Which Amiga was the 'greatest'?

[Anemos]

personal relationships only with A1200, i knew it was loved that girl for ever..
Edit: now you can close and this poll !

[Dreamcast270mhz]

3000T definitely, heres why:

PPC support
Most expandable
FAST SCSI!!
no cooling issues
High Cost (yeah baby!)
Reliable
CD-ROM option

[trackah123]

500 and 1200 for me, because of the simple fact that it was very compatible with most software / games.

I voted for the 500, just for the fact that it was light years ahead of its competitors at the time.

However, it was the 1200 that introduced me to the possibilities of modern computing - IDE hard disks, CD-ROM etc. I remember the first time I used a web browser; it was AWeb on my A1200. I didn't have an internet connection at the time, but had bought a CD-ROM called Into the Web, which came with a collection of offline web sites.

Happy days...

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by fc.studio

My opinion:

The Amiga 500 caused great impact and it was essential for the real Amiga beginning, surely much better than A1000.
However I voted the A1200 because I believe that with A500 only and without the A1200, 90% of us wouldn't be in this forum.

I fully agree with Fabie:
- The A1200 is about 17 years old and it's the computer that almost every fan uses, beautiful design and represent today the world "Amiga" -

I have to agree with this.
Fondest memories are of the 500/500+ yet the one I use the most today is indeed the 1200.

The Amiga 1000 was essentially a retailing proof of concept. When the Amiga 500 came out it was a viable consumer product and for performance and capability wiped out pretty much every other platform up to the level of mainframes.

While I like the external appearance of the A1200, it was a product of the bizarre mix of cost reduction and wastage of many years of viable alternate and probably superior technologies and architectures. Time wasted on projects like the A500+ (which was utterly pointless), alternate versions of the CDTV, and arguably the A600 were compounded by the critical performance enchancing features that were slshed from the motherboard due to the false economy of cost reduction and short sightedness to the long term way the market was going. The fact that the A1200 came with a 020 rather than a faster 030, and that the memory configuration restricted the performance out of the box, is the final straw for me.

But I would guess that the failure to capitalise on all the work they did on the CDTV to integrate an easy way to install an A1200 is for me almost criminal. There could easily have been space to do that on the left side of the case, if they had not saved a few pence on the IDE controller logic. It just seems a complete no brainer to me.

In the end what you had was a machine that looked nice externally, and had a feature set that would appeal to A500 owners keen to upgrade rather than might appeal to the wider market. The AGA graphics mode were nice to have, but in practice, they were not nice to use. They were slow and precluded serious work when compared to VGA and SVGA adapters at the time. I actually think they made a mistake issuing the A4000 with AGA support. It should have just come with a RTG card. Apart from the extra graphics modes, there is not actually that much to distinguish the A1200 from the A500 in the games enviroment.

The A500 was a solid platform, it was the consumer standard, and it was the benchmark by which domestic consumers judged the Amiga range. Of course, Commodore tried to wreck that by coming up with the A500+ which created a huge amount of customer confusion and frustration.

[orange]

A500, obviously..

[Paul_s]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Hehe It was more about those poeple that vote for the A1200, because it's the most 'usuable' Amiga today I think you meant (as said in the second quote) the Amiga that had the greatest impact

I often wonder why people say that.

The 500 can run 92.98% of the software created for the entire amiga market!

1200 probably less so because of incompatibility due to badly coded games... although I guess with WHDLoad and the like the gap is closing

[pubzombie]

i voted 1200 too. Simply for the fact that it was the one i wanted the most, and the one i enjoy the most NOW. When i got it i was gutted loads of old games wouldnt work. I missed some demos too. Ironically it is only now - 15yrs later - that i can get the most out of my miggy1200 030.
i always wanted a cdtv at the time, was i the only person? I thought it was ahead of its time then - and now - and was shocked it didnt take off.

[DDNI]

Surely the X1000

;ddni ducks

[StarEye]

The Amiga 1200 is the one to own today. So therefore I gave that my vote. However, most of the good stuff came on the A500, before the A1200 was released, and the A1200 was never used to its full potential I think (just look at the most impressive A500 games and how long it took to harness its full power). Would be great if the A1200 had been given the same success as the A500 and eventually used to its full power (not counting expansions apart from maybe a harddrive). Look at how incredible Ruff'n'Tumble looks, and running from two disks on nothing but a 1mb A500. Imagine how great an A1200 version would look they gave it the same time and devotion as the A500 version.

[Lockon]

A500
In split second.

[trackah123]

You can clearly see that "Compatibility" or "Main-stream" played a big role in the past and still plays a big role nowadays.

A500 and A1200 has the most votes in the poll mainly because it was the most "compatible" and probably most "mainstream"

Same goes for PC/Apple/Linux nowadays.

Pc is probably most compatible and mainstream nowadays, Apple i say it carefully is on 2nd place because its good but feels limited imho, then Linux and all other stuff 3rd.

[Peilton]

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

A500, 'cause those were the days.

Couldn't express it any better

[mr.niceguy]

Well, for me it's the A500. Why? Easy to explain...I can use WHD Load on CF HD with it, got 2MB Chip and 8 MB FastRam, turboboard etc. So there's no need for an A1200 to be voted as best Amiga machine IMO. At least it's a real classic...and probably the best computer ever...

[AliasXZ]

A600 for me personally because that was the first ever Amiga I owned, which still works today. Sadly, they were a bit of a market flop :-(
I voted badass A1200 because of expandability and AGA ;-)

[ma693541]

For me it must be the A500, it's the most used from it's era and i own both A500 and A1200, but A500 have the huge mass of games, app's and demos that the A1200 owner can only dream of.

Right now i scan thru my whole Amiga collection with the new TOSEC dat's.

[mikele]

for some reasons it's got to be a A600 for me! My first Amiga computer, but I always root for underdogs. A600 was considered such a disaster since its early days, Amiga magazines gave it such a bad publicity, criticizing it for being outdated and so on. Remember having seen it on the top of "The worst amiga ever" list. My friends who owned A500/A500+/CDTV at the time ridiculed my Miggy just because of its lack of numeric pad, incompatibility with some old Kickstart 1.3 games, no upgrade options - "who needs this PCMCIA thing? haha"

Sure it was an epic win for me when one day I equipped it with Apollo accelerator, fast ram, cdrom and it outperformed my friend's plain vanilla A1200. Nowadays A600s are being sought here by former Amiga users who want to rekindle nostalgic memories - as these machines are fun to tinker with. You can install cheap CF disks, pcmcia lan cards and do some lite internet tasks like checking your mail, newsgroups, while most of aforementioned glorious A500's and CDTVs are gathering or biting dust. Who's laughing now?

[Skope]

Rock Lobster all the way baby, yeeeah!

A500/K1.3/2x512K/+DF1 <3<3<3<3<3

[bigfoot catnap]

was goin to vote the 500 but then thought there would be no 500 if it wernt for the 1000 so it must be the greatest