Why did you sell your Amiga?

Anna · 19 July 2012, 21:48

For those of you that sold your Amiga back in the day, why did you do it? For me, I had an A1200 (after a A500), and I just couldn't get copied games any more (all of the local suppliers dried up). Faced with just a few AGA game demos to play, I knew it was time to get rid of it. I also really wanted good 3D but I knew it wasn't going to happen on the Amiga (with the CD32 being Commodore's best effort!). So I sold it and all my games. About 2 years later I discovered DOSFellow on my new PC and I was in seventh heaven again!

Anna

stainy · 19 July 2012, 22:03

I sold it and bought a P90 with 16mb ram in 1994

Like an idiot

sneeker · 19 July 2012, 22:06

I was all for getting an Amiga 1200, a few of my mates had them, and I had a 500 for a while so was after a change...

A 1200 with a 120mb hdd was about £500 at the time, but in the few months between thinking about upgrading and it being christmas, quite a few decent pc games came out, wolfenstien, Commanche, The Pc version of F1GP looked a lot better.. So I decided to jump ship and bought a pc.

Upgraded the pc from a 386/40 to a 486/66 about 9 months later, and about this time, everyone else jumped ship too.

All my amigas I now own came from one of the biggest amiga owners I knew, he finally got a 4000/030 towards the end of 1994 iirc, must of had it for less then 6 months and he went and got a pc. the 4000 he had went off to run a bbs, and the guy still has it somewhere, not used for about 10-12 years.

johnim · 19 July 2012, 22:11

i never i still got my origional miggys(dont ever sell)

DDNI · 19 July 2012, 22:16

Never sold my Amigas.

Stored them for a long time though...

john1979 · 19 July 2012, 22:16

As poster above it was the PC around '96 that finally made me realise I'd had enough. By that time I'd played the Amiga to death for many years and was just bored. I wanted Doom and something to do my college work on.

The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun.

Last but not least - Sonic The Hedgehog.

zipper · 19 July 2012, 22:55

Never sold an Amiga - just RocHard HD and Supra 28 - and regretting...

Anemos · 19 July 2012, 23:49

I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then..

stevsurv · 20 July 2012, 06:34

This is blaspheme!!

mikele · 20 July 2012, 08:27

@ Anemos "I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then"

that's outrageous!

the only advantage of 386 DX was ability to run Win3.1, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Sierra titles. Nothing more I guess

@ john1979 "The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun."

I kept Amiga along with having Sega Genesis+CD+CD32. After some fun with primitive FMV and early 3D games Sega could deliver like DooM, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing Deluxe I would end up turning my Amiga on and playing adventure & strategy games, listening to the modules or tinkering with Deluxe Paint or whatever. But yes I agree with you that in terms of quality some MD games like Gunstar Heroes, Punisher, Streets of Rage 2, Sonic series, Robocop vs Terminator, Virtua Racing, Comix Zone were true gems and hardly had any equivalent on Amiga.

Predseda · 20 July 2012, 08:55

I only sold my first A600 to get money for A1200. I have that A1200 (beside others) till today and still in weekly use.

Bamiga2002 · 20 July 2012, 10:17

Never sold anything, but my original A500 broke down for some reason, then I was a teenager and interested in different things than computers

. After some reckless life I got an A2000 for free(!) and was excited again. It was a great experience for me but lightning storm killed it

. Then we got an A600HD which was also nice to fiddle with (and a 200Mb harddrive) until I managed to kill it by connecting the 2.5" HD the wrong way around

-> smoke and cringe!

I was pissed - some time passed by and I saw an ad for A1200 in an Infinitiv tower, got it, bought a Blizzard 1230-IV and a hefty 500Mb HD for it and it was all magic & heaven for me

After that I have been sticking to the A1200, mobo changed MANY times but it's still the same good old miggie for me

deicidal · 20 July 2012, 10:43

I didnt sell mine but it was starting to get very flaky and i was using it less and less, so it ended up going in the attic at my parents when i went to Uni. When they moved about 2 years ago it came out after a bit of fiddling got it to fire up shortly before it died again. But that then got me thinking I always wanted an a1200 and it was all down hill from there

garet74 · 20 July 2012, 11:58

what price can i ask for my amiga 2000 with monitor keyboard and many...many floppies?it should work i think..it's 20 years that i don't turn on..

it's in great condition..

Leffmann · 20 July 2012, 12:32

Never sold mine, but I had them in storage most of the time between 1998 and 2008 after having bought my first PC.

kipper2k · 20 July 2012, 14:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by garet74

what price can i ask for my amiga 2000 with monitor keyboard and many...many floppies?it should work i think..it's 20 years that i don't turn on..

it's in great condition..

you're gonna need to turn it on so people know whether it is just pretty, or pretty and functional

Jope · 20 July 2012, 14:22

Only the mouse, PSU and case are what's left of my original A500, the keyboard + motherboard have been changed since.

