Did anybody here not get an A1200, CD32 or A4000 in the early-mid 90s?

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....and have owned/still own one this century?

I had an A1200, briefly had a used A4000/030 but sold that to help me 'become an adult' AKA put a deposit down on a property. Before that I had a 512k chip RAM Amiga (later 1mb). I did really enjoy checking out this new machine as a piece of new tech.

What I am wondering is if you didn't have one say between the time of launch and ESCOM's collapse did you really regret not getting one in the past now that you have used one?

[QuikSanz]

Not me. Got my a4000T in about 2007. Bought an old high school A2000 in around 94

Chris

[Jope]

I did not really regret not getting one back in the day. I used my A500 daily until early 1996 and borrowed an A1200 from my computer club every now and then. In 1996 I went PC so that kept me occupied with new things to learn and experience.

Later on I bought a used A4000 to go alongside my PC in 1998 and was happy with that.

[Seiya]

i taked my first Amiga 500 in the end of 1994 and i have today with 2 MB expansion

[Megalomaniac]

Always intended to get an A1200 but never did until this century, to my shame. Lovely system, definitely a big enough advance from the A500 to justify it, even if the range of games never quite fully exploited it, mainly as Commodore died within 18 months of its launch. I was happy with my A500 until 1995, by which time most new games either needed an A1200 or were massively enhanced by its other extra features. Of course by this time Commodore were gone, the promised Commodore UK management buyout never quite happened, and the number of games was fading. I still seriously considered getting one second-hand instead of a PC, and was keenly awaiting Escom's relaunch, but realistically putting the money towards a PC was a much better call - the disk-drive issues on Escom's models were the final straw.

[lmimmfn]

I'm in the other camp, had my A500 since 1990, upgraded it so it had 2.5 meg ram in total in 91. Borrowed an A2000 with 8 meg ram expansion an 12meg HD with multisync monitor(ended up owning that A2000 eventually and my brother dumped it when I was at uni - still annoys me).
Anyway I was using the machines for gaming as well as 3D modeling, DPaint, video capture etc. The limitations were very apparent in terms of chip ram and processing so when the A1200 was announced I sold my A500 soon afterwards for the same price as an A1200 and picked up an A1200 a few weeks after release(would have picked it up day 1 only needed a lift to the nearest city to get it).

Still have that A1200 but busted it reapplying an indivision to the Alice chip), picked up another A1200 the day after I busted it. Should really get it repaired.

Anyway, loved the A1200 since day 1, picked up DPaint 4 AGA as soon as it was available. The main issue I had with gaming was so few AGA titles and shovelware OCS games with ill thought out dual playfield it's only later with the Internet that I got to try out the full AGA library(downloading from retro sites)

[mr.spiv]

I never went to AGA machines and have not regretted it. I still use my A3000 I had in early -90s and back then had no reason to upgrade to inferior A1200 or A4000. I actually used the same A3000 as my main computer till early 2000s until social pressure at home forced to switch to a computer with "modern Internet capabilities".

[Locutus]

I traded our original A1200 for a Cisco managed switch sometime in 2003 or so... oh well... i did learn a lot of networking from that though.

[Argo]

I still have my original A1200HD I purchase 6 months after the release

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Nice spread of experiences here, thanks to all who posted.

[eXeler0]

Bought my first AGA (A1200) in August ’93. Still up n running to this day.
The CD32s and A4000 came much later in the ”modern retro era”.

[CCRider]

My "Amiga History" is something like:

- got an A600 in 1992
- replaced by an A1200 in 1993
- replaced by an A4000D in 1998
- replaced by an A4000T in 2000

With lots of accelerators and stuff in between (GVP 1230, Blizzard 1260, GVP 040, Cyberstorm 060 MKIII, RetinaBLT Z3, CV64/3D) and also an A1000 and a CD32 in between.

Then my A4000T died in 2002, and nobody around me was able to fix it, so I got rid of everything Amiga.

Just to be back a cuppa years ago.

[pandy71]

My first is A500 (still owned but upgraded from rev 6 to rev 8), biggest extension is A570, my first AGA was CD32 (quite quickly added RGB port to overcome obvious limitation).

[Superman]

I didn't. I got my A500 in 1990 then around 1994ish ended up getting a PC instead as its what I had to use at college to do my assignments etc.

[Nobby_UK]

I never got my CD32 until much later ---
Can't recall the year but I remember it was £40

Still have my other machines:
A500 (x2)
A500+
A600
A1200

[Predseda]

I bought my A1200 late 1994 and have it still today, using it around once per week.

[TommyTomorrow]

When I was buying my A500 in 1991 there was no A1200 on the market. After the year my friend bought one. I really like to have one to but it was too expensive to me. I sold my A500 in 1999 and 5 years later my friend gave me his A1200, I still have it

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This thread is really about people who did/didn't believe they missed out by not owning an AGA machine specifically

[alexh]

Not me. A3000D in 1997 and A4000D in 1998.

[Axxy]

I had an A500 for most of the early to mid 90s, then an A600 for a short while. As gamers mainly, most of my mates followed a similar path, Spectrum, Amiga then PC. I can't think of anyone that had an 1200 or above at the time.

Anyway, 2 or 3 years later, we were all on PC (win95) playing online (well, dialup) games such as Quake, Duke Nukem and Team Fortress and the rest is history as they say....

Funny, that after 30 years or more, I still use Winuae on my PC, mainly for demoscene stuff, but still....