How long did you stick with your Amiga?

[Weasel Fierce]

Please note this is just for discussing our past, not for round twenty billion of why Amiga was doomed.

What year did you switch from your Amiga to another computer for your main computing needs? Who stuck it out the longest?

Myself was 97 or 98. I believe we got our first PC in the house in 97, but I didn't take that one over until the following year.

[Karlos]

2007. I mean I had a PC before then but it was not my "main" machine, it was for the growing number of things I couldn't do or were becoming difficult to do. I purpose built my first system at the end of 2007 with the "must run crysis" requirements. Ironically, I still have that PC today.

[lmimmfn]

I stopped using my A1200 in late 98, didn't game again until December 99(finished uni, moving house a few times) when I was gifted a PS1 for Christmas, got a PS2 late 2001 and bought a PC in 2002.
It was great getting back to computers in 2002

[ImmortalA1000]

As a games machine, well sort of early 90s really, the AGA games were a bit naff and had the whiff of the Amstrad about them. As a computer, much later because Windows before XP = Winblowjobs The internet is the only reason I got a PC again in 2001 or 2002 etc. I had a PC for studies 1992-1996 but didn't really like them, the games were crap, point and click bullshit etc.

[japandrej]

September '96 I got Pentium 133mhz. But I'm guessing sometimes 1997 I started having WinUAE on every config until now... or FS-UAE that is.

[Matt_H]

I've gone back and forth over the years, but I've always had Amigas in service and considered Amiga my "main" home machine until 2011-2012. It was the inability of YAM to keep up with modern email that forced me to make my Mac my primary system.

[TCD]

I got my first PC in 1995 (or late 1994) and I stopped using my Amiga 500 around 1997.

[Reynolds]

I still have Amiga for my main setup. Never gave it up to use, as not really interested in other platforms. Currently there are a few things I can do easier on a pc, so for that purpose I have a C2D laptop, and that's all.

[Pyromania]

I stuck with Amiga until July 23rd, 2071!

[meynaf]

My A1200 lasted as my main machine up to 2015. Before that I had no PC at all.

[gimbal]

I got disenchanted with it for a while when we got our spanking new 486 PC with a huge library of games I could not play on my A500. Unfortunately between that moment and the moment nostalgia started to draw me back to the Miggy, my A500 broke and we decided to toss it rather than see if it could be repaired. The Netherlands unfortunately was and still is a heavy throwaway society. That all must have been around 1995.

[alexh]

1998. I had just returned to University after a year working for games company Argonaut.

Amiga History
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1996 A500plus+2MB+8MB GVP HD8+II + Modem (Main computer for everything, games, programming, accessing internet via FTP/Gopher/NNTP/email)
1997 A3000 (used at Argonaut to develop Amiga games they were disposing of.)
1998 A4000/040@25MHz + 150MB RAM+ Picasso IV + Ariadne II (ethernet)

But even a top end Amiga, connected direct to JANET (high speed Academic internet) just couldn't cut it in 1998 for browsing the WWW (just decoding JPG) and creating spreadsheets, desktop publishing and of course 3D texture mapped games etc.

I kept my Amiga's but I bought a dirt cheap Celeron 300a which I overclocked to 450MHz threw in an Nvidia Riva TNT2 card and it was a hairs breath away from top end PC for almost no money. I don't think I used the Amiga seriously again.

[fxgogo]

I got my Amiga 500+ in early 1992 and I moved to a 486DX4-100 in 95 or 96. I hated the move but I was doing 3D animation and needed the rendering speed.

[Daedalus]

My A1200 was still my main machine for general computing up until 2004 or 2005, including some gaming (I also had consoles for games but didn't play many games on the PC until much later). There isn't a solid date on it really, it was a gradual thing where slowly tasks for which it was unsuitable were handed over to my PC or Mac. And it never entirely went away - the same machine is still in regular use here now alongside my PCs.

One key point was changing over to broadband in 2005, which meant the Amiga was no longer my LAN's gateway to the internet, and also the dial-up connection was no longer the bottleneck and the rise of CSS and JS-heavy websites meant the A1200 was no longer viable for the web. Another key moment was getting a high end printer that had no driver for the Amiga, which meant using TurboPrint was no longer an option (that printer is still here and in service too, and is itself retro not least for sporting a Firewire connection).

[van_dammesque]

A500+ at xmas 1991, to A1200 to 040 towered and stuck with it until it broke in 2000.

[sneeker]

Christmas 93 I think. I was about to go to college the following year, so sold my A500 and bought a 386 sx40, Then for Chirstmas 1995 I got a Dx2/66 Motherboard and cpu and upgraded. Must of only had my Amiga 3 years, but it obviously made an impression on me.

[Torti-the-Smurf]

From my fist day in School (1987) until my Daughter was born (2001)

Then sold all my Amiga stuff But i missed them, so i have bought a A600 in 2006.

The Amiga never left my heart. The "Computer Love" of my Life

[Thorham]

Switched to a peecee in 2004 or 2005. Never stopped using my Amiga, though.

[Jope]

Amiga only 1989-1996, but the A500 was so obsolete by 1996 that I could keep it alongside my PC since it wasn't worth anything if I sold it. I bought my first A4000 in 1998.

[StevenJGore]

1999. It was my final year at uni and I bought a PC to do my final year project. I was doing engineering so I needed a powerful PC for AutoCAD and Word (because of all the embedded graphics). To be honest, I hadn't used my Amiga much since 1997 because I bough a Playstation then and spent most of my time on that. No good for coursework, though! Like most, I'm just here for the nostalgia.