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As we are coming up to the Amiga's 30 year anniversary in July this year, I thought I'd see if anyone had any fond memories of this iconic computer.
Following the popular Commodore 64, the first Amiga model was the A1000 which was intended to be of a business machine, but this was quickly followed by the one most people will be familiar with, the A500:
As well as being famous for it's use in the creation of visual effects on the first season of Babylon 5, the A500 had some cracking games which really showed the difference between the 16bit machine and it's 8bit predecessors.
The first time I saw an Amiga was in a shop in Alfreton, Derbyshire called Gordon Harwood Computers - must have been around 1986? - where they showed me Defender of the Crown:
I also saw the El Gato demo, which at the time looked absolutely amazing and was a great demonstration of what the amiga could do:
After all that and a quick go on Test Drive, I was sold. I saved up for a while and the next time I came out of the shop it was with an Amiga 500, joystick, and the included software - Karate Kid Part II, Deluxe Paint and 10 disks of demos (I didn't grab a copy of Defender of the Crown until a little later).
Sadly, but perhaps not surpisingly, Gordon Harwoods no longer sells Amigas! - the last I heard they were an Apple supplier and I'm not sure if they're still even around at all anymore. My A500 is long gone, but I still have a slightly yellowing A1200 model in the loft which worked the last time I tried to fire up it's massive 20md hard drive (yes , that's 20mb, not 20gb!)
I recall the last time I loaded it, up came an icon for Vista. I had a moment's confusion that somehow Microsoft's dodgy operating system had gone back in time and got onto my Amiga until I remembered it was a landscape-generating utility program!
Any one else have any memories to share?
Following the popular Commodore 64, the first Amiga model was the A1000 which was intended to be of a business machine, but this was quickly followed by the one most people will be familiar with, the A500:
As well as being famous for it's use in the creation of visual effects on the first season of Babylon 5, the A500 had some cracking games which really showed the difference between the 16bit machine and it's 8bit predecessors.
The first time I saw an Amiga was in a shop in Alfreton, Derbyshire called Gordon Harwood Computers - must have been around 1986? - where they showed me Defender of the Crown:
I also saw the El Gato demo, which at the time looked absolutely amazing and was a great demonstration of what the amiga could do:
After all that and a quick go on Test Drive, I was sold. I saved up for a while and the next time I came out of the shop it was with an Amiga 500, joystick, and the included software - Karate Kid Part II, Deluxe Paint and 10 disks of demos (I didn't grab a copy of Defender of the Crown until a little later).
Sadly, but perhaps not surpisingly, Gordon Harwoods no longer sells Amigas! - the last I heard they were an Apple supplier and I'm not sure if they're still even around at all anymore. My A500 is long gone, but I still have a slightly yellowing A1200 model in the loft which worked the last time I tried to fire up it's massive 20md hard drive (yes , that's 20mb, not 20gb!)
I recall the last time I loaded it, up came an icon for Vista. I had a moment's confusion that somehow Microsoft's dodgy operating system had gone back in time and got onto my Amiga until I remembered it was a landscape-generating utility program!
Any one else have any memories to share?
angerous on the Xbox One now, so good.
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