Commodore Amiga owners thread!

Ah the glory days, had a A500 with ram upgrade.

It's what got me into point and click adventure games.

Monkey Island,
Flight of the Amazon Queen,
Simon the Sorcerer.

Some decent platformers also, like Super Frog, Zool, Cool Spot.

Felt like the more grown up system to have.
 
I've got a 1200, 600 and (I think) 3 500s

My current TV seems to struggle with the video output from them so I've not fired any of them up for a while. I was quite impressed when, a few years ago, I got my 1200 connected to my wifi network, managed to ping Google but couldn't find a web browser light enough to run in the standard memory :p
 
Currently running an A600 and also a minimig with an Arm controller. On the waiting list for a Vampire for the 600.

At some point over the years I've owned all the classic Amigas, 500, 500+ 1500. 600, CDTV, CD32, god knows how many 1200's and a few 4000's.

Used to run a BBS on my 1200 in the pre internet days.
 
Could never afford one with a paper round and my parents were never going to shell out 300 or was it 500 sheets for one. We made do with Airborne Ranger on the C64. I used to love playing Xenon 2 on my mates Amiga though. Looking back I thought this would have been about 86 but must have been later as we had a c64 then which was new at xmas. It all seems a long long time ago.
 
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500+, then a 1200. So much time playing Frontier.
First game on it was Switchblade 2, buying it in Boots after reading reviews, maybe Amiga Format? The game wasn't great, but I thought it was at the time.
The other great thing was the demoscene. What seemed like miracles of graphice from a home computer. The music wasn't my cup of tea, nor some of the sentiments in the text of them, but they were impressive for the time 3D graphics and imagery.
 
I was about 14 when I had a A1200. I remember drooling over the 68030 and 68040 chip upgrades you could buy in the magazines! They fitted into a slot under the A1200 if I remember correctly!

And spending hours customising Workbench, trying to get the tweaks you wanted to fit on the single boot floppy.

I made my own game once, in a program called Blitz Basic, which I bought. It came with a manual which I studied relentlessly. I sold my A1200 a few years ago, but I kept the 2 floppies I had my own game on. So I have 2 floppies upstairs in my draw and no computer to play them on lol. 20 year old floppies - I bet they don't work now.


Going to float a term here and see if anyone knows what I'm referring to. If you don't, well don't ask me to explain what it was!
Son of the stag
 
I got a 500 when I was about 13, and later a 1200. I still have the 1200, and it still works, along with the 68030 accelerator that's in it, and the whopping 40MB HDD. I powered it up last year and played a few mods on Eagleplayer.

When I was a kid, it was the games and demos I loved. One of my mates could code 6502 (C64) assembler when I met him 30 years ago - he was 12. He later went on to do some small intros in 68000 for the Amiga. I remember the first book he got on the subject was the Amiga hardware reference manual. I harshly criticised his first attempt at a sine scroller. It was rubbish though. Jerky as hell. His next attempt was bang on. As good as any I'd seen at the time.

Another mate repeatedly hammered me so badly at Speedball 2, I took the disc out, tore it up and threw it in the bin.

I'm still friends with both of them. They're my oldest and best mates to this day. One of them now lives in Santa Monica and works for Naughty Dog no less. I'm secretly hoping he doesn't get his green card so he'll come back when his visa expires. You might think it's the programmer, but it's actually the guy who battered me so badly at Speedball.

The lasting thing I love about the Amiga is the music. So much nostalgia packed into a few KB of data. I'll never grow out of it. I honestly think I listen to more Amiga (and C64) music than I do regular music, if you only count music I choose, rather than what happens to be on the radio.
 
OMG so many memories in this thread. A500 for me with a Quick Shot 2. To name a few, Speedball 2, Stunt Car Racer and Chaos Engine (totally forgot about that) and of cause Lemmings!!! Must have been about 1988??
 
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The Amiga community is alive and well.

In September, I was at the 'South West Amiga Group' meet here in Swindon.

The recent 'Vampire' card for the A600 gives the machine a healthy upgrade of 128 MB or RAM, HDMI output, SD Card storage and makes it faster than a 68060 Amiga 1200.

I started with the 'Class of the 90s' Amiga 500.

I then moved to an Amiga 1200 'Desktop Dynamite' pack. This came with a 60 MB hard drive.

This is still up and running and now with the ACA 1221 and the MapRom option for Kickstart 3.1. 4GB CF running "Classic" Workbench 3.1. Internet access on wired or wifi and the Gotek Floppy USB Adapter.

Basically numerous games are stored on the CF drive and can be run from Workbench using WHD Load.

The internet does work using AWeb, but on my setup, https isn't supported, not is Javascript and only basic websites work.

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Companies such as AmigaKit in Cardiff still have an online shop.
 
My brother was the first to get an Amiga. I seem to remember it was somewhere between £500 and £1,000 when they first came out? I could be wrong. I think when I got my own it was closer to £300. Still a lot of money considering I was probably about 12.

These days I can't really play single player games, it has to be online and looking back, it was evident here as I bought network cable and two D5 plugs (I think they were) and made our own 20m null modem cable. Then the multiplater gaming was on!

You can't beat Stunt Car Racer over a null modem cable! Also Populous I think it was. The God game? That was great over null modem too.

Back to single player though, was it Cineware? 'It Came From the Desert' and 'Defender of the Crown'? Awesome stuff.

I also wrote my own games using AMOS and I think AMOS 3D. One American Football game I wrote (very inefficiently) would only run on a machine with 3MB of RAM... which we had. I dont think I could get it off our HDD either as it was too big for floppies.

Great days.
 
I had a 500+ , absolutely loved it, the games I remember are lemmings, speedball 2, eye of the beholder & hired guns which I thought was fantastic. I got easy Amos a basic programming language, me and my mate were going to make our own adventure game which never materialized. Happy days
 
I had a 500+ and loved it!

I now own an A1200 with an accelerator, but think I need it checked out as not convinced it is working 100%. But can't find anywhere to do diagnostics on it and fix it if needed. :(
 
I have an Amiga 2000 and I converted an Amiga 1200 to a tower which I still have. I also have a monitor. I also have a C64 but that's another story.

I still love the Amiga mainly because it has such a varied games catalogue. Nowadays there are simply genres that don't actually get hardly any games produced for them.

SWoS and Kick Off 2 have not been surpassed, in my opinion. SWoS manager mode with all the teams and real life player names was, and is, fantastic.

I still love playing games like It Came from the Desert, Wings, DGeneration, Monkey Island, Bloodwych, Dungeon Master and lots more.



M.
 
I have the most fond memories of the Amiga. Unusual for time I guess, my older brother sold his SNES for an Amiga 500+ with an RF modulator.

He was disappointed as a lot of the games were not as polished as the SNES but I was fascinated by the OS, educational software, CAD, music making and the pirated scene. I thought the Amiga was so cool.

I have since bought an Amiga 1200 and have been competing on a retro forum this week for high scores on Lotus 2, I'm second :P
 
I had an a600 with external floppy drive. I got the external floppy just for mortal kombat and jesus on E.

The games i rember loving - Megaball, Walker, cannon fodder, lotus turbo challenge, Rtype sensible soccer, james pond.

All my mates were in to monkey island, i didnt get it. Im sure it was something like 8 floppys
 
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