But I never sold it. :-)

Leandro Jardim · 20 July 2012, 14:35

I sold my Amiga 500 Fat-Agnus + 512 KB Slow-RAM because its keyboard was with malfunction. And some floppies was getting too many ready-write errors, I expect it was a drive problem. And its kickstart rom chip was getting some memory related errors (red screen, I think). It was a second hand A500, before I had a A2000 + 8 MB + Video Toaster 1.0 (my family sold this to buy a bakery).

But the main reason to sell my A500 was not because it was getting broken, but instead because I read in a brazillian magazine about DOS-UAE. The magazine told about it as a miracle of software engineering and in part, a blasphemy, because for many Amiga users a PC never could be capable to emulate an Amiga in any way because so sophisticated it was in comparison with a PC.

The sad thing about this, is that the A500 never could not be sold really. That is, its not with me anymore, but I never seen the money back.

I explain: thats because my father *gave* it to a friend of him, and one that doesnt had any kind of interest in the little machine, without talk to me.

Probably that man trowed it in the trash, because he never understood how I could use it if it had only 1 MB memory, a disk drive and no hard-disk...

I got very, very angry with him.

With a PC I could learn how to program, because with a A500 was very hard to a teenager like me to find info on programming, because at the end of the 90 decade (even at the middle), even the Amiga magazines was disappearing in my city.

So it was very useful for me. Well, not much.

Reynolds · 20 July 2012, 22:11

why I sold any...? Human mistake, obviously.

mrbob2 · 20 July 2012, 23:53

I still have my a500+ amiga 600 and A1200 060 150mb hd

The 1200 was 399, the 060 was £400 and to be honest, it wouldnt be worth selling them now, and even if someone offered me £1000 for the Lot i would never sell my memories, my objects of a wonderful childhood and the FORTUNE it cost to get them lol

19 July 2012, 21:48	#1
Anna Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: USA Posts: 27	Why did you sell your Amiga? For those of you that sold your Amiga back in the day, why did you do it? For me, I had an A1200 (after a A500), and I just couldn't get copied games any more (all of the local suppliers dried up). Faced with just a few AGA game demos to play, I knew it was time to get rid of it. I also really wanted good 3D but I knew it wasn't going to happen on the Amiga (with the CD32 being Commodore's best effort!). So I sold it and all my games. About 2 years later I discovered DOSFellow on my new PC and I was in seventh heaven again! Anna

20 July 2012, 08:27	#10
mikele Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: poland Posts: 307	@ Anemos "I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then" that's outrageous! the only advantage of 386 DX was ability to run Win3.1, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Sierra titles. Nothing more I guess @ john1979 "The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun." I kept Amiga along with having Sega Genesis+CD+CD32. After some fun with primitive FMV and early 3D games Sega could deliver like DooM, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing Deluxe I would end up turning my Amiga on and playing adventure & strategy games, listening to the modules or tinkering with Deluxe Paint or whatever. But yes I agree with you that in terms of quality some MD games like Gunstar Heroes, Punisher, Streets of Rage 2, Sonic series, Robocop vs Terminator, Virtua Racing, Comix Zone were true gems and hardly had any equivalent on Amiga. Last edited by mikele; 20 July 2012 at 08:34.

20 July 2012, 11:58	#14
garet74 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: lecco / Italy Posts: 40	what price can i ask for my amiga 2000 with monitor keyboard and many...many floppies?it should work i think..it's 20 years that i don't turn on..it's in great condition..

20 July 2012, 14:35	#18
Leandro Jardim Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Legoland Age: 45 Posts: 1,461	I sold my Amiga 500 Fat-Agnus + 512 KB Slow-RAM because its keyboard was with malfunction. And some floppies was getting too many ready-write errors, I expect it was a drive problem. And its kickstart rom chip was getting some memory related errors (red screen, I think). It was a second hand A500, before I had a A2000 + 8 MB + Video Toaster 1.0 (my family sold this to buy a bakery). But the main reason to sell my A500 was not because it was getting broken, but instead because I read in a brazillian magazine about DOS-UAE. The magazine told about it as a miracle of software engineering and in part, a blasphemy, because for many Amiga users a PC never could be capable to emulate an Amiga in any way because so sophisticated it was in comparison with a PC. The sad thing about this, is that the A500 never could not be sold really. That is, its not with me anymore, but I never seen the money back. I explain: thats because my father gave it to a friend of him, and one that doesnt had any kind of interest in the little machine, without talk to me. Probably that man trowed it in the trash, because he never understood how I could use it if it had only 1 MB memory, a disk drive and no hard-disk... I got very, very angry with him. With a PC I could learn how to program, because with a A500 was very hard to a teenager like me to find info on programming, because at the end of the 90 decade (even at the middle), even the Amiga magazines was disappearing in my city. So it was very useful for me. Well, not much. Last edited by Leandro Jardim; 20 July 2012 at 14:45.

