 04 January 2002, 15:11

Ahh amiga, amiga , amiga

Hehe my main machine at home (at the moment) is an A4000 with an Apollo 060 acc card, CyberVision 64 gfx card, 64 Mb ram, network card and a 8gig harddrive ..

My other machine (wich aint working at the moment..

):
Amiga 1200 in a PowerTower, 230Mhz power pc acc card (Phase5), 64 Mb ram, 8 gig harddrive and a pcmcia network card ... This machine also got a cd-burner ..

Im going to fix the 1200 and maybe buy a PCI inteface for it ... (Ill go for the Mediator, wohoo cheap network, gfx, tv and sound cards !!! Why didnt they release this interface in 95 or 96 ?? )...

Twistin'Ghost · 05 January 2002, 05:21

Yeah, no kidding! Would have had a major impact, methinks! I'm definitely on the lookout for such a beastie.

@Pyro
I'm currently in N.C. I'll probably end up getting another A2000 on ebay since it's like pulling teeth to get my ex-roomie to ship my stuff back to me. I still have my vacation time from 2001 so I may just fly out to CA and send the stuff back myself, but I will have to be very careful with spending money for a little while.

06 January 2002, 14:32

A500 x 2

jmmijo · 21 January 2002, 09:50

@Akira,
Too bad we can only vote once on this poll, I wanted to vote for my 2 lonely 500's and well as my 4000

RetroMan · 21 January 2002, 11:05

Just wanted to add an A600 to my list

equiped with a 340MB HD and a PCMCIA CDRom Drive

Ziaxx · 22 January 2002, 22:42

I got an A500 (1.3 and 512 kb RAM, later upgraded to 1 mb) for Christmas of '89 and I still have it, although I don't use it much nowadays, but it's sitting next to my PC at the moment.

Btw, what's an A1500 as mentioned in the poll? I never heard of that model before, but I know all the others.

24 January 2002, 00:12

I have 2 A1200s, one has a 170Mb HD and an 040/40 accelerator (blizzard i think!?) with 16Mb. My favorite fo my Miggys!
The other A1200 has a 30Mb HD and has the Y key missing off the keyboard.. :^\ (gotta blue tack it up or it repeats yyyyyyy forever! Joy!) Also this poor battered machine has to use an old A500 modulator `cause the normal tv out is dead!

I also have an A2000, with only one floppy drive, kickstart 2.0 and no HD!! Good for older games but its so bloody big! and mostly empty, i never filled any of its slots , let alone got a HD!
Still, amusing!

Bloodwych · 24 January 2002, 13:32

Quote:

Originally posted by Ziaxx
I got an A500 (1.3 and 512 kb RAM, later upgraded to 1 mb) for Christmas of '89 and I still have it, although I don't use it much nowadays, but it's sitting next to my PC at the moment.

Btw, what's an A1500 as mentioned in the poll? I never heard of that model before, but I know all the others.

Basically, it was an A500 in a big box with expansion slots. My friend used to have one.

Pyromania · 24 January 2002, 13:47

I thought the 1500 was the UK version of the A2000 but with 2 floppy drives instead of one.

Bloodwych · 24 January 2002, 14:12

Yep and that's what an A2000 is as well - an A500 in a big box with expansion slots.

Well, in my laymen terms it is anyway!

It was released in order to compete with an A500 conversion unit supplied and sold by Checkmate Digital that was also called the A1500. It was shifting a few units and Commadore thought, "we'll have some of that".

My friend bought the conversion model; hence my laymen terms above, but both the official release and the conversion were essentially the same spec, give or take a few slots.

As for the extra drive, all I can think is that Commadore must have had a lot of spare floppy drives hanging around

Later, an A1500-Delux was released with a rom switcher (1.3/2.04) and a ram expansion. Whooooooo, what a piece of kit!!!!

Amiga1992 · 24 January 2002, 23:02

I think the A1500 is an A500Plus in a big box with expansions

The deluxe (hahaha) version was released with the rom sharer so people would not have as many compatibility probs, thats all.

