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I knew this was a great gaming machine but my interest in games was starting to drop off. A friend was selling his A500 with a big collection of pirated games, he brought it round, set it up and I was moderately impressed. Then he loaded up Another World and I couldn't hand over the cash fast enough. It was this game that introduced me to the idea that gaming could move way beyond galaxians and simple gameplay.

Of course I quickly learned it could do so much more. I got hooked on Deluxe Paint, music trackers and even got into animation. It wasn't until I got my little teenage hands on Imagine, a 3D raytracing program that I realized I needed more power than the A500 could offer. But boy they were some of the sweetest computing years while I owned this.

Such a shame that commodore made such a balls of marketing and developing the system. It really was the king of all home computers for a long time and it took the PC many years to even begin to catch up to just what the Amiga was doing many years before it.

True multitasking, parallel processing, high colour display, beautiful implementation of a GUI driven OS in Workbench, Plug and Play before the term had even been coined, ah I could go on but suffice to say it was a visionary machine way ahead of its time.