History of the Amiga computer

[dgridley]

Anyone else have an Amiga computer? I had the A1000 and A500 and loved them both!

MLAgazine has a detailed history of the Amiga, from its beginnings as the pipe dream of a frustrated Atari engineer to it's beginnings as a revolutionary gaming console, through the mini-collapse of the gamaing industry, and into the early days of the personal computer.

Check it out here.

 

[Sabre]

I saw this one a while ago...

I used to love Amigas!

Mine broke a couple of years back, and i havent been able to find a replacement since...

 

[dgridley]

I traded a Data General 150 lunchbox computer for my first Amiga 1000.. I never did anything serious with mine, but loved the games (Blood Money and Kid Gloves were my favorites)...

 

[PoorDoggie]

never seen one of them before. Thanks for sharing the link though!

 

[ThreeD]

I have the Commodore Amiga 128 :D God I love that machine...I still have games for it. Every time I go back home I fire it up and play some good old "Summer games" or "the last ninja"..good times!

 

[dgridley]

You mean the Commodore 128 (which isn't an Amiga).. that was a good machine too, the third computer I had after a TI99-4a and a Commodore 64.

 

[ThreeD]

You mean the Commodore 128 (which isn't an Amiga).. that was a good machine too, the third computer I had after a TI99-4a and a Commodore 64.

hmmm I always thought the startup screen with the hand telling you to insert a disc said Amiga, but I could be mistaken. So I guess yeah, I meant the Commodore 128 My friend had a 64 with the tape drive. Loading games always took forever. (well not forever - but close to forever ) I remember thinking the 128 was such a step up in performance when I got it for christmas. Sensible Soccer & Kick Off 2 were my fav games at that time.

 

[Sabre]

Sensible Soccer, wasnt that on the amiga too?

That was such a funny game, i still remember it, its the only game i really remember :p

 

[ThreeD]

Sensible Soccer, wasnt that on the amiga too?

That was such a funny game, i still remember it, its the only game i really remember :p

I remember playing it almost every day for almost a year..hehe the graphics were so awesome Did you ever play Bruce Lee? :D I played that the other day with an emulator on my PC..so many good memories hehe..

 

[theparrot]

Anyone else have an Amiga computer? I had the A1000 and A500 and loved them both!

MLAgazine has a detailed history of the Amiga, from its beginnings as the pipe dream of a frustrated Atari engineer to it's beginnings as a revolutionary gaming console, through the mini-collapse of the gamaing industry, and into the early days of the personal computer.

Check it out here.

Yep, had the 1000 , 2000 and 3000. My dad still uses his 4000 daily. If you ever used zoo on the amiga you used software I had a large hand in making available.

 

[Element]

I think my uncle has a Amiga computer but it broke and he didnt get it fixed yet.

 

[BuLLDoG]

had amiga 600, amiga 1200 and com64. best games was chaos engine and cannon fodder

 

[dgridley]

I can remember typing in games for the C64 from the magazines.. only to have to wait til the following month for corrections for typos in the magazine.

 

[Redleg]

the third computer I had after a TI99-4a

Wow, haven't heard of many others who had the good ol' Texas Instruments..
Still have my old one somewhere in the basement.

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ti99/ti_ss1.gif
Ahh, the memories... :D

Found a couple of TI99 emulators, but I haven't tried them yet..
http://www.99er.net/emul.shtml

 

[dgaussin]

I have 500 and 1200... it was the good days

 

[dgridley]

A month or so ago, I came across a slot expansion unit for a TI.. never even knew they'd produced one. It was only $5 but I had no use for it.

I also owned an Atari 800, Atari ST, Apple IIe, Timex Sinclair Color, Apple Lisa, etc.

I have a Mac Classic I bought at a thrift store for $4 in the closet right now....

Just in case anyone's interested, old red LED calculators and calculator watches are selling high on eBay.

Anyone else have a GE Vectrex game machine?

Wow, haven't heard of many others who had the good ol' Texas Instruments..
Still have my old one somewhere in the basement.