@mcbone
I've been using an Amiga since my A1000 in 1986.
Switched to A2000 when it was first available.
Switched to A4000 when it was first available.
Switched a µA1 when it was first available.
OS4 was such an improvement over my classic Amigas that I gave them away.
Donated my µA1 to OS4 developers and currently have X1000 and SAM 440 Flex.
I've never owned a Windows or Linux PC and don't use AROS or UAE.

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Im an old timer using x1000 and everything amiga is like a zombieland :') halfdead

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eha wrote: @all .......... And much later sold it when I could get AmigaOne. That was also upgraded, and during that time I also had CD^32 w. FMV + SX-1, A500 with HD and 2 M FAST and many other "toys". All of them are now gone, as I got married, and my wife is really expensive to keep. .....

..yup to all those guys out there that think Amigas are expensive just go marry one

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X1000 I BELIEVE

@Kicko

c'mon Kicko you know I'm an optimist and therefore we're 'half ALIVE'

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Old user since 1987 (A500, 1200 = 68060 and after a year, PPc with mediator, Vodoo 128 Mb of ram....., CD32, µA1 (dead) and now, a Sam460.

I've been around since the 1980's.

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Define old! Ive had an amiga 500 since 1990. I'm now 37.

I had an a500 (still have it) I then had a cd32, sold it and then had an 030 a1200nwith a cd drive and I cannot remember how much ram. Alas I donated it to a natami team member a few years ago. I recently bought a new a1200.

@mcbone

Just after Christmas 1992 my brother and I somehow managed to scrape enough money together to get our first A500+. A Cartoon Classics pack from Silica Systems, which additionally had there own software bundle, for the sum of £229.

In the summer of 1994 I got a CD32 which I'd hoped to expand to a full A1200 but the expansions at the time were disappointing so I spent the money of other things instead.

Got my first A1200 in 1996. Initially a friend of had offered me his A1200 but later withdrew the offer but by that time I decided I wanted one so bought a Magic Pack. That was my main machine which I kept upgrading until about 2002 or so.

Got my AmigaOne XE in 2003 and started using OS4 when it arrived in 2004. From then on the A1200 became the system I'd use when visiting my parents, which until I got my own connection at home was my only way to go online and get updates for OS4.

Now I have an X1000, a Minimig, the CD32 and our original A500+ which still resides at my parents place. I'm hoping that someone will bring out a RAM and SD card expansion for the CD32 so I can turn that into a nice little WHDload gaming system.

@mcbone

I'm a old amigan and for the moment new amiga doesn't interest me,
this product is not finished yet in term of software.
When and if one day the amiga will be ready for a real comeback i'll be first to buy it.
But for the moment i don't want to pay 2x the price for something incomplete, sorry.

I really hope this situation will change in the future but thanks to AEON HYPERION and AMIGANS who buyed new systems to keep the amiga alive.

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I Got my first Amiga in 1991, an A500+ then upgraded to a 1200 in 1995 with my first monitor (an Amitek), that was then upgraded with a 540mb hard drive, a Power computing Viper with a 40mhz 030 and 4mb fast ram a squirrel SCSI and CD rom, then later with a 40mhz Apollo 040 with 16mb fast.

I sold the 1200 in 1998 after getting my fist PC in November 97, I hated to do it but I needed the money to pay for driving lessons. I was originally going to spend the money I used for the PC on more upgrades for the Amiga, a tower case, some zorro slots and a Picasso IV card but my desire to play more recent games, Jedi Knight and the promise that Duke Nukem Forever would be out soon (they really fooled me there) made me decide to buy the PC despite a hatred for windows that I still have to this day but I put up with it.

I have kept track of all the goings on in the Amiga community the whole time, waiting for a time when I can afford to buy some new hardware, I have collected a couple of old Amigas with plans to set one up as a games system with WHDload. Currently have an A500+, an A2000 and an A1200.

I have decided that the A1200 will become my WHDload system once I can afford to buy a memory upgrade for it since I'm not currently not working due to health issues and the price of Amiga hardware is crazy. I will be fixing the A2000 up as it's currently running on an old PC AT PSU and the case has seen better days, I bought replacement parts very cheap on ebay so should be good once I get round to it.

I own a copy of AmigaOS 3.9 that I Planned to use on the A2000 once I upgraded it with a better CPU and video card but since the price of hardware put an end to that plan I have been playing about with Winuae, currently trying to set up an equivlent of the A1200 I would have had in 1997 if I had upgraded but can't get the Picasso IV emulation to work right and am just getting black screens on boot but it keeps me busy.

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Hi, my name is Agami and I'm an Amigaholic

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Since 1987. Well over 10,000 hours spent on the platform; OCS, ECS, AGA, 68000, 020, 030, 040, 060, PPC, physical, virtual, classic, NG (no AmigaOS 4, yet), Commodore, Escom/Amiga Technologies, Gateway, Amiga Inc., pens, pins, posters, mouse mats.

I'm sick. I need help.

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@agami

Unfortunately Agami here you will only find like minded sick or infected people so no cure to be found here sadly

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@mcbone

I've been an Amigan since 1983.

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@mcbone

Occasional player of games on friends' Amigas since 1986.

Active owner from 1993 until around 2007.

Passive owner since 2007. (Rarely use them anymore.)

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@agami

"I'm sick. I need help."

They say "peer support" with other similar people is good to have.

In this case we hopefully manage to deepen your disorder.

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@mcbone

What defines an old-timer? I never owned an Amiga while Commodore were still around, but had used them - they were just way out of my price range as a schoolkid. But around 1996 or so they became really cheap as people moved onto PCs and PlayStations, and I got myself a second-hand A1200 then after working my backside off for the whole summer.

Still have that A1200 now, still working fine and unrecognisable with its custom tower case, 060, Mediator (fully loaded) and many other bits. I have thought about selling it many times and still do, but can't bring myself to do it. Yes I've only turned it on once in three years, and only a handful of times since I got my A1-XE and OS4 in 2007 or so.

Since then I've picked up a few other Amigas, my modded A1200 Jukebox is the one that gets the most use of the classics. I have my A1-XE with OS4.1 that I use almost daily. I also have MorphOS on an iBook that I use from time to time for testing, and had an AROS setup on one of my PCs until a kernel update broke it. It was a pain to set up (triple-booting alongside Linux and Haiku) and I just lack the motivation to go through it all again.

So, if you count 1997 until now as an old-timer, then I guess I am, though there are many others who have over a decade's head start on me

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@klx300r

ok then 'half ALIVE' it is ;)

@Rob

hi i to have the minimig

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An Apple a day keep bill gates away

I've played around with an Amiga 500 back in 1988, then was lucky enough to buy my own set-up in 1990 at my first base in Germany. I've had A500, A1200, A4000 - sometimes multiple times, because I kept getting the "Amiga" bug! I had a good few years with nothing at all, then in the last 6 years I've gotten a A500 again, an AmigaOne X500 and just in the last 2 days, an Amiga 1200. I do plan on putting my 1200 motherboard into the new case BigDaddy sold me; so hopefully it'll all work out fine. If it does, I just might release a Youtube video to show what I did to make it happen and how it looks.

Ed

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@mcbone

Amigan since 199x but than jumped to AROS since downtime of amiga..

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