Bloodwych · 24 January 2002, 23:08

Is there an echo in here?

Only Joking Akira

26 January 2002, 17:35

My first Amiga was a A500. And now i own a A4000/030 which i intend to keep for a long time !!!

In the mean time i had two A500 one A2000 and a A1200

I sold them all and afterwards i regreted it.

Paul · 27 January 2002, 13:47

Just got my Amiga 500Plus.:bounce

It has been upgraded to Kickstart 3.1, has external HD, external floppy drive and another 3 boxes full of disks! Also the manuals.

colin2712 · 31 January 2002, 12:01

OK, I have three different Amiga's they are:

A500 - Bog standard except for the 512k mem upgrade and 25Meg HDD

A1200 - Apollo 1230/40, 2Mb Chip / 32Mb Fast, 250Meg HDD

CD32 with SX32 Pro, these things are very hard to find, luckily I bought mine a couple of years ago when they were still available

The only ones Im using at the mo arew my 1200 and CD32, but the 500 does come out sometimes to play some games that don't work on my 1200

16 March 2002, 23:31

Hey I want to edit my vote!

Today I'm a proud owner of:

1) plain A500 with kick 1.3

2) A500, 1MB ram with kick 1.3 (I am surprised to see the expansion board was made in Turkey but it doesn't have a battery backed up clock

)

3) A1200 with stuff you know already, for I'm yelling it out loud for some time

4) c64

No more relokicking or degrading! these machines are already as "degraded" as they can

This also legalizes my use of 1.3 roms with emulators (as if I care about it)

CPC464 · 17 March 2002, 01:00

I still have my Amiga 1200, 600, 500 and 500 + althought all are boxed apart from the A1200

Even though I hardly use the 600 or 500/+ I can't bare to part with them I mean what if something was to go horribly wrong with my 1200.....I mean aaarrrgggghhhhhh, I would have to emulate all the time then and I couldn't have that

Dastardly · 17 March 2002, 01:06

I bought my A500 in 1990 and a CD32 about 4 years later.
The A500 was the best £400 I ever spent and the CD32 was the biggest waste of £300 ever!!!
I didnt hate the machine (CD32) but it was so badly supported by the developers, I wish I hadnt wasted my money.

Ive still got my A500 boxed in the attic because I just cant bear to part with it. My old C64 is up there too.

Chuckles · 17 March 2002, 09:24

Like many of the other posters here, I can't accurately reflect reality in the poll, since I have more than one Amiga, so I'll do what everybody else is doing and simply do a post to answer the question.

I have an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 that I bought just after they first came out. I had a friend that worked for Microbotics at the time, and he helped me upgrade it with a Fat Agnus, and did the mod to bring it up to one meg of chip ram.

Later, when Commodore first started offering discounts on A2000 systems for users who turned in their A1000's, I managed to pick up an original A1000 from my local dealer for $250 that had been turned in, and I considered that an absolute steal. Commodore didn't actually want the A1000's back - they just wanted them off the streets so they wouldn't have to worry about supporting them in the future. The dealers were happy about it, because they could turn around and sell the old A1000's to folks like me. It didn't take long for Commodore to figure out though that the machines were still on the streets, and they soon changed the discount program to require the dealers to send the keyboards back to Commodore. I wonder how many poor A1000's wound up going to the dump for the lack of a keyboard. Too bad, because it's actually a very nice machine, and the only Amiga that I've ever been able to play some games (like Hacker) on.

