OK, who here was an Amiga user?
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Posted on: 2012-09-07 11:48 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Oh gawd.
At lunch we were talking about technology obsolescence and I almost teared up talking about the day I gently delivered my Amiga 3000 into the recycling bin.
These days I use a Mac. It took almost ten years for a computer as cool as the Amiga to make it to market. Now I wouldn't give my Mac up for anything. Except, maybe for whatever cool things comes next. :-D
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Happy Amiga 1000 user. I still have it around here, boxed up; I don't think the old Workbench floppy would still be readable after all this time. I'll never need to code Gadgets or consult the Guru again, but I just can't bear to part with it. I might even still have the ROM Kernel manuals around here, somewhere.
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I had an Amiga 500 and a 2000. I also had a C64, as well as a T/S 2068 (American version of the British ZX Spectrum [Z80/Zilog chipset]).
I was an Amiga owner - a 500 and a 1200. I even bought an accelerator and ram expansion for the 1200 (I seem to recall the base machine struggled with Sim City 2000 or something). I wouldn't say I was or am a rabid fan though; I mean I loved the Amiga and have fond memories of it, but I readily moved on to PCs (it occurs to me that it's silly to use "PC" to differentiate from an Amiga) once it became apparent that the Amiga and/or Commodore didn't have much of a future left. I did buy a CD32 though, so I guess I hung on to that hope a little 
Prior to the Amiga I was a Spectrum man (well, boy) myself. ZX81 -> 16K Spectrum -> 48K rubber keys -> 128k (so not worth the 15 minute load times).
I owned two Amiga 500s. There was nothing like it at the time - I think the 8 bit NES was its only competition.
Some of the music is very memorable... particularly stuff by Psygnosis.
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Some of the music is very memorable... particularly stuff by Psygnosis.
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Oh I had an Amiga and I loved this mashine. Yes the end of Commodore and City of Heroes has something similar, in both situation I was absolutly down when I heard it and always you was thinking "This can't be the end, it just HAS to be go on..." to bad at the end there wasn't any rescue...
I hope this time we see a happy end...
When you like the music then check Radio Paralax out. They play a lot of old music from computer games. I listen to it the most times when I played City of Heroes... Damm now I'm in tears again.. 
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I ran a local BBS on my upgraded Amiga 500 (he got the car and carpayment in the divorce, I got the computer. Best deal ever!).
Back then my 52 KB hard drive was amazeballs...
Then my cat spilled Coke on it... >.<
*sighs*
:'(
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More like... this. This gave me chills when blasted in stereo, firing it up for the first time.
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I had an Amiga 1000. I added an external expansion box with 2MB of RAM so I could load the operating system onto a ramdrive. That really made the system fly. I was on several local BBSes and was one of the first people there to have a 2400 baud modem. Woo hoo! 
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I had an Amiga 1000. I added an external expansion box with 2MB of RAM so I could load the operating system onto a ramdrive. That really made the system fly. I was on several local BBSes and was one of the first people there to have a 2400 baud modem. Woo hoo!
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I remember starting an old BBS with a friend for kicks, we had one of those trading turn-based games installed and actually carried a real-life argument into the game (impossible I know) and nuked each other's base colonies hehehe.
Good times.
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Amiga 2000 here. Gave up on it the second time the hard drive went toes-up a year or two after Commodore died.
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My dad had one. I think it was the Amiga 2000. I think this was sometime in the late 80s or early 90s.
I used to play the Bard's Tale. It's unbelievable how much harder puzzles in RPGs were back then. There was also some game where you went around raiding castles.
It's weird to think back on a time when a 4096 color picture was a big deal.
Commodore had awesome machines. there is still a website out there someone hosts on his commodore 64. Im sure there are a few amiga hosted sites as well. Great company, nothing came close to them.
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Didn't own one but played on my friend's who got one after we graduated college. His roommate (another college buddy) and I would backseat play Bard's Tale, Ultima IV, Loom when he played and took turns when he let us have a chance. We were all Atari 800 geeks in college.
Nice machine for the time.
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I miss my Amiga 1000. The most awesome of machines. Well ok it's in storage somewhere but still it was great and showed how a computer could be built. ::sigh::
One of the local BBS people The Dirty Duck ran his BBS Duck off and Fly from his Amiga 1000. He had two 10 Megabyte yes I said 10 Megabyte IBM hard drives that he ran it from.
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I had an Amiga 500 and later an Amiga 1200, and loved playing games Defender of the Crown, It Came From the Desert, and Rocket Ranger from Cinemaware, and interactive fiction like The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls. The graphics on those games looked awesome back then. And still do actually ...
Oh, and the Bards Tale series of course. Would often stay up all night playing those.
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Bard's Tale was the game that convinced my 10ish year old self I needed to upgrade from my ZX Spectrum to an Amiga. I had a shot playing it on my aunt's boyfriend's Amiga 500 and just hearing the sound effects of the monks in the temple chanting blew me away - after the digitised speech of e.g. Ghostbusters on the ZX Spectrum, hearing that come out of a computer game was incredible to me.
In the spirit of that "who was a furry?" thread, since I kinda brought it up there.
Who here used to be an Amiga user? I'm kinda more interested in the avid and rabid users who tried to cling tightly to the platform long after Commodore went kaput. I'm sure you all already knew the sting of something you love going bye-bye and trying as hard as you can to rally the community together!
My first computer was an Amiga 2000. I tried to upgrade it as best I could but the best I got was a 25 Mhz '030, a 3 gig hard drive * and OS 3.5. But I used the heck out of that machine. I was on all the local Amiga BBSes and I subscribed to both AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing. I still remember that sad day in 1994 when the news came that Commodore went bankrupt and was no more. I followed the news on comp.sys.amiga.misc about all the turmoil and drama as the Amiga brand fell into the hands of other companies, who themselves had troubles.
Even nowadays, I still occasionally keep tabs on current events. I'm kind of amazed at how much that community has managed to do.
So who here used to use an Amiga computer? Who here was secretly wishing CoH could run on it?
* (I had a 100 meg hard drive for the longest time. I got the 3 gig drive in 1998, for $128. I thought that was a very cheap price for so much drive space, haha!)