Why did you buy your first Amiga?

[T_hairy_bootson]

Originally Posted by gimbal

it wasn't deluxe paint, I think it was made by Accolade. Great, now I must find this program!).

I had that, can't remember the name now... argh! I remember drawing some crappy biplanes on it.

[Methanoid]

I saw SHadow of the Beast and the intro for Blood Money and sold my ST. The A500 lasted a few weeks before I sold it and got a B2000 and Hard Disk. Total price £1500. OUCH!!!

[Oryp]

My reason: Because I had damn near every machine Commodore had put out to date! I loved the C64, and had seen what the Amiga had to offer.
When I bought my A500, the 1000 was very popular, and the 500 offered more memory, and no need for a rom boot disk. I was amazed at the technology that the Amiga had compared to the PC of the time. The PC only had 4 colors, and PC Squeeker sound. The Amiga offered more colors, STEREO sound, and it could MULTI-TASK (true mutli-tasking...not time slicing like a few of the PC OS's claimed) on a mear 256K of memory! I never like the Atari line, because I felt they had not progressed as well as the Commodore line had.

[Konrad]

I just played on the C64 of a friend (still think the C64 was great) until my brother and I got an A500 for christmas. We were so happy till our father said that he didn't have any disks for it.
Some time later he pulled out a box from under the bed which was full with amiga games. Being a teacher it was easy for him to get alot of games at school. Everyone was trading amiga games at that dimt .
The first game I played was LED Storm, after this Giana Sisters. Can't remember which the other games were. A year later we got an RAM expansion.
Our parents always supported my hobby (computers at this time). Later I got an Amiga 2000, then an Amiga 600 and after this an A4000 with 600MB HD, SCSI controller and 2x CDROM. I still had the A4000 when my brother just bought an PC with 133MHz.

The A4000 is sold now though, to the programmer of XiPaint (forgot his name). I'm almost proud of this .

But I still have an A500 and the old A2000 in parts.

[Total Eclipse]

Up to 1994, I had an Atari ST, but a couple of my ST-owning mates had already defected over to the Amiga, and I was left feeling quite jealous of the games that they were getting copied (the ST scene had all but died by then).

Early in 1994, someone I was at college with upgraded to an A1200, and so I bought their A500 from them. I was put in touch with someone who knew someone with a BBS, and so once I'd added a hard drive, it was a weekly jaunt to his house with a parnet lead to collect the stuff he'd received.

[andyr]

My mate had an A500 and I had an Amstrad CPC - 'nuff said!

It was the Vision Megademo 4 that clinched it. I listened in awe and just had to get one!



http://amiga.emucamp.com/visionmd4.htm

[DopPie]

Since everybody still posts to this old thread why shouldn't I?

I was late getting an amiga. Because I spend my cash on other things aswell and didn't want to invest all in computers it wasn't until the mid 90-tees I got my first amiga. It was an A600 given to me for free. All I had to do was re-assemble it. Amazingly the little creature still worked. Fitted a (also for free) harddrive soon after.

I stuck with the amiga mainly for games. The 2D games are still alot of fun. But in it's prime days I was still on the C64/128. Basically I went straight to PC since that was what everybody used. EGA/VGA hit the scene so it wasn't all that bad.

So my 'upgrade path' looks like this.
C16 + tape --> C64 + disk --> C128DCR --> 386SX25 (VGA) -->.....more x86's
Somewhere during the x86 days I got that A600 and was amazed by the ease it ran superfrog. While my 386 was barely up to it and my friends 286 couldn't.

Anyway it is my main tinkering machine now. The fleet expanded.
Currently only the A1200 is in use. The other machines are waiting in the basement. I even have my C128DCR still.

[EmuChicken]

A500+ was purchased because my Amstrad CPC464 was utter crap in comparison


... and it had a simpsons game, n disks n stuff

[ST Dragon]

To play Turrican II & enjoy the incredible soundtrack by Chris Huelsbeck!

Also for Deluxe Paint III which I then upgraded to an Amiga1200 for the extra 256 colours in Deluxe Paint IV AGA & V.

