what do you regret about the amiga ?

[Gzegzolka]

- lack of HD in standard A500/A1200
- lack of memory card for saves for CD32
- lack of high fine for porting stuff for cd32 without putting any extra stuff inside
- how commodore lack taste in choosing start title games for their computers
- amiga should have some games as exclusives with no pc-ports

also US Gold ports, directors and other thieves from commodore, and few more stuff...

[Twiggy]

* Never upgrading the audio chip
* lack of either memory card or external floppy for saving on CD32 (May also help stop the shovelware with floppy backwards compatibility)
* Not enough games making use of harddrive installations.
* Commodore's overall management/marketing.

I'm sure there are other things that could have been better, but I think some expectations are/were unrealistic considering the finances available and prices at the time.

[DDNI]

Selling both my 68060 / BPPC cards.

[Simmo76]

No regrets, just a wonderful happy time playing (and copying...) games with my mates.
If had gone on longer/forever, I may well feel the same way about it as I now do peecees - an annoying, necessary, corporate evil...!
As it stands the Amiga is a (slightly too) short but sweet time of my life, filled with memories of great games and good times.
Sorry, but what's to regret about that?

[desiv]

The cost of hardware upgrades..
I loved my 500 and then my 1200.
But, adding a small SCSI (Dataflyer) HD (40M??) to the A500 was around $500USD, when PC drives were cheaper at the time..

Then when I got my 1200, the drive issue wasn't bad (although laptop size drives were still much spendier than standard size IDE drives, but the CPU/RAM expansions were crazy priced..

When it came time to consider it, I was able to piece together a Jameco type PC for what it would cost to get an 030 with RAM....

And no realistic video upgrade option, other than buying another Amiga...

I realize that's what kept the price down initially, but when your upgrade path is "buy a new machine", there's the possibility that the new machine bought won't be an Amiga..

desiv
(At least here in the US)

[source]

The limitations that were imposed on the Amiga.
2 Gig partition limit
4 Gig drives
2 meg chip ram
8 megs fast for the ecs machines.

[Jack Burton]

1) The lack of a real synth in the Amiga
2) Games made by japanese game companies (as a matter of fact my main gaming machine is my MSX2+)

[Lord Aga]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

I regret not getting one sooner.

Exactly what I came to say

[springycz]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

That I never had one back in the day

I got my first A1200 in about 2000...

The same applies for me except I bought my first Amiga last year.

[turrican3]

they should have launch the amiga 1200 with a cd-rom...
The capacity of the amiga were to powerfull to stay in little disks 880 kb.
4 mega chipram 2 mega fastram and a better bandwidth and why not a 68030...
The amiga 500 was perfect, no regret from the amiga 500, the best machine of the 80's.

[turrican3]

for the a1200 at least 68020 28 mhz with fpu, cd-rom by default and a way to upgrade the chipram.I think with this spec the price shouldn't fly to high when you remember the pc price by this time.But surely a stupid guy decided that the amiga name was enough to sold us anything even an outdated machine.

[kamelito]

Frankly I wanted to write slow CPU and no VGA screen. But the Falcon did have these and died too.
The BeBox and BeOS should have been the Amiga of 96 and beyond but they switch it to an internet appliance OS which finish to kill it. (this plus Jobs choosing Next)
But in another hand, we have a stable (read fixed) HW that can be known inside out to have fun and that is more than enough.
Kamelito

[Apollo]

Quoting Bamiga:

The missed opportunity with the Amiga - lack of understanding the possibilities and all those wasted ideas & resources!

It was the right computer with the wrong management. C= should have had put more efforts into the evolution of the Amiga platform. But maybe the Amiga never had a real chance compared to the 'open' PC platform.

As a coder I regret that I wasn't able to communicate with other coders (I knew personally then) in a open and relaxed way. There was always this fear of showing incompetence. Not being able to say "hey, I don't know how to do this or that, can you tell me how it works" was a huge burden for me. Though most coders I met were helpful and friendly. I could be a better coder then. Problems of a teenager...

[mr.vince]

Nothing. Wonderful machine. Fond memories. Got me started, my first job...

[tolkien]

Tha sad and bad side from be an Amiga user is to have lost the war agains worst machines.
I love Amiga.

[alenppc]

That Commodore was so dumb, delayed AAA and never ended up releasing it... Also that Motorola dropped the MC680x0 series and went with PPC instead.

[Paul_s]

No one has said it: Barrel batteries!

I regret its demise during the early/mid-90s - and the lack of foresight by the management.
Not understanding my Action Replay III fully.
Trading in my A500 for a 1200 (well I guess it was cheaper than accelerating a 500 at the time).

not much else.

[roy bates]

no regrets,it is what is...

[CrazyOne]

I regret that I had so little time to enjoy having my Amiga 500.
But honestly...it would be never enough.
I regret that my dad sold it, but I will never regret that I had the opportunity to play so many wonderful games, break joysticks so many times (oops ) and have wonderful laugh with my brother, while playing against each other or in co-op.
I regret that I didn't manage to finish some games, because diskettes were broken.

Summary: I am happy that I had a chance to have my Amiga 500 and I DON'T regret any moment playing on her.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Paul_s

No one has said it: Barrel batteries!

Evil little bastards they are indeed.

Originally Posted by Paul_s

Trading in my A500 for a 1200 (well I guess it was cheaper than accelerating a 500 at the time).

Really?