Ah, in that case, allow me to swiftly reverse my position on the matter ;-)

Well, it's been a while since my A1200 tower died, but it lives on in emulation.

Here are a few more (totally legal) sites to add to the ones mentioned in the first post, for those who are interested:

English Amiga Board: http://eab.abime.net
WinUAE: http://www.winuae.net
FS-UAE: http://fs-uae.net
Back to the Roots: http://back2roots.abime.net/

That would possibly be the one film I'd buy on gog.

Well I skipped the "Amiga 1000".

Went from the "Amiga 500" to the "Commodore CDTV".

Since I grew up in the ex-commie block, could someone explain what's the fuss with Amiga? I know they made some consoles (and consoles I think first appeared around 2000 in my country... and I never had any). Though I vaguely recall some cartridge based console that a friend had around 1995, with some crappy tanks game that we played to death, but I think PCs were far more impressive.

Wow, you actually had a CDTV? I guess they sold at least one, then :-D
The Amigas were not consoles, they were computers (well, most of them were), and none of them were cartridge-based.

Also, until around 1993, the Amiga beat the crap out of the PCs, gaming wise. It had much better graphics and sound. For most games that were released for both Amiga and DOS, the Amiga version is the best, hands-down.

Yep, they actually sold 5 around here at the time I got mine :P

The CDTV was far more powerful than any PC at the time, so much that they were even used as edition isles and you could even do on-the-fly video edition with a "Genlock" accessory.

Nobody would believe me when I told them my computer had 4092 colours, they laughed and usually said I should be mistaken because that was too high of a colour range support for that time (PCs were around 256 colours).

I remember I got a 20GB double sided, double layer DVD with it :D (So even if it was called CDTV it had actually a DVD player). Those things were future tech then :P The funny part was that on one side was "Wing Commander IV" in full DVD resolution glory and in the other side................. :P .................."Captain Claw"..........a 55MB game :)))) It was really fun though.

I can´t count the amount of joysticks that fell before it, between "Street Fighter 2" matches and frantic gaming.
There I fell in love with "Monkey Island", "SWIV", and trackballs.......................I can´t say how weird it was after some years of trackballing, to transition to a mouse, it seemed as if I had a drunk hand at first.

Good times.
Maybe you got it mistaken for the "Atari 800XL"( which was in the same shape of an amiga ), I had one and it did have a catridge slot in the middle, facing upwards.
Never really used it though, only the casette player.

OHHHHH THE NOISE FROM THE CASETTE LOADING.......................14400 baud modems which came long after didn´t even start to get near that haunting sound :P

Ohh, and the post Soviet Union console thing you mention, I got to know that from an awesomly funny documentary from Kinaman

The Amiga was a computer, not a console.
They represented a huge leap in quality for those of us used to 8 bit computers (although the ST preceded it) and were far superior to early PCs.
Unfortunately Commodore senior management were pretty incompetent and the brand went bust.

it was a huge leap for computing at its time. It had fantastic graphical properties, very good sound (the only aspect Atari ST beat it on, to be honest), true multitasking capabilities, true plug and play hardware interface, extreme adaptability, extreme customization and GUI driven interface. It was cheap (not the A1000, mind, but the A500, A600, A1200) and it was easy to program for. At the time it was the best computer... and it still is, in some ways. It was just bungled by very bad corporate decisions.

Well, the CDTV was based on the Amiga 500, which had 4096 colors, not 4092. Second thing is, that the CDTV had no DVD drive. The CDTV came out 1991 and at that time DVDs didn`t even exist.
<span class="podkreslenie">The CDTV</span>. The <span class="podkreslenie">DVD</span> was developed in 1995, four years after the release of the CDTV.

Who didn't? It was quite pricey even for a dream machine, and it wasn't yet clear how well it would do.

When Amiga 500 was announced, it was like a dream come true, finally a version of that dream machine that normal people could afford. Probably also by then support from game publishers seemed somewhat more secured, even if Amiga didn't originally get an official port of Gauntlet (but then a good Gauntlet-clone, Garrison, saved the day).

By the time A1200 came out, I was already feeling Amiga and Commodore are losing momentum, and dwindling down. So I skipped the whole AGA phase of Amiga, PCs with VGA graphics and sound cards were already calling.

By a toss of a coin, the game of today will be Hired Guns, but if I remember correctly it will more likely be the game of the week.

As far as I know neither the Commodore 64 nor the Amiga was particularly popular in the US. I believe IBM compatible PCs and Macs dominated the US market instead.

The 4096 color (HAM) mode on A500-era Amigas was mostly a gimmick, really. Very few games, especially action games with moving graphics, supported that mode IIRC. I recall there being one 2D shooter where the 4096 mode was its selling point, but that graphics mode just made the graphics look weird and fuzzy, IIRC. It was like they were just trying to prove that an action game could use that mode, no matter what the results were. EDIT: The HAM-mode game was apparently Pioneer Plague.

I think almost all pre-AGA Amiga games used max 32 colors. Many apparently used only 16 colors, as the games were normally made at the same time for Atari ST (which had the 16 color mode) and Amiga, and both versions would have identical graphics (color palette). There was also some 64 color EHB mode on Amiga, but I don't know how much it was used, and it was also a bit gimmicky (ie. you couldn't really have 64 separate, fully independent, colors on the screen).

AGA (Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000) brought Amiga graphics to VGA-level as far as colors go. There are far less AGA than OCS games, though, and many of them were merely slightly upgraded versions of the OCS originals. AGA Amigas weren't that successful anymore.

From Wikipedia:

At a mid-1984 conference of game developers and experts at Origins Game Fair, Dan Bunten, Sid Meier ("the computer of choice right now"), and a representative of Avalon Hill all stated that they were developing games for the 64 first as the most promising market.[24] In April 1986 Computer Gaming World published a survey of ten game publishers which found that they planned to release forty-three Commodore 64 games that year, compared to nineteen for Atari and forty-eight for Apple II,[25] and that year Alan Miller stated that Accolade developed first for the C64 because "it will sell the most on that system".[26]
That were American gaming companies, which normally developed their games first for the US market, so the C 64 must have sold in the USA very successfull.
Oh, by the way, the C 64 is still the most sold computer in the history of computers.