I loved making hand drawn game graphics & sprites back then.
I think Deluxe Paint is still used today by many software houses that develope 2D games for the GBA & other consoles.

I also got it for Alien Breed, Rod Land, Turrican I, R-Type II, Project X & Monkey Island.
All those games ruled!
Ahh.. the good ol' days!

It's a pity today’s games are so sallow in the game play department.

For example, I only own 10 PS-2 games, where as I have more than 300 AMIGA disks, stacked in boxes somewhere...

[CHook/OTT]

Test Drive

I'd gone to a cousins birthday party and saw the Amiga 500 for the 1st time, I asked what are the graphics like (I still had a speccy +2) he swithed it on and asked what type of games do you like, I said Driving, He put Test Drive on.

Couldn't get me off it all night Not long after that Speccy sold and Got A500+

I remember my friend had an A500, and he was playing some scrolling, horizontal, type of platform shooter and the graphics where great. I can't remember the name of the game, but that did it for me.
My first Amiga was an A600 which I bought on my 21st birthday with a 15inch portable TV. Later, I moved onto an A1200 which I bought for £60 back then.
My fave games where and still are Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions, Team17 Arcade Pool, Sensible Soccer and Worms: Directors Cut.

Those where the days...

[Calgor]

My dad simply went to the department store, looked at the statistics of all the computers (e.g. 4096 colours vs 16 colours), and decided the amiga 1000 was the best value - excluding compatibility of course.
Being so young I didn't know what other ppl used until i went to a computer class and wondered why we were using "old" computers with no GUI or mouse.

[ST Dragon]

Yeah, I remember using back in 1990 (6th grade, School computer class) those ancient Apple computers & the awkward LOGO turtle thing that you had to program in order to paint the screen.

It looked & worked so bad in comparison to the AMIGA/Deluxe Paint III, that I couldn't even be bothered to follow the teacher's instructions. I got a C in that class

[musashi5150]

I had a Spectrum at the time and I saw Strider running on my mates A500. That was it for me. I had to save real hard for ages...

[BarrySWE]

I played Future Wars on my friends A500, i was in love

[Coagulus]

Turrican and Oops-up swayed it for me - I had a Spectrum before that and the two games I played on the miggy were enough for me to save up for an A500 in 1989

[alkis21]

I saw a demo running on an Amiga 500 back in the summer of '87, and it was love at first sight for me.

[Parsec]

At the computer club I used to go to 90% of people had a C64. Then in about 1989, some smartarse upgraded to an A500.

I was one of the 20-30 people who were stood round him while he loaded up DOTC. The C64 (good though it was) was never the same again. It was my life's mission to get an A500 after that, and the price drop to 399 UKP made it a possibility

[adgloride]

I got a miggy 500 plus 14 years ago mainly for college then university work. The peecee games were rubbish, and they were far too expensive. I couldn't afford the £399 at the time. So I had to sell my c64 with a load of games and disk drive to get one. I get an miggy 500 plus second hand for £250. They'd not been out that long, I wanted a A500 like all my mates had.

I had some good times with the A500 plus sensible soccer, kick off 2 etc.... Unfortunetly my exs kids wrecked the disk drive on it, but I managed to replace it with a new one. Never knew about the leaky rechargable batteries that came with it, if I did I would have removed it. It died about 8 years ago because of the leaky battery

[Mr Kipling]

I remember seeing North and South being played in a small computer store locally on a A500. I think that game had just been released as the box was on the floor and there were loads of "oooohs", "Ahhhhh's", "wow, i've got to buy an Amiga" from the staff gathered around the tv screen, as i was browsing through the budget spectrum games.

I remember just staring at the screen for a good 15 minutes and then looking down at the speccy game i was about to buy (L.A.Swat i think it was, not very good as it happened) and decided to try and convince my parents to by me an Amiga. (Although it took 2 years convince them that i would'nt use it as a games machine only and use it for "serious" work)

My parents bought me my A500+ for Christmas (1991 i think) and i remember getting great use out of it, for both playing games and also the more "serious" applications Dpaint 3, AMOS and Octamed.

Ahhhh, those were the days