How convenient is it to have more than one Amiga at home ?

[NewDeli]

I've read in various threads that some people (from Germany, from England...) own more than one Amiga computer at home.

How convenient is it to have more than one Amiga at home ? compared to using Desktop PCs, that it.

It would be nice to know about the practical aspects : storing media (CDs, peripherals, audio output...), hiding cables...
for example, I was very impressed Dlfrsilver stores more than 1000 games in 10 m². (he should have many more, by now)

Do some of you have Amigas in various rooms (that should take a quite big apartment to do so !) ?
Were you force to part with floppies, CD collections because of it was not convenient anymore to store them where you live.

Are there other people using your Amigas (like during a copy-party !) ? Or even, is your filled with Amiga stuff house opened to EAB guests ?

You may post a few pics, too.

[s2325]

I have A500 and bought CD32 because of problems with transferring disk images. They're in one (small) room ready to work.

[alexh]

I now only use the CD32 + SX32, it is under the TV in the living room, next to the Wii and the X-box.

020+AGA+8MB RAM, CD-Drive, Hard Drive, RGB SCART out, smallest form factor of any Amiga, ya cannot beat it! Almost every demo, game, Music etc. all installed. All it needs now are some wireless PSOne pads with adapters.

I do have an A600 which I use if I am taking an Amiga to a mates house or a show and an A4000 which remains switched off, collecting dust most of the time. Powered on once in a while to watch 040+ demos.

[Sensi]

I think its not convenient at all and I read about people owning more Amigas too. I read about people who own more than fifteen Amigas and still dont have enough. Its definitely an obsession and have twenty spare Amigas just to have them, own them, is far from being ok (I dont criticise these people and dont make fun of them, everybody can do what they want!). If I had one working A500, one A600 and one A1200, I would keep them. Maybe I would buy some spare Amiga if I had only one for future times, noone knows what happens. But to have something just for the feeling "I have it," is something I dont understand (eh, I do but try to avoid doing it ) and its waste of time, money and definitely space. If you have millions of US dollars, house with twenty rooms, you dont work and you have plenty of free time, then its not so bad idea. If you belong to majority, then its totally inconvenient. Its my point of view.

[TCD]

I would like to have an A1200 to accompany my A500 If I had the money I guess I would also try to get an A4000 with a PPC card. That would make 3 then and I think that's it for me.
Oh, but we all should wait for Slayer to see this thread...

[mfletcher]

Lets see...

A500+, A600, A1200, 2x A4000's, STFM1040, STE1040, Falcon 030, 2x STFM520's, 2x Acorn A3000's, 2x BBC B's, a BBC Master, Acorn A3020 and an Acorn A7000.

Too many computers? Hell yeah! I want to get rid of a lot of the surplus Acorn and Atari stuff later this year. Right now I have one of the A4000's as my main Amiga, with the A1200 as a backup. Im not sure if I'll keep the A500+ or A600; for the A600 its dependent on whether someone produces a decent accelerator for it (not too keen on the Indivision ECS; would prefer to keep the floppy drive intact)

Im going to build a small shelving unit to store the computer I want to keep. I have a small computer pedestal set up, that I can just set up the computer that I want to use at the time with it.

My main A4000 shares a monitor with my Mac Pro... thanks to the A4000 Indivision I just bought!

[mfletcher]

I think my next purchase is either going to be a SAM440 with AOS 4.1, or an atom based machine to run Icaros or a Minimig. Depends on which of the three matures the most. Really keen to see the Minimig 2.0 in production.

[seuden]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

I would like to have an A1200 to accompany my A500

Same here but I just don't have the room atm. That's the only inconvenience I could ever think of.

[Yoto]

Not convenient at all, if your wife already pretends not to hate your A1200.
I know its terrible....

[Photon]

Well, I'm a freak so I have quite a few models for testing. But if you're not a coder releasing demos then I'd say, fix up the best one for what you want to do with it. OCS games? Then A500+half meg slowmem and a display. WHDload? A1200/A4000 with Workbench + display. 'Serious computing'? then a 3.1 or 3.9+PPC Amiga in a brand new cab with flatscreen.

