Your biggest Amiga regret?

[jizmo]

I also loaned my Blizzard 1230IV for someone in early 2000s with no obligation to return it any time soon, having only of sentimental value at the time for me at the time.

Well I hope that someone is having a good time with it since that's the last I've seen of that card

[Turrican_3]

Not buying enough original games/software is definitely my #1 Amiga regret, even though at the time I was extremely short of money so it was more that I could only spend a little bit on hardware, and nothing else was left for software... and of course as soon as I got a proper job and money was not an issue anymore the Amiga was long dead.

I also regret not learning to program for the Amiga, I had a basic understanding of its inner working but nothing too fancy and again, only learned C when it was too late.

[E-Penguin]

A new one just in- attempting to remove the RF Modulator I lifted one of the traces. Not a critical one it turns out, but still. I should have got it removed when it was in for a recapping a few months ago. Hindsight, eh?

[BippyM]

What is your regret here???

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

My magic 3

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[sandruzzo]

@BippyM

Left only them! I sold all others

[Mathesar]

Originally Posted by jizmo

I also loaned my Blizzard 1230IV for someone in early 2000s with no obligation to return it any time soon, having only of sentimental value at the time for me at the time.

Well I hope that someone is having a good time with it since that's the last I've seen of that card

I don't have any real regrets, I still have my A3000 after all. Although I do regret selling my Blizzard 1230IV back in the days in favor of a BlizzardPPC 040/200 plus bvision. The bvision was wonderful but the ppc was crap. Felt slower than the 030/50 of the 1230IV I had before. The Blizzard 1230IV was the best accelerator ever built for the A1200 imho.

[suppah]

Selling my A500, A600 and A1200 back in the days. I also sold the A4000 but it was worth it, with the same money I bought a Pentium 75 which was good for my career as programmer. But I could have surely kept the other miggys.

Managed to fix that now!

[CrazyPepsi]

Well what can i say i was lending my amiga cd32 with sx1 and keyboard and all fancy stuff and a huge collection of games to my brother.The last game i remeber i buyed was Lotus trilogy it was back when i buyed a psx with wipeout and ridge racer and tekken and i dint care of my cd32..and after many years he asked me do u want your cd32 back?..naah im good u can keep it,well to make a story short he had to move and didnt have space for my games and sx1 he kept the cd32 and gamepads ,he trew all the games and the sx1 and all other stuff in the dumpster well if that is not a burn in the face i dont what is

[amiman99]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Ouch!

Hows the DVD drive today?

The drive is gone. It was probably the 2x speed, or something like that. Fairly new tech during those times.



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[Paisley_Pirate]

I regret not getting my A4000 repaired immediately back in 1999 when it crapped out the second time in 2 weeks, and swapping to pentium based machines...
and not getting it a proper network card to go on the internet. I had dial up at that time and it worked well.

Giving away my A500 with mods and pictures I made. What really bothers me is, I got an Atari Falcon 030 FOR FREE from a guy who only used it to do his taxes and writing and I sold it for very little money because I was completely ignorant about what a fantastic machine that is. Amigas are great, but the Falcon is the best thing Atari ever made in my humble opinion. I can still punch myself in the face for that.

[robben74]

Noy playing it enough.

[CBMretrofan]

Interesting thread !

Biggest regret is that I did not do more on my Amiga like drawing logos or
creating MOD music. It was nearly impossible to come across any technical docs
or assembler books for me these days. The libraries here covered mostly IBM PC topics.
Sadly I did not know people that were doing this kind of stuff or even real coders.
First I played a lot of games, the later on I fiddled around with disk monitors and the
Red Sector Demomaker, and began collecting tooldisks.
Later on I loved cracktros more than the games, booting up the disk just to listen to the mod and
watching the crack intro.

Annoyingly I did not keep some disks when I had to sell my Amiga 500 for collecting money to buy an IBM DOS PC.
It was around 1995 I think. My buddies were moving onto PCs, and I was hit by the Doom and Wolfenstein wave too.

[S0ulA55a551n]

about two to three years ago I sold a boxed a1200 for about £40 quid on eBay

[turrican3]

my biggest is that konami never really support the amiga !!
I love konami games and we overall had bad ports or no ports !!!
too bad, a good contra done by the konami team !!!
or gradius or .... ....

[rare_j]

I regret wasting time with real hardware (A1200, A500+ with HD8 sidecar, etc) in the early 2000 and even into the early 2010s. In hindsight it was a massive waste of time and money. All I wanted to do was play some games but was fixated on real hardware and all the issues that comes with. Eventually I realised WinUAE was much easier and better, doesn't take up any space, has much better compatibility and doesn't even cost anything using hardware I already own. Since abandoning real hardware I play more games.

[redblade]

Originally Posted by sandruzzo

My magic 3

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Ouch, Translated Italian manuals . Has any one scanned and uploaded them? I feel for you.

[modrobert]

I regret having regrets in my youth, realizing at ripe old age it's never too late for anything.

As many others in this thread I regret selling my Amiga hardware, though I don't regret joining this forum in 2010 and buying a second hand A1200 in 2013 which looked better than the one I sold in the 90s, and digging deeper into the Amiga internals than I ever had before, learning new ways to program with the help from a community of enthusiasts and experts.

In my professional life programming I feel surrounded by people who care more about code style ("rise of the linters" ) than function and performance, often wishing someone from this forum would review my code instead, who actually cares about optimizing code rather than happily promoting hidden "loops within loops" just because it looks neat in the source.

[Gilbert]

Mine is AGA - which ruined the Amiga and made everyone jump ship to the 16-bit consoles. 16 sprites was a big disappointment too.

Other than that- it's not being able to learn how to program - beyond AMOS and Blitz Basic (2). It just seemed so hard to find proper information on how to make games in machine code back then. I wanted to - but there were no books you could buy that told you! and the magazines just gave little snippets.

[BippyM]

Another regret is my lack of motivation when learning.. I still want to lear asm to a proficient level :/