Amiga1992 · 17 March 2002, 19:30

Ah, me too. Now I own an expanded A1200, so I cant add a vote

View Poll Results: Which Amiga do you own?
Amiga 1000	24	2.40%
Amiga 500	161	16.10%
Amiga 2000	37	3.70%
Amiga 500+	31	3.10%
Amiga 1500	5	0.50%
Amiga 3000	29	2.90%
Amiga 600	67	6.70%
Amiga 4000	110	11.00%
Amiga 1200	450	45.00%
Amiga CD32	33	3.30%
Amiga CDTV	6	0.60%
I don't have one, but plan to get one	20	2.00%
I don't have one, and I don't plan to get one	27	2.70%
Voters: 1000. You may not vote on this poll

24 January 2002, 00:12	#107
Pulsecode Posts: n/a	YEY! I have 2 A1200s, one has a 170Mb HD and an 040/40 accelerator (blizzard i think!?) with 16Mb. My favorite fo my Miggys! The other A1200 has a 30Mb HD and has the Y key missing off the keyboard.. :^\ (gotta blue tack it up or it repeats yyyyyyy forever! Joy!) Also this poor battered machine has to use an old A500 modulator `cause the normal tv out is dead! I also have an A2000, with only one floppy drive, kickstart 2.0 and no HD!! Good for older games but its so bloody big! and mostly empty, i never filled any of its slots , let alone got a HD! Still, amusing!

24 January 2002, 13:47	#109
Pyromania Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 3,375	A1500 I thought the 1500 was the UK version of the A2000 but with 2 floppy drives instead of one.

24 January 2002, 14:12	#110
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Yep and that's what an A2000 is as well - an A500 in a big box with expansion slots. Well, in my laymen terms it is anyway! It was released in order to compete with an A500 conversion unit supplied and sold by Checkmate Digital that was also called the A1500. It was shifting a few units and Commadore thought, "we'll have some of that". My friend bought the conversion model; hence my laymen terms above, but both the official release and the conversion were essentially the same spec, give or take a few slots. As for the extra drive, all I can think is that Commadore must have had a lot of spare floppy drives hanging around Later, an A1500-Delux was released with a rom switcher (1.3/2.04) and a ram expansion. Whooooooo, what a piece of kit!!!! Last edited by Bloodwych; 24 January 2002 at 14:26.

26 January 2002, 17:35	#113
Lancewood Posts: n/a	My first Amiga My first Amiga was a A500. And now i own a A4000/030 which i intend to keep for a long time !!! In the mean time i had two A500 one A2000 and a A1200 I sold them all and afterwards i regreted it.

04 January 2002, 15:11	#101
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,187	Ahh amiga, amiga , amiga Hehe my main machine at home (at the moment) is an A4000 with an Apollo 060 acc card, CyberVision 64 gfx card, 64 Mb ram, network card and a 8gig harddrive .. My other machine (wich aint working at the moment.. ): Amiga 1200 in a PowerTower, 230Mhz power pc acc card (Phase5), 64 Mb ram, 8 gig harddrive and a pcmcia network card ... This machine also got a cd-burner .. Im going to fix the 1200 and maybe buy a PCI inteface for it ... (Ill go for the Mediator, wohoo cheap network, gfx, tv and sound cards !!! Why didnt they release this interface in 95 or 96 ?? )...

05 January 2002, 05:21	#102
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Yeah, no kidding! Would have had a major impact, methinks! I'm definitely on the lookout for such a beastie. @Pyro I'm currently in N.C. I'll probably end up getting another A2000 on ebay since it's like pulling teeth to get my ex-roomie to ship my stuff back to me. I still have my vacation time from 2001 so I may just fly out to CA and send the stuff back myself, but I will have to be very careful with spending money for a little while.

21 January 2002, 09:50	#104
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	@Akira, Too bad we can only vote once on this poll, I wanted to vote for my 2 lonely 500's and well as my 4000

21 January 2002, 11:05	#105
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	Just wanted to add an A600 to my list equiped with a 340MB HD and a PCMCIA CDRom Drive

22 January 2002, 22:42	#106
Ziaxx Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 90	I got an A500 (1.3 and 512 kb RAM, later upgraded to 1 mb) for Christmas of '89 and I still have it, although I don't use it much nowadays, but it's sitting next to my PC at the moment. Btw, what's an A1500 as mentioned in the poll? I never heard of that model before, but I know all the others.

