I had an A500 plus my self, it was the second computer my parents bought for me after the Acorn Electron many many years earlier. So you can imagine how much of a leap in capabilities this was for me, and how glad I was to no-longer have to load software from tape. No body will be surprised to know I still have that A500 plus.
I recall when the Amiga 500 was announced in the states and I was waiting at my dealers door when they finally arrived .. I recall the day I proudly brought that machine home, I STILL HAVE THAT VERY MACHINE (as well as my later A3000), loved it too much to throw it away or sell it! .. amazing computer, I tossed countless beige box PCs but never got rid of an Amiga I bought... still amazes me to this day .. just sad the Amiga didn't enjoy the same popularity in the USA as it did in Europe ..
The A500 was an incredible machine, its a real shame Commodore never managed to get its sales and marking right in the US. The 3000 was a lovely machine with a really nice case design.
I randomly stumbled onto your channel about three days ago and this is the last video on your channel that I haven't watched yet. Love your channel. You recycle a ton of stuff (music, graphic overlays) and ... it works! It makes your channel have this unique flavor that I just absolute love. Every one legit puts me in a better mood from when I had started.
Yes I was a ST owner back in the days. Did my 68000 assembly on that. Wanted an Amiga but alas it never happened with money not stretching that far back in my late teens. Thanks for the computer memorys of yester years 👍
My first computer growing up was an Amiga 500. Loved that machine. I miss Psygnosis games too. In any case, I credit the Amiga for getting me into digital art, which I am still into.
I love finding out about retro history for stuff I had - the A500 wasn't one, but my mate and cousin both had one so copied software was rife, another mate convinced me that with the soon to be launched A600 (obviously better due to numbering) it was the one to go for - Christmas 1992 was a big step on from the ORIC-1 that had been the home micro until then - even so the TV downstairs was shared so it was far from guaranteed I could use it when I wanted. Fortunately the old TV made way for a new one and I was able to use the A600 upstairs for around 5 years through secondary school and actually did quite a lot of work on it having been gifted a 24 pin dot matrix (colour no less, oh yeah) printer by my sister - that A600 filled the IT gap in my life until PCs were introduced at school and I then built my own AMD K6 machine to take to uni. I still have the A600, it probably needs a re-cap as it was displaying some odd errors when it last fired up over 10 years ago! Fond memories :) In hindsight and now knowing all this history which wasn't so accessible in the 90s, the A1200 would have been the better bet, but hey ho!
Cheers from an ex-owner of A500 in 1988-1992, peak specs: 1MB chip ram + 2MB fast ram, A590 with 40MB ex-Macintosh SCSI drive. An amazing capable machine. Then A1200, then AmigaOne G4.
Catching up on your back catalogue and enjoyed this. Wish I still had my A500+ Cartoon Classics pack. Took the train to Sidcup to pick it up, along with a Citizen 224 dot matrix printer, from Silica Systems. It was my second home computer my parents bought me, the first being a Commodore 128 with 1571 disk drive. Really wish I still had both systems but I didn't have to space to take them to uni so sold them.
After a few failed attempts at getting a computer (2nd machines that didn't work) we finally got the Amiga 500+ and it was glorious! I can't imagine a better way to get into computing and gaming, as there are so many amazing ones to choose from.
Great video! I think it had a nice flow. I do wonder what your favorite software was, or what things look like on screen when you talk about them sometimes. Like when you desribe the graphics
My first Amiga 500 NTSC, I bought in December 2023. Pretty late to the party probably. Pretty hard getting games on disk now so I got a Gotek floppyemu for it. It is a really nice computer.
Got my A500 in the early 90s and used it until I had to switch over to PC in 1997. To this day it's still my favorite computer because I learned a lot on it. Not only did I learn how to program in GFA Basic and then C, but I also used it to visit BBSes in the area. A little later I even went on the internet with it (eMail and IRC mostly, a little WWW with a text-only browser). And all on a machine that had a 240MB SCSI II harddisk, a 68000 CPU (no accelerator) and 1.5MB of memory. Good times.
Its still one of my favourite machines aswell (you can probably tell). It was going to uni and needing a PC that finally ment it stopped being my main machine in 94.
I also had to switch for my internship in software development. At least my old boss was smart enough to realize that I could also write programs for Windows with the C knowledge I had gained on the old A500.
I'm really glad to know my videos bring a little happiness, its nice of you to let me know. Comments like yours really help you keep going when everything is not going as planned, and you've miss layed some footage during editing or the builders opposite keep making noise while you record a voice over.
It's funny that there's a video of the Three Stooges to represent the three dentists, because The Three Stooges was one of the first video games I played on Amiga (from aforementioned Cinemaware)
Loved my Amiga 500. Hated having to sell it prior to a relocation. My first IBM-compatible PC was bought a few months later and had PC speaker sound and CGA graphics. I was so disappointed. Was years before I finally had a system that rivaled that A500.
Amiga 500 is a reason today I am a python backend & cloud developer. Lol. I got it in the early 90'ties, and my dream was to get a ram extension, I got it in 1994, 512 kb of extra ram, for a short while I owned the hood. ;-)
Thanks mate, this one took a while and more or less everything went wrong diring the editing process. So its good to know it all came out ok in the end.