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19 July 2012, 22:03	#2
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	I sold it and bought a P90 with 16mb ram in 1994 Like an idiot

19 July 2012, 22:06	#3
sneeker Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Manchester! Posts: 308	I was all for getting an Amiga 1200, a few of my mates had them, and I had a 500 for a while so was after a change... A 1200 with a 120mb hdd was about £500 at the time, but in the few months between thinking about upgrading and it being christmas, quite a few decent pc games came out, wolfenstien, Commanche, The Pc version of F1GP looked a lot better.. So I decided to jump ship and bought a pc. Upgraded the pc from a 386/40 to a 486/66 about 9 months later, and about this time, everyone else jumped ship too. All my amigas I now own came from one of the biggest amiga owners I knew, he finally got a 4000/030 towards the end of 1994 iirc, must of had it for less then 6 months and he went and got a pc. the 4000 he had went off to run a bbs, and the guy still has it somewhere, not used for about 10-12 years.

19 July 2012, 22:11	#4
johnim Amibay Mod/Staff Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: birmingham uk Age: 48 Posts: 1,019	i never i still got my origional miggys(dont ever sell)

19 July 2012, 22:16	#5
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,431	Never sold my Amigas. Stored them for a long time though...

19 July 2012, 22:16	#6
john1979 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: UK Age: 44 Posts: 748	As poster above it was the PC around '96 that finally made me realise I'd had enough. By that time I'd played the Amiga to death for many years and was just bored. I wanted Doom and something to do my college work on. The Sega Megadrive was also a massive influence. All my friends had one, I thought the games were instantly more playable than Amiga ones, and the cartridges were better than floppies. I still do think the majority of MD games beat the Amiga in terms of polish and all out fun. Last but not least - Sonic The Hedgehog.

19 July 2012, 22:55	#7
zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,838	Never sold an Amiga - just RocHard HD and Supra 28 - and regretting...

19 July 2012, 23:49	#8
Anemos 70X7 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ἑλλάς Posts: 1,078	I sold the Amiga A1200 "the old technology", and buying a super PC 386DX,then..

20 July 2012, 06:34	#9
stevsurv Beta 1.666 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: in 1985 Posts: 384	This is blaspheme!!

20 July 2012, 08:55	#11
Predseda Puttymoon inhabitant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tromaville Age: 46 Posts: 7,539	I only sold my first A600 to get money for A1200. I have that A1200 (beside others) till today and still in weekly use.

20 July 2012, 10:17	#12
Bamiga2002 BlizzardPPC'less Join Date: May 2004 Location: Finland Age: 46 Posts: 3,210	Never sold anything, but my original A500 broke down for some reason, then I was a teenager and interested in different things than computers . After some reckless life I got an A2000 for free(!) and was excited again. It was a great experience for me but lightning storm killed it . Then we got an A600HD which was also nice to fiddle with (and a 200Mb harddrive) until I managed to kill it by connecting the 2.5" HD the wrong way around -> smoke and cringe! I was pissed - some time passed by and I saw an ad for A1200 in an Infinitiv tower, got it, bought a Blizzard 1230-IV and a hefty 500Mb HD for it and it was all magic & heaven for me After that I have been sticking to the A1200, mobo changed MANY times but it's still the same good old miggie for me

20 July 2012, 10:43	#13
deicidal Registered Insane Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Ununited Kingdom Posts: 792	I didnt sell mine but it was starting to get very flaky and i was using it less and less, so it ended up going in the attic at my parents when i went to Uni. When they moved about 2 years ago it came out after a bit of fiddling got it to fire up shortly before it died again. But that then got me thinking I always wanted an a1200 and it was all down hill from there

20 July 2012, 12:32	#15
Leffmann Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,269	Never sold mine, but I had them in storage most of the time between 1998 and 2008 after having bought my first PC.

20 July 2012, 14:22	#17
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Only the mouse, PSU and case are what's left of my original A500, the keyboard + motherboard have been changed since. But I never sold it. :-)

20 July 2012, 22:11	#19
Reynolds Alien Breeder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Szigetszentmiklos / Hungary Age: 46 Posts: 1,096	why I sold any...? Human mistake, obviously.

20 July 2012, 23:53	#20
mrbob2 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: sheffield Posts: 332	I still have my a500+ amiga 600 and A1200 060 150mb hd The 1200 was 399, the 060 was £400 and to be honest, it wouldnt be worth selling them now, and even if someone offered me £1000 for the Lot i would never sell my memories, my objects of a wonderful childhood and the FORTUNE it cost to get them lol

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