Did you get an Amiga because of the C64 legacy?

[Oriens]

Answer is no.

After C64, I briefly went to Atari ST. I say briefly because the computer was not running fine (lot of bug). We had to bring it back to ship weeks later. And in that time interval, my eyes saw the Amiga (I can remember, I saw the game HYBRIS). So back to the shop, they asked us if we wanted again an Atari ST and the answer was no. We wanted an Amigaaaaa.

Amiga was mindblowing. That's surely why lot of people here chose it.

[CCCP alert]

I knew the specs of the Amiga in 84, Digi-View is the reason I bought an A1000. Nothing else under £15,000 came close.

[NovaCoder]

No, I actually did it the other way around I recently built my first C64 because of the Amiga legacy






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[Megalomaniac]

I got my first C64 some years after the Amiga era as well, having started with a second-hand Spectrum before moving onto the Amiga. It definitely belongs in every retrogaming collector's games room. There are plenty of classics that neither the Amiga nor the Speccy ever got, from Wasteland and Project Firestart on the serious disk-based side (not that I actually have a disk drive yet, they cost a fortune) to Creatures 2 and Raid on Bungeling Bay on the action side. Add the games that are better on C64 than either, from Last Ninja 2 and Turbo Outrun to Wizball and Armalyte, and those sheer technical achievements (mostly 3D, the C64's natural weak point) like Mercenary, Spindizzy and Stunt Car Racer, and it had a fine catalogue of games.

[CCCP alert]

I would go with an SD2EIC rather than a real disk drive.

[lordofchaos]

To the posters original question, I'd say yes. There was always a Commodore Machine at the family home, the first being the Vic20, then the Plus4, followed by the C64. So I suppose the Brand just stuck. Not to say I wasn't envious of other machines out there, as they all had their little quirks and such, one machine I regretted owning was the BBC Micro, the keys had such a satisfying clunk to them.. In short, bias for the Commodore was real in our house growing up.

My in-between machine was the Atari ST, felt good enough and special in it's own way to be a worthy upgrade from the 8bits, but my brother ruined it by getting the A500 for his Birthday. I was more than happy playing Turrican 2 on the Atari, thinking it was the best of the best, lisntning to that amazing music from a small portable telly with a mono speaker, then my brother bought a Magazine with the Demo version of Turrican Amiga.. To make things worse (or better) he had it coming out of a Stereo HI-FI.. That sound! My destiny was then sealed in my eyes, I would have to get one! Such as my envy I would sneak into his bedroom after school along with a few friends just to show that Amiga off, very carefully putting everything back afterwards for fear of getting found out hehe. Oh happy days.

[Fraglord]

I upgraded from the C64. I used C64 basic to paint in ascii and that was kinda restrictive. Dpaint and Imagine 3d tempted me.

But it was all my friends getting C64 to play games that got me into the Amiga scene.

[lyzanxia]

For me, yes. All my friends had a c64 and most of them upgraded to Amiga. I followed

[NorthWay]

In a roundabout fashion I might have done.
The seed was sown since I read Commodore User in the summer of 1984(?) where they were reporting from some US show about this amazing new computer that was coming - they had me hooked from that moment on and I read everything about it, and later went to check it out myself when it appeared locally.
Didn't hurt to have the C= name attached to it either.

[SkulleateR]

Got an Amiga cause it looked awesome ... never had a C64 before that

[btp]

Nope. Before the Amiga I had a ZX Spectrum 48K.
Imagine the leap going from that to an Amiga... Simply mind blowing... ??

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by btp

Nope. Before the Amiga I had a ZX Spectrum 48K.
Imagine the leap going from that to an Amiga... Simply mind blowing... ??

First time I turned on the Speccy after I got the A1000 was to compare Wizball. Hoooo boy that was eye-opening.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Dunny

First time I turned on the Speccy after I got the A1000 was to compare Wizball. Hoooo boy that was eye-opening.

Now imagine you had never seen a Spectrum before you had an Amiga. That's how it was for me.

[jizmo]

I did not – but interestingly I recall the nostalgia for C64, its games and music kicking in almost immediately after swapping for first ST and then Amiga.

I must have tried every C64 emulator that came across just to see if I can once again play some of those games I grew up with. And it's silly nostalgia since I owned C64 only for about 4 years, and Amiga for 10+ years, but somehow you just cherish the most your first loves.

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by TCD

Now imagine you had never seen a Spectrum before you had an Amiga. That's how it was for me.

Good lord. That must have been... well. Spectrum games were not the best looking to start with and the 256x192 resolution must have seemed most odd!

[Pyromania]

The Amiga made me bored to death of my C64. I could not wait to sell it off once I saw what an Amiga can do!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Dunny

Good lord. That must have been... well. Spectrum games were not the best looking to start with and the 256x192 resolution must have seemed most odd!

Let's just say that it took me a while to understand why people hold the Spectrum in such high regards But I have to admit that even if I owned a C64, going back to some of its games isn't easy and when I do I often stop playing after a few minutes. At least for me the 8-bit machines didn't age as well as the 16-bit ones did.

[amigasith]

Originally Posted by TCD

At least for me the 8-bit machines didn't age as well as the 16-bit ones did.

Funny how different this is for different people. My nostalgia feelings are even stronger when playing games on my C64 when compared to doing something with my Amiga(s).

[Zak]

Growing up with computers like the ZX Spectrum made me be unaspiring in many ways. However, I regarded the graphics of a ZX Spectrum to be better than the graphics of a C64, because the 160x200 resolution of the C64 really looks atrocious in comparison to the Speccy. The color palette of a C64 is a bit better, but it's not stunning, like you didn't have true skin color or something like that, so that it didn't make a real difference to me and not causing that I desperately would have wanted a C64.