@BassdudeNZ - Ah yes, the good ol' Miggy! Had several of them. Couldn't afford/justify the 1000 when that came along but as soon as the 500 came along I got given one by a friend who'd got it cheap in the US. Then when the 1500 came along got that big ugly box to replace the 500 and to see how seriously useful it could be to me. Turned out, very useful, maxed out with accelerator, extra RAM, SCSI HDD! So a 3K was soon added, also maxed out. A joy to use! Soon after got my first NeXT (pizza)box and then added an Amiga 1200 and soon an A4K.

NeXT blew me away for raw power of the OS etc. so got a Cube ready maxed out that was surplus to requirements with an IT supplier and so went dirt cheap. So NeXT boxen served for the serious work, and an early dial-up internet connection.

The Miggies served for lighter work and all on LAN with the NeXT boxen.

Amiga OS, in hindsight, was a bit of a mess really and would have been difficult to make multi-user , with secure user accounts. Workbench, given the constraints of having to work with TVs, was way better designed than the Mac GUI I always thought, and in conjunction with DOpus was great. (Pity GFX cards didn't support movable screens!) Alas, NeXT stopped making hardware in '93 just about the same time that Commodore went tits up. Still hung on to all machines for quite some time. And for really serious heavy stuff had access to SGI Power Indigo and Sun UltraSparc machines, in return for a few hours of work. (Loved them both!)

But anyway, got that Amiga emulator set up and re-created my old 3 and 4K machines, but no time to 'play' for a few years now. Why is it that when we get older and should have all the time in the world on our hands, the darn time doesn't play ball and it's 'tempus fugit'! Bitch that! Wish I still had the old Lightwave. On the whole, the Amiga had some pretty decent GFX apps. Towards the end of the Miggy & NeXT time had started seriously messing with digital art, and tried to do a couple of 3D anims with Lightwave - one of a (solid but semi transpt.!) tesseract moving through a 3D space while rotating along all axes in turn, and one of a (solid but semi transpt.!) five dimensional hypercube doing the same. Alas, the A4K with its 060 accelerator and 128MB RAM barely managed to render the starting frame in each case, after running for a couple of days! A bit later managed to recreate them on the Indigo, completed rendering both in a couple of days each. A Gallery with which I was part of an exhibition of digital art wanted something to put on a screen so sent them the 5D one and it was selected!

ARexx was pretty useful, too. Also came in useful with OS/2 and its Rexx when I'd build my first PC. Ah yeah, the good old days!

[/my prolonged senior moment!]