Some may want maximum 2 Amigas, one for music/gfx/code with a CF card, and one gaming console thingy, kept pristine for max compatibility with select games on a real Amiga with the best display.

[Unknown_K]

I have 4 at home setup. A500 for bootable 1-2 floppy games, A2000 for early HD installable games, A1200 for AGA and last generation games, and a A3000 for non game related activity.

You could probably get by with an upgraded A1200 and WHDload, unless you collect original games like me then you need atleast 2 real amigas OCS/ECS and AGA. Or just an A1200 or A4000 if you just wants Apps and OS work.

Basically it is up to you to figure out how much space and how much money you want to spend.

[Paul_s]

i JUST USE;

A500 - OCS/ECS gaming/demos
CD32 - Above (if compatible) and all AGA related games/demos I enjoy.

Works fine for me and if I want to play a game on the 500 with a floppy, just image it across over Amiga Explorer. I could run WHDload I guess but I don't use my Amiga's that much to be honest so it would be money wasted... and I like the old sound of the floppy disk accessing away... makes it a more genuine experience.

I only have lots of them for spares/backup, especially with the majority of most Amiga computers reaching 20 years of age! The 1000 I have is 23 years old this year and works fine

[Shoonay]

In my short life, I've learned on thing: "Never, ever, under any circumstances, never sell your favorite hardware or you'll miss it like hell"
I did it once (sold my first PSX in ~2001), and don't want to repeat that tragic moment of my life again.
So I'm sticking with my 3 Amy's, 2 (A600 and A1200) are stored safely and the best one is used.

[Parsec]

I have an A500 and an A1200. The A500 never gets used because I don't have the patience for floppy disks any more. Funny thing is I kind-of prefer the A500, it's a more expensive looking computer than the A1200 (IMO of course!) and I prefer the default look of WB1.3 to WB3.1.

I think a CD or HDD is a must for an Amiga these days, floppy disks are getting very old especially because you can't use the HD ones.

[gklinger]

The real question here is how inconvenient is to not have more than one Amiga at home? Or maybe it isn't. I don't know. I'm not entirely sure what this thread is about.

[Slayer]

Very, great lifestyle choice

btw, these people who own more than one Amiga system generally start by trying to collect one aspect, perhaps the entire collection of abacus books comes to mind, and most people sell ALL or nothing... outcome after you have all the books, you also have 20 Amigas for example...

and why sell them on at a time when some were giving them away? exactly, no point... but today, hmmmm... things could change...

[klx300r]

not 'convenient' at all but damn cool for retro freaks like many of us

[asm1]

Originally Posted by Shoonay

In my short life, I've learned on thing: "Never, ever, under any circumstances, never sell your favorite hardware or you'll miss it like hell"
I did it once (sold my first PSX in ~2001), and don't want to repeat that tragic moment of my life again.

I did that as well Sold my Acorn A3010 with a rare Ram expansion board..... wish I hadn't to this day .

Currently only 1 A1200 ... but have accumulated a pile of misc bits in the course of setting mine up, which may necessitate the acquisition of a second A1200 for them to live in

[cv643d]

I store everything on my fileserver. All my Amigas have ethernet.

It is good to have 3-4 systems as backups in case one of your Amiga dies.

[scrappysphinx]

I currently have:
Stock A500
Stock A500+
A600 with 2mb Chip Ram, KS3.1, Apollo 630 030 accelerator, 16mb ram 2gb CF HDD & Wireless
Stock A1200 Escom NOS
A1200T with 4Gb CF HDD, CDRom & Wireless but just sold the BPPC
A2000 with KS3.1, A2630 030 Accelerator, 8Mb Ram, 2Gb SCSI HDD & CDRom
A4000D with A3640 040 accelerator, 16mb Ram 3.2Gb IDE HDD, DVDrom.

Ok i can't use them all at once, but i like having different machines to use and i rotate between them. At the moment i am using the A4000D as i only just got it this week!