24 January 2002, 23:02	#111
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	I think the A1500 is an A500Plus in a big box with expansions The deluxe (hahaha) version was released with the rom sharer so people would not have as many compatibility probs, thats all.

24 January 2002, 23:08	#112
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Is there an echo in here? Only Joking Akira

27 January 2002, 13:47	#114
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Just got my Amiga 500Plus.:bounce It has been upgraded to Kickstart 3.1, has external HD, external floppy drive and another 3 boxes full of disks! Also the manuals.

31 January 2002, 12:01	#115
colin2712 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Wyton / England Age: 42 Posts: 30	OK, I have three different Amiga's they are: A500 - Bog standard except for the 512k mem upgrade and 25Meg HDD A1200 - Apollo 1230/40, 2Mb Chip / 32Mb Fast, 250Meg HDD CD32 with SX32 Pro, these things are very hard to find, luckily I bought mine a couple of years ago when they were still available The only ones Im using at the mo arew my 1200 and CD32, but the 500 does come out sometimes to play some games that don't work on my 1200

16 March 2002, 23:31	#116
oldpx Posts: n/a	Hey I want to edit my vote! Today I'm a proud owner of: 1) plain A500 with kick 1.3 2) A500, 1MB ram with kick 1.3 (I am surprised to see the expansion board was made in Turkey but it doesn't have a battery backed up clock ) 3) A1200 with stuff you know already, for I'm yelling it out loud for some time 4) c64 No more relokicking or degrading! these machines are already as "degraded" as they can This also legalizes my use of 1.3 roms with emulators (as if I care about it) Last edited by Burseg; 19 March 2002 at 11:35.

17 March 2002, 01:00	#117
CPC464 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: York Age: 54 Posts: 393	Real amiga's I still have my Amiga 1200, 600, 500 and 500 + althought all are boxed apart from the A1200 Even though I hardly use the 600 or 500/+ I can't bare to part with them I mean what if something was to go horribly wrong with my 1200.....I mean aaarrrgggghhhhhh, I would have to emulate all the time then and I couldn't have that

17 March 2002, 01:06	#118
Dastardly Into the Wonderful Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: England Age: 49 Posts: 2,335	I bought my A500 in 1990 and a CD32 about 4 years later. The A500 was the best £400 I ever spent and the CD32 was the biggest waste of £300 ever!!! I didnt hate the machine (CD32) but it was so badly supported by the developers, I wish I hadnt wasted my money. Ive still got my A500 boxed in the attic because I just cant bear to part with it. My old C64 is up there too.

17 March 2002, 09:24	#119
Chuckles The Ancient One Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kansas City/USA Age: 68 Posts: 685	Like many of the other posters here, I can't accurately reflect reality in the poll, since I have more than one Amiga, so I'll do what everybody else is doing and simply do a post to answer the question. I have an A500 with Kickstart 1.3 that I bought just after they first came out. I had a friend that worked for Microbotics at the time, and he helped me upgrade it with a Fat Agnus, and did the mod to bring it up to one meg of chip ram. Later, when Commodore first started offering discounts on A2000 systems for users who turned in their A1000's, I managed to pick up an original A1000 from my local dealer for $250 that had been turned in, and I considered that an absolute steal. Commodore didn't actually want the A1000's back - they just wanted them off the streets so they wouldn't have to worry about supporting them in the future. The dealers were happy about it, because they could turn around and sell the old A1000's to folks like me. It didn't take long for Commodore to figure out though that the machines were still on the streets, and they soon changed the discount program to require the dealers to send the keyboards back to Commodore. I wonder how many poor A1000's wound up going to the dump for the lack of a keyboard. Too bad, because it's actually a very nice machine, and the only Amiga that I've ever been able to play some games (like Hacker) on.

17 March 2002, 19:30	#120
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Ah, me too. Now I own an expanded A1200, so I cant add a vote

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