Keatah Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I don't really hate the Amiga. Nor any other classic computer. I just got disgusted with the advertisements surrounding it. At least that's how it was in my part of town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulletino Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 You mean like these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 You mean like these? I love this one. Great humour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 I don't really hate the Amiga. Nor any other classic computer. I just got disgusted with the advertisements surrounding it. At least that's how it was in my part of town. I don't even recall that many Amiga ads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 If not for the ads I probably would not have heard of the Amiga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 A lot of the products I read in the early issues of AmigaWorld never became available. Let alone available in my trailerpark area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I don't really hate the Amiga. Nor any other classic computer. I just got disgusted with the advertisements surrounding it. At least that's how it was in my part of town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) The Amiga was fantastic. It didn't need ads. That machine sold itself and was the talk in my school. Everyone at my school who owned an 8bit machine upgraded to an Amiga except for the Apple 2 guys of course. Edited June 18, 2017 by shoestring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Well that's good to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I never saw any ads that I can remember other than in magazines which I barely purchased (computer mags were expensive when I was a kid!). All of my Amiga exposure came from the little computer stores in the local mall we used to hang out at nearly every day. I loved what I saw and the Amiga really played a bit part of my childhood because of those stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 The Amiga had some of the most head-scratching adverts that I had ever seen. Seriously, Let's play up the graphical capabilities of the machine BY PRINTING HUGE SEPIA PHOTOGRAPHS! Yeah, that made sense... or this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 The more exotic and confusing ads become the less I pay attention to them. If a company is trying to make a statement, well for fuck'sake SAY IT! don't show us high-art and abstract meaningless imagery. Problem with Amiga ads was that they promised so much too soon. And despite me having like 10 computer stores in driving range, few of them had amiga accessories and software. So I checked into mail-order, and it was always the same response, it's not out yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestyx Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 My experience was similar to eightbit's in that the Electronics Boutique at our mall had one on display which simply blew away anything available at the time. Thought it looked awesome, but there was very little available for it at the time. That was when I still had my TI-99/4A. When I finally got my next computer in 1986, I ended up with an Apple //c since my high school had them and I felt it would be cool to be able do my computer class projects at home... plus there was software galore available, both in stores and through other means. That computer got stolen my freshman year at college which I replaced with a Laser 128EX clone, which I felt was actually superior to the //c but much more affordable. While in college, a guy in my dorm had an Amiga and once again I was blown away by the graphics, sounds, and games available for it. Wouldn't you know it, UPS lost my Laser 128EX and all software (by then about 2000 diskettes or so) when I shipped it home. Devastated but still determined, I used the check I got from UPS to replace it with an Amiga 500 in early 1990 and used that as my main computer until I resigned myself that it wasn't going to come back. That was early 1998 when I went back to school for more programming education, at which time I bought a PC with Win98 2nd edition and have used PCs ever since then. But the nostalgia bug recently bit me and I've brought out the numerous Amigas I've acquired (but haven't touched) over the past nearly 20 years. Boy, these things need a lot of work to bring them back from the dead and to modernize them, which is causing a love/hate relationship to develop for me with this platform. However, now that I'm on a mission, I think I'll stick to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 I also came from the TI but went straight to the Amiga, from EB no less. never developed on it but have the same bug in me. My biggest issue is ram and display so I opted for the Vampire. Excited to receive it within a month or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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